- Raphael Carter
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" (1996 ) was well received (a. o. "Locus" recommended reading list; in theLocus Award it was 4th among first novels, after two tied winners) and caused Carter to be nominated forJohn W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in1997 and 1998.Carter's short story "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" ("
Starlight 2 " ed. byPatrick Nielsen Hayden ,1998 ) was shortlisted for theTheodore Sturgeon Award and won theJames Tiptree, Jr. Award . This makes Carter the first non-female to be the sole winner of the Tiptree (Theodore Roszak in 1995 was a co-winner); however Carter reportedly "does not identify as male or female" [http://feministsf.org/authors/wsfwriters.html] and wrote [http://web.archive.org/web/200504/www.chaparraltree.com/raq/ Androgyny Rarely Asked Questions] and [http://www.isna.org/books/chrysalis/murk The Murk Manual: How to Understand Medical Writing on Intersex] (Chrysalis: The Journal of Transgressive Gender Identities, Fall/Winter 1997).Carter moved from
Phoenix, Arizona toMinneapolis, Minnesota in 1995.Literature
Patrick and
Teresa Nielsen Hayden : "Anatomy of a Sale: Raphael Carter's The Fortunate Fall toTor Books ." In "The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Sourcebook", 2nd ed., ed. David Borcherding. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Press, 1996. ISBN 0-89879-762-4External links
* Carter's no longer extant website: wayback|200502/www.chaparraltree.com
* Carter'sUsenet posts atGoogle Groups : [http://groups.google.com/groups/search?enc_author=qwv3CxQAAABsdddmPWP8WenbOswKO2f0OPANdqfI6prRsqjc7uCt1A 1993-5] , [http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=author%3Araphael%40wavefront.com&scoring=d 1996-8] and [http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=author%3Aanagram%40chaparraltree.com&scoring=d 1998-9]
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* [http://www.tiptree.org/1998/ Judges' comments on the Congenital Agenesis...] at Tiptree Award site
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