Re: Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction
Charley Seavey <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Sep 2018 08:48:37 -0400
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--000000000000547aee057583c72d Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Part of being old is remembering way back. I recognized 9 of the "forgotten" greats. I still have most of Pangborn's novels in paperback, and at one time I had collected a good chunk of his short stories, probably pillaging the copyright law in the process. And how on earth could Stapleton be forgotten? Charley On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 7:07 AM Dennis Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > Who Are the Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction? > <https://www.tor.com/2018/09/04/who-are-the-forgotten-greats-of-science-f= iction/>James > Davis Nicoll <https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/> > Tue Sep 4, 2018 11:00am 87 comments > <https://www.tor.com/2018/09/04/who-are-the-forgotten-greats-of-science-f= iction/#comments> > 15 Favorites [+] > <https://www.tor.com/2018/09/04/who-are-the-forgotten-greats-of-science-f= iction/?utm_source=3Dexacttarget&utm_medium=3Dnewsletter&utm_term=3Dtordotc= om-tordotcomnewsletter&utm_content=3Dna-readblog-blogpost&utm_campaign=3Dto= r#> > Time is nobody=E2=80=99s friend. Authors in particular can fall afoul of = time=E2=80=94all > it takes is a few years out of the limelight. Publishers will let their > books fall out of print; readers will forget about them. Replace =E2=80= =9Cyears=E2=80=9D > with =E2=80=9Cdecades=E2=80=9D and authors can become very obscure indeed= . > The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award was founded in 2001 to draw > attention to unjustly forgotten SF authors. It is a juried award; the > founding judges were Gardner Dozois, Robert Silverberg, Scott Edelman, an= d > John Clute. The current judges are Elizabeth Hand, Barry N. Malzberg, Mik= e > Resnick, and Robert J. Sawyer1. > I wish the award were more widely known, that it had, perhaps, its own > anthology. If it did, it might look a bit like this. > <https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/all-i-have-to-do-is-dream> Who are > the winners? Why should you care about them? I am so happy I pretended yo= u > asked. In order of victory, from 2001 to 2018: > Olaf Stapledon <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?81> (10 May 1886=E2= =80=936 > September 1950) could write narrow focus novels when he wanted to. > *Sirius*, for example, focuses on the life of an intelligent dog, while *= Odd > John* is the biography of a super-genius in a world that=E2=80=99s not re= ady for > him. But Stapledon excelled at the epic: wide-focus visions of the past a= nd > future. *Last and First Men* covers the history of eighteen distinct > human species over two billion years. *Star Maker *is even more > ambitious; it narrates a history of the universe. > ------------------------------ > R.A. Lafferty <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?36> (November 7, > 1914=E2=80=93March 18, 2002) was not all that interested in plot. He exce= lled at > setting and literary style. He=E2=80=99s not to everyone=E2=80=99s taste,= but those who > enjoy Lafferty=E2=80=99s work enjoy it intensely. Lafferty was sidelined = by a long > illness, during which time he was close to forgotten. In recent years > publishers from Wildside to Centipede Press have brought his work back in= to > print. > ------------------------------ > Edgar Pangborn <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?43> (February 25, > 1909=E2=80=93February 1, 1976) was active as a mystery writer for twenty = years > before he turned to science fiction in the 1950s. His humanist science > fiction won fan acclaim. His novel *A Mirror for Observers* won the 1954 > International Fantasy Award. Many of his later pieces form the Tales of a > Darkening World sequence, set after war, plague, and climate change have > reduced humanity to a tiny, barbaric remnant of today=E2=80=99s civilizat= ion. 1964=E2=80=99s > * Davy*2 may be the best known in the series; I prefer the melancholy > collection *Still I Persist in Wondering*. If read in publication order, > Tales of a Darkening World betrays Pangborn=E2=80=99s increasingly pessim= istic view > of humans. Some early pieces are available on Gutenberg > <http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/32078>. SF Gateway=E2=80=99s Edga= r > Pangborn Omnibus is also in print. > ------------------------------ > Henry Kuttner <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?452> (April 7, > 1915=E2=80=93February 3, 1958) and C. L. Moore > <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?453> (January 24, 1911=E2=80=93April= 4, > 1987) were both well-known authors before their mutual friend Howard > Lovecraft introduced them. Once they married, they were a powerhouse > writing team. Because they often collaborated, and because they sold the > resulting works under whichever of their many bylines seemed most suitabl= e, > due credit for specific pieces can be difficult to establish. Thus it mak= es > perfect sense to give them a joint award. My personal favourite of their > collections is *Two-Handed Engine*, but it seems to be out of print. Look > for the reprints of *The Best of Henry Kuttner* and *The Best of C. L. > Moore*. > ------------------------------ > Leigh Brackett <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?334> (December 7, > 1915=E2=80=93March 18, 1978) was lauded for her planetary adventures (she= moved her > Eric John Stark adventures to the extra-solar world Skaith when space > probes rendered her pulp-era Solar System implausible) but that was only > one aspect of her work. In addition to writing SF and mysteries, she was = a > successful script writer. Her credits include *The Big Sleep*, *Rio Bravo= * > , *The Long Goodbye, *and an obscure little film called* The Empire > Strikes Back*. Her planetary adventures tended to be long on action and > short on clear moral boundaries. I am particularly fond of her > post-apocalyptic *The Long Tomorrow*. Readers interested in her planetary > adventures should look for the recent reprints of *The Ginger Star,* *The > Hounds of Skaith*, and *The Reavers of Skaith*. > ------------------------------ > William Hope Hodgson <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?163> (15 > November 1877=E2=80=9319 April 1918) predated today=E2=80=99s formalized = genre boundaries. > One might think of him as working somewhere in the intersection of weird > fantasy and cosmic horror. His best known works are the dying-Earth horro= r > novel *The Night Land *and the hallucinatory *The House on the > Borderland. *You may never have read either, but odds are you=E2=80=99ve = read > works influenced by one or the other. Hodgson died at Ypres, during WWI; > hence several of his works are public domain and available at Project > Gutenberg. <http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3260> > ------------------------------ > Daniel F. Galouye <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1268> (11 February > 1920=E2=80=937 September 1976) was a journalist until health issues force= d his > retirement3. He was prolific. Many of his stories feature protagonists > with unrealized potential and nowhere near enough information about their > circumstances. His *Counterfeit World* AKA *Simulachron-3* (filmed as *Th= e > 13th Floor*) seems the obvious starting point. A few of his works are > available at Gutenberg. <http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35969> > ------------------------------ > Stanley G. Weinbaum <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?64> (April 4, > 1902=E2=80=93December 14, 1935) died of cancer only eighteen months after= his debut > story *A Martian Odyssey* saw print. Although he dabbled in > super-science, he seems to have by and large played fair with his readers= . > His oeuvre may be as close to hard SF as one might find in the 1930s. I > recommend the ebook reprint of *The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum*. > ------------------------------ > A. Merritt <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?613> (January 20, > 1884=E2=80=93August 21, 1943) found time during his active journalism car= eer to pen > eight science fantasy novels and an assortment of short stories. Readers > curious about his vivid alternate worlds and, um, energetic prose could > start with his classic *The Moon Pool*, available on Gutenberg. > ------------------------------ > Industrial psychologist Mark Clifton > <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1083> (? 1906=E2=80=93November 1963)= may be > best known for winning the second Best Novel Hugo for *They=E2=80=99d Rat= her Be > Right, *of which the less said the better. Much of his output focused on > either the supercomputer Bossy (wise but distrusted by humans) and the > Ralph Kennedy psionic tales. The story I=E2=80=99d suggest to anyone whom= I didn=E2=80=99t > actively dislike is the sentimental =E2=80=9CStar, Bright,=E2=80=9D > <http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25374> whose view of super-kids > is charmingly unhorrific. If you=E2=80=99ve annoyed me recently, then by = all means > track down *They=E2=80=99d Rather Be Right.* > ------------------------------ > Although Katherine MacLean <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1272> (Ja= nuary > 22, 1925=E2=80=93) has written novels, it was an early flurry of short pi= eces (most > published in the 1950s) that drew her to SF readers=E2=80=99 attention. S= tories of > particular note include =E2=80=9CThe Snowball Effect,=E2=80=9D about soci= ological research > that proves all too successful, =E2=80=9CPictures Don=E2=80=99t Lie,=E2= =80=9D about believing one=E2=80=99s > eyes, and =E2=80=9CAnd Be Merry,=E2=80=9D in which a woman struggles with= the terrors of > immortality. There are many other MacLean stories worth reading. Alone of > the names on this list, MacLean won the Rediscovery while still living. > Although she has not published in the last generation, she is still alive > and may yet break her silence. > As Samuel R. Delany has pointed out on Facebook, MacLean is an ideal > candidate for > <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3D10215625651582161&set=3Da.2081= 641728452.128063.1467333757&type=3D3&permPage=3D1> Damon > Knight Memorial Grand Master, which is given only to the living. Speaking > for myself, I implore the SFWA to consider her for this award. > ------------------------------ > Fredric Brown <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?10> (October 29, > 1906=E2=80=93March 11, 1972) was, as previously discussed > <https://www.tor.com/2018/08/13/a-survey-of-some-of-the-best-science-fict= ion-ever-published-thanks-to-judy-lynn-del-rey/#more-381542>, > a master of the short-short story, although he hardly restricted himself = to > that form. Readers interested in his novel-length material could look for > his alternate universe comedy *What Mad Universe*, although I would lean > more towards suggesting NESFA=E2=80=99s *From These Ashes: The Complete S= hort > Science Fiction of Fredric Brown.* > Wyman Guin <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1723> (March 1, > 1915=E2=80=93February 19, 1989) is one of two authors who have won the Re= discovery > whose work I have not managed to track down. Aside from his association > with *Galaxy Magazine*, I know little about his fiction. Alas, he seems > to be very, very thoroughly out of print. > ------------------------------ > Mildred Clingerman <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?902> (March 14, > 1918=E2=80=93February 26, 1997) is the other author in whose work I am no= t widely > read. It=E2=80=99s not for lack of trying, because I=E2=80=99ve seen her = work referenced > favourably over the years. But! In the interval between writing my review > of the Rediscovery Award Anthology I wish existed > <https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/all-i-have-to-do-is-dream> and > composing this essay, *The Clingerman Files *was published. Not only does > it contain her previously published work, it also includes some pieces > previously unpublished. A copy is even now headed my way. > ------------------------------ > Clark Ashton Smith <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?819> (January 13, > 1893=E2=80=93August 14, 1961) was a mainstay of *Weird Tales* in the era = of > Lovecraft, Howard, and cover artist Margaret Brundage. Smith=E2=80=99s vi= vid, > gleefully morbid tales featured protagonists not destined for long lives. > But then, who would expect longevity for characters who proclaim > > I am now at work on an apparatus by means of which, when it is perfected, > I hope to manifest in their essential purity the radiations of malign for= ce. > > I can see no way in which *that* could go horribly wrong=E2=80=A6 > Readers new to Smith might consider Prime=E2=80=99s *The Return of the So= rcerer.* > ------------------------------ > Writer, editor and activist Judith Merril > <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?157> (January 21, 1923=E2=80=93Septe= mber 12, > 1997) was a member of the Futurians, a fellowship of writers, editors, > artists, and fans whose collective efforts guided science fiction away fr= om > Campbell=E2=80=99s narrow vision. Her noteworthy fiction includes the dis= turbing > =E2=80=9CThat Only a Mother,=E2=80=9D the co-written military SF novel *G= unner Cade*, and > the post-holocaust *Shadow on the Hearth*. Readers new to Merril should > look for a copy of *Homecalling and Other Stories: The Complete Solo > Short SF of Judith Merril.* > Despite her accomplishments as a writer, it=E2=80=99s her role as an edit= or for > which Merril is best known. Her variously titled *The Year=E2=80=99s Grea= test > Science Fiction and Fantasy/Annual of the Year=E2=80=99s Best S-F *ran fr= om 1957 > to 1968, followed by two Best of the Best volumes in 1970. Although there > have been many Best SF annuals, Merril=E2=80=99s stood out for the breadt= h of the > net she cast, drawing stories from well outside the usual borders of > science fiction. She is to date the only woman to helm a best SF annual s= olo > 4. > ------------------------------ > Seabury Quinn <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?755> (January 1, > 1889=E2=80=93December 24, 1969), first published in 1917, was a prolific > contributor to *Weird Tales* (a magazine of which the judges for this > award appear quite fond). Occult detective Jules de Grandin featured in > many of them, enough to fill all three volumes of *The Complete Tales of > Jules de Grandin* (*Horror on the Links*, *The Devil=E2=80=99s Rosary*, a= nd *The > Dark Angel*.). > ------------------------------ > Activist Frank M. Robinson <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1266> (Au= gust > 9, 1926=E2=80=93June 30, 2014) in no way limited himself to writing ficti= on (his > political activities won him a spot in the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall o= f > Fame). Even his role in SF was wide-ranging=E2=80=A6and long-lived. His s= ixteen > novels ranged from psionic thriller *The Power* to the generation ship > Bildungsroman *The Dark Beyond the Stars*. With Thomas Scortia > <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1476> he was author of several > successful thrillers, ranging from *The Glass Inferno* (which contributed > to the ensemble disaster film *The Towering Inferno*), *The Prometheus > Crisis*, *The Nightmare Factor,* and *The Gold Crew*. > > Who will be the next winner of this award? Not being a judge, I couldn=E2= =80=99t > say. But I am very curious to find out. > ------------------------------ > 1: Unfortunately the Cordwainer Smith Foundation site stopped updating > their list of Rediscovery winners in 2012 (although Wikipedia keeps a > list), because, if I understand a recent email exchange correctly, they > thought File 770 was preserving information about the award. While File 7= 70 > does report on the award (and is where I got the list of judges), this is > simply part of their general news reporting activities. > 2: Readers may find the 1976 Vallejo cover a bit risqu=C3=A9. Surprisingl= y > enough, it is true to the text=E2=80=94save for one detail. Davy is weari= ng > cut-offs. In his time, such tailored trousers are a lost technology. > Consider how much technology had to be lost for that to be true. > 3: A fair fraction of Rediscovery winners enjoyed short lives, whether > thanks to the lingering (or in the case of Hodgson, immediate) effects of > military careers or to simple bad health. > 4: Paula Guran has published two Best-of anthologies that cover both SF > and fantasy <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?10799>. Forty-seven > years passed between Merril=E2=80=99s final Best-of and Guran=E2=80=99s f= irst. > --=20 Charley Desert Sailor --000000000000547aee057583c72d Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:times ne= w roman,serif;font-size:large">Part of being old is remembering way back. I= recognized 9 of the "forgotten" greats. I still have most of Pan= gborn's novels in paperback, and at one time I had collected a good chu= nk of his short stories, probably pillaging the copyright law in the proces= s.=C2=A0</div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-family:times new r= oman,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D= "font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large">And how on earth could = Stapleton be forgotten?</div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-fam= ily:times new roman,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_de= fault" style=3D"font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large">Charley<= /div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr">On Mon, Sep 10, = 2018 at 7:07 AM Dennis Fischer <<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]"= >[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_q= uote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1e= x"><div><div style=3D"color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:Helvetic= a Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><h2 style= =3D"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:15px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-va= riant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;= font-family:inherit;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967= 022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7430"><a href=3D"https://www.to= r.com/2018/09/04/who-are-the-forgotten-greats-of-science-fiction/" style=3D= "border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;fon= t-stretch:inherit;line-height:32px;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,Times,s= erif;font-size:24px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color= :rgb(53,52,52)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_= 7431" target=3D"_blank">Who Are the Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction?</a= ></h2><a href=3D"https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/" title=3D"P= osts by James Davis Nicoll" rel=3D"author" style=3D"margin-bottom:15px;bord= er:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weig= ht:600;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:20px;font-family:&quo= t;Open Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:n= one;color:rgb(68,138,174);display:inline-block" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299= yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7432" target=3D"_blank">James Davis Nicoll<= /a><div style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:nor= mal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-= height:12px;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:bas= eline;color:rgb(132,132,132)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_= 1536268204428_7433"><div style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-st= yle:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;l= ine-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_736= 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,132,132);border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;font-style:= inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-= height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-= line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174);display:inline-block" id=3D"m_7366967022995= 012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7436" target=3D"_blank">87 comments</= a>=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.tor.com/2018/09/04/who-are-the-forgotten-gre= ats-of-science-fiction/?utm_source=3Dexacttarget&utm_medium=3Dnewslette= r&utm_term=3Dtordotcom-tordotcomnewsletter&utm_content=3Dna-readblo= g-blogpost&utm_campaign=3Dtor#" style=3D"padding-right:7px;padding-left= :3px;border:none;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inheri= t;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-ali= gn:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174);display:inline-= block" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7437" tar= get=3D"_blank">15 Favorites [+]</a></div></div><div id=3D"m_736696702299501= 2299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7001"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></= u><img style=3D"margin:0px auto;padding:0px;border-width:0px;border-style:i= nitial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-str= etch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baselin= e;max-width:100%;display:block;min-height:auto!important" id=3D"m_736696702= 2995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7443"><u></u></div><div style=3D"= margin:15px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font= -variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:2= 8px;font-family:Merriweather,Georgia,Times,serif;vertical-align:baseline;co= lor:rgb(84,83,83)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15362682044= 28_7444"><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;fon= t-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inhe= rit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_736696702299501229= 9yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7445">Time is nobody=E2=80=99s friend. Aut= hors in particular can fall afoul of time=E2=80=94all it takes is a few yea= rs out of the limelight. Publishers will let their books fall out of print;= readers will forget about them. Replace =E2=80=9Cyears=E2=80=9D with =E2= =80=9Cdecades=E2=80=9D and authors can become very obscure indeed.</div><di= v style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:in= herit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-fam= ily:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_= ym19_1_1536268204428_7446">The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award was found= ed in 2001 to draw attention to unjustly forgotten SF authors. It is a juri= ed award; the founding judges were Gardner Dozois, Robert Silverberg, Scott= Edelman, and John Clute. The current judges are Elizabeth Hand, Barry N. M= alzberg, Mike Resnick, and Robert J. Sawyer<span style=3D"margin:0px;paddin= g:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inheri= t;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:12= px;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15= 36268204428_7447">1</span>.</div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0p= x;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:= inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id= =3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7448">I wish the a= ward were more widely known, that it had, perhaps, its own anthology. If it= did,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/all-i-have-to-do-= is-dream" style=3D"border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-= weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit= ;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" i= d=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7449" target=3D"_= blank">it might look a bit like this.</a>=C2=A0Who are the winners? Why sho= uld you care about them? I am so happy I pretended you asked. In order of v= ictory, from 2001 to 2018:</div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px= ;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:i= nherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id= =3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7450"><span style= =3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inher= it;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family= :inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym1= 9_1_1536268204428_7451"></span></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;borde= r:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stre= tch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline= " id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7452"><img src= =3D"https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LSTMNNDFRS1931= .jpg?fit=3D300%2C+9999&crop=3D0%2C0%2C100%2C428px&ssl=3D1" alt=3D""= width=3D"300" height=3D"428" style=3D"margin:10px auto 20px;padding:0px;bo= rder-width:0px;border-style:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit= ;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:i= nherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;display:block;min-height:auto= !important" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7453= "></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font= -variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inher= it;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299= yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7454"><span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px= ;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-st= retch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseli= ne" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7455"><a hre= f=3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?81" style=3D"border:0px;font-style= :inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line= -height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration= -line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym1= 9_1_1536268204428_7456" target=3D"_blank">Olaf Stapledon</a></span>=C2=A0(1= 0 May 1886=E2=80=936 September 1950) could write narrow focus novels when h= e wanted to.=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-varia= nt:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;fon= t-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_= 16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7457">Sirius</em>, for example, focuses on the li= fe of an intelligent dog, while=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;bo= rder:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line= -height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_736696= 7022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7458">Odd John</em>=C2=A0is th= e biography of a super-genius in a world that=E2=80=99s not ready for him. = But Stapledon excelled at the epic: wide-focus visions of the past and futu= re.=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inheri= t;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:= inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19= _1_1536268204428_7459">Last and First Men</em>=C2=A0covers the history of e= ighteen distinct human species over two billion years.=C2=A0<em style=3D"ma= rgin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;fo= nt-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:b= aseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7460">S= tar Maker=C2=A0</em>is even more ambitious; it narrates a history of the un= iverse.</div><hr width=3D"30%" style=3D"border-style:none none solid;border= -bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:in= itial;border-right-width:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-left-wid= th:initial;border-left-color:initial;margin-bottom:20px" id=3D"m_7366967022= 995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7461"><div style=3D"margin-bottom:= 20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit= ;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-alig= n:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7462= "><img src=3D"https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PSTM= STR1968.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+9999&crop=3D0%2C0%2C100%2C505px&ssl=3D1" a= lt=3D"" width=3D"300" height=3D"505" style=3D"margin:10px auto 20px;padding= :0px;border-width:0px;border-style:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:= inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-f= amily:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;display:block;min-heig= ht:auto!important" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15362682044= 28_7463"></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inher= it;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-heigh= t:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_736696702299= 5012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7464"><span style=3D"margin:0px;padd= ing:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;= font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align= :baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7465"= ><a href=3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?36" style=3D"border:0px;fon= t-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inher= it;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-dec= oration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_1= 6_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7466" target=3D"_blank">R.A. Lafferty</a></span>= =C2=A0(November 7, 1914=E2=80=93March 18, 2002) was not all that interested= in plot. He excelled at setting and literary style. He=E2=80=99s not to ev= eryone=E2=80=99s taste, but those who enjoy Lafferty=E2=80=99s work enjoy i= t intensely. Lafferty was sidelined by a long illness, during which time he= was close to forgotten. In recent years publishers from Wildside to Centip= ede Press have brought his work back into print.</div><hr width=3D"30%" sty= le=3D"border-style:none none solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);bor= der-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-width:initial;b= order-right-color:initial;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initi= al;margin-bottom:20px" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268= 204428_7467"><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit= ;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:= inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_73669670229950= 12299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7468"><img src=3D"https://i0.wp.com/ww= w.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MRRRFRBSRB1954.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+9999&a= mp;crop=3D0%2C0%2C100%2C453px&ssl=3D1" alt=3D"" width=3D"300" height=3D= "453" style=3D"margin:10px auto 20px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;border-st= yle:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;fon= t-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:ba= seline;max-width:100%;display:block;min-height:auto!important" id=3D"m_7366= 967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7469"></div><div style=3D"ma= rgin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-we= ight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;v= ertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_153626= 8204428_7470"><span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:i= nherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;line-heigh= t:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_736696702299= 5012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7471"><a href=3D"http://www.isfdb.or= g/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?43" style=3D"border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:in= herit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-fam= ily:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,= 138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7472" = target=3D"_blank">Edgar Pangborn</a></span>=C2=A0(February 25, 1909=E2=80= =93February 1, 1976) was active as a mystery writer for twenty years before= he turned to science fiction in the 1950s. His humanist science fiction wo= n fan acclaim. His novel=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0p= x;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height= :inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995= 012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7473">A Mirror for Observers</em>=C2= =A0won the 1954 International Fantasy Award. Many of his later pieces form = the Tales of a Darkening World sequence, set after war, plague, and climate= change have reduced humanity to a tiny, barbaric remnant of today=E2=80=99= s civilization. 1964=E2=80=99s<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0p= x;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height= :inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995= 012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7474">=C2=A0Davy</em><span style=3D"m= argin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;fo= nt-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inhe= rit;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_= 3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7475">2</span>=C2=A0may be the best known in th= e series; I prefer the melancholy collection=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;p= adding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch= :inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" i= d=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7476">Still I Per= sist in Wondering</em>. If read in publication order, Tales of a Darkening = World betrays Pangborn=E2=80=99s increasingly pessimistic view of humans. S= ome early pieces are available on=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://www.gutenberg.org/= ebooks/author/32078" style=3D"border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:in= herit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-fam= ily:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,= 138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7477" = target=3D"_blank">Gutenberg</a>. SF Gateway=E2=80=99s Edgar Pangborn Omnibu= s is also in print.</div><hr width=3D"30%" style=3D"border-style:none none = solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);border-top-width:initial;border-= top-color:initial;border-right-width:initial;border-right-color:initial;bor= der-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;margin-bottom:20px" id=3D"= m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7478"><div style=3D"ma= rgin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-we= ight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;v= ertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_153626= 8204428_7479"><img src=3D"https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/= 2018/09/TWHNDDNGNT2005.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+9999&crop=3D0%2C0%2C100%2C433px= &ssl=3D1" alt=3D"" width=3D"300" height=3D"433" style=3D"margin:10px au= to 20px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;border-style:initial;font-style:inheri= t;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height= :inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;display= :block;min-height:auto!important" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym1= 9_1_1536268204428_7480" class=3D"m_7366967022995012299img-overlay-selected"= ></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-= variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inheri= t;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299y= ui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7481"><span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;= border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-str= etch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baselin= e" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7482"><a href= =3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?452" style=3D"border:0px;font-style= :inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line= -height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration= -line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym1= 9_1_1536268204428_7483" target=3D"_blank">Henry Kuttner</a></span>=C2=A0(Ap= ril 7, 1915=E2=80=93February 3, 1958) and=C2=A0<span style=3D"margin:0px;pa= dding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:70= 0;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-ali= gn:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_748= 4"><a href=3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?453" style=3D"border:0px;= font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:in= herit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-= decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_= 3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7485" target=3D"_blank">C. L. Moore</a></span>= =C2=A0(January 24, 1911=E2=80=93April 4, 1987) were both well-known authors= before their mutual friend Howard Lovecraft introduced them. Once they mar= ried, they were a powerhouse writing team. Because they often collaborated,= and because they sold the resulting works under whichever of their many by= lines seemed most suitable, due credit for specific pieces can be difficult= to establish. Thus it makes perfect sense to give them a joint award. My p= ersonal favourite of their collections is=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padd= ing:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:in= herit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id= =3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7486">Two-Handed E= ngine</em>, but it seems to be out of print. Look for the reprints of=C2=A0= <em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-we= ight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;v= ertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_153626= 8204428_7487">The Best of Henry Kuttner</em>=C2=A0and=C2=A0<em style=3D"mar= gin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;fon= t-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:ba= seline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7488">Th= e Best of C. L. Moore</em>.</div><hr width=3D"30%" style=3D"border-style:no= ne none solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);border-top-width:initial= ;border-top-color:initial;border-right-width:initial;border-right-color:ini= tial;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;margin-bottom:20px= " id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7489"><div sty= le=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit= ;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:i= nherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_= 1_1536268204428_7490"><img src=3D"https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/= uploads/2018/09/THLNGTMRRW1955.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+9999&crop=3D0%2C0%2C100= %2C449px&ssl=3D1" alt=3D"" width=3D"300" height=3D"449" style=3D"margin= :10px auto 20px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;border-style:initial;font-styl= e:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;lin= e-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%= ;display:block;min-height:auto!important" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_= 16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7491"></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;bord= er:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-str= etch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baselin= e" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7492"><span s= tyle=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:i= nherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family= :inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym1= 9_1_1536268204428_7493"><a href=3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?334"= style=3D"border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:in= herit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical= -align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_73= 66967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7494" target=3D"_blank">Le= igh Brackett</a></span>=C2=A0(December 7, 1915=E2=80=93March 18, 1978) was = lauded for her planetary adventures (she moved her Eric John Stark adventur= es to the extra-solar world Skaith when space probes rendered her pulp-era = Solar System implausible) but that was only one aspect of her work. In addi= tion to writing SF and mysteries, she was a successful script writer. Her c= redits include=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-var= iant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;f= ont-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_= 3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7495">The Big Sleep</em>,=C2=A0<em style=3D"mar= gin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;fon= t-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:ba= seline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7496">Ri= o Bravo</em>,=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-vari= ant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;fo= nt-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3= _16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7497">The Long Goodbye,=C2=A0</em>and an obscure= little film called<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-vari= ant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;fo= nt-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3= _16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7498">=C2=A0The Empire Strikes Back</em>. Her pl= anetary adventures tended to be long on action and short on clear moral bou= ndaries. I am particularly fond of her post-apocalyptic=C2=A0<em style=3D"m= argin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;f= ont-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:= baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7499">= The Long Tomorrow</em>. Readers interested in her planetary adventures shou= ld look for the recent reprints of=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px= ;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;l= ine-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_736= 6967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7500">The Ginger Star,</em>= =C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;f= ont-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inh= erit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_= 1536268204428_7501">The Hounds of Skaith</em>, and=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin= :0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-s= tretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:basel= ine" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7502">The R= eavers of Skaith</em>.</div><hr width=3D"30%" style=3D"border-style:none no= ne solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);border-top-width:initial;bord= er-top-color:initial;border-right-width:initial;border-right-color:initial;= border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;margin-bottom:20px" id= =3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7503"><div style= =3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;f= ont-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inh= erit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_= 1536268204428_7504"><img src=3D"https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/up= loads/2018/09/THHSNTHBRD1965.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+9999&crop=3D0%2C0%2C100%2= C457px&ssl=3D1" alt=3D"" width=3D"300" height=3D"457" style=3D"margin:1= 0px auto 20px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;border-style:initial;font-style:= inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-= height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;d= isplay:block;min-height:auto!important" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16= _0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7505"></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border= :0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stret= ch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"= id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7506"><a href= =3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?163" style=3D"border:0px;font-style= :inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line= -height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration= -line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym1= 9_1_1536268204428_7507" target=3D"_blank"><span style=3D"margin:0px;padding= :0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;fon= t-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:ba= seline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7508">Wi= lliam Hope Hodgson</span></a>=C2=A0(15 November 1877=E2=80=9319 April 1918)= predated today=E2=80=99s formalized genre boundaries. One might think of h= im as working somewhere in the intersection of weird fantasy and cosmic hor= ror. His best known works are the dying-Earth horror novel=C2=A0<em style= =3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inhe= rit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-a= lign:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7= 509">The Night Land=C2=A0</em>and the hallucinatory=C2=A0<em style=3D"margi= n:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-= stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:base= line" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7510">The = House on the Borderland.=C2=A0</em>You may never have read either, but odds= are you=E2=80=99ve read works influenced by one or the other. Hodgson died= at Ypres, during WWI; hence several of his works are public domain and ava= ilable at=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3260" styl= e=3D"border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit= ;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-alig= n:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967= 022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7511" target=3D"_blank">Project= Gutenberg.</a></div><hr width=3D"30%" style=3D"border-style:none none soli= d;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);border-top-width:initial;border-top-= color:initial;border-right-width:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-= left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;margin-bottom:20px" id=3D"m_73= 66967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7512"><div style=3D"margin= -bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight= :inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;verti= cal-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204= 428_7513"><img src=3D"https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018= /09/SMLCRN31964.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+9999&crop=3D0%2C0%2C100%2C496px&ss= l=3D1" alt=3D"" width=3D"300" height=3D"496" style=3D"margin:10px auto 20px= ;padding:0px;border-width:0px;border-style:initial;font-style:inherit;font-= variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inheri= t;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;display:block;= min-height:auto!important" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_153= 6268204428_7514"></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-sty= le:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;li= ne-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366= 967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7515"><span style=3D"margin:= 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-wei= ght:700;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertic= al-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15362682044= 28_7516"><a href=3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1268" style=3D"bord= er:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-str= etch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baselin= e;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012= 299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7517" target=3D"_blank">Daniel F. Galouy= e</a></span>=C2=A0(11 February 1920=E2=80=937 September 1976) was a journal= ist until health issues forced his retirement<span style=3D"margin:0px;padd= ing:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inhe= rit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:= 12px;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_= 1536268204428_7518">3</span>. He was prolific. Many of his stories feature = protagonists with unrealized potential and nowhere near enough information = about their circumstances. His=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;bor= der:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-= height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967= 022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7519">Counterfeit World</em>=C2= =A0AKA=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inh= erit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-fami= ly:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_y= m19_1_1536268204428_7520">Simulachron-3</em>=C2=A0(filmed as=C2=A0<em style= =3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inhe= rit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-a= lign:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7= 521">The 13<span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inhe= rit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-heig= ht:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline" id= =3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7522">th</span>=C2= =A0Floor</em>) seems the obvious starting point. A few of his<a href=3D"htt= p://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35969" style=3D"border:0px;font-style:i= nherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-h= eight:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-l= ine:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_= 1_1536268204428_7523" target=3D"_blank">=C2=A0works are available at Gutenb= erg.</a></div><hr width=3D"30%" style=3D"border-style:none none solid;borde= r-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:i= nitial;border-right-width:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-left-wi= dth:initial;border-left-color:initial;margin-bottom:20px" id=3D"m_736696702= 2995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7524"><div style=3D"margin-bottom= :20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inheri= t;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-ali= gn:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_752= 5"><img src=3D"https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/THB= STFSTNL1979.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+9999&crop=3D0%2C0%2C100%2C511px&ssl=3D= 1" alt=3D"" width=3D"300" height=3D"511" style=3D"margin:10px auto 20px;pad= ding:0px;border-width:0px;border-style:initial;font-style:inherit;font-vari= ant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;fo= nt-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;display:block;min-= height:auto!important" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268= 204428_7526"></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:i= nherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-h= eight:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_73669670= 22995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7527"><span style=3D"margin:0px;= padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:= 700;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-a= lign:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7= 528"><a href=3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?64" style=3D"border:0px= ;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:i= nherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text= -decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui= _3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7529" target=3D"_blank">Stanley G. Weinbaum</a= ></span>=C2=A0(April 4, 1902=E2=80=93December 14, 1935) died of cancer only= eighteen months after his debut story=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding= :0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inher= it;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m= _7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7530">A Martian Odyssey= </em>=C2=A0saw print. Although he dabbled in super-science, he seems to hav= e by and large played fair with his readers. His oeuvre may be as close to = hard SF as one might find in the 1930s. I recommend the ebook reprint of=C2= =A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font= -weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inheri= t;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_153= 6268204428_7531">The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum</em>.</div><hr width=3D"30= %" style=3D"border-style:none none solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,17= 0);border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-width:ini= tial;border-right-color:initial;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color= :initial;margin-bottom:20px" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1= 536268204428_7532"><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:i= nherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-h= eight:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_73669670= 22995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7533"><img src=3D"https://i2.wp.= com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/51c4IW-tqyL.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+999= 9&crop=3D0%2C0%2C100%2C457px&ssl=3D1" alt=3D"" width=3D"300" height= =3D"457" style=3D"margin:10px auto 20px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;border= -style:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;= font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align= :baseline;max-width:100%;display:block;min-height:auto!important" id=3D"m_7= 366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7534"></div><div style=3D= "margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font= -weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inheri= t;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_153= 6268204428_7535"><a href=3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?613" style= =3D"border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;= font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align= :baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_73669670= 22995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7536" target=3D"_blank"><span st= yle=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:in= herit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:= inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19= _1_1536268204428_7537">A. Merritt</span></a>=C2=A0(January 20, 1884=E2=80= =93August 21, 1943) found time during his active journalism career to pen e= ight science fantasy novels and an assortment of short stories. Readers cur= ious about his vivid alternate worlds and, um, energetic prose could start = with his classic=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-v= ariant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit= ;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yu= i_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7538">The Moon Pool</em>, available on Gutenb= erg.</div><hr width=3D"30%" style=3D"border-style:none none solid;border-bo= ttom-color:rgb(170,170,170);border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initi= al;border-right-width:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-left-width:= initial;border-left-color:initial;margin-bottom:20px" id=3D"m_7366967022995= 012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7539"><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20p= x;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;fo= nt-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:b= aseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7540"><= img src=3D"https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/THDRTHR= BRG1981.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+9999&crop=3D0%2C0%2C100%2C466px&ssl=3D1" a= lt=3D"" width=3D"300" height=3D"466" style=3D"margin:10px auto 20px;padding= :0px;border-width:0px;border-style:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:= inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-f= amily:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;display:block;min-heig= ht:auto!important" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15362682044= 28_7541"></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inher= it;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-heigh= t:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_736696702299= 5012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7542">Industrial psychologist=C2=A0<= a href=3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1083" style=3D"border:0px;fon= t-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inher= it;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-dec= oration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_1= 6_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7543" target=3D"_blank"><span style=3D"margin:0px;= padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:= 700;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-a= lign:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7= 544">Mark Clifton</span></a>=C2=A0(? 1906=E2=80=93November 1963) may be bes= t known for winning the second Best Novel Hugo for=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin= :0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-s= tretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:basel= ine" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7545">They= =E2=80=99d Rather Be Right,=C2=A0</em>of which the less said the better. Mu= ch of his output focused on either the supercomputer Bossy (wise but distru= sted by humans) and the Ralph Kennedy psionic tales. The story I=E2=80=99d = suggest to anyone whom I didn=E2=80=99t actively dislike is the sentimental= =C2=A0<a href=3D"http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25374" style=3D"bor= der:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-st= retch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseli= ne;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_736696702299501= 2299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7546" target=3D"_blank">=E2=80=9CStar, = Bright,=E2=80=9D</a>=C2=A0whose view of super-kids is charmingly unhorrific= . If you=E2=80=99ve annoyed me recently, then by all means track down=C2=A0= <em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-we= ight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;v= ertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_153626= 8204428_7547">They=E2=80=99d Rather Be Right.</em></div><hr width=3D"30%" s= tyle=3D"border-style:none none solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);b= order-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-width:initial= ;border-right-color:initial;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:ini= tial;margin-bottom:20px" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15362= 68204428_7548"><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inher= it;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-heigh= t:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_736696702299= 5012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7549"><img src=3D"https://i0.wp.com/= www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/510RvDOJmeL.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+9999&am= p;crop=3D0%2C0%2C100%2C450px&ssl=3D1" alt=3D"" width=3D"300" height=3D"= 450" style=3D"margin:10px auto 20px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;border-sty= le:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font= -stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:bas= eline;max-width:100%;display:block;min-height:auto!important" id=3D"m_73669= 67022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7550"></div><div style=3D"mar= gin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-wei= ght:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;ve= rtical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268= 204428_7551">Although=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1= 272" style=3D"border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weigh= t:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vert= ical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"= m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7552" target=3D"_blank= "><span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-= variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;fo= nt-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3= _16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7553">Katherine MacLean</span></a>=C2=A0(January= 22, 1925=E2=80=93) has written novels, it was an early flurry of short pie= ces (most published in the 1950s) that drew her to SF readers=E2=80=99 atte= ntion. Stories of particular note include =E2=80=9CThe Snowball Effect,=E2= =80=9D about sociological research that proves all too successful, =E2=80= =9CPictures Don=E2=80=99t Lie,=E2=80=9D about believing one=E2=80=99s eyes,= and =E2=80=9CAnd Be Merry,=E2=80=9D in which a woman struggles with the te= rrors of immortality. There are many other MacLean stories worth reading. A= lone of the names on this list, MacLean won the Rediscovery while still liv= ing. Although she has not published in the last generation, she is still al= ive and may yet break her silence.</div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;bo= rder:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-s= tretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:basel= ine" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7554">As Sa= muel R. Delany has pointed out on Facebook,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.fac= ebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3D10215625651582161&set=3Da.2081641728452.1280= 63.1467333757&type=3D3&permPage=3D1" style=3D"border:0px;font-style= :inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line= -height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration= -line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym1= 9_1_1536268204428_7555" target=3D"_blank">MacLean is an ideal candidate for= </a>=C2=A0Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master, which is given only to the li= ving. Speaking for myself, I implore the SFWA to consider her for this awar= d.</div><hr width=3D"30%" style=3D"border-style:none none solid;border-bott= om-color:rgb(170,170,170);border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial= ;border-right-width:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-left-width:in= itial;border-left-color:initial;margin-bottom:20px" id=3D"m_736696702299501= 2299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7556"><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;= border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font= -stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:bas= eline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7557"><im= g src=3D"https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FRMTHSSHS= T2001.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+9999&crop=3D0%2C0%2C100%2C468px&ssl=3D1" alt= =3D"" width=3D"300" height=3D"468" style=3D"margin:10px auto 20px;padding:0= px;border-width:0px;border-style:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:in= herit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-fam= ily:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;display:block;min-height= :auto!important" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428= _7558"></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit= ;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:= inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_73669670229950= 12299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7559"><a href=3D"http://www.isfdb.org/= cgi-bin/ea.cgi?10" style=3D"border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inhe= rit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-famil= y:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,13= 8,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7560" ta= rget=3D"_blank"><span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style= :inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;line-hei= ght:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022= 995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7561">Fredric Brown</span></a>=C2= =A0(October 29, 1906=E2=80=93March 11, 1972) was,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://w= ww.tor.com/2018/08/13/a-survey-of-some-of-the-best-science-fiction-ever-pub= lished-thanks-to-judy-lynn-del-rey/#more-381542" style=3D"border:0px;font-s= tyle:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;= line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decora= tion-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0= _ym19_1_1536268204428_7562" target=3D"_blank">as previously discussed</a>, = a master of the short-short story, although he hardly restricted himself to= that form. Readers interested in his novel-length material could look for = his alternate universe comedy=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;bord= er:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-h= eight:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_73669670= 22995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7563">What Mad Universe</em>, al= though I would lean more towards suggesting NESFA=E2=80=99s=C2=A0<em style= =3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inhe= rit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-a= lign:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7= 564">From These Ashes: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Fredric Brown.= </em></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;f= ont-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:in= herit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012= 299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7565"><img src=3D"https://i0.wp.com/www.= tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/GALAUG1951.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+9999&cro= p=3D0%2C0%2C100%2C411px&ssl=3D1" alt=3D"" width=3D"300" height=3D"411" = style=3D"margin:10px auto 20px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;border-style:in= itial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stre= tch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline= ;max-width:100%;display:block;min-height:auto!important" id=3D"m_7366967022= 995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7566"></div><div style=3D"margin-b= ottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:i= nherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertica= l-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_153626820442= 8_7567"><span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit= ;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inhe= rit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_736696702299501229= 9yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7568"><a href=3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-= bin/ea.cgi?1723" style=3D"border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inheri= t;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:= inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,= 174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7569" targ= et=3D"_blank">Wyman Guin</a></span>=C2=A0(March 1, 1915=E2=80=93February 19= , 1989) is one of two authors who have won the Rediscovery whose work I hav= e not managed to track down. Aside from his association with=C2=A0<em style= =3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inhe= rit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-a= lign:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7= 570">Galaxy Magazine</em>, I know little about his fiction. Alas, he seems = to be very, very thoroughly out of print.</div><hr width=3D"30%" style=3D"b= order-style:none none solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);border-top= -width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-width:initial;border-r= ight-color:initial;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;marg= in-bottom:20px" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_= 7571"><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-v= ariant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit= ;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yu= i_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7572"><img src=3D"https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.c= om/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/51vtdwCDcL.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+9999&crop=3D0= %2C0%2C100%2C450px&ssl=3D1" alt=3D"" width=3D"300" height=3D"450" style= =3D"margin:10px auto 20px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;border-style:initial= ;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:i= nherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-= width:100%;display:block;min-height:auto!important" id=3D"m_736696702299501= 2299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7573"></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom= :20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inheri= t;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-ali= gn:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_757= 4"><span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font= -variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;f= ont-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_= 3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7575"><a href=3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/e= a.cgi?902" style=3D"border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font= -weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inheri= t;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" = id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7576" target=3D"= _blank">Mildred Clingerman</a></span>=C2=A0(March 14, 1918=E2=80=93February= 26, 1997) is the other author in whose work I am not widely read. It=E2=80= =99s not for lack of trying, because I=E2=80=99ve seen her work referenced = favourably over the years. But! In the interval between writing my=C2=A0<a = href=3D"https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/all-i-have-to-do-is-dream" styl= e=3D"border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit= ;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-alig= n:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967= 022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7577" target=3D"_blank">review = of the Rediscovery Award Anthology I wish existed</a>=C2=A0and composing th= is essay,=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:= inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-f= amily:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_= 0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7578">The Clingerman Files=C2=A0</em>was published. = Not only does it contain her previously published work, it also includes so= me pieces previously unpublished. A copy is even now headed my way.</div><h= r width=3D"30%" style=3D"border-style:none none solid;border-bottom-color:r= gb(170,170,170);border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-ri= ght-width:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-left-width:initial;bord= er-left-color:initial;margin-bottom:20px" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_= 16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7579"><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px= ;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:i= nherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id= =3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7580"><img src=3D"= https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/51sLdDoH32L.jpg?fi= t=3D300%2C+9999&crop=3D0%2C0%2C100%2C450px&ssl=3D1" alt=3D"" width= =3D"300" height=3D"450" style=3D"margin:10px auto 20px;padding:0px;border-w= idth:0px;border-style:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-= weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit= ;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;display:block;min-height:auto!impor= tant" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7581"></di= v><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-varia= nt:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;fon= t-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_= 16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7582"><span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;borde= r:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:= inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id= =3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7583"><a href=3D"h= ttp://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?819" style=3D"border:0px;font-style:inhe= rit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-heig= ht:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line= :none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1= 536268204428_7584" target=3D"_blank">Clark Ashton Smith</a></span>=C2=A0(Ja= nuary 13, 1893=E2=80=93August 14, 1961) was a mainstay of=C2=A0<em style=3D= "margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit= ;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-alig= n:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7585= ">Weird Tales</em>=C2=A0in the era of Lovecraft, Howard, and cover artist M= argaret Brundage. Smith=E2=80=99s vivid, gleefully morbid tales featured pr= otagonists not destined for long lives. But then, who would expect longevit= y for characters who proclaim</div><blockquote style=3D"margin:0px 50px 0px= 40px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-w= eight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;= vertical-align:baseline;quotes:none" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_= ym19_1_1536268204428_7586"><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font= -style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inheri= t;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_= 7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7587">I am now at work o= n an apparatus by means of which, when it is perfected, I hope to manifest = in their essential purity the radiations of malign force.</div></blockquote= ><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-varian= t:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font= -family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_1= 6_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7588">I can see no way in which=C2=A0<em style=3D"= margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;= font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align= :baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7589"= >that</em>=C2=A0could go horribly wrong=E2=80=A6</div><div style=3D"margin-= bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:= inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertic= al-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15362682044= 28_7590">Readers new to Smith might consider Prime=E2=80=99s=C2=A0<em style= =3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inhe= rit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-a= lign:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7= 591">The Return of the Sorcerer.</em></div><hr width=3D"30%" style=3D"borde= r-style:none none solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);border-top-wid= th:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-width:initial;border-right= -color:initial;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;margin-b= ottom:20px" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7592= "><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-varia= nt:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;fon= t-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_= 16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7593"><img src=3D"https://i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/w= p-content/uploads/2018/09/HMCLLNGNDT2005.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+9999&crop=3D0= %2C0%2C100%2C456px&ssl=3D1" alt=3D"" width=3D"300" height=3D"456" style= =3D"margin:10px auto 20px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;border-style:initial= ;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:i= nherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-= width:100%;display:block;min-height:auto!important" id=3D"m_736696702299501= 2299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7594"></div><div style=3D"margin-bottom= :20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inheri= t;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-ali= gn:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_759= 5">Writer, editor and activist=C2=A0<span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;b= order:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stre= tch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline= " id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7596"><a href= =3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?157" style=3D"border:0px;font-style= :inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line= -height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration= -line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym1= 9_1_1536268204428_7597" target=3D"_blank">Judith Merril</a></span>=C2=A0(Ja= nuary 21, 1923=E2=80=93September 12, 1997) was a member of the Futurians, a= fellowship of writers, editors, artists, and fans whose collective efforts= guided science fiction away from Campbell=E2=80=99s narrow vision. Her not= eworthy fiction includes the disturbing =E2=80=9CThat Only a Mother,=E2=80= =9D the co-written military SF novel=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0= px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit= ;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7= 366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7598">Gunner Cade</em>, a= nd the post-holocaust=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;f= ont-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:in= herit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012= 299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7599">Shadow on the Hearth</em>. Readers= new to Merril should look for a copy of=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;paddi= ng:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inh= erit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D= "m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7600">Homecalling and= Other Stories: The Complete Solo Short SF of Judith Merril.</em></div><div= style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inh= erit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-fami= ly:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_y= m19_1_1536268204428_7601">Despite her accomplishments as a writer, it=E2=80= =99s her role as an editor for which Merril is best known. Her variously ti= tled=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inher= it;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family= :inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym1= 9_1_1536268204428_7602">The Year=E2=80=99s Greatest Science Fiction and Fan= tasy/Annual of the Year=E2=80=99s Best S-F=C2=A0</em>ran from 1957 to 1968,= followed by two Best of the Best volumes in 1970. Although there have been= many Best SF annuals, Merril=E2=80=99s stood out for the breadth of the ne= t she cast, drawing stories from well outside the usual borders of science = fiction. She is to date the only woman to helm a best SF annual solo<span s= tyle=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:i= nherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-fa= mily:inherit;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_73669670229950= 12299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7603">4</span>.</div><hr width=3D"30%"= style=3D"border-style:none none solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170)= ;border-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-width:initi= al;border-right-color:initial;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:i= nitial;margin-bottom:20px" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_153= 6268204428_7604"><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inh= erit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-hei= ght:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022= 995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7605"><img src=3D"https://i1.wp.co= m/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/THHRRRNTHL2017.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+99= 99&crop=3D0%2C0%2C100%2C446px&ssl=3D1" alt=3D"" width=3D"300" heigh= t=3D"446" style=3D"margin:10px auto 20px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;borde= r-style:initial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit= ;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-alig= n:baseline;max-width:100%;display:block;min-height:auto!important" id=3D"m_= 7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7606"></div><div style= =3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;f= ont-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inh= erit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_= 1536268204428_7607"><span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-s= tyle:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;line= -height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_736696= 7022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7608"><a href=3D"http://www.is= fdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?755" style=3D"border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-var= iant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;f= ont-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:= rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428= _7609" target=3D"_blank">Seabury Quinn</a></span>=C2=A0(January 1, 1889=E2= =80=93December 24, 1969), first published in 1917, was a prolific contribut= or to=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inhe= rit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-famil= y:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym= 19_1_1536268204428_7610">Weird Tales</em>=C2=A0(a magazine of which the jud= ges for this award appear quite fond). Occult detective Jules de Grandin fe= atured in many of them, enough to fill all three volumes of=C2=A0<em style= =3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inhe= rit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-a= lign:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7= 611">The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin</em>=C2=A0(<em style=3D"margin:= 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-st= retch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseli= ne" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7612">Horror= on the Links</em>,=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;fon= t-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inhe= rit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_736696702299501229= 9yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7613">The Devil=E2=80=99s Rosary</em>, and= =C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;f= ont-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inh= erit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_= 1536268204428_7614">The Dark Angel</em>.).</div><hr width=3D"30%" style=3D"= border-style:none none solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);border-to= p-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-width:initial;border-= right-color:initial;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initial;mar= gin-bottom:20px" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428= _7615"><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-= variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inheri= t;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299y= ui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7616"><img src=3D"https://i1.wp.com/www.tor.= com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/THEPOWER1957A.jpg?fit=3D300%2C+9999&crop= =3D0%2C0%2C100%2C511px&ssl=3D1" alt=3D"" width=3D"300" height=3D"511" s= tyle=3D"margin:10px auto 20px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;border-style:ini= tial;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stret= ch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;= max-width:100%;display:block;min-height:auto!important" id=3D"m_73669670229= 95012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7617"></div><div style=3D"margin-bo= ttom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:in= herit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical= -align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428= _7618">Activist=C2=A0<span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-= style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;lin= e-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_73669= 67022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7619"><a href=3D"http://www.i= sfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1266" style=3D"border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-v= ariant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit= ;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;colo= r:rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15362682044= 28_7620" target=3D"_blank">Frank M. Robinson</a></span>=C2=A0(August 9, 192= 6=E2=80=93June 30, 2014) in no way limited himself to writing fiction (his = political activities won him a spot in the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of = Fame). Even his role in SF was wide-ranging=E2=80=A6and long-lived. His six= teen novels ranged from psionic thriller=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;paddi= ng:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inh= erit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D= "m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7621">The Power</em>= =C2=A0to the generation ship Bildungsroman=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;pad= ding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:i= nherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id= =3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7622">The Dark Bey= ond the Stars</em>. With=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cg= i?1476" style=3D"border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-we= ight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;v= ertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(68,138,174)" id= =3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7623" target=3D"_b= lank">Thomas Scortia</a>=C2=A0he was author of several successful thrillers= , ranging from=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-var= iant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;f= ont-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_= 3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7624">The Glass Inferno</em>=C2=A0(which contri= buted to the ensemble disaster film=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0p= x;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;= line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_73= 66967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7625">The Towering Inferno= </em>),=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:in= herit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-fam= ily:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_= ym19_1_1536268204428_7626">The Prometheus Crisis</em>,=C2=A0<em style=3D"ma= rgin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;fo= nt-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:b= aseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7627">T= he Nightmare Factor,</em>=C2=A0and=C2=A0<em style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px= ;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;l= ine-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_736= 6967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7628">The Gold Crew</em>.</= div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-var= iant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;f= ont-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_= 3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7629">=C2=A0</div><div style=3D"margin-bottom:2= 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;= font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align= :baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7630"= >Who will be the next winner of this award? Not being a judge, I couldn=E2= =80=99t say. But I am very curious to find out.</div><hr width=3D"50%" styl= e=3D"border-style:none none solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(170,170,170);bord= er-top-width:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-width:initial;bo= rder-right-color:initial;border-left-width:initial;border-left-color:initia= l;margin-bottom:20px" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15362682= 04428_7631"><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;= font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:i= nherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_736696702299501= 2299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7632"><span style=3D"margin:0px;padding= :0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit= ;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:sma= ll;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_15= 36268204428_7633">1: Unfortunately the Cordwainer Smith Foundation site sto= pped updating their list of Rediscovery winners in 2012 (although Wikipedia= keeps a list), because, if I understand a recent email exchange correctly,= they thought File 770 was preserving information about the award. While Fi= le 770 does report on the award (and is where I got the list of judges), th= is is simply part of their general news reporting activities.</span></div><= div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:= inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-f= amily:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_= 0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7634"><span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0= px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch= :inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:small;vertical-a= lign:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7= 635">2: Readers may find the 1976 Vallejo cover a bit risqu=C3=A9. Surprisi= ngly enough, it is true to the text=E2=80=94save for one detail. Davy is we= aring cut-offs. In his time, such tailored trousers are a lost technology. = Consider how much technology had to be lost for that to be true.</span></di= v><div style=3D"margin-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-varia= nt:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;fon= t-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_= 16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7636"><span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;borde= r:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stre= tch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:small;vertica= l-align:baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_153626820442= 8_7637">3: A fair fraction of Rediscovery winners enjoyed short lives, whet= her thanks to the lingering (or in the case of Hodgson, immediate) effects = of military careers or to simple bad health.</span></div><div style=3D"marg= in-bottom:20px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weig= ht:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;ver= tical-align:baseline" dir=3D"ltr" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym1= 9_1_1536268204428_7638"><span style=3D"margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;fo= nt-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inhe= rit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:small;vertical-align:= baseline" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428_7639">= 4: Paula Guran has published=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/e= a.cgi?10799" style=3D"border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;fo= nt-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inhe= rit;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none;color:= rgb(68,138,174)" id=3D"m_7366967022995012299yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1536268204428= _7640" target=3D"_blank">two Best-of anthologies that cover both SF and fan= tasy</a>. Forty-seven years passed between Merril=E2=80=99s final Best-of a= nd Guran=E2=80=99s first.</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div>= <br clear=3D"all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_sig= nature" data-smartmail=3D"gmail_signature"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><font face= =3D"times new roman, serif" size=3D"4">Charley<br>Desert Sailor</font></div= ></div></div> --000000000000547aee057583c72d--