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Kathryn Cramer (born April, 1962) is a noted science fiction anthologist. She grew up in Seattle, and currently lives in Pleasantville, New York with her husband David G. Hartwell and their two children. She is a graduate of Columbia University.

For five years she taught writing at Harvard Summer School. She has worked for five literary agencies, most notably the Virginia Kidd Agency, and several software companies. A new media pioneer, see was the hypertext fiction editor at Eastgate Systems in the early 1990s. Currently, she is a consultant for Wolfram Research in the Scientific Information Group.

She is the daughter of physicist John G. Cramer.

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Anthologies

The Architecture of Fear (1987) with Peter D. Pautz (winner of the World Fantasy Award)

Spirits of Christmas (1989) with David G. Hartwell

Walls of Fear (1990) (a World Fantasy Award nominee)

The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994) with David G. Hartwell

The Hard SF Renaissance (2002) with David G. Hartwell

The Space Opera Renaissance (2006) with David G. Hartwell

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Year's Best Fantasy series

Year’s Best Fantasy (2001) with David G. Hartwell

Year’s Best Fantasy 2 (2002) with David G. Hartwell

Year’s Best Fantasy 3 (2003) with David G. Hartwell

Year’s Best Fantasy 4 (2004) with David G. Hartwell

Year's Best Fantasy 5 (2005) with David G. Hartwell

Year's Best Fantasy 6 (2006) with David G. Hartwell

Year's Best Fantasy 7 with David G. Hartwell

Year's Best SF series

Year's Best SF 6 (2001) with David G. Hartwell (title page credit)

Year's Best SF 7 (2002) with David G. Hartwell (title page credit)

Year's Best SF 8 (2003) with David G. Hartwell (title page credit)

Year's Best SF 9 (2004) with David G. Hartwell (title page credit)

Year's Best SF 10 (2005) with David G. Hartwell

Year's Best SF 11 (2006) with David G. Hartwell

Year's Best SF 12 with David G. Hartwell

Magazine Editor

She has been a magazine editor with The New York Review of Science Fiction for most of the time since its founding in 1998. She is frequently nominated for the Hugo Award in the Semi-Prozine category for her work on the magazine.

From 1985 through 1997, she was an editor of The Little Magazine, a poetry magazine.

Blogger

Kathryn Cramer has a very active blog at www.kathryncramer.com. Her accomplishments through her blog have been written about by The New York Times, Forbes, the BBC, ZDNET, Le Monde, Corriere della Sera, Nature, and the Xinmin Weekly.

She edited Wolfram Research's blog covering the A New Kind of Science Conference held in June of 2006: blog.wolframscience.com, a corporate blog.

Short Fiction

"Forbidden Knowledge" in Mathenauts, ed. Rudy Rucker (1987)

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)

"The End of Everything" in Asimov's (1990).

"Disextinction" in Nature Magazine (2001).

"Sandcastles" in Nature Magazine (2005).

Reviews & Essays

Essays

Science Fiction and the Adventures of the Spherical Cow (1988)

Sincerity and Doom: An Eventual Review of James Morrow’s "This Is the Way the World Ends", (NYRSF, 1988)

Speaker for the Reticent (1988) with Greg Cox

The New Generation Gap: A Study of Science Fiction Writers' Ages of Professional Entry into the Science Fiction Field for Six Decades of SF (1989)

Escher in Elfland: Logic, Fantasy and Criticism (NYRSF, 1989)

A Day at the Circus (1990) with David G. Hartwell

Literary Architecture (1990)

Particle or Wave ? (Clarion - Response to Grant/Myers) (1990)

The Horror Field Now (Part 1) (1991)

Read This (The New York Review of Science Fiction, November 1991) (1991)

Democrazy, The Personal Planetarium, and the American Way: The Year 1990 in Science Fiction (1992)

Discussing Hard SF (1992) with Gerald Feinberg and Hal Clement and David G. Hartwell

On Science and Science Fiction (1993)

Possession and "The Jolly Corner" (1994)

Philip K. Dick: The Mainstream Novels (1994) with David G. Hartwell, Paul Di Filippo, and Eric Van

Philip K. Dick: The Greatest Novels (1994) with David Alexander Smith, David G. Hartwell, Paul Di Filippo, Alexander Jablokov, and Eric Van.

Love is the Plan, the Plan is What? Eight Views of "Plan 10 from Outer Space": No Place Like Home (1996)

Ten Years on the Masthead (1998)

Jenna Felice: Age Is a State of Mind, Time Is Brain (2001)

Make a Tire Swing! (2001)

Play With This! (2001) with Peter Hartwell

Read This (2001)

Thinking About Disaster, Thinking About the Fantastic (2001)

Is Radiance to Be Believed? (2002)

Keeping Up the Poker Face: Editing Year's Best Anthologies (2002)

Peleg in Memoriam (2002) with David G. Hartwell

The Hard SF Renaissance (2002) with David G. Hartwell

Introduction: How Shit Became Shinola: Definition and Redefinition of Space Opera (2006) with David G. Hartwell

Reviews

This is the Way the World Ends (1988) by James Morrow

Bones of the Moon (1988) by Jonathan Carroll

The C. S. Lewis Hoax (1989) by Kathryn Lindskoog reviewed with David G. Hartwell

Ellipse of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Post-Modern Fantasy (1989) by Lance Olsen

Full Spectrum 2 (1989) by Lou Aronica, Shawna McCarthy, Amy Stout, and Pat LoBrutto

Running Wild (1990) by J. G. Ballard

Amnesia Moon (1996) by Jonathan Lethem

Mars Probes (2002) by Peter Crowther

She has also reviewed for the Washington Post.

Illustration

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Cover Art

Cover: The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext, Volume 1, No. 3, Eastgate Systems, 1994.

Cover: Puck Aleshire's Abecedary by Michael Swanwick (2000)

Cover: Nature Magazine, Volume 439, No. 7078, February 16th, 2006.

Interior Art

Puck Aleshire's Abecedary by Michael Swanwick (2000)

In Small & Large Pieces by Kathryn Cramer, in The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext, Volume 1, No. 3, Eastgate Systems (1994).

References

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