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Jonathan Strahan Jonathan Strahan i(A5104 works by)
Born: Established: 1964 Belfast,
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Northern Ireland,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1968
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BiographyHistory

Editor, publisher, reviewer.

Jonathan Strahan emigrated with his parents to Australia in 1968 and settled in Perth, Western Australia. After completing his secondary education Strahan attended the University of Western Australia, graduating in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts. Four years later he and Jeremy G. Byrne co-founded Eidolon Publications, the small press which subsequently published Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Strahan also co-edited the magazine until 1999). In 1996 Eidolon published its first book, Robin Pen's The Secret Life of Rubber-Suit Monsters. This was followed in 1997 by Howard Waldrop's collection of short stories, Going Home Again.

In 1997 Strahan moved to the USA where he took up a position as assistant editor and column reviewer for Locus: The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field (based in Oakland, California). Although he returned to Australia the following year, by 1999 he was again associated with Locus as reviewer and copy editor. That same year he established The Coode Street Press. Among its releases have been the one-shot review e-zine The Coode Street Review of Science Fiction and Terry Dowling's Antique Futures. In 2002 Strahan was promoted to Reviews Editor by Locus senior management.

During the course of his career Strahan has won several prestigious awards, including the William J. Atheling Jr Award for Criticism and Review, and the Australian National Science Fiction Convention's Ditmar Award. He also received the Peter McNamara Achievement Award in 2005 and in 2008 was nominated for Best Editor at the Hugo Awards. As a freelance editor, he has edited or co-edited more than thirty anthologies which have been published in Australia and the United States (including the annual anthology series The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year). These have been published by both independent presses and major publishers. Among these are HarperCollins, Night Shade Books, Subterranean Press, Viking Penguin, Bookspan Inc, Science Fiction Book Club, Prime Books, The Locus Press and ibooks. Strahan's reviews have appeared in a variety of online and traditional publications, including the Eidolon journal, Eidolon: SF Online, Ticonderoga Online and Foundation.

Strahan married the former managing editor of Locus in 1999, and in the mid-2000s relocated his family back to Perth.

Source: Notes from Coode Street http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/ (Sighted 22/6/10)

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2023 finalist Locus Awards Editor
2022 finalist Locus Awards Editor
2022 finalist Hugo Award Best Fancast with Gary K. Wolfe, for Coode Street Podcast.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Tomorrow's Parties : Life in the Anthropocene Cambridge : MIT Press , 2022 24967607 2022 anthology short story

'We are living in the Anthropocene—an era of dramatic and violent climate change featuring warming oceans, melting icecaps, extreme weather events, habitat loss, species extinction, and more. What will life be like in a climate-changed world? In Tomorrow’s Parties, science fiction authors speculate how we might be able to live and even thrive through the advancing Anthropocene. In ten original stories by writers from around the world, an interview with celebrated writer Kim Stanley Robinson, and a series of intricate and elegant artworks by Sean Bodley, Tomorrow’s Parties takes rational optimism as a moral imperative, or at least a pragmatic alternative to despair.
 
'In these stories—by writers from the United Kingdom, the United States, Nigeria, China, Bangladesh, and Australia—a young man steals from delivery drones; a political community lives on an island made of ocean-borne plastic waste; and a climate change denier tries to unmask “crisis actors.” Climate-changed life also has its pleasures and epiphanies, as when a father in Africa works to make his son’s dreams of “Viking adventure” a reality, and an IT professional dispatched to a distant village encounters a marvelous predigital fungal network. Contributors include Pascall Prize for Criticism winner James Bradley, Hugo Award winners Greg Egan and Sarah Gailey, Philip K Dick Award winner Meg Elison, and New York Times bestselling author Daryl Gregory.'  (Publication summary) 

2023 finalist Locus Awards Anthology
y separately published work icon Someone in Time : Tales of Time-Crossed Romance Oxford : Solaris , 2022 24631749 2022 anthology short story fantasy science fiction

'Anthology of inclusive tales of people through time looking for one another and for ways for the world to be better.

'Love brought together or torn apart by time travel.

'This anthology is the latest collection of time-travel romance sci-fi short stories from prominent, award-winning sci-fi authors including Nina Allan, Carrie Vaughn, and Seanan McGuire. Follow timetravelers of all genders as they go backward and forward in time, sometimes to save the one they love, other times as a sacrifice, and others simply because it's their job. Some travel through memory, others through dreams, and others still through time machines to touch people who would otherwise be out of reach, and to join them together. Some of the stories are funny, some are sad and poignant, some are tales of fresh love and some of love forever lost, but they all are rather wonderful.' (Publication summary)

2023 finalist Locus Awards Anthology
y separately published work icon The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 2 The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2021 Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2021 22597009 2021 anthology short story science fiction

'The most celebrated science fiction short story editor of our time, multi-award-winning editor and Locus Magazine critic Jonathan Strahan presents the definitive collection of best short science fiction of 2020.

'With short works from some of the most lauded science fiction authors, as well as rising stars, this science fiction collection displays the top talent and cutting-edge cultural moments that affect our lives, dreams, and stories. These brilliant authors examine the way we live now, our hopes, and struggles, all through the lens of the future.

'An assemblage of future classics, this star-studded anthology is a must-read for anyone who enjoys the vast and exciting world of science fiction.' (Publication summary)

2022 finalist Locus Awards Anthology
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