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Kathryn Cramer
Also known as Kathryn Cramer
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[edit] Introduction

Kathryn Cramer is a writer, critic, and anthologist presently co-editing the Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best SF series with her husband David G. Hartwell. Her most recent historial anthologies include The Space Opera Renaissance and The Hard SF Renaissance, both co-edited with David Hartwell. Their previous hard SF anthology was The Ascent of Wonder (1994).

She was the P. Schuyler Miller Critic Guest of Honor at Confluence 2008 in Pittsburgh, PA.

She won a World Fantasy Award for best anthology for The Architecture of Fear co-edited with Peter Pautz; she was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for her anthology, Walls of Fear. She also co-edited several anthologies of Christmas and fantasy stories with Hartwell.

She was a runner-up for the Pioneer Award for best essay on sf of the year, and is on the editorial board of The New York Review of Science Fiction, for which she has been nominated for the Hugo Award many times. John Clute has called her criticism "spiky" and "erudite." In 2009, Paul Kincaid said in The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction that:

The main tide of the [science fiction] genre during this period [since 1992], however, was the revived interest in hard sf and space opera, perhaps spurred by the monumental retrospective anthologies edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (The Ascent of Wonder (1994), The Hard SF Renaissance (2002), The Space Opera Renaissance (2006)). (176-177)

She is an Internet Consultant for Wolfram Research, Inc. in the Scientific Information Group.

[edit] The Author

[edit] Essays available on line

[edit] Anthologies

  • Christmas Ghosts (1987) ed. Kathryn Cramer & David G. Hartwell
  • Spirits of Christmas (1989) ed. Kathryn Cramer & David G. Hartwell
  • The Architecture of Fear (1987) ed. Kathryn Cramer & Peter D. Pautz (Winner of the World Fantasy Award)
  • The Ascent of Wonder (1994) ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • The Hard Sf Renaissance (2002) ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • The Space Opera Renaissance (2006) ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • Walls of Fear (1990) ed. Kathryn Cramer

[edit] Year's Best Fantasy Series

  • Year's Best Fantasy 9 by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (forthcoming from Tor.com in 2009)
  • Year's Best Fantasy 8 (2008) ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • Year's Best Fantasy 7 (2007) ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • Year's Best Fantasy 6 (2006) by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • Year's Best Fantasy 5 (2005) by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • Year's Best Fantasy 4 (2004) by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • Year's Best Fantasy 3 (2003) ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • Year's Best Fantasy 2 (2002) ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • Year's Best Fantasy 1 (2001) by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer

[edit] Year's Best SF Series

  • Year's Best SF 14 ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (forthcoming in 2009)
  • Year's Best SF 13 (2008) ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • Year's Best SF 12 (2007) ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • Year's Best SF 11 (2006) ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • Year's Best SF 10 (2005) David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • Year's Best SF 9 (2004) ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • Year's Best SF 8 (2003) ed. David G Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
  • Year's Best SF 7 (2002) ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer

[edit] Terminology

Terminology associated with this author to come.

[edit] Timeline

  • 1978: First convention was Norwescon.
  • 1981-1983: Was a student of Joanna Russ at the University of Washington.
  • 1984: Attended Clarion West, followed by her first Worldcon.
  • 1985: Moved to New York and began doing freelance reading for science fiction publishers.
  • 1987: Took at fulltime job as assistant to literary agent Virginia Kidd in Milford, PA

[edit] Kerfluffles

[edit] Little Green Footballs vs. Kathryn Cramer

Kathryn Cramer was among the first bloggers to write about the problem of the use of private military contractors. (See for example, her March 31, 2004 post Iraq: The Secret Policeman's Other Ball.) After the Fallujah incident[1], she raised the question as to whether one of the dead Blackwater mercenaries was also the former head of security of the Aryan Nations, a similar-looking man of the same name (including middle initial). This resulted in a blog war: Charles Johnson of the high-traffic far-right blog Little Green Footballs -- who had succeeded tin previous days in getting the Kerry campaign to pull its ads from Daily Kos -- attacked Cramer.

In the course if the Kerfluffle, Cramer outed attorney Eugene Belitsky and filed terms of service reports against Johnson and a complaint with the Westchester County DA's office against Johnson, Belitsky, and a number of other individuals including his ISP. The Westchester County DA's office took no action.

[edit] XeniSucks.com

Cramer was frequently portrayed in an unfavorable light[2] on the harassment site XeniSucks.com after defending Xeni Jardin regarding the site's harassment.

[edit] Jack Idema Fandom vs. Kathryn Cramer

Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema is an American citizen convicted in September 2004 for kidnapping and torture in connection with running a private jail in Afghanistan. He has a previous conviction in the US for wire fraud. He associated himself with best-selling writer Robin Moore and became co-author of Moore's book Task Force Dagger: The Hunt for bin Laden (ISBN 0-375-50861-9); Idema's picture is on the cover of the book. Idema has a US fan base among far right bloggers who call themselves the "Jack Idema Blogburst".

In 2001, Idema worked as a consultant for Fox News, a did disgraced Fox News Military and Terrorism Consultant, Joseph A. Cafasso; they became enemies. In 2005, Cafasso befriended Cramer under an Internet handle and later claimed his name to be Gerry Blackwood in which connection Cramer claims Cafasso ran up substantial unauthorized charges against her American express card, and stole her laptop. A month or so later, "Gerry Blackwood" was outed by another of his victims as Joseph A. Cafasso, Jr. Within a few months, Idema fandom, with occasional participation from Mr. Idema, allegedly began a campaign of harassment against Cramer for unknown reasons involving some 13 websites, and which lasts to the present day.

After Idema's release from prison, he was subsequently featured in a Al Qaeda video, torturing an unidentified man.[3] Cafasso, meanwhile, was arrested in Indiana and served a brief jail sentence for "giving false information" to a police officer. He has subsequently been released.

Cramer's stolen laptop is in the hands of the FBI in Indiana in connection with further investigations of Cafasso's activities.[4] After Cafasso's arrest in January of 2009, Idema attempted to gain possession Cramer's stolen laptop, resulting in it being turned over to the police.[5]

In April of 2009 one of Idema's supporters created an Internet comic strip which made the claim that the Obama administration is "parroting" Cramer's "talking points."[6].

Cramer has discussed both men and their supporters extensively with various law enforcement agencies.

[edit] Cramer and Wikipedia

Cramer was involved with several Wikipedia Kerfuffles: the Bad Sites controversy, and the Arbcom trial of Ferrylodge. In the Ferrylodge situation, Cramer submitted secret evidence to Wikipedia's Arbcom regarding Ferrylodge's real name and other political activities in connection with his 500+ edits of the entry for candidate Freddy Thompson; the submission of secret evidence was controversial.

[edit] Race wank 2009

On March 8, 2009, bridgetmkennit posted an "Author Shit List", naming authors she would boycott, accusing them of racism and sexism.[7] The list included the following authors: Elizabeth Bear, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Patrick Nielsen Hayden , Teresa Nielsen Hayden , William Sanders , Robin McKinley , David Levine , Charles Stross , Gemma Files , Kathryn Cramer , Harlan Ellison , Peter David , Dave Truesdale , Orson Scott Card , Paul S. Kemp , Anton Strout; later Patricia C. Wrede and Lois McMaster Bujold were added to the list.

Much of the RaceFail discussion that followed was on the rightness or wrongness of boycotting authors, and whether any would deserve "second chances" or not. The discussions began to slow down by the middle of March, with the occasional post on the subject still appearing through early April. Kathryn Cramer was not among those suggested for "amnesty," as her alleged transgressions while requesting a cessation of harassment and incitement to harassment were considered by many to be unforgivable.

The reasons for Cramer's inclusion in the list are murky. The wide-spread claim about Cramer is that she "outed coffeeandink" a former science fiction editor and a central figure in Fail Fandom. It is not clear whether these claims are based on Cramer's participation in composing a list of dramatis personae for the Feminist SF Wiki Raccefail09 page, whether it pertains to her correcting the link on the page for this woman's real name on the Feminist SF WIki (which lead incorrectly to Cathrynne Valente's LJ). Many claims have been made that Cramer outed coffeeandink on her blog when Cramer requested and apology of the woman for writing the line: "Kathryn Cramer has been linking my LJ to my full name on wikis and in other people's blog comments." However, since coffeeandink's accusation preceded the request for an apology, this cannot logically be the basis of the claim, especially since Cramer made no mention of coffeeandink's LJ handle and did not link to her site. The other possible reason for her inclusion is the list is Cramer's categorical opposition to the use of pseudonyms on the Internet, a position she has publicly held for a number of years.

Cramer filed a TOS complaint against coffeeandink with LiveJournal over the line in question. No action was taken by LJ's abuse department.


On June 13, 2009, dysprositos equated Will Shetterly and Kathryn Cramer to being as bad as 4chan. [8] This comparison was made despite the fact that the behavior of neither had elevated to the level of sharing private information, encouraging employers to be contacted, making personal phone calls to the houses of participants in order to harass them, encouraging others to engage in similar behavior.

Cramer respomse to a pseudonymous Metafilter post, 8/15/09: Metafilter moves in mysterious ways: Kathryn Cramer on August 15, 2009

[edit] Fandom size

Traffic on her site, kathryncramer.com, tends to run about 15,000 visitors a month.

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