Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award



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
 * Rick Raphael, 2020
 * D. G. Compton, 2021
 * No award given due to Readercon cancelation
 * Josephine Saxton, 2023
 * Clare Winger Harris, 2024