The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award
The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award began in
2001, when the newly-formed Cordwainer Smith
Foundation initiated the award. the purpose of
the award is to recognize and draw attention to other
fantasy or science fiction authors
We were very fortunate to have the panel of Robert
Silverberg, Scott Edelman, Gardner Dozois, and John Clute as
our first judges, and currently Martin H. Greenberg, Barry N.
Malzberg, Robert J. Sawyer, and Mike Resnick are ably filling
that role. Gordon Van Gelder also served for a short time.
What vast knowledge of science fiction history resides
in those minds! And when I think of how much they all no
doubt have to do, I am very grateful for their
participation.
We started off with quite an event at Worldcon in
Philadelphia in 2001, when the award went to Olaf Stapledon; at the beginning of
that page, you can read Robert Silverberg's remarks about the
reasons for the award. There is also mention of it by
several of the participants of the Cordwainer Smith panel discussion held at
Worldcon. For further background, see the press releases section of this site.
The award now has a permanent venue at
Readercon. Here's a blog entry from one of our original judges,
Scott Edelman, about a day at Readercon in 2008,
including comments about the Rediscovery Award going to
Stanley G Weinbaum It gives you a bit of the flavor of the
event, in case you might like to go sometime.
The winners of the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award so far
have been:
The links take you to the pages about them on this site,
where I have tried to give you an idea of their lives and
work.. some years more than other.
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