SFRA Awards Winners By Year
science fiction awards database
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— 2025 — | |
| Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship | Takayuki Tatsumi |
| Innovative Research Award | “Formal Fictions: ‘Chinese’ ‘Science’ ‘Fiction’ in Translation”, Virginia L. Conn |
| Clareson Award | Keren Omry |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | Mehdi Achouche, for review of The Wandering Earth II (SFRA Review Winter ’24) |
| Student Paper | “Re-Enchanting the Future: Witches in Feminist Science Fiction”, Joanna Kaniewska |
| SFRA Book Award | Africanfuturism: African Imaginings of Other Times, Spaces, and Worlds, Kimberly Cleveland |
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— 2024 — | |
| Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship | Lisa Yaszek |
| Innovative Research Award | Rebekah Sheldon |
| Clareson Award | Jeffrey Weinstock |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | David Welch |
| Student Paper | “Simulated Worlds and Digital Disruptions: Gothic Glitch in The Tenth Girl”, Vicky Brewster |
| SFRA Book Award | Fear of Seeing: A Poetic of Chinese Science Fiction, Mingwei Song |
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— 2023 — | |
| Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship | Steven Shaviro |
| Innovative Research Award | Pawel Frelik |
| Clareson Award | Shelley S. Streeby |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | Dennis Wilson Wise |
| Student Paper | “Constructing Radical Queer Futures and Deconstructing Noir Fiction in The Penumbra Podcast”, Josie Holland |
| SFRA Book Award | Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children, Emily Midkiff |
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— 2022 — | |
| Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship | Roger Luckhurst |
| Innovative Research Award | Amy Butt |
| Clareson Award | Gerry Canavan |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | Nora Castle |
| Student Paper | “Speculative Metabolism: Digesting the Human in Upstream Color”, John Landreville |
| SFRA Book Award | Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood, David M. Higgins |
| Support a New Scholar Award | Dr. Anastasia Klimchynskaya |
| Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science Book Award | Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction, Sherryl Vint |
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— 2021 — | |
| Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship | Veronica Hollinger |
| Innovative Research Award | Jesse Cohn |
| Clareson Award | Grace Dillon |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | (tie) Virginia L. Conn |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | (tie) Andy Duncan |
| SFRA Book Award | Final Frontiers: Science Fiction and Techno-Science in Non-Aligned India, Upamanyu Pablo Mukerjee |
| Support a New Scholar Award | Guangzhao Lyu |
| Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science Book Award | Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater, Melody Jue |
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— 2020 — | |
| Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship | Sherryl Vint |
| Innovative Research Award | “Triangulating the Dyad: Seen (Orciny) Unseen”, Susan Ang |
| Clareson Award | Wu Yan |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | (tie) “Treknomics”, Erin Horáková |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | (tie) “Gene Wolfe”, Rich Horton |
| Student Paper | “‘Changing Landscapes’: Ecocritical Dystopianism in Contemporary Indigenous SF Literature”, Conrad Scott |
| SFRA Book Award | Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China, Xiao Liu |
| Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book Prize | Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction, Natania Meeker & Antónia Szabari |
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— 2019 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “The Weird Economies of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein”, Jed Mayer |
| Clareson Award | Sherryl Vint |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | (tie) “Review of The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin”, Amandine Faucheux |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | (tie) “Review of The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction by Rob Latham, ed.”, T. S. Miller |
| Student Paper | “‘Did they tell you I can Floak?’: Living Between Always and Sometimes, in China Miéville’s Embassytown”, Josh Pearson |
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— 2018 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “The Political Economy of Potato Farming in Andy Weir's The Martian”, Thomas Strychacz |
| Clareson Award | Veronica Hollinger |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | Hugh C. O'Connell, for his review of Jack Fennell’s Irish Science Fiction |
| Student Paper | “New Weird Frankenworlds: Speaking and Laboring Worlds in Cisco's Internet of Everything”, Josh Pearson |
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— 2017 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Forms of Duration: Preparedness, the Mars Trilogy, and the Management of Climate Change”, Lindsay Thomas |
| Clareson Award | Pawel Frelik |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | A. P. Canavan |
| Student Paper | Francis Gene-Rowe |
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— 2016 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “‘Shutter-Stop Flash-Bulb Strange’: GMOs and the Aesthetics of Scale in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl”, Scott Selisker |
| Clareson Award | Farah Mendlesohn |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | Amy Ransom |
| Graduate Student Paper | Dagmar Van Engen |
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— 2015 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Improbability Drives: The Energy of SF”, Graeme MacDonald |
| Clareson Award | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | “A Roundtable: Under the Skin [film]”, Marleen S. Barr, Pawel Frelik & Andy Hageman |
| Graduate Student Paper | “’What is and What Should Never Be’: Paracosmic Utopianism in Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World”, W. Andrew Shepherd |
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— 2014 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “On the Double Vision of Realism and SF Estrangement in Gibson's Bigend Trilogy”, Jaak Tomberg |
| Clareson Award | Lisa Yaszek |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | “Narrative, Archive, Database: The Digital Humanities and Science Fiction Scholarship 101”, Lisa Yaszek |
| Graduate Student Paper | “'Wherever you go, there you are': Postmodern Pastiche and Oppositional Rhetoric in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension”, Michael Jarvis |
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— 2013 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Future Histories and Cyborn Labor: Reading Borderlands Science Fiction after NAFTA”, Lysa Rivera |
| Clareson Award | Rob Latham |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | “Terraforming 101”, Chris Pak |
| Graduate Student Paper | “Beyond the Wide World's End: Themes of Cosmopolitanism in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination”, W. Andrew Shephard |
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— 2012 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Toward a Cosmopolitan Science Fiction”, David M. Higgins |
| Clareson Award | Art Evans |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | “Review of Rise of the Planet of the Apes”, T. S. Miller |
| Graduate Student Paper | “Fantastic Voices: Octavia Butler’s First-Person Narrators and ‘The Evening and the Morning and the Night’”, Florian Bast |
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— 2011 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “On Defining SF, or Not: Genre Theory, SF, and History”, John Reider |
| Clareson Award | The Tiptree Motherboard |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | “Southern Portable Panic: Frederico Álvarez's Ataque de Pánico!”, Alfredo Suppia |
| Graduate Student Paper | “Tales of Archival Crisis: Stephenson's Reimagining of the Post-Apocalyptic Frontier”, Bradley Fest |
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— 2010 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow's Eve”, Allison de Fren |
| Clareson Award | David Mead |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | “Mundane SF 101”, Ritch Calvin |
| Graduate Student Paper | “Such Delight in Bloody Slaughter: R. A. Lafferty and the Dismemberment of the Body Grotesque”, Andrew Ferguson |
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— 2009 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Giving An Account of Oneself: Ethics, Alterity, Air”, Neil Easterbook |
| Clareson Award | Hal Hall |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | Sandor Klapcsik, for his review of Rewired in SFRAR #284 |
| Graduate Student Paper | “The Imperial Unconscious: Samuel R. Delany's The Fall of the Towers”, David M. Higgins |
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— 2008 — | |
| Clareson Award | Andy Sawyer |
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— 2007 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Oppositional Postcolonialism in Quebecois Science Fiction”, Amy J. Ransom |
| Clareson Award | Michael Levy |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | Ed Carmien, for review of The Space Opera Renaissance in SFRAReview |
| Graduate Student Paper | “Magic, Art, Religion, Science: Blurring the Boundaries of Science and Science Fiction in Marge Piercy's Cyborgian Narrative”, Linda Wight |
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— 2006 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Redefining Women's Power Through Science Fiction”, Maria DeRose |
| Clareson Award | Paul Kincaid |
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— 2005 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “The Women History Doesn't See: Recoverying Midcentury Women's SF as a Literature of Social Critique”, Lisa Yaszek |
| Clareson Award | Muriel Becker |
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— 2004 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom”, Andrew M. Butler |
| Clareson Award | Patricia Warrick |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | Bruce A. Beatie, for review of L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz by Katharine M. Rogers |
| Graduate Student Paper | “Single Cyborg Seeking Same: The Post-Human and the Problem of Loneliness”, Melissa Colleen Stevenson |
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— 2003 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Omniphage: Rock 'n'Roll and Avant-Pop Science Fiction”, Lance Olsen |
| Clareson Award | Joe Sanders |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | Farah Mendlesohn, for her review of Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt |
| Graduate Student Paper | “Speculating about Gendered Evolution: Bram Stoker's White Worm and the Horror of Sexual Selection”, Sarah Canfield Fuller |
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— 2002 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Science Fiction Without the Future”, Judith Berman |
| Clareson Award | Joan Gordon |
| Mary Kay Bray Award | “Transforming the Subject: Humanity, The Body, and Posthumanism”, Karen Hellekson |
| Graduate Student Paper | “Homotopia? Or What's Behind a Prefix?”, Wendy Pearson |
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— 2001 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Changing Regimes: Vonda N. McIntyre's Parodic Astrofuturism”, De Witt Douglas Kilgore |
| Clareson Award | Donald "Mack" Hassler |
| Graduate Student Paper Award | “Out of the Western Box: Rethinking Popular Cultural Categories from the Perspective of East German Science Fiction Studies”, Sonja Fritzsche |
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— 2000 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer”, Wendy Pearson |
| Clareson Award | Arthur O. Lewis |
| Graduate Student Paper Award | “'Resistance is Futile,' We Are Already Assimilated: Cyborging, Cyborg Societies, Cyborgs, and The Matrix”, Shelley Rodrigo Blanchard |
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— 1999 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Kubrick's 2001 and the Possibility of a Science-Fiction Cinema”, Carl Freedman |
| Clareson Award | David G. Hartwell |
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— 1998 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Future-War Fiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900”, I. F. Clarke |
| Clareson Award | Elizabeth Anne Hull |
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— 1997 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Shifting Frontiers: Cyberpunk and the American South”, John Moore |
| Clareson Award | James Gunn |
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— 1996 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “How Should a Science Fiction Story End?”, Brian Stableford |
| Clareson Award | Frederik Pohl |
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— 1995 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “The Many Deaths of Science Fiction: A Polemic”, Roger Luckhurst |
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— 1994 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “Toward the Theoretical Frontiers of 'Fiction': From Metafiction and Cyberpunk Through Avant-Pop”, Larry McCaffery & Takayuki Tatsumi |
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— 1993 — | |
| Pioneer Award | no award |
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— 1992 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haroway”, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. |
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— 1991 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “The Vietnam War as American SF and Fantasy”, H. Bruce Franklin |
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— 1990 — | |
| Pioneer Award | “The Vampire and the Alien: Variations on the Outsider”, Veronica Hollinger |
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