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While working on an anthology proposal based on [[Frank Herbert|Frank Herbert's]] ''[[Dune universe|Dune]]'' in 1997, Kramer fostered a literary partnership between writers [[Brian Herbert]] and [[Kevin J. Anderson]].<ref>Richards, Linda L. [http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/duneprofile.html ''"The Sons of Dune: An Interview with Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson"''], January Magazine. January, 2000.</ref> He is credited as the "bridge" to their additions to the ''[[Dune universe]]'' in each volume of the first trilogy, ''[[Dune: House Atreides]]'', ''[[Dune: House Harkonnen]]'' and ''[[Dune: House Corrino]]''. |
While working on an anthology proposal based on [[Frank Herbert|Frank Herbert's]] ''[[Dune universe|Dune]]'' in 1997, Kramer fostered a literary partnership between writers [[Brian Herbert]] and [[Kevin J. Anderson]].<ref>Richards, Linda L. [http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/duneprofile.html ''"The Sons of Dune: An Interview with Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson"''], January Magazine. January, 2000.</ref> He is credited as the "bridge" to their additions to the ''[[Dune universe]]'' in each volume of the first trilogy, ''[[Dune: House Atreides]]'', ''[[Dune: House Harkonnen]]'' and ''[[Dune: House Corrino]]''. |
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==Criminal allegations |
==Criminal allegations== |
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In 2000, Ed was falsely accused of an alleged domestic incident and |
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In 2000, Kramer was arrested for an alleged domestic incident following an anonymous phone call; he was eventually charged with aggravated child molestation. Kramer has lived under [[house arrest]] at his home in Duluth since late 2000 while awaiting trial. No trial date has been set. A Federal [[Civil Rights]] Action was filed against the local county by Kramer in 2001. The [[National Center for Reason and Justice]] sponsors a defense fund on his behalf. |
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arrested following a tip from an anonymous phone call. A June 2008 |
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deposition by the State of Georgia documented that local police |
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In May 2005, Kramer filed a motion asserting [[speedy trial]] rights, demanding the case go to trial; the motion was never heard. In November 2006, a follow-up motion demanding dismissal of charges for violation of civil rights, including [[speedy trial]] rights was denied, and is on [[appeal]]. Former [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] [[Congressman]] and [[CIA|Intelligence]] official [[Bob Barr]] entered an [[Amicus curiae]] citing the [[United States court of appeals|Court]] to, "rebuke the entities responsible in the strongest language available... that this kind of illicit, illegal confluence of dilatory, patently constitutionally infirm behavior be ended and effectively condemned."<ref>[[Bob Barr|Barr, Bob]]. ''Amicus Curiae'', [http://www.gaappeals.us Georgia Court of Appeals], August 16, 2007.</ref> |
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coerced an accusation against Ed, which was later recanted. In April |
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2009, the Court accepted the State of Georgia's request to |
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[[United Nations]] representative for [[World Agudath Israel|Aguda]], [[United States Holocaust Memorial Council]], and [[University of Pennsylvania Law School|Penn Law School]] Adjunct Professor Harry Reicher's [[Amicus curiae|Amicus]] to the [[United States court of appeals|Court]], resolved: "Treatment such as that endured by Ed Kramer is not only unacceptable, but deeply antithetical, indeed offensive, to notions of justice that are deeply ingrained in the legal culture of [[United States]], and that have suffused, and found their replication in, the post-[[World War II]] [[human rights]] movement."<ref>Reicher, Harry. ''Amicus Curiae'', [http://www.gaappeals.us Georgia Court of Appeals], September 5, 2007.</ref> |
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indefinitely remove the case from its calender.<ref>Gwinnett County Superior Court, April 22, 2009.</ref> |
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Note: According the AJC, 6/02/08, "the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that the delays were mostly caused by Kramer. Prosecutors successfully argued that Kramer had filed repeated requests for continuances and scheduled medical treatments that conflicted with trial dates." |
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==Bibliography== |
==Bibliography== |
Revision as of 07:18, 30 November 2009
Edward E. Kramer (born on March 20, 1961) is an American editor and author of numerous science fiction, fantasy, and horror works, and founder of the Dragon Con fan convention in Atlanta, Georgia. He lives in Duluth, Georgia.
Biography
Kramer is the editor of the anthologies Dark Love and Grails published by Roc Books; The Sandman: Book of Dreams (with Neil Gaiman) (HarperPrism); The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams (with James O'Barr) (Random House); Free Space (Tor Books); Forbidden Acts (Avon Books); Elric: Tales of the White Wolf and Pawn of Chaos: Tales of the Eternal Champion (based on the works and characters of Michael Moorcock), Dante's Disciples, Tombs, and the Dark Destiny trilogy (White Wolf); and Strange Attraction: Turns of the Midnight Carnival Wheel (Bereshith Publishing), with many additional works both in print and in progress.
Kramer is a member of both the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and Horror Writers Association (serving as both Vice-President and Trustee), and served on the board of the World Fantasy Convention and World Horror Society.[1] His credits include more than a dozen published works of fiction and non-fiction, and a decade of work as a music critic and photojournalist. He co-wrote and directed the digital feature Terror at Tate Manor, which debuted as a direct-to-Internet film.
His literary works have been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award, and he is the recipient of the first Prometheus Special Award presented by the Libertarian Futurist Society, with co-editor Brad Linaweaver, for Free Space.
In 1987, he founded Dragon Con, North America's largest convention dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, comics, gaming, and the popular arts. He served as its chairman for fourteen years and oversaw its growth from 1,400 attendance in its inaugural year to over 20,000 in 2000.
He has also chaired the 1990 Atlanta Origins convention, the 1992 Georgia World Fantasy Convention[2] and the Nebula Awards Weekend, and both the Atlanta World Horror Convention and the North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC) in 1995.[3] In 1999, he hosted the Atlanta World Horror Convention and Los Angeles's Bram Stoker Award Weekend.
Kramer, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, is a graduate of Emory College and the Emory University School of Medicine.[4]
While working on an anthology proposal based on Frank Herbert's Dune in 1997, Kramer fostered a literary partnership between writers Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.[5] He is credited as the "bridge" to their additions to the Dune universe in each volume of the first trilogy, Dune: House Atreides, Dune: House Harkonnen and Dune: House Corrino.
Criminal allegations
In 2000, Ed was falsely accused of an alleged domestic incident and arrested following a tip from an anonymous phone call. A June 2008 deposition by the State of Georgia documented that local police coerced an accusation against Ed, which was later recanted. In April 2009, the Court accepted the State of Georgia's request to indefinitely remove the case from its calender.[6]
Bibliography
- Tales of Riverworld (1992)
- Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences (1992), a World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Anthology
- Quest to Riverworld (1993)
- Confederacy of the Dead (1993)
- Phobias (1994)
- Michael Moorcock's Elric: Tales of the White Wolf (1994)
- Grails: Visitations of the Night (1994)
- The Dark Destiny trilogy is set in White Wolf publishing's World of Darkness:
- Dark Destiny (1994)
- Dark Destiny II: Proprietors of Fate (1995)
- Dark Destiny III: Children of Dracula (1996)
- Dante's Disciples (1998)
- Excalibur (1995)
- Tombs (1995)
- More Phobias (1995)
- Forbidden Acts (1995)
- Dark Love (1996), a World Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award nominee for Best Anthology
- The Sandman: Book of Dreams (1996), a British Fantasy Award nominee for Best Anthology
- Michael Moorcock's Pawn of Chaos: Tales of the Eternal Champion (1997)
- Free Space (1997), recipient of the first Prometheus Special Award
- The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams (1998)
- Strange Attraction: Turns of the Midnight Carnival's Wheel (2000)
- Grails: Quests of the Dawn (2004)
References
- ^ World Horror Society | World Horror Convention
- ^ 1992 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees
- ^ The Long List of Nasfics
- ^ Aussiecon 3 Biographies
- ^ Richards, Linda L. "The Sons of Dune: An Interview with Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson", January Magazine. January, 2000.
- ^ Gwinnett County Superior Court, April 22, 2009.
- Ed Kramer biography provided by Dragon*Con
- Bacon-Smith, Ph.D., Camille. "The Goth Explosion in Science Fiction Culture," New Directions in Folklore 3. May-July 1999.
- Bidwell, Rebecca. "Georgia Inmate Abuse by Gwinnett County and Prison Health Services, Inc. in Supreme Court," Save Our Civil Liberties Campaign, May 26, 2005.
- Brett, Jennifer. "Kramer Trial to Start Today; DragonCon Founder Charged with Aggravated Child Molestation", The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Pg. 1JJ. May 3, 2004.
- Cohen, Benyamin. "Truth, Justice, and Ed Kramer," Atlanta Jewish Life Magazine. October 2004.
- Henry, Scott. "Ed Kramer Trial Put Off Again," Creative Loafing. May 22, 2002.
- Henry, Scott. "The Wizard of Dragon*Con Stands Trial," Creative Loafing. January 30, 2002.
- Ippolito, Milo. "Defendant's Sword at Center of Pretrial Dispute; Admissibility as Evidence at Issue," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Pg. 1JJ. February 16, 2001.
- Nurse, Doug. "Molestation Trial Delayed After Surgery," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Pg. 1JJ. May 4, 2004.
- Rothery, Brian. "America – Land of the Shackles," Inquisition 21st Century. November 18, 2004.
- Rowe, Sean. "DragonCon Sex Trial Delayed -- Again," WXIA-TV. November 3, 2003.
- Silver, Steven H. "Kramer Warrant Declared Unconstitutional," SF Site News. May 8, 2003.
- Steward, Shirl. "The Real Injustices Beyond the Sting of Mere Words," Santa Fe New Mexican. April 16, 2007.
- Sturgis, Amy H. "Ed Kramer's Long Wait for Justice," History News Network. April 16, 2007.
- Warren, Beth. "Third Teen Levels Molestation Charges," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Pg. 1JJ. October 24, 2003.
External links
- Science fiction editors
- American book editors
- American science fiction writers
- Science fiction fans
- Writers from Georgia (U.S. state)
- Writers from New York
- Emory University alumni
- People from Brooklyn
- People from New York City
- People from Atlanta, Georgia
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Prometheus Award winning authors