2023 SFRA Awards

The SFRA Award for Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship

• Steven Shaviro

The SFRA Innovative Research Award

• WINNER: Paweł Frelik for “Power Games: Towards the Rhetoric of Energy in Speculative Video Games” (Er(r)go. Teoria – Literatura – Kultura 44)
• Honorable Mention: Nora Castle for “In Vitro Meat: Contemporary Narratives of Cultured Flesh” (Extrapolation 63.2)

Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service

• Shelley S. Streeby

Mary Kay Bray Award

• WINNER: Dennis Wilson Wise for review of Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters (SFRA Review 52.1)
• Honorable Mention: Jeremy Brett for review of WandaVision (SFRA Review 52.1).

SFRA Book Award

• WINNER: Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children, Emily Midkiff (University Press of Mississippi)
• Honorable Mention: Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World, Anne Stewart (University of Minnesota Press)

Student Paper Award

• “Constructing Radical Queer Futures and Deconstructing Noir Fiction in The Penumbra Podcast”, Josie Holland

The awards, selected by a committee of SFRA members, are given in recognition of “members of the SF community who exhibit outstanding scholarship, pioneering viewpoints in the science fiction discourse, and lifetime contributions to SF research.” Winners were announced at the SFRA conference banquet in Dresden, Germany.

For more information, see the SFRA website.

While you are here, please take a moment to support Locus with a one-time or recurring donation. We rely on reader donations to keep the magazine and site going, and would like to keep the site paywall free, but WE NEED YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT to continue quality coverage of the science fiction and fantasy field.

©Locus Magazine. Copyrighted material may not be republished without permission of LSFF.