{"id":2870,"date":"2005-05-21T12:38:51","date_gmt":"2005-05-21T19:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/05\/21\/2870.html"},"modified":"2005-05-21T12:38:51","modified_gmt":"2005-05-21T19:38:51","slug":"happy-birthday-to-sci-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/05\/21\/happy-birthday-to-sci-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to Sci Fiction!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This past Thursday, May 19, marked the fifth anniversary of the launch of Ellen Datlow's Sci Fiction<\/a>. The first story she published there, \"Freeing the Angels<\/a>,\" by Pat Cadigan and Chris Fowler, is still available online if you want to read it.<\/p>\n

I wanted to take this opportunity to publicly thank Ellen for her pioneering work in the field of online sf magazines. She started with Omni Online<\/cite> and later founded and edited Event Horizon<\/cite> (with Rob Killheffer and Pam Weintraub); those weren't the first online sf magazines, but they were the first ones that I know of that paid pro rates and published well-known authors, and as such, they paved the way for the current wave of online magazines.<\/p>\n

(Note that people have been sounding the death knell for online sf almost as long as there's been such a thing. See, for example, an article about Event Horizon<\/cite><\/a> that Salon<\/cite> published about four months after EH<\/cite> launched. It's a sobering article for anyone who wants to start an online magazine, and as it turned out, EH<\/cite> didn't last. Still, it seems a little potkettleblackian for Salon<\/cite> to go pointing fingers about problems with business models for online publications.)<\/p>\n

And Ellen's been publishing good stuff all that time, too. Gardner Dozois pointed out to me a few years ago that he reprinted stories from Omni Online<\/cite> in his 1995 Year's Best Science Fiction<\/cite> (and he reprinted stuff from Event Horizon<\/cite> (and other online venues) in later volumes), so sf published online has been appearing in Year's Bests for ten years now. And she's still doing it: four stories published in Sci Fiction<\/cite> have won Nebula Awards, among other awards and nominations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course, online magazines are still working for recognition from the field; we've still got a long way to go. But a great deal of the progress made so far is due to Ellen.<\/p>\n

So thank you, Ellen! We who've followed in your footsteps owe you a great deal.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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