Cameron Reed
{{short description|American science fiction author|bot=PearBOT 5}}
Cameron Reed is an American science fiction author whose work, while sparse, has met with considerable acclaim.
Work
Reed's first novel (published under her deadname, Raphael Carter{{cite web |last1=Reed |first1=Cameron |url=https://wandering.shop/@LateOnsetGirl/109831470215392362 |title=Okay, I am tired of keeping this to myself, so here it goes |date=February 8, 2023 |website=The Wandering Shop |access-date=July 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320162049/https://wandering.shop/@LateOnsetGirl/109831470215392362 |archive-date=March 20, 2023}}) is the postcyberpunk The Fortunate Fall (1996). Acclaimed as "a superb example of speculative fiction,"{{Cite news | last = Hilchey | first = Tim | title = The Fortunate Fall | work = New York Times | access-date = 2011-04-11 | date = 1996-09-22 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/22/books/books-in-brief-fiction-406503.html }} it appeared on Locus recommended reading list, and in the Locus Award it was 4th among first novels, after two tied winners. It caused Reed to be nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1997 and 1998.
Reed's short story "'Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation' by K.N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin"{{Cite book
| publisher = Tor Books
|editor=Patrick Nielsen Hayden
| last = Carter
| first = Raphael
| title = Starlight 2
| chapter = 'Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation' by K.N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin
| year = 1998
}} was shortlisted for the Theodore Sturgeon Award and won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1998.{{Cite web
| last = Davis
| first = Ray
|author2=Candas Jane Dorsey |author3=Sylvia Kelso |author4=Kate Schaefer |author5=Lisa Tuttle
| title = James Tiptree, Jr. Award 1998 Winner
| work = The James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council
| access-date = 2013-05-15
| year = 1998
| url = http://tiptree.org/award/1998-winner
}} This makes Reed the first non-female to be the sole winner of the Tiptree (Elizabeth Hand in 1995 was a co-winner with Theodore Roszak); Reed "does not identify as male or female"{{Cite web
| last = Quilter
| first = Laura
| title = Index to Female Writers in Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia: 18th Century to the Present
| work = Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia
| date = 2007-06-13
| access-date = 2009-06-18
| url = http://feministsf.org/authors/wsfwriters.html
| archive-date = 2014-11-26
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141126023920/http://feministsf.org/authors/wsfwriters.html
| url-status = dead
}} and wrote the "Androgyny Rarely Asked Questions"{{Cite web
|last = Carter
|first = Raphael
|title = Androgyny RAQ (Rarely Asked Questions)
|work = Chaparraltree.com
|year = 1998
|access-date = 2009-06-18
|url = http://www.chaparraltree.com/raq/
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20000815073625/http://www.chaparraltree.com/raq/
|archive-date = 2000-08-15
|url-status = dead
}} and "The Murk Manual: How to Understand Medical Writing on Intersex".{{Cite journal| issn = 1064-864X | volume = 2| issue = 5| last = Carter| first = Raphael| title = The Murk Manual: How to Understand Medical Writing on Intersex| journal = Chrysalis: The Journal of Transgressive Gender Identities| access-date = 2009-06-18| year = 1997| url = http://www.isna.org/books/chrysalis/murk}}
Between May 1998 and April 2002, Reed maintained the Honeyguide Web Log{{Cite web| last = Carter| first = Raphael| title = Archives by Date| work = Honeyguide Web Log| access-date = 2009-06-18| date = April 2002| url = http://www.chaparraltree.com/honeyguide/archives.shtml| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040807050445/http://www.chaparraltree.com/honeyguide/archives.shtml| archive-date = 2004-08-07| url-status = dead}} - an "eclectic weekly list of links emphasizing books, robotics, and the natural sciences."{{Cite web| last = Carter| first = Raphael|author2=Robert Occhialini | title = Web Logs| work = Open Directory Project| access-date = 2009-06-18| date = 1999-10-19| url = http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/WWW/Web_Logs/
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/19991019002958/http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/WWW/Web_Logs/ |archive-date = 1999-10-19}} This was the first site to be named a weblog after Jorn Barger's example, and Reed launched the first weblog directory at the Open Directory Project in November 1998.{{Cite conference| publisher = ACM| doi = 10.1145/1557914.1557962| isbn = 978-1-60558-486-7| pages = 279–288| last = Ammann| first = Rudolf| title = Jorn Barger, the NewsPage network and the emergence of the weblog community| book-title = Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on hypertext and hypermedia| location = Torino, Italy| access-date = 2009-07-15| year = 2009| url = http://tawawa.org/ark/p/jorn-barger-community.html| url-access = subscription}}
Personal life
Reed moved from Phoenix, Arizona, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1995.
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References
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Further reading
- Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden: "Anatomy of a Sale: Raphael Carter's The Fortunate Fall to Tor Books." In The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Sourcebook, 2nd ed., ed. David Borcherding. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Press, 1996. {{ISBN|0-89879-762-4}}
- {{Cite web| last = Walton| first = Jo| title = 'Locked in our separate skulls': Raphael Carter's The Fortunate Fall| work = Tor| access-date = 2015-06-01| date = 2010-01-06| url = http://www.tor.com/2010/01/06/qlocked-in-our-separate-skullsq-raphael-carters-lemgthe-fortunate-falllemg/}}
External links
- Raphael Carter's Usenet posts at Google Groups: [http://groups.google.com/groups/search?enc_author=qwv3CxQAAABsdddmPWP8WenbOswKO2f0OPANdqfI6prRsqjc7uCt1A 1993-5], [http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=author%3Araphael%40wavefront.com&scoring=d 1996-8] and [http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=author%3Aanagram%40chaparraltree.com&scoring=d 1998-9]
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- [http://tiptree.org/award/1998-winner#respond Judges' comments on the Congenital Agenesis...] at Tiptree Award site
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20040820084103/http://www.chaparraltree.com/honeyguide/ Honeyguide Web Log] at the Internet Archive
- [https://www.flickr.com/photos/34805555@N07/ Raphael Carter's photostream] at Flickr
- [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Chaparraltree Raphael Carter's contributions] to the Wikimedia Commons
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Category:20th-century American novelists