Jonathan Strahan (born 1964, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an editor and publisher of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. 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 (January 2002 – present). 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.[1]
A nineteen-time Hugo Award nominee, Strahan won the World Fantasy Award (Special – Professional) in 2010 for his work as an editor, and his anthologies have won the Locus Award for Best Anthology four times (2008, 2010, 2013, 2021) and the Aurealis Award seven times.
As a freelance editor, Strahan has edited or co-edited more than sixty original and reprint anthologies and seventeen single-author story collections that have been published in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and translated into many languages. He has been a consulting editor for Tordotcom Publishing and Tor.com since 2014, where he has acquired and edited two novels, 36 novellas, and a selection of short fiction.
In 1999, Strahan 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.
Strahan currently co-hosts the regular Coode Street Podcast with Gary K. Wolfe, which won the Hugo Award in 2021, and has been nominated for the World Fantasy, British Science Fiction, and Ditmar awards and which has produced more than 550 episodes since May 2010.[2]
Jonathan married former Locus Managing Editor Marianne Jablon in 1999 and they live in Perth, Western Australia with their two daughters.[citation needed]
Edited works
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, 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 One: 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: Tales of New Tomorrows, Viking Penguin, New York, Spring 2008, hc
The Jack Vance Reader, Jack Vance (with Terry Dowling), Subterranean Press, Summer 2008, hc
Eclipse Two: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, (Night Shade Books, October 2008, tpb)
Wild Thyme, Green Magic: Stories by Jack Vance, Jack Vance (with Terry Dowling) (Subterranean Press, Summer 2009, hc)
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 3, (Night Shade Books, June 2009, tp)
The New Space Opera 2 (with Gardner Dozois) (HarperCollins Publishers, New York July 2009, tp)
Eclipse Three: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, (Night Shade Books, October 2009, tp)
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 4 (Night Shade Books, March 2010)
Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle (Subterranean Press, March 2010)
Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories (ed. with Charles N. Brown) (Night Shade Books, April 2010)
The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories, Walter Jon Williams (Night Shade Books, April 2010)
Subterranean Online, Spring Issue (April 2010)
Hard Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance (ed. with Terry Dowling) (Subterranean Press, June 2010)
Legends of Australian Fantasy (ed. with Jack Dann) (HarperCollins Publishers Australia, July 2010)
Wings of Fire (ed. with Marianne S. Jablon) (Night Shade Books, May 2010)
Swords and Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery (ed. with Lou Anders) (Harper Eos, July 2010)
The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson (Night Shade Books, August 2010)
Godlike Machines (The Science Fiction Book Club, September 2010)
The Best of Larry Niven (Subterranean Press, December 2010)
