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Engineering the Future and Southern-Fried Science Fiction and Fantasy
40th Annual Conference
Atlanta, GA
June 11-14, 2009
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Awards
The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) distributes the following awards at its annual general meeting in June:
Pilgrims and Pioneers: The History and Speeches of the Science Fiction Research Association Award Winners Edited by Hal W. Hall & Daryl F. Mallett is still available for purchase.
Pilgrim Award
The Pilgrim Award was created in 1970 by the SFRA to honor lifetime contributions to SF and fantasy scholarship. The award was named for J. O. Bailey's pioneering book, Pilgrims through Space and Time.
Previous winners
| 1970 | J. O. Bailey (USA) | |
| 1971 | Marjorie Hope Nicholson (USA) | |
| 1972 | Julius Kagarlitski (USSR) | |
| 1973 | Jack Williamson (USA) | |
| 1974 | I. F. Clarke (UK) | |
| 1975 | Damon Knight (USA) | |
| 1976 | James Gunn (USA) | |
| 1977 | Thomas D. Clareson (USA) | |
| 1978 | Brian W. Aldiss (UK) | |
| 1979 | Darko Suvin (Canada) | |
| 1980 | Peter Nichols (UK) | |
| 1981 | Sam Moskowitz (USA) | |
| 1982 | Neil Barron (USA) | |
| 1983 | H. Bruce Franklin (USA) | |
| 1984 | Everett F. Bleiler (USA) | |
| 1985 | Samuel R. Delany (USA) | |
| 1986 | George E. Slusser (USA) | |
| 1987 | Gary K. Wolfe (USA) | |
| 1988 | Joanna Russ (USA) | |
| 1989 | Ursula K. Le Guin (USA) | |
| 1990 | Marshall B. Tymn (USA) | |
| 1991 | Pierre Versins (France) | |
| 1992 | Mark Hillegas (USA) | |
| 1993 | Robert Reginald (USA) | |
| 1994 | John Clute (UK) | |
| 1995 | Vivian Sobchack (USA) | |
| 1996 | David Ketterer (Canada) | |
| 1997 | Marleen Barr (USA) | |
| 1998 | L. Sprague de Camp (USA) | |
| 1999 | Brian Stableford (UK) | |
| 2000 | Hal Hall (USA) | |
| 2001 | Dave Samuelson (USA) | |
| 2002 | Mike Ashley (UK) | |
| 2003 | Gary Westfahl (USA) | |
| 2004 | Edward James (UK) | |
| 2005 | Gérard Klein (France) | |
| 2006 | Fredric Jameson (USA) | |
| 2007 | Algis Budrys (USA) |
Pioneer Award
The Pioneer Award is given to the writer or writers of the best critical essay-length work of the year.
Previous winners
| 1990 | Veronica Hollinger, "The Vampire and the Alien: Variations on the Outsider" | |
| 1991 | H. Bruce Franklin, "The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy" | |
| 1992 | Istvan Csiscery-Ronay Jr., "The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haraway" | |
| 1993 | No Award | |
| 1994 | Larry McCaffrey and Takayuki Tatsumi, "Towards the Theoretical Frontiers of Fiction: From Metafiction and Cyberpunk through Avant-Pop" | |
| 1995 | Roger Luckhurst, "The Many Deaths of Science Fiction: A Polemic" | |
| 1996 | Brian Stableford, "How Should a Science Fiction Story End?" | |
| 1997 | John Moore, "Shifting Frontiers: Cyberpunk and the American South" | |
| 1998 | I. F. Clarke, "Future—War Fiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900" | |
| 1999 | Carl Freedman, "Kubrick's 2001 and the Possibility of a Science-Fiction Cinema" | |
| 2000 | Wendy Pearson, "Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer," published in the March 1999 issue of Science Fiction Studies. | |
| 2001 | De Witt Douglas Kilgore, "Changing Regimes: Vonda N. McIntyre's Parodic Astrofuturism," published in the July 2000 issue of Science Fiction Studies. | |
| 2002 | Judith Berman, "Science Fiction Without the Future," published in the May 2001 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction | |
| 2003 | Lance Olsen, "Omniphage," from the Edging into the Future collection | |
| 2004 | Andrew M. Butler "Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom," published in the November 2003 issue of Science Fiction Studies. | |
| 2005 | Lisa Yaszek "The Women History Doesn't See: Recoverying Midcentury Women's SF as a Literature of Social Critique," published in Extrapolation 45(1): 34-51. | |
| 2006 | Maria DeRose "Redefining Women's Power Through Science Fiction," Extrapolation 46(1): 66-89 | |
| 2007 | Amy J. Ransom, "Oppositional Postcolonialism in Québécois Science Fiction" Published in the July 2006 issue of Science Fiction Studies, pp. 291-312. |
Clareson Award
The Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service is presented for outstanding service activities-promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations.
Previous winners
| 1996 | Frederik Pohl | |
| 1997 | James Gunn | |
| 1998 | Elizabeth Anne Hull | |
| 1999 | David G. Hartwell | |
| 2000 | Arthur O. Lewis | |
| 2001 | Donald "Mack" Hassler | |
| 2002 | Joan Gordon | |
| 2003 | Joe Sanders | |
| 2004 | Patricia Warrick | |
| 2005 | Muriel Becker | |
| 2006 | Paul Kincaid | |
| 2007 | Michael Levy |
Graduate Student Paper Award
The Graduate Student Paper Award is presented to the outstanding scholarly essay read at the annual conference of the SFRA by a graduate student. [See Guidelines for Graduate Student Paper Awards.]
Previous winners
| 1999 | Shelley Rodrigo Blanchard, " 'Resistance is Futile,' We Are Already Assimilated: Cyborging, Cyborg Societies, Cyborgs, and The Matrix." | |
| 2000 | Sonja Fritzsche, "Out of the Western Box: Rethinking Popular Cultural Categories from the Perspective of East German Science Fiction." | |
| 2001 | Eric Drown and Sha LaBare (tie). Drown for "Riding the Cosmic Express in the Age of Mass Production: Independent Inventors as Pulp Heroes in American SF 1926-1939" and LaBare for "Outline for a Mode Manifesto: Science Fiction, Transhumanism, and Technoscience." | |
| 2002 | Wendy Pearson, "Homotopia? Or What's Behind a Prefix?" | |
| 2003 | Sarah Canfield Fuller, "Speculating about Gendered Evolution: Bram Stoker's White Worm and the Horror of Sexual Selection." | |
| 2004 | Melissa Colleen Stevenson, "Single Cyborg Seeking Same: The Post-Human and the Problem of Loneliness." | |
| 2005 | Rebecca Janicker, "New England Narratives: Space and Place in the Narratives of H.P. Lovecraft." | |
| 2006 | Linda Wight, "Magic, Art, Religion, Science: Blurring the Boundaries of Science and Science Fiction in Marge Piercy's Cyborgian Narrative" |
Mary Kay Bray Award Winners
The Mary Kay Bray Award is given for the best essay, interview, or extended review to appear in the SFRA Review in a given year.
Previous winners
| 2002 | Karen Hellekson, "Transforming the Subject: Humanity, The Body, and Posthumanism" (March/April 2003) | |
| 2003 | Farah Mendlesohn, Review of Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt | |
| 2004 | Bruce A. Beatie, Review of L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz by Katharine M. Rogers (Ap/May/June 2004). | |
| 2005 | Thomas J. Morrissey, Review of The Shores of Women by Pamela Sargent (Jan./Feb./March 2005). | |
| 2006 | Ed Carmien, Review of The Space Opera Renaissance by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (July/August/September 2006). |