 Since 2004 "Albedo One" has sponsored the Aeon Award, a fiction contest aimed at promoting new writers and writing in the speculative fiction genres.The story "My Marriage" by English author Julian West won the Inaugural 2004-2005 Aeon Award with Grand Judge Ian Watson commenting that he found it "rather unsettling", recommending it for the gender bending Lambda Award.Aeon Press has been described as the "book-publishing" arm of "Albedo One", and is currently Ireland's only dedicated publisher of science fiction, fantasy and horror.