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An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the first volume in an exciting new annual anthology series edited by acclaimed anthologist Jonathan Strahan.

Set to become a major event on the science fiction and fantasy calendar,Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy gathers together new science fiction and fantasy stories by the best writers working today. You can see that in Eclipse 1, which features extraordinary tales by Peter S. Beagle, Jack Dann & Paul Brandon, Terry Dowling, Andy Duncan, Jeffrey Ford, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Eileen Gunn, Gwyneth Jones, Ellen Klages, Maureen F. McHugh, Garth Nix, Lucius Shepard, Bruce Sterling and Ysabeau S. Wilce.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2007) - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse - (2007) - shortstory by Andy Duncan
• Bad Luck, Trouble, Death, and Vampire Sex - (2007) - shortstory by Garth Nix
• The Last and Only or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French - (2007) - shortstory by Peter S. Beagle
• The Lost Boy: A Reporter at Large - (2007) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• The Drowned Life - (2007) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Toother - (2007) - shortstory by Terry Dowling
• Up the Fire Road - (2007) - novelette by Eileen Gunn
• In the Forest of the Queen - (2007) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
• Quartermaster Returns - (2007) - shortstory by Ysabeau S. Wilce
• Electric Rains - (2007) - shortstory by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• She-Creatures - (2007) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• The Transformation of Targ - (2007) - shortstory by Jack Dann and Paul Brandon
• Mrs. Zeno's Paradox - (2007) - shortstory by Ellen Klages
• The Lustration - (2007) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Larissa Miusov - (2007) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited

An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the second volume in an exciting new annual anthology series edited by acclaimed anthologist Jonathan Strahan.

Set to become a major event on the science fiction and fantasy calendar, Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy gathers together new science fiction and fantasy stories by the best writers working today. You can see that in Eclipse Two, which features more extraordinary tales of the fantastic and astounding.

Table of Contents

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• The Hero - novelette by Karl Schroeder
• Turing's Apples - short story by Stephen Baxter
• Invisible Empire of Ascending Light - short story by Ken Scholes
• Michael Laurits Is: DROWNING - short story by Paul Cornell
• Night of the Firstlings - short story by Margo Lanagan
• Elevator - short story by Nancy Kress
• The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm - novelette by Daryl Gregory
• Exhalation - short story by Ted Chiang
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - novelette by David Moles
• The Rabbi's Hobby - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• The Seventh Expression of the Robot General - short story by Jeffrey Ford
• Skin Deep - novelette by Richard Parks
• Ex Cathedra - novelette by Tony Daniel
• Truth Window: A Tale of the Bedlam Rose - short story by Terry Dowling
• Fury - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited

To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true... In the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies such as Universe, Orbit, and Starlight, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year) presents the non-themed genre anthology Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy. Here you will find stories where strange and wonderful things happen - where reality is eclipsed by something magical and new.

Contents:

• The Pelican Bar, Karen Joy Fowler
• A Practical Girl, Ellen Klages
• Don't Mention Madagascar, Pat Cadigan
• On the Road, Nnedi Okorafor
• Swell, Elizabeth Bear
• Useless Things, Maureen F. McHugh
• The Coral Heart, Jeffrey Ford
• It Takes Two, Nicola Griffith
• Sleight of Hand, Peter S. Beagle
• The Pretender's Tourney, Daniel Abraham
• Yes We Have No Bananas, Paul Di Filippo
• Mesopotamian Fire, Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple
• The Visited Man, Molly Gloss
• Galapagos, Caitlin R. Kiernan
• Dolce Domum, Ellen Kushner

World Fantasy Award-winner Jonathan Strahan delivers the fourth volume of this series, once again demonstrating his keen editorial eye. The multi-award winning Eclipse series (Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, Aurealis) is the only on-going anthology for original non-themed science fiction and fantasy, and its contents have been regularly recognized as some of the most compelling stories of the year, both on awards ballots and on best-of-the-year lists. Eclipse 4 delivers new fiction by some of the genre's most celebrated authors, including Peter Beagle, Emma Bull, Andy Duncan, Elizabeth Hand, Gwyneth Jones and Michael Swanwick and Many others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• Slow as a Bullet - shortstory by Andy Duncan
• Tidal Forces - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The Beancounter's Cat - novelette by Damien Broderick
• Story Kit - shortstory by Kij Johnson
• The Man in Grey - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• Old Habits - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
• The Vicar of Mars - novelette by Gwyneth Jones
• Fields of Gold - novelette by Rachel Swirsky
• Thought Experiment - shortstory by Eileen Gunn
• The Double of My Double Is Not My Double - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• Nine Oracles - shortstory by Emma Bull
• Dying Young - novelette by Peter M. Ball
• The Panda Coin - shortstory by Jo Walton
• Tourists - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited