Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award
| Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | a science fiction or fantasy author whose body of work is deserving of renewed interest |
| Presented by | Cordwainer Smith Foundation |
| First awarded | 2001 |
| Website | www |
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The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award honors underread science fiction and fantasy authors, with the intention of drawing renewed attention to the winners. The award was created in 2001 by the Cordwainer Smith Foundation in memory of the science fiction author Cordwainer Smith[1] and has been awarded at the Readercon science fiction convention since 2002.[2]
Winners
[edit]- Olaf Stapledon, 2001
- R. A. Lafferty, 2002
- Edgar Pangborn, 2003
- Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore, 2004
- Leigh Brackett, 2005
- William Hope Hodgson, 2006
- Daniel F. Galouye, 2007
- Stanley G. Weinbaum, 2008
- A. Merritt, 2009
- Mark Clifton, 2010
- Katherine MacLean, 2011
- Fredric Brown, 2012
- Wyman Guin, 2013
- Mildred Clingerman, 2014
- Clark Ashton Smith, 2015
- Judith Merril, 2016
- Seabury Quinn, 2017
- Frank M. Robinson, 2018
- Carol Emshwiller, 2019
- Rick Raphael, 2020
- D. G. Compton, 2021
- No award given due to cancellation of 2022 Readercon[1]
- Josephine Saxton, 2023
- Clare Winger Harris, 2024
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award". Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
- ^ "Readercon". Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 2022-09-05.