Big Heart Award
The Big Heart, a service award, is presented annually at the World Science Fiction Convention to a member of the sf community who, in the words of one recent recipient, embodies "good work and great spirit long contributed".
It was established in 1959 in honor and memory of E. Everett Evans and was administered for 40 years by Forrest J Ackerman. In 2000, 4E passed the baton to Dave Kyle and, in 2006, the award was renamed in Ackerman's honor. Kyle in turn passed the reins to Steve and Sue Francis, the current administrators. In 2018, after Kyle's death, the award was re-named the David A. Kyle Big Heart Award.
List of Big Heart Honorees:[edit]
- 1959 E. E. Smith
- 1960 Bob Bloch, Sam Moskowitz
- 1961 Rick Sneary
- 1962 Bob Tucker
- 1963 James Taurasi
- 1964 Bjo Trimble
- 1965 Walter Ernsting
- 1966 David H. Keller
- 1967 Janie Lamb
- 1968 Walt Daugherty
- 1969 Harry Warner, Jr.
- 1970 Herbert Häussler
- 1971 C. L. Barrett
- 1972 Stan Woolston
- 1973 David A. Kyle
- 1974 Robert Madle
- 1975 Donald Tuck
- 1976 Ron Graham
- 1977 Elaine Wojciechowski
- 1978 Bill Rotsler
- 1979 Georges Gallet
- 1980 Lou Tabakow
- 1981 Walt Liebscher
- 1982 Darrell Richardson
- 1983 Peggy Rae & Bob Pavlat
- 1984 Terri & Tom Pinckard
- 1985 Bill Crawford
- 1986 Rusty Hevelin, Vern Coriell
- 1987 Wiktor Bukato, Takumi Shibano, Tetsu Yano
- 1988 Andre Norton
- 1989 Art Widner
- 1990 Jay Kay Klein
- 1991 Julius Schwartz
- 1992 Samanda Jeude
- 1993 Marjii Ellers
- 1994 Jack Williamson
- 1995 Ken Slater
- 1996 Dik Daniels
- 1997 John L. Coker III
- 1998 Joanie Knappenberger
- 1999 Chris Collier, Peter Hassall
- 2000 Robert Silverberg
- 2001 Sue & Steve Francis
- 2002 Pat Sims
- 2003 John Hertz
- 2004 Filthy Pierre
- 2005 John-Henri Holmberg, Waldemar Kumming, Ina Shorrock
- 2006 Forrest J Ackerman
- 2007 Robin Johnson, Atsushi Morioka
- 2008 Suford Lewis
- 2009 Andrew I. Porter
- 2010 Merv Binns
- 2011 Gay Haldeman
- 2012 Juanita Coulson
- 2013 Tom Veal
- 2014 Vincent Docherty
- 2015 Ben Yalow
- 2016 Edie Stern and Joe Siclari
- 2017 Carolina Gómez Lagerlöf
- 2018 Mike Glyer
- 2019 Alice Lawson
- 2020 Janice Gelb and Stephen Boucher
- 2021 Linda Deneroff
- 2022 Mark Linneman
- 2023 Bobbi Armbruster
- 2024 Michelle Drayton-Harrold ('Cuddles')
| Big Heart Award | 1959— |
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