Raphael Carter
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Raphael Carter is an American science fiction author whose work, while sparse, has met with considerable acclaim.
Carter's debut postcyberpunk novel The Fortunate Fall (Tor Books 1996) was well received (a. o. Locus recommended reading list; in the Locus Award it was 4th among first novels, after two tied winners) and caused Carter to be nominated for John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1997 and 1998.
The short story "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" (Starlight 2 ed. by Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor 1998) was shortlisted for the Theodore Sturgeon Award and won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. This makes Carter the first non-female to be the sole winner of the Tiptree as (Theodore Roszak in 1995 was a co-winner); however Carter reportedly "does not identify as male or female" [1].
Carter lived in Minnesota in late 1990es.
[edit] Literature
Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden: "Anatomy of a Sale: Raphael Carter's The Fortunate Fall to Tor Books." In The Science Fiction Writer's Market Place and Sourcebook, 2nd ed., ed. David Borcherding. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Press, 1996.
[edit] External links
- http://www.chaparraltree.com - Carter's website (the title being an anagram)
- Carter's Usenet posts at Google Groups: 1993-5, 1996-8 and 1998-9
- Raphael Carter at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Judges' comments on the Congenital Agenesis... at Tiptree Award site
