I just wanted to throw this link up really quickly before I crash for the night.<\/p>\n
If you enjoyed the movie The Matrix<\/a> at all, you really should check out the official website<\/a>. Rather than just using it to promote the movie and its upcoming sequels, they’ve got a whole section<\/a> of the site devoted to exploring the universe of the Matrix, primarily through online comics, with a few short stories.<\/p>\n There’s a lot of really neat stories in there — while not dealing directly with Neo or the other characters from the movie, all the authors have been given free reign to explore the possible storylines of this fictional universe.<\/p>\n The one I’d like to point out, however, is ‘Goliath’, by Neil Gaiman<\/a>. Neil Gaiman has in recent years become one of my favorite modern authors — as well as the Sandman<\/a> comic books (which are just incredible, by the way), he’s written some fiction, both on his own and with other authors (the book Good Omens<\/a> was written with Terry Pratchett, and is just hilarious). With ‘Goliath’, he contributes his own take on the Matrix with a short story that I find to be one of the best contributions on the Matrix site.<\/p>\n