Published by Syfy and edited by Ellen Datlow, the work won multiple awards before it was discontinued.

The magazine was created by what was then the US Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy), and hosted at SCIFI.COM.

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.

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.