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 and has been awarded at the Readercon science fiction convention since 2002.

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 being cancelled

, 2023

References

American literary awards

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Science fiction awards

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