Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award Explained

Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award
Awarded For:	a science fiction or fantasy author whose body of work is deserving of renewed interest
Presenter:	Cordwainer Smith Foundation
Year:	2001
Website:	(no longer maintained)

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

• 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
• , 2020
• D. G. Compton, 2021
• No award given due to Readercon cancelation
• , 2023
• Clare Winger Harris, 2024

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award. Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 16 July 2023.
2. Web site: Readercon . 2022-09-05 . Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.