Strasser, Dirk
Entry updated 2 September 2024. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1959- ) German-born editor and author, in Australia from early childhood; co-founder of the magazine Aurealis in 1990, which he co-edited until 2001, taking on full editorship from 2011, when it became an Online Magazine; the two Anthologies of material reflecting his tenure are Aurealis: Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Collector's Edition (anth 1992) with Stephen Higgins, and The Aurealis Mega Oz SF Anthology (anth 1999) with Stephen Higgins.
Strasser's began to publish fiction of genre interest with the sf "Waiting for the Rain" in Universe 2 (anth 1992) edited by Karen Haber and Robert Silverberg. His longer work, starting with the Young Adult Graffiti (1993 chap) and climaxing with the Ascension sequence beginning with Zenith (1993), is supernatural horror or fantasy. Conquist (March-November 2023 Aurealis; 2024) is a historical fantasy set in 1538, with conquistadors and Incas passing through a portal from Peru to a strange other world. [JC]
Dirk Strasser
born Offenbach, Hesse, Germany: 1959
works
series
Ascension
- Zenith (Sydney, New South Wales: Pan Macmillan Australia, 1993) [Ascension: pb/Mike Worrall]
- Equinox: The Second Book of Ascension (Sydney, New South Wales: Pan Macmillan Australia, 1996) [Ascension: pb/Mike Worrall]
- Eclipse: The Lost Book of Ascension (Sydney, New South Wales: Pan Macmillan Australia/Momentum, 2013) [Ascension: pb/XOU Creative]
individual titles
- Graffiti (Auckland, New Zealand: Ashton Scholastic, 1993) [novella: chap: pb/Keith McEwan]
- Conquist (London: Roundfire Books, 2024) [first appeared March-November 2023 Aurealis: pb/]
collections
- Stories of the Sand (Melbourne, Victoria: Satalyte Publishing, 2014) [coll: pb/Andrew J McKiernan]
works as editor
- Aurealis: Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Collectors' Edition (Mount Waverley, Victoria: Chimaera, 1992) with Stephen Higgins [anth: pb/]
- The Aurealis Mega Oz SF Anthology (Mount Waverley, Victoria: Chimaera, 1999) with Stephen Higgins [anth: pb/]
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