# Jayge Carr > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jayge_Carr > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jayge_Carr.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayge_Carr > Source revision: 1308921892 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American NASA nuclear physicist and science fiction and fantasy author (1940-2006)}} {{Infobox writer | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | name = Marj Krueger | pseudonym = Jayge Carr | birth_name = Margery Ruth Morgenstern | birth_date = {{birth date|1940|7|28}} | birth_place = [Houston](/source/Houston%2C_Texas), [Texas](/source/Texas) | death_date = {{death date and age|2006|12|20|1940|7|28}} | death_place = [Austin](/source/Austin%2C_Texas), Texas | occupation = Author | language = English | nationality = American | ethnicity = | citizenship = United States | genre = [Science fiction](/source/Science_fiction), [Fantasy](/source/Fantasy) | education = [Nuclear physics](/source/Nuclear_physics) | alma_mater = [Wayne State University](/source/Wayne_State_University) | period = 1976–2006 | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }} '''Jayge Carr''' is the pen name of American [science fiction](/source/science_fiction) and [fantasy](/source/fantasy) author '''Margery Ruth Morgenstern Krueger''' (July 28, 1940 – December 20, 2006),{{ISFDB name|id=244|name=Jayge Carr}}{{cite web |last1=Wands |first1=D.C. |last2=Dickinson |first2=L.E. |title=Jayge Carr (Marj Krueger) (1940 - 2006) |url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/jayge-carr/ |work=Fantastic Fiction |date=5 November 2011 |access-date=20 December 2011}} also known as Margery Krueger{{cite web |last=Schmidt |first=Stanley |title=Jayge Carr Obituary |url=http://www.analogsf.com/0709/obit.shtml |work=Analog Science Fiction and Fact |date= |access-date=20 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311051158/http://www.analogsf.com/0709/obit.shtml |archive-date=11 March 2012 |url-status=dead }} and Marj Krueger, a former nuclear physicist for NASA.{{cite encyclopedia |last=Clute |first=John |authorlink=John Clute |title=Carr, Jayge |url=http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/carr_jayge |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |date= 21 August 2010 |access-date=20 December 2011}} She is best known for her "Rabelais" series. ==Life== Carr was born on the 28th of July 1940 in [Houston](/source/Houston%2C_Texas), [Texas](/source/Texas), where she was also raised. As an adult she lived in Texas and in other states. She studied physics at [Carnegie Institute of Technology](/source/Carnegie_Institute_of_Technology), [Wayne State University](/source/Wayne_State_University), and [Case Western Reserve University](/source/Case_Western_Reserve_University), which she left before achieving her doctorate to raise a family and write. On 20 December 2006, Carr died of cancer, leaving a husband, two daughters, two granddaughters, and three sisters. Carr's remains were launched into orbit by Celestis.{{Cite web |url=http://www.celestis.com/memorial/newfrontier/krueger.asp |title=Marj Krueger - "Jayge Carr" - Celestis New Frontier Flight Participant |access-date=2012-12-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608173943/http://www.celestis.com/memorial/NewFrontier/krueger.asp |archive-date=2012-06-08 |url-status=dead }} ==Writing career== Carr's first published story, "Alienation" appeared in the science fiction magazine ''[Analog](/source/Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact)'' in 1976, and she continued writing through the remainder of her life. She tried to inject a sense of fun into her writing. Regarded by some as a feminist writer, she considered herself more as a "peoplist," dealing with such themes as bigotry and pollution in her fiction. ==Bibliography== ===Nonfiction=== *''Ages of Plutonium-Beryllium Neutrons in Tungsten-Water Media'' (November 1966) ===Rabelais series=== *''Navigator's Sindrome'' (1983) *''The Treasure in the Heart of the Maze'' (1985) *''Rabelaisian Reprise'' (1988) ===Other novels=== *''[Leviathan's Deep](/source/Leviathan's_Deep)'' (1979) ===Short stories=== {{colbegin}} * "Alienation" (1976) * "The Ax" (1977) * "Right of Passage" (1978) * "Inky" (1978) * "In Adam's Fall" (1979) * "Malthus's Day" (1979) * "The Pavilion Where All Times Meet" (1979) * "Sanctuary" (1979) * "Does Not a Statistic Bleed?" (1979) * "Star Spats" (1980) * "The King Is Dead! Long Live -" (1980) * "Child of the Wandering Sea" (1980) * "The Selfish Genie" (1980) * "The False-True Heir" (1980) * "Hillsong" (1980) * "Mustard Seed" (1981) * "Blind Spot" (1981) * "The Pacifists" (1981) * "Measurement" (1982) * "Lungfish" (1982) * "The Wondrous Works of His Hands" (1982) * "Reunion" (1982) * "Hippocampocracy" (1982) * "The Kidnapped Key" (1983) * "The Spoils of Victory" (1983) * "Monolyth" (1983) * "The Tempest Within" (1983) * "Pieces of Eight" (1984) * "The Piper's Pay" (1984) * "Mudlark and Sky" (1984) * "The Heart in the Egg" (1984) * "Webrider" (1985) * "Finnegan's Wake" (1985) * "Immigrant" (1985) * "Catacombs" (1985) * "Webrider" (1985) * "Drop-Out" (1986) * "Rainbow's End" (1986) * "The Price of Lightning" (1986) * "Inky" (1987) * "Hitchhiker" (1988) * "Chimera" (1989) * "Wart" (1989) * "A Thief in the Night" (1989) * "The Icarus Epidemic" (1990) * "Plumduff Potato-Eye" (1990) * "Computer Portrait" (1990) * "The Kingdom of the Blind Eye" (1991) * "Castles in the Air" (1992) * "The War of '07" (1992) (collected in Mike Resnick's anthology [Alternate Presidents](/source/Alternate_Presidents)) * "Mourning Blue" (1993) * "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again - And Again - And Again" (1993) * "The Lady or the Tiger" (1993) * "Flea Powder" (1994) * "Roots and Forbidden Fruit" (1994) * "The Widower's Wife" (1996) * "Circus" (1996) * "Ram in Wolf's Clothing" (1997) * "Puss" (1999) * "Reflections" (2000) * "The Queen's Jewels" (2000) * "The Walls That Bind" (2001) * "The Lone Granger" (2002) * "Wimpin' Wady" (2005) {{colend}} ==Notes== {{Reflist}} ==References== * "Margery Ruth Morgenstern Krueger," obituary in the ''Houston Chronicle'', Friday, December 22, 2006, Section B, Page 5. ==External links== * {{ISFDB name|id=244|name=Jayge Carr}} * {{cite encyclopedia |last=Clute |first=John |authorlink=John Clute |title=Carr, Jayge |url=http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/carr_jayge |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |date= 21 August 2010 |access-date=20 December 2011}} * {{cite web |last= |first= |title=Marj Krueger — "Jayge Carr" 1940 - 2006 |url=http://www.celestis.com/memorial/NewFrontier/krueger.asp |work=Celestis |date= |access-date=20 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608173943/http://www.celestis.com/memorial/NewFrontier/krueger.asp |archive-date=8 June 2012 |url-status=dead }} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Carr, Jayge}} Category:1940 births Category:2006 deaths Category:20th-century American novelists Category:American fantasy writers Category:American science fiction writers Category:American women short story writers Category:Scientists from Houston Category:Writers from Houston Category:Wayne State University alumni Category:Novelists from Texas Category:American women science fiction and fantasy writers Category:20th-century American women novelists Category:20th-century American short story writers Category:21st-century American women --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jayge Carr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayge_Carr) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayge_Carr?action=history)). 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