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Kathryn Cramer lives in Westport, NY. She is an editor of the Hieroglyph project sponsored by the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University. Her story, "Am I Free to Go?" was published by Tor.com in December 2012.

She co-edited the Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best SF series with David G. Hartwell. Her most recent historical anthologies include The Space Opera Renaissance and The Hard SF Renaissance, both co-edited with Hartwell. Their previous hard SF anthology was The Ascent of Wonder (1994).

She is working on a film adaptation of her story "You, in Emulation" with director Edward Cornell. ...more

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	Year's Best Fantasy 3 by Kathryn Cramer (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Kathryn Cramer (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Kage Baker (Contributor) 3.54 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Architecture of Fear by Kathryn Cramer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Peter D. Pautz (Editor) 3.52 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christmas Ghosts by Kathryn Cramer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David G. Hartwell (Editor) 3.51 avg rating — 57 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Am I Free To Go? 2.74 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walls of Fear by Kathryn Cramer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Karl Edward Wagner, Susan Palwick 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flight #008 by Kathryn Cramer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gregory Benford (Contributor), Kathleen Ann Goonan (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Новая космическая опера: Антология by Kathryn Cramer (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), David G. Hartwell (Editor, Contributor), Donald Kingsbury (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“....thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from the local supermarket makes you a Communist.”
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“There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.”
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“[...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God exist? from whence springs decency? what sort of species is Homo Sapiens?) were either settled or not worth discusssing, and serious writers should therefore confine themselves to their various ethnic heritages and interpersonal relationships.”
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“I made the only decision I ever knew how to make,' Truman famously asserted in one of his carefully scripted reminiscences. What does that mean, exactly? Did Truman see himself as a professional decision-maker with a narrow specialty, the choice between destroying and not destroying Japanese cities?”
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