Kathryn Cramer


Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer is an American science fiction writer, editor, and literary critic.

Early years

Kathryn Cramer is the daughter of physicist John G. Cramer. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from Columbia University with degrees in mathematics and American studies.

Career

Cramer has worked for five literary agencies, most notably the Virginia Kidd Agency and Eastgate Systems, and for several software companies, including consulting with Wolfram Research in the Scientific Information Group. She co-founded The New York Review of Science Fiction in 1988 with David G. Hartwell and others, and was its co-editor until 1991 and again since 1996. It has been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine every year of its existence, fifteen times under her co-editorship.
Cramer was the hypertext fiction editor at Eastgate Systems in the early 1990s. 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.
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 and wrote the chapter on hard science fiction for the Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction ed. Farah Mendlesohn & Edward James. Several of her essays have been reprinted, for example "Science Fiction and the Adventures of the Spherical Cow" in Visions of Wonder, ed. Milton T. Wolf & David G. Hartwell.

Personal life

Cramer was married to David G. Hartwell from 1997 until his death in January 2016. She lives in Westport, New York, with their two children.

Anthologies

  • The Architecture of Fear with Peter D. Pautz – winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
  • Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment with David G. Hartwell
  • Spirits of Christmas with David G. Hartwell, Tor Fantasy,.
  • Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder with David G. Hartwell
  • Walls of Fear, Avon Books, – a World Fantasy Award nominee
  • The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF with David G. Hartwell,
  • The Hard SF Renaissance with David G. Hartwell, Orb books,
  • The Space Opera Renaissance with David G. Hartwell, Tor Books,
  • Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future with Ed Finn, William Morrow.

    Anthology series

  • Year's Best Fantasy 1 through 9 with David G. Hartwell
  • Year's Best SF 6
  • 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
  • Year's Best SF 13
  • Year's Best SF 14
  • Year's Best SF 15
  • Year's Best SF 16
  • ''Year's Best SF 17''

    Short fiction

  • "Forbidden Knowledge" in Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder, ed. Rudy Rucker.
  • "Speaker for the Reticent", written with Greg Cox, in The New York Review of Science Fiction.
  • "The End of Everything" in Asimov's Science Fiction, Vol 14, No 10, Whole No 161, pp. 107–111.
  • "In Small & Large Pieces" in The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext, Volume 1, No. 3, Eastgate Systems.
  • "" in Nature Magazine.
  • "" in Nature Magazine.
  • "You, in Emulation" in Nature Magazine.
  • " on Tor.com, 2012.

    Poems

  • "The Mourners" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, #11
  • "What Stopped Jack" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, #11

    Selected essays

  • "Science Fiction and the Adventures of the Spherical Cow" in New York Review of Science Fiction. Anthologized as: "Science Fiction & the Adventures of the Spherical Cow" in Visions of Wonder.
  • "Democrazy, the Marketplace, and the American Way: Remarks on the Year 1990 in Science Fiction " in Nebula Awards 26, ed. James Morrow.
  • "Science Fiction for What? Remarks on the Year 1991 " in Nebula Awards 27, ed. James Morrow.
  • "Philip K. Dick: The Greatest Novels", co-authored with David Alexander Smith, David G. Hartwell, Paul Di Filippo, Alexander Jablokov, and Eric Van, in The New York Review of Science Fiction. Transcribed from Panel 1, The First American Philip K. Dick Convention, September 25, 1993.
  • with David G. Hartwell, SFRevu.
  • "Hard Science Fiction" in The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, ed. Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn.

    Interviews

  • "Hypertext Horizon: An Interview With Kathryn Cramer" by Harry Goldstein
  • "Interview With Kathryn Cramer, Co-editor of Hieroglyph" by New Books Network