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. 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. 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	[1]
The War of the Worlds	James P. Blaylock	May 24, 2000	[2]
Malthusian's Zombie	Jeffrey Ford	May 31, 2000	[3]
Chimera	Kristine Kathryn Rusch	June 7, 2000	[4]
Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977	Kim Newman	June 14, 2000	[5]
The Cure for Everything	Severna Park	June 22, 2000	[6]
Dune: Nighttime Shadows on Open Sand	Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson	June 28, 2000	[7]
Goddesses	Linda Nagata	July 5, 2000	[8]
Winter Quarters	Howard Waldrop	August 2, 2000	[9]
Partial Eclipse	Graham Joyce	August 9, 2000	[10]
Ciné Rimettato	A. R. Morlan	August 16, 2000	[11]
Tir-na-nOg	Dave Hutchinson	August 23, 2000	[12]
The Real World	Steven Utley	August 30, 2000	[13]
From the Files of the Time Rangers	Richard Bowes	September 6, 2000	[14]
Birdy Girl	Robert Reed	September 20, 2000	[15]
Wetlands Preserve	Nancy Kress	September 27, 2000	[16]
The Origin of Truth	Tim Lebbon	October 4, 2000	[17]
Nevada	A. M. Dellamonica	October 11, 2000	[18]
The Other Side	James P. Blaylock	October 18, 2000	[19]
The Far Oasis	Jeffrey Ford	October 25, 2000	[20]
The Pottawatomie Giant	Andy Duncan	November 1, 2000	[21]
The Flyers of Gy: An Interplanary Tale	Ursula K. Le Guin	November 8, 2000	[22]
Tomorrow Town	Kim Newman	November 15, 2000	[23]
The Despoblado	Steven Utley	November 22, 2000	[24]
A Cold Dish	Lisa Tuttle	November 29, 2000	[25]
Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol	Elizabeth Hand	December 6, 2000	[26]

Classics

Title	Author	Uploaded	URL
The Ugly Chickens	Howard Waldrop	May 31, 2000	[27]
The Pope of the Chimps	Robert Silverberg	June 14, 2000	[28]
The Ship Who Sang	Anne McCaffrey	June 28, 2000	[29]
Nine Hundred Grandmothers	R. A. Lafferty	July 12, 2000	[30]
Casey Agonistes	Richard McKenna	July 29, 2000	[31]
The Detweiler Boy	Tom Reamy	August 9, 2000	[32](censored link)
A Wind Is Rising	Robert Sheckley	August 23, 2000	[33]
To Bell The Cat	Joan D. Vinge	September 6, 2000	[34]
Descending	Thomas M. Disch	September 20, 2000	[35]
The Man Who Loved the Faioli	Roger Zelazny	October 4, 2000	[36]
Corona	Samuel R. Delany	October 18, 2000	[37]
Belling Martha	Leigh Kennedy	November 1, 2000	[38]
When It Changed	Joanna Russ	November 15, 2000	[39]
The Dance of the Changer and the Three	Terry Carr	November 29, 2000	[40]
The Meaning of the Word	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro	December 13, 2000	[41]
The House the Blakeneys Built	Avram Davidson	December 27, 2000	[42]
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream	Harlan Ellison	January 24, 2001	[43]
The Day the Martians Came	Frederik Pohl	April 4, 2001	[44]
Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death	James Tiptree, Jr.	April 18, 2001	[45]
By the Falls	Harry Harrison	May 2, 2001	[46]
The Hat Trick	Fredric Brown	May 16, 2001	[47]
No Fire Burns	Avram Davidson	June 6, 2001	[48]
The Tomb Tapper	James Blish	June 20, 2001	[49]
Bernie the Faust	William Tenn	July 11, 2001	[50]
Consider Her Ways	John Wyndham	August 8, 2001	[51]
The Market in Aliens	Barry N. Malzberg	August 22, 2001	[52]
Light of Other Days	Bob Shaw	September 19, 2001	[53]
How Beautiful With Banners	James Blish	October 3, 2001	[54]
Men without Bones	Gerald Kersh	October 17, 2001	[55]
Bad Medicine	Robert Sheckley	November 7, 2001	[56]
The Heat Death of The Universe	Pamela Zoline	December 12, 2001	[57]
The Thousand Cuts	Ian Watson	January 2, 2002	[58]
Auto-da-Fé	Roger Zelazny	January 16, 2002	[59]
Outside	Brian W. Aldiss	February 6, 2002	[60]
The Funeral	Kate Wilhelm	March 19, 2002	[61]
Carcinoma Angels	Norman Spinrad	April 3, 2002	[62]
The Geezenstacks	Fredric Brown	April 17, 2002	[63]
Hop-Friend	Terry Carr	June 5, 2002	[64]
Clerical Error	Mark Clifton	June 17, 2002	[65]
Cordle To Onion To Carrot	Robert Sheckley	July 24, 2002	[66]
The Women Men Don't See	James Tiptree, Jr.	August 21, 2002	[67]
It Becomes Necessary	Ward Moore	September 11, 2002	[68]
Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well	Reginald Bretnor	September 25, 2002	[69]
The Screwfly Solution	Raccoona Sheldon	October 9, 2002	[70]
Flash Point	Gardner Dozois	October 23, 2002	[71]
The Queen of Pig Island	Gerald Kersh	November 6, 2002	[72]
Waiting for Billy Star	Tom Reamy	November 20, 2002	[73]
Protection	Robert Sheckley	December 11, 2002	[74]
More Spinned Against ...	John Wyndham	December 25, 2002	[75]
Party of Two Parts	William Tenn	January 8, 2003	[76]
Let's Be Frank	Brian W. Aldiss	January 22, 2003	[77]
The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World	Philip José Farmer	February 5, 2003	[78]
Casablanca	Thomas M. Disch	February 19, 2003	[79]
Humpty Dumpty had a Great Fall	Frank Belknap Long	March 5, 2003	[80]
Frog Pond	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro	April 2, 2003	[81]
Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street	Charles L. Grant	April 16, 2003	[82]
High Weir	Samuel R. Delany	May 7, 2003	[83]

Title	Author	Uploaded	URL
When I Was Miss Dow	Sonya Dorman	May 21, 2003	[84]
Touchstone	Terry Carr	June 4, 2003	[85]
A Full Member of the Club	Bob Shaw	June 18, 2003	[86]
David's Daddy	Rosel George Brown	July 2, 2003	[87]
What Now, Little Man?	Mark Clifton	July 16, 2003	[88]
Thirty Days Had September	Robert F. Young	August 6, 2003	[89]
The View from Endless Scarp	Marta Randall	August 20, 2003	[90]
It Walks in Beauty	Chandler Davis	September 3, 2003	[91]
Caught in the Organ Draft	Robert Silverberg	September 17, 2003	[92]
The Transcendent Tigers	R. A. Lafferty	October 1, 2003	[93]
The Fellow who Married the Maxill Girl	Ward Moore	October 15, 2003	[94]
The Golem	Avram Davidson	November 5, 2003	[95]
The Keepers of the House	Lester del Rey	December 3, 2003	[96]
Minnesota Gothic	Thomas M. Disch	December 17, 2003	[97]
The Prize of Peril	Robert Sheckley	January 7, 2004	[98]
The Stare	John Wyndham	January 21, 2004	[99]
Twilla	Tom Reamy	February 4, 2004	[100]
Ballenger's People	Kris Ottman Neville	February 18, 2004	[101]
King Solomon's Ring	Roger Zelazny	March 3, 2004	[102]
The Little Lamb	Fredric Brown	March 17, 2004	[103]
Sin's Doorway	Manly Wade Wellman	April 7, 2004	[104]
The Dandelion Girl	Robert F. Young	April 21, 2004	[105]
Un Bel Di	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro	May 5, 2004	[106]
Paul's Treehouse	Gene Wolfe	May 19, 2004	[107]
The Girl Had Guts	Theodore Sturgeon	June 2, 2004	[108]
Aye, and Gomorrah	Samuel R. Delany	July 7, 2004	[109]
Among the Dead	Edward Bryant	July 21, 2004	[110]
A Crowd of Shadows	Charles L. Grant	August 4, 2004	[111]
Gods Hooks!	Howard Waldrop	August 8, 2004	[112]
Can These Bones Live?	Manly Wade Wellman	September 1, 2004	[113]
Allamagoosa	Eric Frank Russell	September 15, 2004	[114]
View from a Height	Joan D. Vinge	October 6, 2004	[115]
A Kingdom by the Sea	Gardner Dozois	October 20, 2004	[116]
Bagatelle	John Varley	November 3, 2004	[117]
Two Weeks in August	Frank M. Robinson	December 1, 2004	[118]
Transfer	Barry N. Malzberg	December 15, 2004	[119]
Gather Blue Roses	Pamela Sargent	January 5, 2005	[120]
Beam Us Home	James Tiptree, Jr.	January 19, 2005	[121]
Familiar Pattern	A. Bertram Chandler	February 2, 2005	[122]
The Yellow Pill	Rog Phillips	February 16, 2005	[123]
They Don't Make Life Like They Used To	Alfred Bester	March 2, 2005	[124]
The Sea Was Wet as Wet Can Be	Gahan Wilson	April 6, 2005	[125]
Brown Robert	Terry Carr	April 20, 2005	[126]
The White King's Dream	Elizabeth A. Lynn	May 18, 2005	[127]
Transformer	Chad Oliver	June 1, 2005	[128]
Mouse	Fredric Brown	June 15, 2005	[129]
Come On, Wagon	Zenna Henderson	July 6, 2005	[130]
The Tenants	William Tenn	July 20, 2005	[131]
A Life in the Day of...	Frank M. Robinson	August 3, 2005	[132]
To Be Continued...	Robert Silverberg	August 17, 2005	[133]
Under the Hollywood Sign	Tom Reamy	September 14, 2005	[134]
The Water Sculptor	George Zebrowski	September 28, 2005	[135]
Painwise	James Tiptree, Jr.	October 12, 2005	[136]
The Beautiful People	Robert Bloch	November 9, 2005	[137]
The Man Who Never Forgot	Robert Silverberg	November 23, 2005	[138]
Star Light, Star Bright	Alfred Bester	December 7, 2005	[139]
The Great Wall of Mexico	John Sladek	December 21, 2005	[140]

See also

• List of defunct American periodicals

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