# Sci Fiction

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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |