Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Award
The Edmond Hamilton Memorial Award was an American science fiction award. It was intended to honor the memory of Edmond Hamilton , the science fiction writer who died in 1977 and co-inventor of the Space Opera .
The prize was launched on the initiative of Yves de Cargouet, the organizer of the first California Octocon , and was first awarded in 1977 by Hamilton's widow Leigh Brackett .
After Brackett's death in 1978, the award was renamed the Hamilton-Brackett Memorial Award . The prize was awarded in each case at the OctoCon in October for the one published last year work of science fiction, the reader in the most "sense of wonder" ( sense of wonder appeals). The winner was determined through a vote among the visitors to last year's Octocon, during which ballot papers were distributed for the following year.
The last Octocon took place in 1982, and in 1986 the prize was awarded again.
Prize winners were:
- 1977: Katherine Kurtz for Camber of Culdi
- 1978: Marion Zimmer Bradley for The Forbidden Tower
- 1979: Jack L. Chalker for Midnight at the Well of Souls
- 1980: John Varley for Titan
- 1981: Orson Scott Card for Songmaster
- 1982: Somtow Sucharitkul for The Dust
- 1986: Orson Scott Card for Ender's Game
literature
- Richard W. Gombert: World Wrecker: An Annotated Bibliography of Edmond Hamilton. Bibliographies of modern authors # 22. Wildside Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4344-5726-4 , pp. 299 f ..
- Marshall B. Tymn: The Science Fiction Reference Book. Starmont 1981, ISBN 0-916732-49-5 , pp. 197-197.
Web links
- Memorijalnaja premija Edmonda Gamiltona i Li Brekett , article on FantLab (Russian, accessed March 13, 2018).
- Octocon on Fancyclopedia 3 , accessed March 13, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Since there was no Octocon in 1979, the award was presented at the 1980 Octocon.