Kathryn Cramer
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| Born: | April 16, 1962 (age 44) Bloomington, Indiana |
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| Occupation: | editor |
| Nationality: | USA |
| Genres: | Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Hypertext fiction |
| Literary movement: | Hard science fiction |
| Website: | http://www.kathryncramer.com |
Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer (April 16, 1962) is a science fiction author and editor.
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[edit] Background
Cramer grew up in Seattle, and currently lives in Pleasantville, New York with her husband David G. Hartwell and their two children. She is the daughter of physicist John G. Cramer. [1] She is a graduate of Columbia University, with degrees in mathematics and American Studies. [2]
[edit] Work
Cramer has worked for five literary agencies, most notably the Virginia Kidd Agency, and for several software companies,[3] including consulting with Wolfram Research in the Scientific Information Group.[4] She has been an editor with The New York Review of Science Fiction for most of the time since its founding in 1988. She is frequently nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine for her work on the magazine.[5]
Cramer was the hypertext fiction editor at Eastgate Systems in the early 1990s. [6] She was part of the Global Connection Project, a joint project of Carnegie Mellon University, NASA, Google, and National Geographic using Google Earth and other tools following the 2005 Pakistan earthquake. [7]
[edit] Bibliography
- Books
- The Architecture of Fear[8] (1987) with Peter D. Pautz (winner of the World Fantasy Award)
- Spirits of Christmas (1989) with David G. Hartwell, Tor Fantasy, ISBN 0-81255-159-1
- Walls of Fear (1990) (a World Fantasy Award nominee), Avon Books, ISBN 0-38070-789-6
- The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994) with David G. Hartwell, ISBN 0-312-85509-5
- The Hard SF Renaissance (2002) with David G. Hartwell, Orbs books, ISBN 0-31287-636-X
- The Space Opera Renaissance (2006) with David G. Hartwell. Tor books, ISBN 0-76530-617-4
- Year’s Best Fantasy (2001) with David G. Hartwell
- Year’s Best Fantasy 2 (2002) with David G. Hartwell
- Year’s Best Fantasy 3 (2003) with David G. Hartwell
- Year’s Best Fantasy 4 (2004) with David G. Hartwell
- Year's Best Fantasy 5 (2005) with David G. Hartwell
- Year's Best Fantasy 6 (2006) with David G. Hartwell
- Year's Best SF 6 (2001) with David G. Hartwell
- Year's Best SF 7 (2002) with David G. Hartwell
- Year's Best SF 8 (2003) with David G. Hartwell
- Year's Best SF 9 (2004) with David G. Hartwell
- Year's Best SF 10 (2005) with David G. Hartwell
- Year's Best SF 11 (2006) with David G. Hartwell
- Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment (1988) with David G. Hartwell
- Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder (1994) with David G. Hartwell
- Short Fiction
- "Forbidden Knowledge" in Mathenauts,[9] ed. Rudy Rucker (1987)
- "The End of Everything" in Asimov's (1990).
- In Small & Large Pieces by Kathryn Cramer, in The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext, Volume 1, No. 3, Eastgate Systems (1994). (a work of hypertext dark fantasy)
- "Disextinction"[10] in Nature Magazine (2001).
- "Sandcastles: a Dystopia"[11] in Nature Magazine (2005).
- Essays
- How Shit Became Shinola: Definition and Redefinition of Space Opera (2003) with David G. Hartwell [12]
Cramer has also written a number of significant essays published in the New York Review of Science Fiction over the past decades.
[edit] See also
[edit] Further reading
- Gary Westfahl (1996-02-28). Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy). Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-29727-4.
[edit] References
- ^ Cramer, John G. (November 10, 2003). The Sound of the Big Bang. University of Washington. Retrieved on January 26, 2007.
- ^ Kathryn Cramer. EastGate Systems (undated). Retrieved on January 26, 2007.
- ^ http://www.altx.com/interviews/kathryn.cramer.html
- ^ See Cramer's website at http://kathryncramer.com/ .
- ^ LOCUS, 2004 "All nominees in the Semiprozine category have previously been nominated, and the category includes the top two record holders for most number of Hugo wins: Charles N. Brown, with 41 previous nominations and 26 wins, and David Langford, with 43 previous nominations and 24 wins. David Pringle has 19 previous nominations, and won for Interzone ten years ago in Glasgow. Kathryn Cramer has 12 previous nominations, Kevin J. Maroney 8, both for The New York Review of Science Fiction; co-editor Hartwell, mentioned above, has 29 previous nominations. Andy Cox has one previous nomination, last year for The Third Alternative."
- ^ "Hypertext Horizon: An Interview With Kathryn Cramer", Altx.com, undated; first published by Sonicnet.
- ^ Global Connection Project team; Ewalt, David M. "Google Is Everywhere", Forbes.com, September 2, 2005; Hafner, Katie. "For Victims, News About Home Can Come From Strangers Online", The New York Times, September 5, 2006; Thompson, Bill. "Net offers map help after the flood", BBC News, September 2, 2005.
- ^ "STYLES IN HAUNTED HOUSES, FROM VICTORIAN GLOOM TO MODERN MAYHEM". The New York Times. (October 29, 1987).
- ^ http://math.cofc.edu/kasman/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf52
- ^ http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/disextinction/
- ^ http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v437/n7060/full/437926a.html
- ^ How Shit Became Shinola: Definition and Redefinition of Space Opera. SFRevu (August 2003).
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