NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kathryn Cramer

Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer (April 16, 1962) is a science fiction author, editor, and literary critic. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Location in the state of Indiana Coordinates: County Monroe Mayor Mark Kruzan Area - City 51. ... Official language(s) English Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Area Ranked 38th - Total 36,418 sq mi (94,321 kmÂ²) - Width 140 miles (225 km) - Length 270 miles (435 km) - % water 1. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... A literary genre is one of the divisions of literature into genres according to particular criteria such as literary technique, tone, or content. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Smaug in his lair: an illustration for the fantasy The Hobbit Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the reader. ... Hypertext fiction is a genre of electronic literature, characterized by the use of hypertext links which provides a new context for non-linearity in literature and reader interaction. ... ... Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both. ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cosette Dwyer is an amazing author. ... A literary editor is an editor in a newspaper or similar publication who deals with aspects concerning literature and books, especially reviews. ... Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ...

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] City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area - Total - Land - Water - % water 369. ... Pleasantville may refer to: Pleasantville, Iowa, USA Pleasantville, New Jersey, USA Pleasantville, New York, USA Pleasantville, Ohio. ... NY redirects here. ... David Geddes Hartwell is an editor of science fiction and fantasy. ... John G. Cramer (born 1934) is a Professor of Physics at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. When not teaching, he works with the STAR detector at the new Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the particle accelerator at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... Euclid, Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by by Raphael in this detail from The School of Athens. ... American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the study of the United States. ...

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] This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Wolfram Research is part of the Wolfram Group which consists of four companies: Wolfram Research Inc. ... The New York Review of Science Fiction is a monthly, long-running science fiction critical journal edited by David G. Hartwell and others. ... Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. ...

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] Hypertext fiction is a genre of electronic literature, characterized by the use of hypertext links which provides a new context for non-linearity in literature and reader interaction. ... Eastgate Systems is a publisher of hypertext fiction and a developer of hypertext tools including StorySpace, in which much early hypertext fiction was written, and Tinderbox, a tool for managing notes and information. ... Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States federal government, responsible for the nations public space program. ... Google, Inc. ... The National Geographic Society was founded in the USA on January 27, 1888, by 33 men interested in organizing a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge. ... Google Earth is a virtual globe program that was originally called Earth Viewer and was created by Keyhole, Inc. ... The Kashmir earthquake (also known as the South Asia earthquake or the Great Pakistan earthquake) of 2005, was a major earthquake, of which the epicenter was the Pakistan-administered Kashmir. ...

Bibliography

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.^[13] First awarded in 1975, the World Fantasy Awards are handed out annually at the World Fantasy Convention (WFC) to recognize outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy. ... First awarded in 1975, the World Fantasy Awards are handed out annually at the World Fantasy Convention (WFC) to recognize outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy. ... Rudy Rucker, Fall 2004, photo by Georgia Rucker. ... Asimovs Science Fiction is a science fiction magazine. ... Eastgate Systems is a publisher of hypertext fiction and a developer of hypertext tools including StorySpace, in which much early hypertext fiction was written, and Tinderbox, a tool for managing notes and information. ... A cover of Nature Nature is one of the oldest and most reputable general-purpose scientific journals, first published on November 4, 1869. ... A cover of Nature Nature is one of the oldest and most reputable general-purpose scientific journals, first published on November 4, 1869. ... Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both. ...

Further reading

References

^ Cramer, John G. (November 10, 2003). The Sound of the Big Bang. University of Washington. Retrieved on 2007-01-26.
^ Kathryn Cramer. EastGate Systems (undated). Retrieved on 2007-01-26.
^ 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).
^ Visions of Wonder tabel of contents

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Background

Work

Bibliography

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