SFRA Pioneer Award

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The Pioneer Award is given Science Fiction Research Association 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: Recovering Midcentury Women's SF as a Literature of Social Critique," published in Extrapolation 45(1): 34-51.

[edit] Reference

Science Fiction Research Association website