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A weekly digest of free science fantasy stories, with one free story in the Story Letter inbox every week. No paywall, ever.
Producer & Chief Editor: R.M. Mulder
Read free stories →SciFan Society is the home of science fantasy — stories, readers, and author services.
We have been publishing science fantasy since 2016, and began as a small magazine in 2017. Today there are three parts to it.
Three parts, one Society
A weekly digest of free science fantasy stories, with one free story in the Story Letter inbox every week. No paywall, ever.
Producer & Chief Editor: R.M. Mulder
Read free stories →The Facebook group is where the Society actually talks — recommendations, release news, and the genre arguments that only happen between people who love both the magic and the machinery.
Join the Society →Serious help for the authors who write science fantasy — launches run for you, not by you, in front of a science fantasy readership.
See Author Services →SciFan began in September 2016 as a simple conviction: some of the best stories being written didn't fit on either side of the line between science fiction and fantasy — they needed both. Starships and spellcraft. Technology and magic, in the same world, at the same time. Science fantasy.
In January 2017 that conviction became SciFan Magazine — “A Science Fantasy Digital Editorial,” published by SciFan Entertainment and edited by Dayne Edmondson, Richard M. Mulder, and M. L. Spencer. The first issue carried fourteen stories. The run reached Issue 10 by that autumn, in print and ebook, featuring early GameLit and LitRPG alongside science fantasy — including Tom Fallwell's Stormguard serial, which ran in its pages. Issue 10 carried a subtitle that reads like a promise now: Beyond Science Fiction & Fantasy. That same autumn, the word GameLit itself was coined by a council of authors that included SciFan's own R. M. Mulder — the magazine had become a founding corner of a genre community still growing today.
The magazine eventually went quiet. Its readers never did. The stories stayed up, and the world kept finding them — more than 101,000 reads since September 2016, from readers in 142 countries.
In January 2027 — ten years after Issue 1 — the banner rises again. The magazine's heir is Beyond SciFan: the same science-fantasy conviction, reborn as a showcase for a new generation of storytellers. The dragon kept the ring. So did we.