Carlton Frederick, better known as Carl Frederick, or Frithrik, is a science fiction author, theoretical physicist, and American business man living in Ithaca, New York. He has written numerous 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. Frederick has been nominated for the Anlab, Analog's Reader's Choice Award, award six times. He is a graduate of Odyssey Writing Workshop and a first-place winner of Writers of the Future. Frederick owns a website called Darkzoo where one can read his interactive novel "Darkzoo - Second Edition", read about his physics endeavors, his bio, The Omnivor Robot, and more. Bibliography Carl Frederick is a theoretical physicist. After a post-doc at NASA and a stint at Cornell University, he left theoretical astrophysics and quantum relativity theory in favor of hi-tech industry. He is Chief Scientist of a small company doing artificial intelligence software. He has two grown children. For recreation, he fences epee, learns languages, and plays the bagpipes. He lives in rural, Ithaca, New York. He is predominately a short story writer. His work appears mainly and often in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Science fiction works In the early 2000s, Frederick decided to write science fiction. Since then, he has written a few novels and various short stories. Awards AnLab Award for Best Short Story First place winner in the Writers of the Future contest Physics Frederick is currently doing theoretical physics, in particular, Crypto-Stochastic Space-time theory. Among other things, Frederick is a quantum as well as an astrophysicist. Before he came to Cornell, he worked as an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Institute. Frederick designed and built balloon-borne telescopes for making far-infrared astronomical observations. These were launched from sites in Arizona and Argentina, most of the launches were from Palestine, Texas. Leaving academia Frederick went to a graduate school with only two departments, Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Just to name a few, here are some of the most noted faculty Frederick worked with, Yakir Aharonov [of the Aharonov Bohm Effect], P.G. Bergman [one of Einstein's six students], A.G.W. Cameron, P.A.M. Dirac, Freeman Dyson, David Finklestein, Arthur Komar, Joel Liebowitz, Aage Pederson [Niels Bohr's student], and Leonard Susskind [co-founder of String Theory]. “I looked upon them almost as Greek heroes: they were attempting to understand the universe at the very