Jonathan Strahan


Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986.
In 1990 he co-founded Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, and worked on it as co-editor and co-publisher until 1999. He was also co-publisher of Eidolon Books which published Robin Pen's The Secret Life of Rubber-Suit Monsters, Howard Waldrop's Going Home Again, Storm Constantine's The Thorn Boy, and Terry Dowling's Blackwater Days.
In 1997 Jonathan worked in Oakland, California for Locus: The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field as an assistant editor and wrote a regular reviewer column for the magazine until March 1998 when he returned to Australia. In early 1999 Jonathan resumed reviewing and copyediting for Locus, and was then promoted to Reviews Editor. Other reviews have appeared in Eidolon, Eidolon: SF Online, and Foundation. Jonathan has won the Aurealis Award, the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism and Review, the Australian National Science Fiction Convention's "Ditmar Award", and the Peter McNamara Achievement Award.
A ten-time Hugo Award nominee, Strahan won the World Fantasy Award in 2010 for his work as an editor, and his anthologies have won the Locus Award for Best Anthology three times and the Aurealis Award four times.
As a freelance editor, Jonathan has edited or co-edited forty-one original and reprint anthologies, and seventeen single-author story collections which have been published in Australia and the United States.
In 1999 Jonathan founded The Coode Street Press, which published the one-shot review 'zine The Coode Street Review of Science Fiction and co-published Terry Dowling's Antique Futures. The Coode Street Press is currently inactive.
Jonathan currently co-hosts the weekly Coode Street Podcast with Gary K. Wolfe, which has been nominated for the British Science Fiction Award, the Ditmar Award, and the Hugo Award.
Jonathan married former Locus Managing Editor Marianne Jablon in 1999 and they live in Perth, Western Australia with their two daughters, Jessica and Sophie.

Edited works

  1. The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume: 1,, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, Sydney 1997, tpb
  2. The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume: 2,, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, Sydney 1998, pb
  3. Science Fiction: Best of 2003,, ibooks, New York 2004, pb
  4. The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Fantasy and Science Fiction,, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, Sydney 2004, tpb
  5. Best Short Novels: 2004, Bookspan Inc/The Science Fiction Book Club, New York, 2004, hc
  6. Science Fiction: Best of 2004, , ibooks, New York 2005, pb
  7. Fantasy: Best of 2004, , ibooks, New York 2005, pb
  8. Best Short Novels: 2005, Bookspan Inc/The Science Fiction Book Club, New York, 2005, hc
  9. Best Short Novels: 2006, Bookspan Inc/The Science Fiction Book Club, New York, June 2006, hc
  10. Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005, The Locus Press, Oakland, California,. September 2006
  11. Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005, The Locus Press, Oakland, California, September 2006
  12. Eidolon 1,, Eidolon Books, Perth August 2006, tpb
  13. The Jack Vance Treasury,, Subterranean Press, January 2007, hc
  14. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1, Jonathan Strahan ed., Night Shade Books, March 2007, tpb
  15. Best Short Novels: 2007, Bookspan Inc/The Science Fiction Book Club, New York, May 2007, hc
  16. The New Space Opera,, HarperCollins Publishers, New York June 2007; HarperCollins Publishers Australia, Sydney June 2007, tp
  17. Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling, Bruce Sterling, Subterranean Press, Summer 2007, hc
  18. Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, Night Shade Books, October 2007, tpb
  19. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 2, Night Shade Books, March 2008, tpb
  20. The Starry Rift, Viking Penguin, New York, Spring 2008, hc
  21. The Jack Vance Reader, Terry Dowling & Jonathan Strahan eds, Subterranean Press, Summer 2008, hc
  22. Eclipse Two: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan ed, Night Shade Books, October 2008, tpb
  23. Wild Thyme, Green Magic: Stories by Jack Vance, Terry Dowling & Jonathan Strahan eds., Subterranean Press, Summer 2009, hc
  24. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 3, Jonathan Strahan ed., Night Shade Books, June 2009, tpb
  25. The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan eds., HarperCollins Publishers, New York July 2009, tp
  26. Eclipse Three: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan ed, Night Shade Books, October 2009, tp
  27. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 4
  28. Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle
  29. Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories
  30. The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories, Walter Jon Williams
  31. Subterranean Online, Spring Issue
  32. Hard Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance
  33. Legends of Australian Fantasy
  34. Wings of Fire
  35. Swords and Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery
  36. The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson
  37. Godlike Machines
  38. The Best of Larry Niven
  39. Engineering Infinity
  40. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 5
  41. Life on Mars: Tales from the New Frontier
  42. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 6
  43. Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron
  44. Edge of Infinity
  45. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 7
  46. Fearsome Journeys – The New Solaris Book of Fantasy
  47. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 7
  48. Reach for Infinity
  49. Fearsome Magics – The New Solaris Book of Fantasy
  50. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 9
  51. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 10
  52. Drowned Worlds
  53. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 11
  54. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 12
  55. Mission: Critical
  56. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 13

    Eclipse Online

From October 2012 till March 2013 Strahan edited an online extension of his Eclipse anthology series. *Eclipse Online* featured the following stories:
Eclipse Online ceased publication when the publisher Night Shade Books was transferred to new ownership.

Infinity Project (linked anthologies)

  1. Engineering Infinity
  2. Edge of Infinity
  3. Reach for Infinity
  4. Meeting Infinity
  5. Bridging Infinity
  6. Infinity Wars
  7. Infinity's End

    Awards