![]() ![]() ![]() I will say up front that I’m not planning to make a series of posts about this. Naturally, I was hooked at once! And so, I assembled a list of authors and books, using the article I linked above, and set out to dip my toes in this particular forgotten pool of science-fiction. Unlike most literary awards, it’s not an award for a particular book it’s for the author, and so various works by each author may fall under this umbrella. This award, founded in 2001, exists to recognize and promote some of the great science-fiction authors of the past, who may have fallen out of print and out of common knowledge. To that end, I recently discovered the existence of the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award. ![]() It’s not that I have anything against them it’s just that I’m so far behind on great books of the past that I’ll never catch up!īut I’m not alone in this, nor in my love for–especially–classic science fiction. There’s a good reason for that: I rarely read new or very recent books. If you’ve been with me for awhile–or at least long enough to know me for book reviews–you may have noticed that I rarely cover new or very recent books. ![]()
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