Cameron Reed is an American science fiction author whose work, while sparse, has met with considerable acclaim.
Reed's first novel (published under her deadname, Raphael Carter[1]) is the postcyberpunk The Fortunate Fall (1996).
It caused Reed to be nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1997 and 1998.
[4] 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"[5] and wrote the "Androgyny Rarely Asked Questions"[6] and "The Murk Manual: How to Understand Medical Writing on Intersex".
[7] Between May 1998 and April 2002, Reed maintained the Honeyguide Web Log[8] - an "eclectic weekly list of links emphasizing books, robotics, and the natural sciences.