Sci Fiction
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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.
), and hosted at SCIFI.COM. The webzine starting publishing in May 2000. The principle editor was Ellen Datlow
, who previously 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.
Online magazine
An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, but can usually be distinguished by its approach to editorial control...
which ran from 2000 to 2005. At one time, it was the leading online science fiction magazine
Science fiction magazine
A science fiction magazine is a publication that offers primarily science fiction, either in a hard copy periodical format or on the Internet....
. Published by Syfy
Syfy
Syfy , formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel and SCI FI, is an American cable television channel featuring science fiction, supernatural, fantasy, reality, paranormal, wrestling, and horror programming. Launched on September 24, 1992, it is part of the entertainment conglomerate NBCUniversal, a...
and edited by Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist.-Biography:Datlow was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981 through 1998, and edited the ten associated Omni anthologies...
, the work won multiple awards before it was discontinued.
History
The magazine was created by what was then the US Sci Fi Channel (now SyfySyfy
Syfy , formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel and SCI FI, is an American cable television channel featuring science fiction, supernatural, fantasy, reality, paranormal, wrestling, and horror programming. Launched on September 24, 1992, it is part of the entertainment conglomerate NBCUniversal, a...
), and hosted at SCIFI.COM. The webzine starting publishing in May 2000. The principle editor was Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow
Ellen Datlow is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist.-Biography:Datlow was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981 through 1998, and edited the ten associated Omni anthologies...
, who previously had previously edited two other online magazines: The online incarnation of OMNI
Omni (magazine)
OMNI was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science fact and short works of science fiction...
, and Event Horizon.
The webzine first made a splash when Linda Nagata
Linda Nagata
Linda Nagata is an American science fiction author who won the Nebula award for best novella in 2000 . She frequently writes about nanotechnology and the integration of advanced computing with the human brain.-Bibliography:...
's "Goddesses" won the Nebula Award
Nebula Award
The Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...
for Best Novella
Nebula Award for Best Novella
Winners of the Nebula Award for Best Novella. The stated year is that of publication; awards are given in the following year.-Winners and other nominees:-External links:**...
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
Hugo Award
The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...
for Best Editor
Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor
The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was once officially...
. In 2003 stories from the webzine won three awards, the Nebula Awards for Best Short Story
Nebula Award for Best Short Story
Winners of the '“Nebula Award for Best Short Story”'. The stated year is that of publication; awards are given in the following year. Winning titles are listed first, with other nominees listed below.-Winners and nominees:-External links:* *...
("What I Didn't See" by Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and alienation....
) and Best Novelette
Nebula Award for Best Novelette
Winners of the Nebula Award for best Novelette. The stated year is that of publication; awards are given in the following year. Winning titles are listed first, with other nominees listed below.-External links:* * *...
("The Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford is an American writer in the Fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including Fantasy, Science Fiction and Mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales...
), and the Theodore Sturgeon Award
Theodore Sturgeon Award
The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award is given each year for the best science fiction short story of the year and is the short fiction counterpart of the Campbell award , published in English....
for Lucius Shepard
Lucius Shepard
Lucius Shepard is an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leans into other genres, such as magical realism. His work is infused with a political and historical sensibility and an awareness of literary antecedents...
'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
Locus Award
The Locus Award is a literary award established in 1971 and presented to winners of Locus magazine's annual readers' poll. Currently, the Locus Awards are presented at an annual banquet...
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.
Originals
Title | Author | Uploaded | URL |
Freeing the Angels | Pat Cadigan and Chris Fowler Chris Fowler Chris Fowler is a sports broadcaster for ESPN known best for his work on College GameDay for college football. Since 1989, Fowler has been the primary studio host for college football. Until 2006, he was also the lead studio host for men's college basketball on ESPN... |
May 19, 2000 | |
The War of the Worlds | James P. Blaylock | May 24, 2000 | |
Malthusian's Zombie | Jeffrey Ford Jeffrey Ford Jeffrey Ford is an American writer in the Fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including Fantasy, Science Fiction and Mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales... |
May 31, 2000 | |
Chimera | Kristine Kathryn Rusch Kristine Kathryn Rusch Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an American writer. She writes under various pseudonyms in multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and mainstream.... |
June 7, 2000 | |
Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977 | Kim Newman Kim Newman Kim Newman is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternate fictional versions of history... |
June 14, 2000 | |
The Cure for Everything | Severna Park Severna Park (writer) Severna Park is a science fiction author and winner of the Nebula Award for Best Short Story . Her first novel, Speaking Dreams from 1992, was a Lambda literary award nominee. She now writes mainstream fiction. Employed as a teacher, she lives with her partner of twenty-five years in... |
June 22, 2000 | |
Dune: Nighttime Shadows on Open Sand | Brian Herbert Brian Herbert Brian Patrick Herbert is an American author who lives in Washington state. He is the elder son of science fiction author Frank Herbert.... and Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson is an American science fiction author with over forty bestsellers. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequels... |
June 28, 2000 | |
Goddesses | Linda Nagata Linda Nagata Linda Nagata is an American science fiction author who won the Nebula award for best novella in 2000 . She frequently writes about nanotechnology and the integration of advanced computing with the human brain.-Bibliography:... |
July 5, 2000 | |
Winter Quarters | Howard Waldrop Howard Waldrop Howard Waldrop is a science fiction author who works primarily in short fiction.Waldrop's stories combine elements such as alternate history, American popular culture, the American South, old movies , classical mythology, and rock 'n' roll music. His style is sometimes obscure or elliptical... |
August 2, 2000 | |
Partial Eclipse | Graham Joyce Graham Joyce Graham Joyce is an English writer of speculative fiction and the recipient of numerous awards for both his novels and short stories. He grew up in a small mining village just outside of Coventry to a working class family. After receiving a B.Ed. from Bishop Lonsdale College in 1977 and a M.A. from... |
August 9, 2000 | |
Ciné Rimettato | A. R. Morlan | August 16, 2000 | |
Tir-na-nOg | Dave Hutchinson | August 23, 2000 | |
The Real World | Steven Utley Steven Utley Steven Utley is an American writer. He has written poems, humorous essays and other non-fiction, and worked on comic books and cartoons, but is best known for his science fiction stories.-Biography:... |
August 30, 2000 | |
From the Files of the Time Rangers | Richard Bowes Richard Bowes Richard Bowes is an American author of science fiction and fantasy.Richard Bowes was born in Boston in 1944. He attended school both in Boston and on Long Island, New York. In his third year, he took writing courses with Mark Eisenstein at Hofstra University... |
September 6, 2000 | |
Birdy Girl | Robert Reed Robert Reed Robert Reed was a prolific American character actor of stage, film and television. In his first big break, he played Kenneth Preston on the popular 1960s TV legal drama, The Defenders, alongside E. G. Marshall. But he was best remembered for portraying the father, Mike Brady, on the popular... |
September 20, 2000 | |
Wetlands Preserve | Nancy Kress Nancy Kress Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella "Beggars in Spain" which was later expanded into a novel with the same title... |
September 27, 2000 | |
The Origin of Truth | Tim Lebbon Tim Lebbon Tim Lebbon is a horror and dark fantasy writer, and a judge at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention.-Life and career:Lebbon was born in London. His short story "Reconstructing Amy" won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001 and his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the... |
October 4, 2000 | |
Nevada | A. M. Dellamonica A. M. Dellamonica Alyxandra Margaret Dellamonica is a Canadian science fiction writer who has published over thirty short stories in the field since the 1980s. Dellamonica writes in a number of sub-genres including science fiction, fantasy, and alternate history... |
October 11, 2000 | |
The Other Side | James P. Blaylock | October 18, 2000 | |
The Pottawatomie Giant | Andy Duncan | November 1, 2000 | |
The Flyers of Gy: An Interplanary Tale | Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction... |
November 8, 2000 | |
Tomorrow Town | Kim Newman | November 15, 2000 | |
The Despoblado | Steven Utley | November 22, 2000 | |
A Cold Dish | Lisa Tuttle Lisa Tuttle Lisa Tuttle is an American-born science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. She has published over a dozen novels, five short story collections, and several non-fiction titles, including a reference book on feminism. She has also edited several anthologies and reviewed books for various... |
November 29, 2000 |
Classics
Title | Author | Uploaded | URL |
The Ugly Chickens | Howard Waldrop Howard Waldrop Howard Waldrop is a science fiction author who works primarily in short fiction.Waldrop's stories combine elements such as alternate history, American popular culture, the American South, old movies , classical mythology, and rock 'n' roll music. His style is sometimes obscure or elliptical... |
May 31, 2000 | |
The Pope of the Chimps | Robert Silverberg Robert Silverberg Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:... |
June 14, 2000 | |
The Ship Who Sang | Anne McCaffrey Anne McCaffrey Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award... |
June 28, 2000 | |
Nine Hundred Grandmothers | R. A. Lafferty R. A. Lafferty Raphael Aloysius Lafferty was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit... |
July 12, 2000 | |
Casey Agonistes | Richard McKenna Richard McKenna Richard Milton McKenna was an American sailor and writer.-Early life:McKenna was born in Mountain Home, Idaho, on May 9, 1913. Seeking more opportunities than could be found in such a rural part of the country at the height of the Great Depression, McKenna joined the U.S... |
July 29, 2000 | |
The Detweiler Boy | Tom Reamy Tom Reamy Tom Reamy was an American science fiction and fantasy author and a key figure in 1960s and 1970s science fiction fandom. He died prior to the publication of his first novel; his work is primarily dark fantasy.... |
August 9, 2000 | |
A Wind Is Rising | Robert Sheckley Robert Sheckley Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical.Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and... |
August 23, 2000 | |
To Bell The Cat | Joan D. Vinge Joan D. Vinge Joan D. Vinge is an American science fiction author. She is known for such works as her Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen and its sequels, her series about the telepath named Cat, and her Heaven's Chronicles books.-Biography:... |
September 6, 2000 | |
Descending | Thomas M. Disch Thomas M. Disch Thomas Michael Disch was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W... |
September 20, 2000 | |
The Man Who Loved the Faioli | Roger Zelazny Roger Zelazny Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series... |
October 4, 2000 | |
Corona | Samuel R. Delany Samuel R. Delany Samuel Ray Delany, Jr., also known as "Chip" is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes a number of novels, many in the science fiction genre, as well as memoir, criticism, and essays on sexuality and society.His science fiction novels include Babel-17, The Einstein... |
October 18, 2000 | |
Belling Martha | Leigh Kennedy Leigh Kennedy Leigh Kennedy is an American science fiction writer who has lived in the United Kingdom since 1985.Kennedy's story "Her Furry Face" was a nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story.... |
November 1, 2000 | |
When It Changed When It Changed "When It Changed" is a science fiction short story by Joanna Russ. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1973, and won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1972. It was included in Harlan Ellison's anthology Again, Dangerous Visions.... |
Joanna Russ Joanna Russ Joanna Russ was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny... |
November 15, 2000 | |
The Dance of the Changer and the Three | Terry Carr Terry Carr Terry Gene Carr was a U.S. science fiction author, editor, and teacher.Terry Carr was born in Grants Pass, Oregon... |
November 29, 2000 | |
The Meaning of the Word | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Chelsea Quinn Yarbro -Biography:She was born in Berkeley, California. She attended Berkeley schools through high school followed by three years at San Francisco State College .In November 1969 she married Donald Simpson and divorced in February 1982... |
December 13, 2000 | |
The House the Blakeneys Built | Avram Davidson Avram Davidson Avram Davidson was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche... |
December 27, 2000 | |
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a postapocalyptic science fiction short story by Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. It won a Hugo Award in 1968. The name was also used for a short story collection of Ellison's work, featuring... |
Harlan Ellison Harlan Ellison Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media... |
January 24, 2001 | |
The Day the Day the Martians Came The Day After the Day the Martians Came "The Day After the Day the Martians Came" is a short story by Frederik Pohl from Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions, which shows how humans can laugh at any minority group... |
Frederik Pohl Frederik Pohl Frederik George Pohl, Jr. is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years — from his first published work, "Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna" , to his most recent novel, All the Lives He Led .He won the National Book Award in 1980 for his novel Jem... |
April 4, 2001 | |
Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" is a short story by James Tiptree, Jr. which won a Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1973. The novella first appeared in the anthology The Alien Condition, edited by Stephen Goldin, published by Ballantine Books in April 1973... |
James Tiptree, Jr. | April 18, 2001 | |
By the Falls | Harry Harrison Harry Harrison Harry Harrison is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! , the basis for the film Soylent Green... |
May 2, 2001 | |
The Hat Trick | Fredric Brown Fredric Brown Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was born in Cincinnati.He had two sons: James Ross Brown and Linn Lewis Brown .... |
May 16, 2001 | |
No Fire Burns | Avram Davidson | June 6, 2001 | |
The Tomb Tapper | James Blish James Blish James Benjamin Blish was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling, Jr.-Biography:... |
June 20, 2001 | |
Bernie the Faust | William Tenn William Tenn William Tenn was the pseudonym of Philip Klass , a British-born American science fiction author, notable for many stories with satirical elements.-Early life:... |
July 11, 2001 | |
Consider Her Ways | John Wyndham John Wyndham John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes... |
August 8, 2001 | http://web.archive.org/web/20080608114753/http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/wyndham/ |
The Market in Aliens | Barry N. Malzberg Barry N. Malzberg Barry Nathaniel Malzberg is an American writer and editor, most often of science fiction and fantasy.-Overview:Initially in his post-graduate work Malzberg sought to establish himself as a playwright as well as a prose-fiction writer. His first two published novels were issed by Olympia Press... |
August 22, 2001 | |
Light of Other Days | Bob Shaw Bob Shaw Bob Shaw, born Robert Shaw, was a science fiction author and fan from Northern Ireland. He was noted for his originality and wit. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 1979 and 1980... |
September 19, 2001 | |
How Beautiful With Banners | James Blish James Blish James Benjamin Blish was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling, Jr.-Biography:... |
October 3, 2001 | |
Men without Bones | Gerald Kersh Gerald Kersh Gerald Kersh was a British writer. Born in 1911, he began to write at the age of 8. After leaving school he worked as, amongst other things, a cinema manager, bodyguard, debt collector, fish & chip cook, travelling salesman, French teacher and all-in-wrestler whilst attempting to 'make it' as a... |
October 17, 2001 | |
Bad Medicine | Robert Sheckley | November 7, 2001 | |
The Heat Death of The Universe | Pamela Zoline Pamela Zoline Pamela Zoline or Pamela Lifton-Zoline is a writer and painter living in the United States in Telluride, Colorado.Among science fiction fans, she is known for her controversial 1967 short story "The Heat Death of the Universe"... |
December 12, 2001 | |
The Thousand Cuts | Ian Watson Ian Watson Ian Watson may refer to:* Ian Watson * Ian Watson , British science fiction author* Ian Watson , British cricketer* Ian Watson , British footballer... |
January 2, 2002 | |
Auto-da-Fé | Roger Zelazny | January 16, 2002 | |
Outside | Brian W. Aldiss | February 6, 2002 | |
The Funeral | Kate Wilhelm Kate Wilhelm Kate Wilhelm is an American writer whose works include science fiction, mystery, and fantasy.- Career :Wilhelm was born in Toledo, Ohio.... |
March 19, 2002 | |
Carcinoma Angels | Norman Spinrad Norman Spinrad Norman Richard Spinrad is an American science fiction author.Born in New York City, Spinrad is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. In 1957 he entered City College of New York and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree as a pre-law major. In 1966 he moved to San Francisco,... |
April 3, 2002 | |
The Geezenstacksby | Fredric Brown | April 17, 2002 | |
Hop-Friend | Terry Carr | June 5, 2002 | |
Clerical Error | Mark Clifton Mark Clifton Mark Clifton was an American science fiction writer. About half of his work falls into two series: the "Bossy" series, about a computer with artificial intelligence, was written either alone or in collaboration with Alex Apostolides or Frank Riley; and the "Ralph Kennedy" series, which is more... |
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 Ward Moore Ward Moore was the working name of American author Joseph Ward Moore. Moore grew up in New York City, and later moved to Chicago, and then to California.... |
September 11, 2002 | |
Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well | Reginald Bretnor Reginald Bretnor Reginald Bretnor was a science fiction author who flourished between the 1950s and 1980s. Most of his fiction was in short story form, and usually featured a whimsical story line or ironic plot twist... |
September 25, 2002 | |
The Screwfly Solution The Screwfly Solution "The Screwfly Solution" is a 1977 science fiction short story by Raccoona Sheldon, a pen name for psychologist Alice Sheldon, who was better known by her other nom de plume, James Tiptree, Jr... |
Raccoona Sheldon | October 9, 2002 | |
Flash Point | Gardner Dozois Gardner Dozois Gardner Raymond Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004... |
October 23, 2002 | |
The Queen of Pig Island | Gerald Kersh | November 6, 2002 | |
Waiting for Billy Star | Tom Reamy Tom Reamy Tom Reamy was an American science fiction and fantasy author and a key figure in 1960s and 1970s science fiction fandom. He died prior to the publication of his first novel; his work is primarily dark fantasy.... |
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 The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World" is a science-fiction short story by Philip José Farmer, first published in 1971 in New Dimensions 1: Fourteen Original Science Fiction Stories. The story later formed the basis for Farmer's Dayworld trilogy of novels.-Plot:Due to extreme overpopulation... |
Philip José Farmer Philip José Farmer Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories.... |
February 5, 2003 | |
Casablanca | Thomas M. Disch | February 19, 2003 | |
Humpty Dumpty had a Great Fall | Frank Belknap Long Frank Belknap Long Frank Belknap Long was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to... |
March 5, 2003 | |
Frog Pond | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | April 2, 2003 | |
Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street | Charles L. Grant Charles L. Grant Charles Lewis Grant was a novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called "dark fantasy" and "quiet horror." He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, and Deborah Lewis.Grant won a World Fantasy Award for his novella collection... |
April 16, 2003 |
Title | Author | Uploaded | URL |
High Weir | Samuel R. Delany | May 7, 2003 | |
When I Was Miss Dow | Sonya Dorman Sonya Dorman Sonya Dorman was the working name of Sonya Dorman Hess. She was born in New York City in 1924 and died in Taos, New Mexico on February 14, 2005 at the age of 80.... |
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 Rosel George Brown Rosel George Brown was an American science fiction author.-Biography:Born New Orleans, Louisiana, she lived in the city of her birth with her husband after concluding her formal education at Sophie Newcomb College, where she majored in Greek, and at the University of Minnesota where she received... |
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 Marta Randall Marta Randall is a science fiction writer.In addition to writing numerous science fiction novels and short fiction, Marta Randall has edited the New Dimensions science fiction anthology series, and Nebula Awards 19.... |
August 20, 2003 | |
It Walks in Beauty | Chandler Davis | September 3, 2003 | |
Caught in the Organ Draft | Robert Silverberg Robert Silverberg Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple nominee of the Hugo Award and a winner of the Nebula Award.-Early years:... |
September 17, 2003 | |
The Transcendent Tigers | R. A. Lafferty R. A. Lafferty Raphael Aloysius Lafferty was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit... |
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 Lester del Rey Lester del Rey was an American science fiction author and editor. Del Rey was the author of many of the Winston Science Fiction juvenile SF series, and the editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction branch of Ballantine Books, along with his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.-Birth... |
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 Kris Ottman Neville Kris Ottman Neville better known as Kris Neville was an American science fiction writer from California.He was born in St. Louis. His first science fiction work was published in 1949. His most famous work, the novel Bettyann, is considered an underground classic of science fiction.Well known... |
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 Manly Wade Wellman Manly Wade Wellman was an American writer. He is best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains and for drawing on the native folklore of that region, but he wrote in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, detective... |
April 7, 2004 | |
The Dandelion Girl The Dandelion Girl "The Dandelion Girl" is a science fiction short story written by American science fiction author Robert F. Young. The story, roughly 5,600 words, first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post on April 1, 1961. The story was later republished in a Robert F. Young short story collection in 1965 called... |
Robert F. Young | April 21, 2004 | |
Un Bel Di | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | May 5, 2004 | |
Paul's Treehouse | Gene Wolfe Gene Wolfe Gene Wolfe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying into the religion. He is a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the... |
May 19, 2004 | |
The Girl Had Guts | Theodore Sturgeon Theodore Sturgeon Theodore Sturgeon was an American science fiction author.His most famous novel is More Than Human .-Biography:... |
June 2, 2004 | |
Aye, and Gomorrah Aye, and Gomorrah "Aye, and Gomorrah..." is a famous science fiction short story by Samuel R. Delany. It is Delany's first sold short story, and won the 1967 Nebula Award for best short story. Before it appeared in Driftglass and Aye, and Gomorrah, and other stories, it was first published as the closing tale in... |
Samuel R. Delany | July 7, 2004 | |
Among the Dead | Edward Bryant Edward Bryant Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. is a science fiction and horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered The New Wave.... |
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 Eric Frank Russell Eric Frank Russell was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and other pulp magazines. Russell also wrote horror fiction for Weird Tales, and... |
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 John Varley John Varley may refer to:* John Varley , English canal engineer* John Varley , English painter and astrologer* John Varley , American science fiction author... |
November 3, 2004 | |
Two Weeks in August | Frank M. Robinson Frank M. Robinson Frank M. Robinson is an American science fiction and techno-thriller writer.-Biography:Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois. The son of a check forger, Frank started out working as a copy boy for International Service in his teens and then became an office boy for Ziff-Davis... |
December 1, 2004 | |
Transfer | Barry N. Malzberg | December 15, 2004 | |
Gather Blue Roses | Pamela Sargent Pamela Sargent Pamela Sargent is an American, feminist, science fiction author, and editor. She has an MA in classical philosophy and has won a Nebula Award. She wrote a series concerning the terraforming of Venus that is sometimes compared to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, but predates it... |
January 5, 2005 | |
Beam Us Home | James Tiptree, Jr. | January 19, 2005 | |
Familiar Pattern | A. Bertram Chandler A. Bertram Chandler Arthur Bertram Chandler was a British-Australian science fiction author. He also wrote under the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M.... |
February 2, 2005 | |
The Yellow Pill | Rog Phillips Rog Phillips Roger Phillips Graham was an American science fiction writer who most often wrote under the name Rog Phillips, but also used other names. Although of his other pseudonyms only Craig Browning is notable in the genre. He is most associated with Amazing Stories and is best known for short fiction... |
February 16, 2005 | |
They Don't Make Life Like They Used To | Alfred Bester Alfred Bester Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books... |
March 2, 2005 | |
The Sea Was Wet as Wet Can Be | Gahan Wilson Gahan Wilson Gahan Wilson is an American author, cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations... |
April 6, 2005 | |
Brown Robert | Terry Carr | April 20, 2005 | |
The White King's Dream | Elizabeth A. Lynn Elizabeth A. Lynn Elizabeth A. Lynn is a US writer most known for fantasy and to a lesser extent science fiction. She is particularly known for being one of the first writers in science fiction or fantasy to introduce gay and lesbian characters; in honor of Lynn, the GLBT bookstore "A Different Light" took its... |
May 18, 2005 | |
Transformer | Chad Oliver Chad Oliver Symmes Chadwick Oliver was an American science fiction and Western writer and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin... |
June 1, 2005 | |
Mouse | Fredric Brown | June 15, 2005 | |
Come On, Wagon | Zenna Henderson Zenna Henderson Zenna Chlarson Henderson was an American science fiction and fantasy novella and short story author, and an elementary school teacher.-Biography:... |
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 George Zebrowski George Zebrowski is a science fiction author and editor who has written and edited a number of books. He lives with author Pamela Sargent, with whom he has co-written a number of novels, including Star Trek novels.Zebrowski won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1999 for his novel Brute Orbits... |
September 28, 2005 | |
Painwise | James Tiptree, Jr. | October 12, 2005 | |
The Beautiful People | Robert Bloch Robert Bloch Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock... |
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 The Great Wall of Mexico (short story) "The Great Wall of Mexico" is a science fiction short story by John Sladek. It was first published in the 1973 anthology Bad Moon Rising: An Anthology of Political Forebodings edited by Thomas M. Disch... |
John Sladek John Sladek John Thomas Sladek was an American science fiction author, known for his satirical and surreal novels.- Life and work :... |
December 21, 2005 |
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