SFRA Awards
This year’s Science Fiction Research Association award winners were announced by SFRA president Ritch Calvin:
Pilgrim Award (for life time contributions to SF/F studies):
- Pamela Sargent
Pioneer Award (for outstanding essay-length work of the year):
- Winner: “Toward a Cosmopolitan Science Fiction”, David M. Higgins (American Literature 6/11)
- Honorable Mention: “The Predisposed Agency of Genomic Fiction”, Everett Hamner (American Literature 6/11)
- Honorable Mention: “Reproductive Technologies, Fetal Icons, and Genetic Freaks: Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl and the Limits of Possibilities of Donna Haraway’s Cyborg“, Heather Latimer (Modern Fiction Studies Summer 2011)
Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service:
- Art Evans
Mary Kay Bray Award (for the best essay, interview, or extended review in the past year’s SFRA Review):
- Winner: Review of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, T. S. Miller
- Honorable Mention: “Video Games Studies 101”, Lars Schmeink
Student Essay Award (for best student paper presented at the previous year’s SFRA conference):
- “Fantastic Voices: Octavia Butler’s First-Person Narrators and ‘The Evening and the Morning and the Night'”, Florian Bast
The SFRA awards will be handed out at the annual SFRA conference in Detroit, June 28-July1, 2012. For more information, see the SFRA website.
