About Cossmass Infinities

Cossmass Infinities was a Science-Fiction and Fantasy short story magazine. We published some of our stories for free on our website and we had exclusive, original stories, only available in the ebook and print editions.

It was edited and published by Paul Campbell.

Support

We paid our authors the SFWA pro-rate for original stories.

There was no company behind Cossmass Infinities.

The Name

Where does the name Cossmass Infinities come from?

Once, many, many years ago, I was running a Role Playing Game at some University in Edinburgh one Sunday afternoon. It was a reality hopping adventure initially inspired by Waxwork II: Lost in Time. One of the players asked me what the name of the setting was. I’d never actually thought of what to call it before. What was the plural of Cosmos? ‘Cosmoses’ or ‘comoi’? Both would have been great, even correct. I didn’t know either at the time. Under pressure to give a confident answer to my players, I mashed Cosmos and ‘mass’ (large in number), and said “The Cossmass”.

Infinites is simply a plural form of Infinity. Okay, this one was a bit obvious.

So, Cossmass Infinities is “a multiple infinite number of many Cosmoses”. More than a few possibilities, then.

History

This wasn’t the first incarnation of Cossmass Infinities. During 2010, I published eleven episodes of a short story podcast under this name. You can find those old episodes here:

Cossmass Infinities Podcasts 2010

This was a fun experience, but also a bit of a nightmare. I loved reading and choosing the stories, but recording and editing the podcast was too much for me. In the ten years since, I always regretted not continuing with Cossmass Infinities in some form. Then, as I could see my own half-century just around the corner (I was be counting the weeks by the time we launched), I couldn’t put it off any longer. Now or never. I committed to Cossmass Infinities again.

Thanks

Thanks to everyone who helped me in this, from authors for submitting their stories, to all the readers for reading, supporting and spreading the word about Cossmass Infinities.

—Paul Campbell, Editor & Publisher, Cossmass Infinities