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