Cordwainer Smith Award Winner Announced

This year's winner of the Cordwainer Smith Rediscover Award is Stanley G. Weinbaum, whose career was cut short by cancer less than two years after his first story was published.

Normally I'd link to the award site in question but it doesn't seem to have been updated in a while (The most recent winner I can see is 2004's and while Robert Silverberg, Gardner Dozois, John Clute, and Scott Edelman are impressive names to have on a jury, SF Awards claims that the current jury is Barry Malzberg, Gordon van Gelder, Martin H. Greenberg, and Mike Resnick) so have the handful of Weinbaum stories that have made it to Gutenberg instead.

Cordwainer Smith Award Winner Announced

This year's winner of the Cordwainer Smith Rediscover Award is Stanley G. Weinbaum, whose career was cut short by cancer less than two years after his first story was published.

Normally I'd link to the award site in question but it doesn't seem to have been updated in a while (The most recent winner I can see is 2004's and while Robert Silverberg, Gardner Dozois, John Clute, and Scott Edelman are impressive names to have on a jury, SF Awards claims that the current jury is Barry Malzberg, Gordon van Gelder, Martin H. Greenberg, and Mike Resnick) so have the handful of Weinbaum stories that have made it to Gutenberg instead.

Cordwainer Smith Award Winner Announced

This year's winner of the Cordwainer Smith Rediscover Award is Stanley G. Weinbaum, whose career was cut short by cancer less than two years after his first story was published.

Normally I'd link to the award site in question but it doesn't seem to have been updated in a while (The most recent winner I can see is 2004's and while Robert Silverberg, Gardner Dozois, John Clute, and Scott Edelman are impressive names to have on a jury, SF Awards claims that the current jury is Barry Malzberg, Gordon van Gelder, Martin H. Greenberg, and Mike Resnick) so have the handful of Weinbaum stories that have made it to Gutenberg instead.

Models for toy universes

Yes, I know I hit send before filling out the article. Let's see how many people comment on that before I am done editing.

Standard disclaimer: presenting something is not the same as advocating it. Case in point, this short article, which seems a bit long on earnest assertation and short on actual evidence. It's good enough for a quick future history, though you may want to take this site's ideas with a grain of salt.

Models for toy universes

Yes, I know I hit send before filling out the article. Let's see how many people comment on that before I am done editing.

Standard disclaimer: presenting something is not the same as advocating it. Case in point, this short article, which seems a bit long on earnest assertation and short on actual evidence. It's good enough for a quick future history, though you may want to take this site's ideas with a grain of salt.

Models for toy universes

Yes, I know I hit send before filling out the article. Let's see how many people comment on that before I am done editing.

Standard disclaimer: presenting something is not the same as advocating it. Case in point, this short article, which seems a bit long on earnest assertation and short on actual evidence. It's good enough for a quick future history, though you may want to take this site's ideas with a grain of salt.