Eaton Award

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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
Grand Master Award
Awards for individual works

literature

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