Jonathan Strahan began publishing both reprint and original anthologies in the mid-2000s. His first original was Eidolon, a tribute to the Australian magazine he had co-edited through the 1990s. He launched series Eclipse in 2007, following several years of co-editing best-of-year anthologies with Karen Haber. The introduction to the first volume establishes its scope to include both science fiction and fantasy, and expresses his admiration for editor Terry Carr. The series lasted four volumes, then continued for a couple years online.

Singletons on various themes began in 2008, with The Starry Rift (contemporary sense of wonder stories), Life on Mars, Drowned Worlds (about the Anthropocene and Beyond), and most recently Made to Order: Robots and Revolution.

A loose original anthology series began with Engineering Infinity in 2011, continuing with seven further volumes unnumbered but all with titles including the word Infinity. These were focused on hard science fiction.

Two stories from these books won Hugos: Pat Cadigan's "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" and Ted Chiang's "Exhalation." Rachel Swirsky's "Fields of Gold" was both a Hugo and Nebula nominee. Alastair Reynolds' "Troika" and Nicola Griffith's "It Takes Two" were Hugo nominees, while Andy Duncan's "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse" was a Nebula nominee.

Most included authors: Alastair Reynolds (8), Stephan Baxter, Jeffrey Ford, and Ellen Klages (7 each), then Garth Nix and Peter Watts (6 each).