Kathryn Cramer

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Kathryn Cramer
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Born Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer
(1962-04-16) April 16, 1962 (age 62)
Bloomington, Indiana
Occupation Editor
Nationality United States
Genre Science fiction, fantasy, horror, hypertext fiction
Literary movement Hard science fiction
Website
www.kathryncramer.com

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

Life

Cramer grew up in Seattle, and currently lives in Westport, New York with her two children, Peter and Elizabeth. She is the daughter of physicist John G. Cramer. She is a graduate of Columbia University, with degrees in mathematics and American studies.[1]

Work

Cramer has worked for five literary agencies, most notably the Virginia Kidd Agency, and for several software companies,[2] including consulting with Wolfram Research in the Scientific Information Group.[3] 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.[4]

Cramer was the hypertext fiction editor at Eastgate Systems in the early 1990s.[5] 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]

Cramer has written a number of essays published in the New York Review of Science Fiction. Book reviews for that journal include such works as This is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow, Ellipse of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy by Lance Olsen, and Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem. She is a contributor to the Encarta article on science fiction[7] and wrote the chapter on hard science fiction for the Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction ed. Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James.[8] 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).

Bibliography

Anthologies

Anthology series

The Year's Best Fantasy is a fantasy anthology series edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.
The Year's Best SF is a science fiction anthology series edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. Hartwell started the series in 1996, and has been co-editing it with Cramer since 2002. It is published by HarperCollins under the Eos imprint. The creators of the books are not involved with the similarly titled Year's Best Science Fiction series.

Short fiction

Poems

Selected essays

Interviews

  • "Hypertext Horizon: An Interview With Kathryn Cramer" (ca. 1994) by Harry Goldstein (Transcript of a live on-line interview over Sonicnet)[26]
  • "Interview With Kathryn Cramer, Co-editor of Hieroglyph" by New Books Network (Podcast on New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy) [27]

See also

References

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External links

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  2. Hypertext Horizon: An Interview With Kathryn Cramer
  3. http://www.kathryncramer.com/kathryn_cramer/wolfram/ and http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Conferences/6541/
  4. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/HugoNomList.html#1113 ; 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."
  5. "Hypertext Horizon: An Interview With Kathryn Cramer", Altx.com, undated; first published by Sonicnet
  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
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  8. Cramer's chapter on hard science fiction (opening paragraph, full text in PDF for subscribers only) in The Cambridge Companion to SF
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