Awards & Winners

SFRA Pioneer Award

SFRA Pioneer Award

The Pioneer Award is given by the 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 McCaffery 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.

Check all the winners of SFRA Pioneer Award presented under SFRA Pioneer Award since 1990 .


Neil Easterbrook

Honored for : Giving an Account of Oneself: Ethics, Alterity, Air

Sherryl Vint

Honored for : Speciesism and Species Being in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Amy J. Ransom

Honored for : Oppositional Postcolonialism in Québécois Science Fiction

Maria DeRose

Honored for : Redefining Women's Power Through Science Fiction

Lisa Yaszek

Honored for : The Women History Doesn't See: Recovering Midcentury Women's SF as a Literature of Social Critique

Andrew M. Butler

Honored for : Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom

Lance Olsen

Honored for : Omniphage

Judith Berman

Honored for : Science Fiction Without the Future

De Witt Douglas Kilgore

Honored for : Changing Regimes: Vonda N. McIntyre's Parodic Astrofuturism

Wendy Pearson

Honored for : Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer

Carl Freedman

Honored for : Kubrick's 2001 and the Possibility of a Science-Fiction Cinema

I. F. Clarke

Honored for : Future\u2014War Fiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900

John Moore

Honored for : Shifting Frontiers: Cyberpunk and the American South

Brian Stableford

Honored for : How Should a Science Fiction Story End?

Roger Luckhurst

Honored for : The Many Deaths of Science Fiction: A Polemic

Larry McCaffery

Honored for : Towards the Theoretical Frontiers of Fiction: From Metafiction and Cyberpunk through Avant-Pop

Istvan Csiscery-Ronay Jr.

Honored for : The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haraway

H. Bruce Franklin

Honored for : The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy

Veronica Hollinger

Honored for : The Vampire and the Alien: Variations on the Outsider