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reports of its death seem to have been exaggerated, since it’s still there.
    There’s also a website dedicated to YA fantasy and SF, Shiny (shinymag. blogspot.com).
    Many good reprint SF and fantasy stories can also be found on the Internet, perhaps in greater numbers than the original ones, usually accessible for free. The long-running British Infinity Plus (users.zetnet.co.uk/ iplus) has ceased to be an active site, but their archive of quality reprint-stories is still accessible on the net, as is their archive of biographical and bibliographical information, book reviews, interviews, and critical essays. The Infinite Matrix (infinitematrix.net) is also no longer an active site, but their substantial archives of past material are still available to be accessed online. Most of the sites that are associated with existent print magazines, such as Asimov’s , Analog , Weird Tales , and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , make previously published fiction and nonfiction available for access on their sites, and also regularly run teaser excerpts from stories coming up in forthcoming issues. On all of the sites that make their fiction available for free, Fantasy , Subterranean , Abyss and Apex , Strange Horizon , you can also access large archives of previously published material as well as stuff from the “current issue”. A large selection of novels and a few collections can also be accessed for free, to be either downloaded or read on-screen, at the Baen Free Library (baen.com/library). Hundreds of out-of-print titles, both genre and mainstream, are also available for free download from Project Gutenberg (promo.net/pc/).
    If you’re willing to pay a small fee for them, though, an even greater range of reprint stories becomes available. The best and the longest-established such site is Fictionwise (fictionwise.com), where you can buy downloadable e-books and stories to read on your PDA or home computer, in addition to individual stories; you can also buy “fiction bundles” here, which amount to electronic collections, as well as a selection of novels in several different genres; and you can subscribe to downloadable versions of several of the SF magazines here, including Asimov’s , Analog , F&SF , and Interzone , in a number of different formats. A similar site is ElectricStory (electricstory. com); in addition to the downloadable stuff for sale here (both stories and novels), you can also access free movie reviews by Lucius Shepard, articles by Howard Waldrop, and other critical material.
    But there are other reasons for SF fans to go on the Internet besides searching for fiction to read. There are also many general genre-related sites of interest to be found, most of which publish reviews of books as well as of movies and TV shows, sometimes comics or computer games or anime, many of which also feature interviews, critical articles, and genre-oriented news of various kinds. Locus Online (locusmag.com), the online version of the newsmagazine Locus , is easily the most valuable genre-oriented general site on the entire Internet, an indispensable site where you can access an incredible amount of information – including book reviews, critical lists, obituary lists, links to reviews and essays appearing outside the genre, and links to extensive database archives such as the Locus Index to Science Fiction and the Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards – and which is also often the first place in the genre to reveal fast-breaking news. I usually end up accessing it several times a day. One of the other major general-interest sites, Science Fiction Weekly , underwent a significant upheaval at the beginning of 2009, merging with news site Sci Fi Wire to form a new site called Sci Fi Wire (scifi.com/sfw); the emphasis here is on media-oriented stuff, movie and TV reviews, as well as reviews of anime, games, and music, but they feature book reviews as well. SF Site (sfsite.com) features reviews of books, games,