A couple of articles from the most recent issue of Matrix (one of Vector‘s sister magazines) are now online.
First up, there’s a guest editorial by Keith Brooke, on the success of Infinity Plus:
Late last year I realised that a whole bunch of milestones for the site were arriving at around the same time: we had just passed 100 interviews, soon we will pass 1,000 book reviews and, as I write this in January 2006, we’re very close to 2 million words of fiction, all available on the site for free.
Second, Stephen Baxter revisits Dan Dare and Quatermass:
Some of the great British sf franchises of the Sixties, notably Doctor Who and the Gerry Anderson shows such as Captain Scarlet, are still imaginatively alive in a new century. But those creations were influenced by what went before them. I was born in the Fifties, and the media icons of that grey-tinged decade, like Dan Dare and Quatermass, have been names in the background all my life. Now, thanks to some helpful reissues and repackaging, we have access to these monuments of a vanished age.
There are also reviews of, among other things, Silent Hill and Mirrormask.
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