SFRA Award
The SFRA Awards are a group of American literary-academic science fiction and fantasy awards that have been presented by the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) at its annual conference since 1990 . These include:
- Pioneer Award since 1990 for the best literary critical essay of the previous year
- Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service since 1996 for services to science fiction research and study, editing, criticism, publication and public perception of science fiction and fantasy. It honors the memory of SF editor and critic Thomas D. Clareson, who died in 1993
- Graduate Student Paper Award since 2000 for the best paper presented at the conference by a young scientist
- Mary Kay Bray Award since 2002 for the best essay, interview, or best review published in the SFRA Review in the previous year . The award honors the memory of the essayist and literary scholar Mary Kay Bray, who died in 1999 as a result of multiple sclerosis .
In addition, the Pilgrim Award for Lifetime Achievement will be presented at the conference for achievements in the field of science fiction and fantasy research.
Award winners
Pioneer Award
- 2018: Thomas Strychacz: The Political Economy of Potato Farming in Andy Weir's The Martian
- 2017: Lindsay Thomas: Forms of Duration: Preparedness, the Mars Trilogy, and the Management of Climate Change
- 2016: Scott Selisker: 'Shutter-Stop Flash-Bulb Strange': GMOs and the Aesthetics of Scale in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl
- 2015: Graeme MacDonald: Improbability Drives: The Energy of SF
- 2014: Jaak Tomberg: On the Double Vision of Realism and SF Estrangement in Gibson's Bigend Trilogy
- 2013: Lysa Rivera: Future Histories and Cyborn Labor: Reading Borderlands Science Fiction after NAFTA
- 2012: David M. Higgins: Toward a Cosmopolitan Science Fiction
- 2011: John Reider: On Defining SF, or Not: Genre Theory, SF, and History
- 2010: Allison de Fren: The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow's Eve
- 2009: Neil Easterbook: Giving An Account of Oneself: Ethics, Alterity, Air
- 2007: Amy J. Ransom: Oppositional Postcolonialism in Quebecois Science Fiction
- 2006: Maria DeRose: Redefining Women's Power Through Science Fiction
- 2005: Lisa Yaszek: The Women History Doesn't See: Recoverying Midcentury Women's SF as a Literature of Social Critique
- 2004: Andrew M. Butler: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom
- 2003: Lance Olsen: Omniphage: Rock 'n'Roll and Avant-Pop Science Fiction
- 2002: Judith Berman: Science Fiction Without the Future
- 2001: De Witt Douglas Kilgore: Changing Regimes: Vonda N. McIntyre's Parodic Astrofuturism
- 2000: Wendy Pearson: Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer
- 1999: Carl Freedman: Kubrick's 2001 and the Possibility of a Science-Fiction Cinema
- 1998: IF Clarke: Future-War Fiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900
- 1997: John Moore : Shifting Frontiers: Cyberpunk and the American South
- 1996: Brian Stableford : How Should a Science Fiction Story End?
- 1995: Roger Luckhurst: The Many Deaths of Science Fiction: A Polemic
- 1994: Larry McCaffery & Takayuki Tatsumi: Toward the Theoretical Frontiers of 'Fiction': From Metafiction and Cyberpunk Through Avant-Pop
- 1993: not awarded
- 1992: Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr .: The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haroway
- 1991: H. Bruce Franklin: The Vietnam War as American SF and Fantasy
- 1990: Veronica Hollinger: The Vampire and the Alien: Variations on the Outsider
Thomas D. Clareson Award
- 2018: Veronica Hollinger
- 2017: Pawel Frelik
- 2016: Farah Mendlesohn
- 2015: Vonda N. McIntyre
- 2014: Lisa Yaszek
- 2013: Rob Latham
- 2012: Art Evans
- 2011: The Tiptree Motherboard
- 2010: David Mead
- 2009: Hal Hall
- 2008: Andy Sawyer
- 2007: Michael Levy
- 2006: Paul Kincaid
- 2005: Muriel Becker
- 2004: Patricia Warrick
- 2003: Joe Sanders
- 2002: Joan Gordon
- 2001: Donald M. Hassler
- 2000: Arthur O. Lewis
- 1999: David G. Hartwell
- 1998: Elizabeth Anne Hull
- 1997: James Gunn
- 1996: Frederik Pohl
Graduate Student Paper Award
- 2018: Josh Pearson: New Weird Frankenworlds: Speaking and Laboring Worlds in Cisco's Internet of Everything
- 2017: Francis Gene-Rowe
- 2016: Dagmar Van Engen
- 2015: W. Andrew Shepherd: 'What is and What Should Never Be': Paracosmic Utopianism in Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World
- 2014: Michael Jarvis: 'Wherever you go, there you are': Postmodern Pastiche and Oppositional Rhetoric in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
- 2013: W. Andrew Shephard: Beyond the Wide World's End: Themes of Cosmopolitanism in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination
- 2012: Florian Bast: Fantastic Voices: Octavia Butler's First-Person Narrators and 'The Evening and the Morning and the Night'
- 2011: Bradley Fest: Tales of Archival Crisis: Stephenson's Reimagining of the Post-Apocalyptic Frontier
- 2010: Andrew Ferguson: Such Delight in Bloody Slaughter: RA Lafferty and the Dismemberment of the Body Grotesque
- 2009: David M. Higgins: The Imperial Unconscious: Samuel R. Delany's The Fall of the Towers
- 2007: Linda Wight: Magic, Art, Religion, Science: Blurring the Boundaries of Science and Science Fiction in Marge Piercy's Cyborgian Narrative
- 2004: Melissa Colleen Stevenson: Single Cyborg Seeking Same: The Post-Human and the Problem of Loneliness
- 2003: Sarah Canfield Fuller: Speculating about Gendered Evolution: Bram Stoker's White Worm and the Horror of Sexual Selection
- 2002: Wendy Pearson: Homotopia? Or What's Behind a Prefix?
- 2001: Sonja Fritzsche: Out of the Western Box: Rethinking Popular Cultural Categories from the Perspective of East German Science Fiction Studies
- 2000: Shelley Rodrigo Blanchard: '' Resistance is Futile, 'We Are Already Assimilated: Cyborging, Cyborg Societies, Cyborgs, and The Matrix
Mary Kay Bray Award
- 2018: Hugh C. O'Connell, for his work on Jack Fennell
- 2017: AP Canavan
- 2016: Amy Ransomware
- 2015: Marleen S. Barr, Pawel Frelik & Andy Hageman: A Roundtable: Under the Skin film
- 2014: Lisa Yaszek: Narrative, Archive, Database: The Digital Humanities and Science Fiction Scholarship 101
- 2013: Chris Pak: Terraforming 101
- 2012: TS Miller: Review of Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- 2011: Alfredo Suppia: Southern Portable Panic: Frederico Álvarez's Ataque de Pánico!
- 2010: Ritch Calvin: Mundane SF 101
- 2009: Sandor Klapcsik, for his review of Rewired
- 2007: Ed Carmien, for his review of The Space Opera Renaissance
- 2004: Bruce A. Beatie, for his review of L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz by Katharine M. Rogers
- 2003: Farah Mendlesohn, for her review of The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
- 2002: Karen Hellekson: Transforming the Subject: Humanity, The Body, and Posthumanism
Web links
- Page of the SFRA
- SFRA Awards , entry in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
- Pioneer Award , entry in Fancyclopedia 3 (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Mary Kay Bray on findagrave.com, accessed September 11, 2018.