[1] It was created by Jarosław Grzędowicz,[2] Krzysztof Sokołowski,[2] Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz,[3] Andrzej Łaski and Dariusz Zientalak jr.
The magazine was reactivated in literary and critical anthology form in 2018 by Bartek Biedrzycki (Polish s-f and comic writer and publisher) and Sokołowski under the name Fenix Antologia with official approval from Grzędowicz.
[4] Fenix was created as a continuation of Feniks fanzine, which ran for 8 issues winning the European SF Awards in 1987 for best zine.
[2] The magazine was published at first by Radwan,[5] then since 1991 by Prószyński i Spółka,[5] and from 2000 to 2001 by Wydawnictwo Mag,[5] after which date the publication was suspended until 2018.
Together with the Fantastyka magazine, Fenix is said to have created and shaped a whole generation of Polish s-f and fantasy writers in Poland in the 90's as well as introducing some of the great names from the western SF&F literature.