Jonathan Strahan

Jonathan Strahan (1964 in Belfast - ) 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 promoted to Reviews Editor in January 2002. Other reviews have appeared in Eidolon, Eidolon: SF Online, Ticonderoga Online, and Foundation. Jonathan has won the William J Atheling Jr Award for Criticism and Review and the Australian National Science Fiction Convention's "Ditmar Award".

As a freelance editor, Jonathan has edited or co-edited one original and eleven reprint anthologies 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 married former Locus Managing Editor Marianne Jablon in 1999 and they live in Perth, Western Australia with their two daughters, Jessica and Sophie.

Anthologies edited by Jonathan Strahan

• The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume: 1, (with Jeremy G Byrne), HarperCollins Publishers Australia, Sydney 1997, tpb
• The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume: 2, (with Jeremy G Byrne), HarperCollins Publishers Australia, Sydney 1998, pb
• Science Fiction: Best of 2003, (with Karen Haber), ibooks, New York 2004, pb
• The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Fantasy and Science Fiction,(with Charles N. Brown), HarperCollins Publishers Australia, Sydney 2004, tpb
• Best Short Novels: 2004, Bookspan Inc/The Science Fiction Book Club, New York, 2004, hc
• Science Fiction: Best of 2004, (with Karen Haber), ibooks, New York 2005, pb
• Fantasy: Best of 2004, (with Karen Haber), ibooks, New York 2005, pb
• Best Short Novels: 2005, Bookspan Inc/The Science Fiction Book Club, New York, 2005, hc
• Best Short Novels: 2006, Bookspan Inc/The Science Fiction Book Club, New York, June 2006, hc
• Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005, The Locus Press, Oakland, California,. September 2006
• Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005, The Locus Press, Oakland, California, September 2006
• Eidolon 1, (with Jeremy G Byrne), Eidolon Books, Perth August 2006, tpb
• The Jack Vance Treasury, (with Terry Dowling), Subterranean Press, January 2007, hc
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1, Jonathan Strahan ed., Night Shade Books, March 2007, tpb
• Best Short Novels: 2007, Bookspan Inc/The Science Fiction Book Club, New York, May 2007, hc
• The New Space Opera, (with Gardner Dozois), HarperCollins Publishers, New York June 2007; HarperCollins Publishers Australia, Sydney June 2007, tp

• Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling, Bruce Sterling, Subterranean Press, Summer 2007, hc
• Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, Night Shade Books, October 2007, tpb
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 2, Night Shade Books, March 2008, tpb
• The Starry Rift, Viking Penguin, New York, Spring 2008, hc

Forthcoming

• Godlike Machines, Bookspan Inc/The Science Fiction Book Club, New York, 2008, hc

Awards

• Nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor, Short Form

External links

• Jonathan Strahan's blog