Note: Editor(s): Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz and Jaroslaw Grzędowicz were both in the group that founded Fenix. Ziemkiewicz was the first editor, in that position through 1993 or 1994, according to various sources. Grzędowicz took over as editor "in 1993", but we do not know when during 1993 this transition happened, so most 1993 issues are listed with editor "unknown".
Published by: Radwan. This publishing company was, apparently, created for the purpose of this magazine, but then branched out to other works.
Years of Publication: 1990-2001
Issues: 108, i.e. #0, #1-107. Issues #96 and 107 were double issues. We list issues here with "Volume #", for convenience of our indexing, but they were not listed that way. Rather, the covers have issue numbers of the form "3 (19) 1993", meaning: "Issue #3 of 1993, whole number 19".
Format: Digest sized paperback, which was slightly increased in the last dozen or so numbers issued when they switched printers.
ISSN: 0860-0376
Description/Overview: Science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Published SF in translation (mostly from English) along with original works by Polish authors.
Bibliographic Status: All issues entered. All covers entered. All fiction contents entered (but no page numbers). No issues verified.
Notes/Comments: "In 1990 a group of writers, translators and editors, some of whom were connected with Klub Tfurcuf, including Jarosław Grzędowicz and Rafał Ziemkiewicz, launched their own digest-format monthly magazine "Fenix", which soon became a solid competitor with Nowa Fantastyka (that is, Fantastyka as renamed in the same year in order to celebrate freedom from communism as well as mark a complex caesura from the past)." (From
SF-Encyclopedia.)
Issues here include only the fiction content. There may also have been essays or other non-fiction items, but we have not found consistent sources for these contents.