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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]]''.


==Criminal allegations & civil rights actions==
==Criminal allegations==
In 2000, Ed was falsely accused of an alleged domestic incident and
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.
arrested following a tip from an anonymous phone call. A June 2008

deposition by the State of Georgia documented that local police
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>
coerced an accusation against Ed, which was later recanted. In April

2009, the Court accepted the State of Georgia's request to
[[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>
indefinitely remove the case from its calender.<ref>Gwinnett County Superior Court, April 22, 2009.</ref>

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."


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==

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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]

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