This Award has been presented since 2008 by the University of California at Riverside for life achievement in science fiction, and is named in memory of J Lloyd Eaton (> J Lloyd Eaton Collection). Winners may be announced well in advance of the presentation, as with the July 2010 announcement of Harlan Ellison's 2011 award. A previous incarnation of the award was given for notable nonfiction about the genre, with one additional (joint) "Grand Master" career award for life achievement in criticism; see 1995. [DRL]
Life achievement
Nonfiction
- 1977: Paul A Carter, The Creation of Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Magazine Science Fiction
(1977) - 1978: John Brosnan, Future Tense: The Cinema of Science Fiction (1978)
- 1979: Gary K Wolfe, The Known and the Unknown: the Iconography of Science Fiction (1979)
- 1980: H Bruce Franklin, Robert A. Heinlein: America as Science Fiction (1980)
- 1981: Gary K Wolfe, The Known and the Unknown: The Iconography of Science Fiction (1979)
- 1982: John Huntington, The Logic of Fantasy: H G Wells and Science Fiction (1982)
- 1983: Colin Greenland, The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British "New Wave" in Science Fiction (1983); Mark Rose, Alien Encounters: Anatomy of Science Fiction (1981)
- 1984: Kathryn Hume, Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature (1984)
- 1985: Brian Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain: 1890-1950 (1985); Thomas D Clareson, Some Kind of Paradise: The Emergence of American Science Fiction (dated 1985 but 1986)
- 1986: Brian W Aldiss with David Wingrove, Trillion Year Spree (1986)
- 1987: Paul Alkon, Origins of Futuristic Fiction (1987)
- 1988: Arthur B Evans, Jules Verne Rediscovered: Didacticism and the Scientific Novel (1988)
- 1989: Charles N Brown and William G Contento, Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1988 (1989)
- 1990: Karl Guthke, The Last Frontier: Imagining Other Worlds (Der Mythos der Neuzeit 1983; trans 1990)
- 1991: Donald M Hassler, Isaac Asimov (1991)
- 1994: Roger Bozzetto, L'Obscur objet d'un savoir (1994)
- 1995: Albert I Berger, The Magic That Works: John W. Campbell and the American Response to Technology (1993); John Clute and Peter Nicholls (Grand Master Award)
- 1996: Edward James, Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (1994)
- 1999: John Clute and John Grant, editors, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
- 2001: N Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (1999)
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