2019 SFRA Awards

Locus Magazine, Science Fiction FantasyThe Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) has announced the winners of several of its awards.

Mary Kay Bray award for best essay, interview, or extended review to appear in the SFRA Review (tie)

  • Amandine Faucheux for a review of The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
  • T.S. Miller for a review of The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction by Rob Latham, ed.

Thomas D. Clareson award for distinguished service

  • Sherryl Vint

Pilgrim Award for lifetime contribution to SF and Fantasy scholarship

  • John Rieder

Pioneer Award for best critical essay-length work of the year

  • “The Weird Economies of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein“, Jed Mayer (Science Fiction Studies 7/18)

Student Paper Award for outstanding scholarly essay

  • “‘Did they tell you I can Floak?’: Living Between Always and Sometimes, in China Miéville’s Embassytown“, Josh Pearson

Winners were honored during the SFRA Annual Conference 2019, held June 21-24, 2019 at Chaminade University in Honolulu HI. For more information, see the SFRA website.


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