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Carlton Frederick | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Known for | Science Fiction Writing Crypto-Stochastic Space-time theory OMNIVAC 1 |
Awards | AnLab Award for Best Short Story First place winner in the Writers of the Future contest 2000 graduate of the Odyssey Writers Workshop |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Website | www |
Carlton Frederick, better known as Carl Frederick, is an American science fiction author and physicist. [1] His nonfiction book est: Playing the Game the New Way describing the Erhard Seminars Training (est) theatrical experience. reached number 2 on the New York Times bestseller list. [2]
Carl Frederick trained as a theoretical physicist, and after a post-doc at NASA and a stint at Cornell University,[ citation needed ] he left theoretical astrophysics and quantum relativity theory in favor of hi-tech industry. He is Chief Scientist of a small company developing artificial intelligence software. He lives in rural, Ithaca, New York. He is predominately a short story writer.
He has written short stories that have appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact , Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction , Flash Fiction Online , Jim Baen's Universe , Space and Time, and other publications. [3] [4] Frederick has been nominated for the Anlab, Analog's Reader's Choice Award, award six times. [5] He is a graduate of Odyssey Writing Workshop and a first-place winner of Writers of the Future. [6] [7]
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