Like the just-about-cancelled sitcom Arrested Development, Ellen Datlow has learned the hard way that being a fan favorite doesn't come with job security. Only three months after Datlow won the "best professional editor" Hugo Award for her work on SciFiction (which itself won a Hugo for "best web site"), the SciFi Channel announced that it'll be pulling the plug at the end of the year. Apparently publishing original (and frequently award-winning) science fiction in HTML format doesn't fit their new agenda "to expand with exciting new ventures utilizing the newest technology," whatever that means. The news may put a bit of a damper on Wednesday's "Fantastic Fiction" reading at KGB, which Datlow co-curates monthly, but one hopes not (and you should totally go to hear Judith Berman and Joe Hill).*

"I'd like to thank you all for reading the fiction," Datlow writes in her farewell message, "and hope you'll continue to read it as long as it's archived on SCIFI.COM." But nobody knows yet how long that'll be, so you might want to start downloading (only for your own personal use, that is). Gwenda Bond offers some starting suggestions, and there'll still be seven new stories (plus a few reprinted classics) before the year is through.

*Then you can run around Thursday telling people you dreamt you saw Joe Hill last night...like he hasn't heard that one a million times already...