KATHRYN CRAMER

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

Contents

Background

Work

Bibliography

See also

Further reading

References

External links

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 BA degrees in mathematics and American Studies. ^[2]

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. It has been nominated twelve times for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine under her co-editorship.^[5]
Cramer was the hypertext fiction editor at Eastgate Systems in the early 1990s. "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. ^[6]

Bibliography

;Anthologies

★ ''The Architecture of Fear''^[7] (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

★ ''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'',^[8] 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"^[9] in Nature Magazine (2001).

★ "Sandcastles: a Dystopia"^[10] in Nature Magazine (2005).
; Essays

★ ''How Shit Became Shinola: Definition and Redefinition of Space Opera'' (2003) with David G. Hartwell ^[11]
Cramer has also written a number of essays published in the ''New York Review of Science Fiction'' over the past decades. She is a contributor to the Encarta article on science fiction and wrote the chapter on hard science fiction for the Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Several of her essays have been reprinted, for example "Science Fiction and the Adventures of the Spherical Cow," which appears in ''Visions of Wonder'', ed. Milton T. Wolf & David G. Hartwell.^[12]

See also

★ Hard science fiction

★ Hypertext fiction

★ Space opera

Further reading

★ Cramer's chapter on hard science fiction (opening paragraph, full text in PDF for subscribers only) in ''The Cambridge Companion to SF'' ed. Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James.

References

1. The Sound of the Big Bang
2. Kathryn Cramer
3. http://www.altx.com/interviews/kathryn.cramer.html
4. See Cramer's website at http://kathryncramer.com/ .
5. 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."
6. 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.
7. "STYLES IN HAUNTED HOUSES, FROM VICTORIAN GLOOM TO MODERN MAYHEM"
8. http://math.cofc.edu/kasman/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf52
9. http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/disextinction/
10. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v437/n7060/full/437926a.html
11. How Shit Became Shinola: Definition and Redefinition of Space Opera
12. Visions of Wonder tabel of contents

External links

★ ''New York Review of Science Fiction'' website