Sci Fiction

Sci Fiction

Type of site	Online Magazine
Owner	scifi.com
Created by	Ellen Datlow
URL	scifi.com/scifiction/
Commercial	Yes
Launched	May 2000
Current status	Defunct (since 2005)

Sci Fiction was an online magazine which ran from 2000 to 2005. At one time, it was the leading online science fiction magazine. Published by Syfy and edited by Ellen Datlow, the work won multiple awards before it was discontinued.

History

The magazine was created by what was then the US Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy), and hosted at SCIFI.COM. The webzine starting publishing in May 2000. The principal editor was Ellen Datlow, who had previously edited two other online magazines: The online incarnation of OMNI , and Event Horizon.

The webzine first made a splash when Linda Nagata's "Goddesses" won the Nebula Award for Best Novella for 2000. It was the first time that a piece of fiction originally published on a website won a Nebula. In 2002 Ellen Datlow won her first Hugo Award for Best Editor. In 2003 stories from the webzine won three awards, the Nebula Awards for Best Short Story ("What I Didn't See" by Karen Joy Fowler) and Best Novelette ("The Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffrey Ford), and the Theodore Sturgeon Award for Lucius Shepard's novella "Over Yonder". In 2005, Datlow won her second Hugo Award for Best Editor and the website itself won a Hugo for Best Website. She also won her first Locus Award for Best Editor in 2005.

In late 2005 the SciFi Channel announced that it would be shutting down the magazine. ^[1] This decision was evidently made^{[ original research? ]} because the magazine was not a major revenue generator for the channel. SCIFI announced their intention to remove the Sci Fiction archived content as of June 2007, although some of it was still available over a year later. ^[2] It has since been removed completely.

List of Sci Fiction short stories

Original stories published in the year 2000

Title Author Uploaded URL Freeing the Angels Pat Cadigan and Chris Fowler May 19, 2000 The War of the Worlds James P. Blaylock May 24, 2000 Malthusian's Zombie Jeffrey Ford May 31, 2000 Chimera Kristine Kathryn Rusch June 7, 2000 Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977 Kim Newman June 14, 2000 The Cure for Everything Severna Park June 22, 2000 Dune: Nighttime Shadows on Open Sand Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson June 28, 2000 Goddesses Linda Nagata July 5, 2000 Winter Quarters Howard Waldrop August 2, 2000 Partial Eclipse Graham Joyce August 9, 2000 Ciné Rimettato A. R. Morlan August 16, 2000 Tir-na-nOg Dave Hutchinson August 23, 2000 The Real World Steven Utley August 30, 2000 From the Files of the Time Rangers Richard Bowes September 6, 2000 Birdy Girl Robert Reed September 20, 2000 Wetlands Preserve Nancy Kress September 27, 2000 The Origin of Truth Tim Lebbon October 4, 2000 Nevada A. M. Dellamonica October 11, 2000 The Other Side James P. Blaylock October 18, 2000 The Far Oasis Jeffrey Ford October 25, 2000 The Pottawatomie Giant Andy Duncan November 1, 2000 The Flyers of Gy: An Interplanary Tale Ursula K. Le Guin November 8, 2000 Tomorrow Town Kim Newman November 15, 2000 The Despoblado Steven Utley November 22, 2000 A Cold Dish Lisa Tuttle November 29, 2000 Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol Elizabeth Hand December 6, 2000

Classics

Title Author Uploaded URL The Ugly Chickens Howard Waldrop May 31, 2000 The Pope of the Chimps Robert Silverberg June 14, 2000 The Ship Who Sang Anne McCaffrey June 28, 2000 Nine Hundred Grandmothers R. A. Lafferty July 12, 2000 Casey Agonistes Richard McKenna July 29, 2000 The Detweiler Boy Tom Reamy August 9, 2000 [ dead link ](censored link) A Wind Is Rising Robert Sheckley August 23, 2000 To Bell The Cat Joan D. Vinge September 6, 2000 Descending Thomas M. Disch September 20, 2000 The Man Who Loved the Faioli Roger Zelazny October 4, 2000 Corona Samuel R. Delany October 18, 2000 Belling Martha Leigh Kennedy November 1, 2000 When It Changed Joanna Russ November 15, 2000 The Dance of the Changer and the Three Terry Carr November 29, 2000 The Meaning of the Word Chelsea Quinn Yarbro December 13, 2000 The House the Blakeneys Built Avram Davidson December 27, 2000 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Harlan Ellison January 24, 2001 The Day the Martians Came Frederik Pohl April 4, 2001 Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death James Tiptree, Jr. April 18, 2001 By the Falls Harry Harrison May 2, 2001 The Hat Trick Fredric Brown May 16, 2001 No Fire Burns Avram Davidson June 6, 2001 The Tomb Tapper James Blish June 20, 2001 Bernie the Faust William Tenn July 11, 2001 Consider Her Ways John Wyndham August 8, 2001 The Market in Aliens Barry N. Malzberg August 22, 2001 Light of Other Days Bob Shaw September 19, 2001 How Beautiful With Banners James Blish October 3, 2001 Men without Bones Gerald Kersh October 17, 2001 Bad Medicine Robert Sheckley November 7, 2001 The Heat Death of The Universe Pamela Zoline December 12, 2001 The Thousand Cuts Ian Watson January 2, 2002 Auto-da-Fé Roger Zelazny January 16, 2002 Outside Brian W. Aldiss February 6, 2002 The Funeral Kate Wilhelm March 19, 2002 Carcinoma Angels Norman Spinrad April 3, 2002 The Geezenstacks Fredric Brown April 17, 2002 Hop-Friend Terry Carr June 5, 2002 Clerical Error Mark Clifton June 17, 2002 Cordle To Onion To Carrot Robert Sheckley July 24, 2002 The Women Men Don't See James Tiptree, Jr. August 21, 2002 It Becomes Necessary Ward Moore September 11, 2002 Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well Reginald Bretnor September 25, 2002 The Screwfly Solution Raccoona Sheldon October 9, 2002 Flash Point Gardner Dozois October 23, 2002 The Queen of Pig Island Gerald Kersh November 6, 2002 Waiting for Billy Star Tom Reamy November 20, 2002 Protection Robert Sheckley December 11, 2002 More Spinned Against ... John Wyndham December 25, 2002 Party of Two Parts William Tenn January 8, 2003 Let's Be Frank Brian W. Aldiss January 22, 2003 The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World Philip José Farmer February 5, 2003 Casablanca Thomas M. Disch February 19, 2003 Humpty Dumpty had a Great Fall Frank Belknap Long March 5, 2003 Frog Pond Chelsea Quinn Yarbro April 2, 2003 Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street Charles L. Grant April 16, 2003 High Weir Samuel R. Delany May 7, 2003

Title Author Uploaded URL When I Was Miss Dow Sonya Dorman May 21, 2003 Touchstone Terry Carr June 4, 2003 A Full Member of the Club Bob Shaw June 18, 2003 David's Daddy Rosel George Brown July 2, 2003 What Now, Little Man? Mark Clifton July 16, 2003 Thirty Days Had September Robert F. Young August 6, 2003 The View from Endless Scarp Marta Randall August 20, 2003 It Walks in Beauty Chandler Davis September 3, 2003 Caught in the Organ Draft Robert Silverberg September 17, 2003 The Transcendent Tigers R. A. Lafferty October 1, 2003 The Fellow who Married the Maxill Girl Ward Moore October 15, 2003 The Golem Avram Davidson November 5, 2003 The Keepers of the House Lester del Rey December 3, 2003 Minnesota Gothic Thomas M. Disch December 17, 2003 The Prize of Peril Robert Sheckley January 7, 2004 The Stare John Wyndham January 21, 2004 Twilla Tom Reamy February 4, 2004 Ballenger's People Kris Ottman Neville February 18, 2004 King Solomon's Ring Roger Zelazny March 3, 2004 The Little Lamb Fredric Brown March 17, 2004 Sin's Doorway Manly Wade Wellman April 7, 2004 The Dandelion Girl Robert F. Young April 21, 2004 Un Bel Di Chelsea Quinn Yarbro May 5, 2004 Paul's Treehouse Gene Wolfe May 19, 2004 The Girl Had Guts Theodore Sturgeon June 2, 2004 Aye, and Gomorrah Samuel R. Delany July 7, 2004 Among the Dead Edward Bryant July 21, 2004 A Crowd of Shadows Charles L. Grant August 4, 2004 Gods Hooks! Howard Waldrop August 8, 2004 Can These Bones Live? Manly Wade Wellman September 1, 2004 Allamagoosa Eric Frank Russell September 15, 2004 View from a Height Joan D. Vinge October 6, 2004 A Kingdom by the Sea Gardner Dozois October 20, 2004 Bagatelle John Varley November 3, 2004 Two Weeks in August Frank M. Robinson December 1, 2004 Transfer Barry N. Malzberg December 15, 2004 Gather Blue Roses Pamela Sargent January 5, 2005 Beam Us Home James Tiptree, Jr. January 19, 2005 Familiar Pattern A. Bertram Chandler February 2, 2005 The Yellow Pill Rog Phillips February 16, 2005 They Don't Make Life Like They Used To Alfred Bester March 2, 2005 The Sea Was Wet as Wet Can Be Gahan Wilson April 6, 2005 Brown Robert Terry Carr April 20, 2005 The White King's Dream Elizabeth A. Lynn May 18, 2005 Transformer Chad Oliver June 1, 2005 Mouse Fredric Brown June 15, 2005 Come On, Wagon Zenna Henderson July 6, 2005 The Tenants William Tenn July 20, 2005 A Life in the Day of... Frank M. Robinson August 3, 2005 To Be Continued... Robert Silverberg August 17, 2005 Under the Hollywood Sign Tom Reamy September 14, 2005 The Water Sculptor George Zebrowski September 28, 2005 Painwise James Tiptree, Jr. October 12, 2005 The Beautiful People Robert Bloch November 9, 2005 The Man Who Never Forgot Robert Silverberg November 23, 2005 Star Light, Star Bright Alfred Bester December 7, 2005 The Great Wall of Mexico John Sladek December 21, 2005

See also

• List of defunct American periodicals

References

1. Jason Sanford (13 November 2005). "SciFi Channel wades deeper into muck by dropping SciFiction journal". StorySouth. Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
2. "Sci Fiction Archive". Sci Fiction. Archived from the original on March 4, 2009. As of Friday, June 15, 2007, SCI FICTION will no longer be availabe[sic] on SCIFI.COM.

External resources

• Sci Fiction title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Sci Fiction archive
• Sci Fiction's awards and nominations at The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards
• List of all stories published in Sci Fiction