Eaton Award
The J. Lloyd Eaton Memorial Award , usually referred to as the Eaton Award for short , is an American literary prize that has been awarded since 1977 for critical and literary work in the field of science fiction . It is intended to honor the memory of J. Lloyd Eaton , a science fiction collector whose library of 7,500 volumes was acquired by the University of California Library at Riverside in 1969 and forms the basis of the Eaton Collection , which now has over 300,000 volumes largest publicly available science fiction collection. As part of the processing and cataloging of the holdings, the then curator George Slusser initiated an annual conference, the focus of which was to be on the collection and the scientific study of science fiction. At this J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature , the prize was awarded for the first time in 1977 for a single work.
Until 2001, prizes were generally awarded for individual works, with the exception of the 1982 James Gunn Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 1995 Grand Master Award to John Clute and Peter Nicholls , the original editors of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . In the years from 2002 to 2007 the prize was not awarded, from 2008 it was again awarded as an award for life's work.
Award winners
- Awards for life's work
- 2013: Ray Harryhausen ; Stan Lee
- 2012: Ursula K. Le Guin
- 2011: Harlan Ellison
- 2010: Samuel R. Delany
- 2009: Frederik Pohl
- 2008: Ray Bradbury
- 1982: James Gunn
- Grand Master Award
- 1995: John Clute & Peter Nicholls
- Awards for individual works
- 2001: N. Katherine Hayles , How We Became Posthuman
- 1999: John Clute & John Grant (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
- 1996: Edward James , Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
- 1995: Albert I. Berger , The Magic That Works: John W. Campbell and the American Response to Technology
- 1994: Roger Bozzetto , L'Obscur objet d'un savoir
- 1993: Stephen Potts , The Second Marxian Invasion: The Fiction of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
- 1991: Donald M. Hassler , Isaac Asimov
- 1990: Karl Guthke , The Last Frontier: Imagining Other Worlds
- 1989: Charles N. Brown & William G. Contento , Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1988
- 1988: Arthur B. Evans , Jules Verne Rediscovered
- 1987: Paul Alkon , Origins of Futuristic Fiction
- 1986: Brian W. Aldiss , David Wingrove , Trillion Year Spree
- 1985: Brian Stableford , Scientific Romance in Britain: 1890–1950 / Thomas D. Clareson , Some Kind of Paradise
- 1984: Kathryn Hume , Fantasy and Mimesis
- 1983: Colin Greenland , The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction
- 1983: Mark Rose , Alien Encounters
- 1982: John Huntington , The Logic of Fantasy
- 1980: H. Bruce Franklin , Robert A. Heinlein: America as Science Fiction
- 1979: Gary K. Wolfe , The Known and the Unknown: the Iconography of Science Fiction
- 1978: John Brosnan , Future Tense: The Cinema of Science Fiction
- 1977: Paul A. Carter , The Creation of Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Magazine Science Fiction
literature
- David Langford : Eaton Award. In: John Clute , Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated January 19, 2017.
Web links
- Eaton Award , entry in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
- J. Lloyd Eaton Memorial Award , entry in Fancyclopedia 3 (English)