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 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	(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

References

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.
"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

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[storySouth-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.