Carmen Carter
{{short description|American novelist}}
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| birth_place = San Antonio, Texas, United States
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| period = 1987–1994
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Carmen Cecilia Carter{{Cite web|url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/carter_carmen|title=Authors : Carter, Carmen : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|website=www.sf-encyclopedia.com|language=en|access-date=2018-01-31}} (born 1954) is an American science fiction writer, author of several bestselling novels that take place in the Star Trek universe.
Biography
Born in San Antonio, Texas on October 21, 1954, Carter was the daughter of Will Cecil and Yolanda Carter (a small press publisher, née Calderon).{{Cite web|url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1000016161/LitRC?u=ever87615&sid=LitRC|title=Carmen Carter|date=2002|website=Contemporary Authors Online|publisher=Gale|access-date=30 January 2018}} After earning a BA from UT Austin and an MS from Indiana University, she wrote books in her spare time for many years, concurrently with a career as a freelance audio visual production manager living in New York City. In an interview with Contemporary Authors after the publication of The Children of Hamlin, she noted, "For the past twenty years, writing has been my hobby ... now that two books have made it into print, I am forced to reconsider my point of view." She published two further books. The Devil's Heart, from 1994, is presently her last.
Themes and critical response
Carter's first book, Dreams of the Raven, was a New York Times paperback bestseller,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/21/books/paperback-best-sellers-june-21-1987.html|title=Paperback Best Sellers: June 21, 1987|date=1987-06-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-01-31|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} as was her third, Doomsday World.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/29/books/paperback-best-sellers-july-29-1990.html|title=PAPERBACK BEST SELLERS: July 29, 1990|date=1990-07-29|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-01-31|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Her first hardcover publication,{{Cite journal|last=Maryles|first=Daisy|date=22 March 1993|title=Behind the Bestsellers|url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A13580624/LitRC?u=ever87615&sid=LitRC&xid=dd80e8e5|journal=Publishers Weekly|pages= 16|via=Literature Resource Center}} The Devil's Heart, was a bestseller as well,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/18/books/best-sellers-april-18-1993.html|title=BEST SELLERS: April 18, 1993|date=1993-04-18|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-01-31|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} and also as an audio book (read by Gates McFadden).{{Cite journal|date=April 1993|title=Publishers Weekly audio bestsellers: April 1993|url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A13651592/LitRC?u=ever87615&sid=LitRC&xid=be3f6228|journal=Publishers Weekly|pages= 30|via=Gale Group}}
In his review of The Devil's Heart for School Library Journal, John Lawson wrote of the novel's themes of the temptation of power and greed, noting also, "Carter has woven several individual story lines into a complex, textured, well-written plot and peopled it with three-dimensional characters."{{Cite journal |last=Lawson |first=John |date=November 1993 |title=Carter, Carmen. The Devil's Heart. |journal=School Library Journal |via=EBSCOHost }} In another positive review, for Booklist, John Mort notes that Carter devotes special attention to the Next Generation characters of Counselor Troi and Dr. Crusher.{{Cite journal |last=Mort |first=John |date=March 1993 |title=The Devil's Heart (review) |journal=Booklist }}
Bibliography
- Dreams of the Raven (1987) {{ISBN|0-671-64500-5}}
- The Children of Hamlin (1988) {{ISBN|978-0-7434-1215-5}}
- Doomsday World (with Michael Jan Friedman, Peter David, and Robert Greenberger) (1990) {{ISBN|0-671-74144-6}}
- The Devil's Heart (1994) {{ISBN|0-7434-2063-2}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2535 at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database]
- [http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/carter_carmen at the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]
- [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/s/s1529.htm#TOP at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review Index]
- [http://www.locusmag.com/index/t280.htm at Locusmag.com]
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