Kathryn Cramer

Infobox Writer
name = Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer


imagesize = 100px
birthdate = birth date and age|1962|4|16
birthplace = Bloomington, Indiana
occupation = editor
genre = Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Hypertext fiction
nationality = United States
movement = Hard science fiction
website = http://www.kathryncramer.com

Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer (April 16, 1962) is an American science fiction author, editor, and literary critic.

Life

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. [cite web |url=http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound.html |title=The Sound of the Big Bang|accessdate=2007-01-26 |last=Cramer |first= John G. |authorlink= John G. Cramer |date=November 10, 2003 |publisher=University of Washington ] She is a graduate of Columbia University, with degrees in mathematics and American studies. [cite web |url=http://www.eastgate.com/people/Cramer.html |title=Kathryn Cramer |accessdate=2007-01-26 |author= |date=undated |publisher=EastGate Systems ]

Work

Cramer has worked for five literary agencies, most notably the Virginia Kidd Agency, and for several software companies, [ [http://www.altx.com/interviews/kathryn.cramer.html Hypertext Horizon: An Interview With Kathryn Cramer ] ] including consulting with Wolfram Research in the Scientific Information Group. [ http://www.kathryncramer.com/kathryn_cramer/wolfram/ and http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Conferences/6541/] She co-founded "The New York Review of Science Fiction" in 1988 and was its co-editor until 1991 and again since 1996. It has been nominated (as of 2007) for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine every year of its existence, fifteen times under her co-editorship. [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/HugoNomList.html#1113 ; [http://www.locusmag.com/2005/News/03_HugoNominations.html Hugo and Campbell Awards Nominations] , "Locus" Online 2005: "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."]

Cramer was the hypertext fiction editor at Eastgate Systems in the early 1990s. [http://www.altx.com/interviews/kathryn.cramer.html "Hypertext Horizon: An Interview With Kathryn Cramer"] , Altx.com, undated; first published by Sonicnet] 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. [ [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~globalconn/team.html Global Connection Project team] ; Ewalt, David M.: [http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2005/09/02/hurricane-google-map-rescue-cx_de_0902google.html Google Is Everywhere] , Forbes.com", September 2, 2005; Hafner, Katie: [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/technology/05google.html?ex=1283572800&en=e092019eb18b6b94&ei=5090 For Victims, News About Home Can Come From Strangers Online] , "The New York Times", September 5, 2006; Thompson, Bill: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4208070.stm Net offers map help after the flood] , BBC News, September 2, 2005]

Bibliography

;Anthologies
* "The Architecture of Fear" [cite web |title="STYLES IN HAUNTED HOUSES, FROM VICTORIAN GLOOM TO MODERN MAYHEM" |url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0DC103FF93AA15753C1A961948260|date= October 29, 1987|publisher= "The New York Times"] (1987) with Peter D. Pautz – winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
*"Spirits of Christmas" (1989) with David G. Hartwell, Tor Fantasy, ISBN 0-81255-159-1
* "Walls of Fear" (1990), Avon Books, ISBN 0-38070-789-6 – a World Fantasy Award nominee
*"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, Orb books, ISBN 0-31287-636-X
* "The Space Opera Renaissance" (2006) with David G. Hartwell, Tor Books, ISBN 0-76530-617-4
*"Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment" (1988) with David G. Hartwell
*"Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder" (1994) with David G. Hartwell

;Anthology Series
* "Year’s Best Fantasy" 1 through 7 (2001–2007) with David G. Hartwell (HarperCollins 2001–2005, Tachyon Publications 2006–2007)
* "Year's Best SF 7, Year's Best SF 8, Year's Best SF 9, Year's Best SF 10, Year's Best SF 11, Year's Best SF 12" (2002–2007) with David G. Hartwell (HarperCollins)

; Short Fiction
* "Forbidden Knowledge" in "Mathenauts", [ [http://math.cofc.edu/kasman/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf52 MathFiction: Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder (Rudy Rucker (editor)) ] ] ed. Rudy Rucker (1987)
* "The End of Everything" in "Asimov's Science Fiction" October 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)
* " [http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/disextinction/ Disextinction] " in "Nature Magazine" (2001)
* " [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v437/n7060/full/437926a.html Sandcastles: a Dystopia] " in "Nature Magazine" (2005)

; Essays
* [http://www.sfrevu.com/ISSUES/2003/0308/Space%20Opera%20Redefined/Review.htm How Shit Became Shinola: Definition and Redefinition of Space Opera] with David G. Hartwell, SFRevu August 2003

Cramer has also written a number of essays published in the "New York Review of Science Fiction". She is a contributor to the Encarta [http://encarta.msn.com/text_761563123__1/Science_Fiction.html article on science fiction] and wrote the chapter on hard science fiction for the "Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction" ed. Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James. [ [http://cco.cambridge.org/extract?id=ccol0521816262_CCOL0521816262A018 Cramer's chapter on hard science fiction] (opening paragraph, full text in PDF for subscribers only) in "The Cambridge Companion to SF"] Several of her essays have been reprinted, for example "Science Fiction and the Adventures of the Spherical Cow" (NYRSF August 1988) in "Visions of Wonder", ed. Milton T. Wolf & David G. Hartwell (Tor 1996).

See also

* Hard science fiction
* Hypertext fiction
* Space opera
* "The New York Review of Science Fiction"

References

External links

* http://www.KathrynCramer.com
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* [http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit31.html#1113 Kathryn Cramer in the Index of Literary Nominees] in the Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards