2020 Cordwainer Smith Rediscover Award Winner announced
by Rob - July 27th, 2020.Filed under: Awards.
For Immediate Release
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
The 2020 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award is presented today to:
Rick Raphael
(1919-1994)
The jury particularly cites:
- Raphael’s 1966 fixup novel Code Three, composed of three shorter works the first two of which were published in Analog and were each separately nominated for the Hugo Award.
- Raphael’s 1960 novella “Make Mine Homogenized,” also from Analog (April 1960), a masterpiece of science-fiction humor, reprinted in The Great SF Stories 22 (1960), edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg.
The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award has been presented annually since 2001 by the Cordwainer Smith Foundation, preserving the memory of science-fiction writer Paul Linebarger, who wrote under that pen name. The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award honors under-read science fiction and fantasy authors with the intention of drawing renewed attention to the winners.
The award is normally presented at Readercon (which was not held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) and is sponsored by Paul Linebarger’s estated represented by B. Diane Martin.
The 2020 jury consisted of Barry Malzberg and Robert J. Sawyer. The jury mourns the passing of its third member, Mike Resnick, who died January 9, 2020. We are actively seeking new jurors with a deep knowledge of science fiction and fantasy history and invite those interested in serving to reach out to sawyer@sfwriter.com.
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