Eidolon Publications was a

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publisher based in

North Perth, Western Australia North Perth is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Vincent. This old, established suburb three kilometres north of the Perth central business district is a place of mainly solid brick homes built from the early 190 ...

. The company previously published the

speculative fiction Speculative fiction is a term that has been used with a variety of (sometimes contradictory) meanings. The broadest interpretation is as a category of fiction encompassing genres with elements that do not exist in reality, recorded history, na ...

magazine ''Eidolon'' which ran from 1990 to 2000 and published books under the name of Eidolon Books.

History

Eidolon Publications begun in 1990 and started publishing the ''Eidolon'' magazine. In 1992 the company expanded into non-magazine publishing, releasing

Terry Dowling Terence William (Terry) Dowling (born 21 March 1947), is an Australian writer and journalist. He writes primarily speculative fiction though he considers himself an "imagier" – one who imagines, a term which liberates his writing from the cons ...

's "The Mars You Have in Me" as a

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. In 1996 Eidolon begun a book-line with Robin Pen's ''The Secret Life of Rubber-Suit Monsters''. They then signed with HarperCollins to edit ''The Year's best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy'' anthology series which began in 1997. In 2000 Eidolon put their magazine on hiatus but continued to accept submissions. In 2002 an editorial committee attempted to restart the magazine but it proved unsuccessful. The company published

's '' Blackwater Days'' which won the 2001

Ditmar Award The Ditmar Award (formally the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Award; formerly the "Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award") has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (the "Natcon") to recognise a ...

for best collected work and the story within the book "The Saltimbanques" won the best short fiction award.

''Eidolon'' magazine

''Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy'' was first released in Autumn 1990 and was released quarterly until 1996. It was reduced to two issues a year until 1998 when it was reduced to one issue a year. The magazine was put on hiatus in 2000. In total it ran for 26 issues finishing on issue #29/30. In 1992, it won the

for best fanzine, and in 1993 it won the Ditmar Award for best periodical. It won the Ditmar Award for best publication/fanzine/periodical in 1996, and in 1998 it won best fanzine award again. The magazine has featured short stories which have been short-listed and won literary awards. Three authors won the Aurealis Award for their story,

Karen Attard Karen Attard (born 1958) is an Australian writer of fantasy and short fiction. Biography Attard's first work to be published was in 1975 with a poem published by Meuse Press, entitled ''Like an Omen''. In 1995 she published a poetry collection ...

's " Harvest Bay" won 1995 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story, Sean Williams' "Passing the Bone" won 1996 Aurealis Award for best horror short story,

Damien Broderick Damien Francis Broderick (born 22 April 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 74 books. His science fiction novel ''The Dreaming Dragons'' (1980) introduced the trope of the generation time machine ...

's "Infinite Monkey" won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story and

Stephen Dedman Stephen Dedman (born 1959) is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels. Biography Dedman's short stories have appeared in ''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'', '' Year's Best SF'', and ''The Best Australian Sc ...

's "The Devotee" won the 2001 Ditmar Ward for best short fiction and other various authors have been finalists for both the

and the

Aurealis Award The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award. History The Aurealis Award was established in 1995 by ...

. Artwork featured on the magazine by Shaun Tan has also won awards; in 1995 he won the Ditmar Award for best professional Artwork and the 1996 Ditmar Award for best Artwork on the cover of the issue #19.

Eidolon Books

Eidolon Books is the book publishing arm of Eidolon Publications. In 2006 they released the anthology ''

Eidolon I ''Eidolon I'' is a 2006 speculative fiction anthology edited by Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy G. Byrne. Background ''Eidolon I'' was first published in 2006 by Eidolon Books in trade paperback format. It was a short-list nominee for the 2007 Di ...

''. It was nominated for best collected work at the 2007 Ditmar Awards. It also featured six stories that were nominated for various Aurealis Awards, with

Margo Lanagan Margo Lanagan (born 1960 in Waratah, New South Wales) is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction. Biography She grew up in Raymond Terrace and moved to Melbourne circa 1971/1972. After overseas travel, she moved to Sydney ...

's " A Fine Magic" winning the award for best fantasy short story and other stories also were nominees for other awards.

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External links

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Australian speculative fiction publishers Companies based in Perth, Western Australia Publishing companies established in 1990 Science fiction publishers