Editor Jonathan Strahan has announced the line-up and cover of Eclipse 1. The volume is the first in a projected annual series of new science fiction and fantasy. As publisher Night Shade Books says, “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.”
The line-up for this first issue includes:
“Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse” by Andy Duncan
“Bad Luck, Trouble, Death and Vampire Sex” by Garth Nix
“The Last and Only, or Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French” by Peter S. Beagle
“The Lost Boy: A Reporter At Large” by Maureen F. McHugh
“The Drowned Life” by Jeffrey Ford
“Toother” by Terry Dowling
“Up the Fire Road” by Eileen Gunn
“In The Forest of the Queen” by Gwyneth Jones
“Quartermaster Returns” by Ysabeau Wilce
“Electric Rains” by Kathleen Ann Goonan
“She-Creatures” by Margo Lanagan
“The Transformation of Targ” by Jack Dann & Paul Brandon
“Mrs. Zeno’s Paradox” by Ellen Klages
“The Lustration” by Bruce Sterling
“Larissa Miusov” by Lucius Shepard
Night Shade currently has the book scheduled for October 2008.