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Strahan, Jonathan

Entry updated 19 October 2026. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.

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(1964-    ) Irish-born anthologist, reviewer, broadcaster and editor, in Australia from 1968. He first became known to the sf field in 1990 as co-founder of the Australian sf journal Eidolon, with which he was involved until 1999 as co-editor and publisher. His long association with Locus as editor and contributor began in 1997, though he returned to Australia in 1999; he was most active as a reviewer for the journal 1999-2004. In 1999 he founded The Coode Street Press, which did not thrive, though he has from early 2010 been conducting under its name the Coode Street Podcasts with Gary K Wolfe, a sequence of live discussions and Interviews podcast on an irregular (but in fact almost always weekly) basis; there are now nearly 600 of these archived at his website [see under links below]. The Coode Street Podcast received a 2021 Hugo in the best fancast category.

Most of Strahan's reprint anthologies are Best-of-Year compilations, beginning with The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Volume 1 (anth 1997) with Jeremy G Byrne (1964-2021); the most successful of them, the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy sequence beginning with The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One (anth 2007), ending with the thirteenth instalment in 2019. Of his Original Anthologies, the Eclipse sequence beginning with Eclipse One: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (anth 2007), and the Infinity Project sequence of Original Anthologies beginning with Engineering Infinity (anth 2010), have provided forums for a wide range of significant new work. The similarly sharply-focused Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond (anth 2016), all tales again newly published, provides a gamut of descriptions of – and sometimes recompenses for – the rising of the Earth's seas (see Climate Change). A more recent series, The Book Of sequence (see Original Anthologies), begins with The Book of Dragons (anth 2020), which won a Locus Award as best anthology, and continues with The Book of Witches (anth 2023) and The Book of the Dead (anth 2026). A singleton, also of original work, Vaster Than Empires: Speculative Fiction of the Eternal and the Ephemeral (anth 2026) assembles with some consistency tales, often distinguishably based on Space Opera topoi, where the immensity of the future of the universe may put the tangled perils confronting Homo sapiens in a chastening perspective. Revolution in the Heart: Stories Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin (anth 2026), again an Original Anthology, contains stories of strong interest by Karen Joy Fowler, Molly Gloss and others.

Strahan has rapidly become one of the most influential anthologists of the twenty-first century. [JC]

further awards or honours: Worldcon.

Jonathan Strahan

born Belfast, Northern Ireland: 1964

works

works as editor

series

Year's Best Australian

Science Fiction: Best

Best Short Novels

Fantasy: Best

Best Science Fiction and Fantasy

The New Space Opera

Eclipse

The Infinity Project

  • Engineering Infinity (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Rebellion/Solaris, 2010) [anth: Infinity Project: pb/Stephan Martinière]
  • Edge of Infinity (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Rebellion/Solaris, 2012) [anth: Infinity Project: pb/Adam Tredowski]
  • Reach for Infinity (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Rebellion/Solaris, 2014) [anth: Infinity Project: pb/Adam Tredowski]
  • Meeting Infinity (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Rebellion/Solaris, 2015) [anth: Infinity Project: pb/Adam Tredowski]
  • Bridging Infinity (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Rebellion/Solaris, 2016) [anth: Infinity Project: pb/Adam Tredowski]
  • Infinity Wars (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Rebellion/Solaris, 2017) [anth: Infinity Project: pb/Adam Tredowski]
  • Infinity's End (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Rebellion/Solaris, 2018) [anth: Infinity Project: pb/Adam Tredowski]

The New Solaris Book of Fantasy

Saga Anthology of Science Fiction

The Book Of

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