Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award
Entry updated 2 June 2025. Tagged: Award.
A juried life achievement Award set up in memory of Cordwainer Smith by the Cordwainer Smith Foundation, intended to honour notable sf and fantasy authors who in the view of the judging panel either did not receive in their active period or no longer receive as much attention as they deserve. It was first presented to Olaf Stapledon at the 2001 Worldcon, and is now given annually at the US literary Convention Readercon. The award is usually made posthumously, although there have been exceptions beginning with the 2011 presentation to Katherine MacLean. No award was given in 2022, since that year's Readercon was cancelled. [DRL]
Winners
- 2001: Olaf Stapledon
- 2002: R A Lafferty
- 2003: Edgar Pangborn
- 2004: Henry Kuttner and C L Moore
- 2005: Leigh Brackett
- 2006: William Hope Hodgson
- 2007: Daniel F Galouye
- 2008: Stanley G Weinbaum
- 2009: A Merritt
- 2010: Mark Clifton
- 2011: Katherine MacLean
- 2012: Fredric Brown
- 2013: Wyman Guin
- 2015: Clark Ashton Smith
- 2016: Judith Merril
- 2017: Seabury Quinn
- 2018: Frank M Robinson
- 2019: Carol Emshwiller
- 2020: Rick Raphael
- 2021: D G Compton
- 2022: no award
- 2023: Josephine Saxton
- 2024: Clare Winger Harris
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