Robinson Wins Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award

Frank M. Robinson (1926-2014) is the winner of the 2018 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, intended to bring attention to lesser-known SF and fantasy authors. This year’s judges were Elizabeth Hand, Barry Malzberg, Mike Resnick, and Robert J. Sawyer. The award was announced July 13, 2018 during Readercon 29 at the Quincy Marriott in Quincy MA.

For more information about the award, see the Cordwainer Smith Foundation website.


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  • July 20, 2018 at 7:15 am
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    Robinson is hardly forgotten; seems more like an attempt to whitewash his memory after the release of his autobiography last year, where he revealed himself a sexual predator of teenagers, who (himself born to a wealthy family and wealthy all his life) couldn’t forgive even decades afterwards that one of them had at one point stolen food – a thing he considered important enough to bring out in his memoirs…

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