Awards

Pilgrim Award

The Pilgrim Award was created in 1970 by the SFRA to honor lifetime contributions to SF and fantasy scholarship. The award was named for J. O. Bailey's pioneering book, Pilgrims through Space and Time.

Pioneer Award

The Pioneer Award is given to the writer or writers of the best critical essay-length work of the year.

1990  Veronica Hollinger, "The Vampire and the Alien: Variations on the Outsider," Science Fiction Studies (July 1989)

1991  H. Bruce Franklin, "The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy," Science Fiction Studies (November 1990)

Clareson Award

The Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service is presented for outstanding service activities-promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations.

Student Paper Award

The Student Paper Award is presented to the outstanding scholarly essay read at the annual conference of the SFRA by a student.

1999  Shelley Rodrigo Blanchard, " 'Resistance is Futile,' We Are Already Assimilated: Cyborging, Cyborg Societies, Cyborgs, and The Matrix"

2000  Sonja Fritzsche, "Out of the Western Box: Rethinking Popular Cultural Categories from the Perspective of East German Science Fiction"

Mary Kay Bray Award

The Mary Kay Bray Award is given for the best essay, interview, or extended review to appear in the SFRA Review in a given year.

2002  Karen Hellekson, "Transforming the Subject: Humanity, The Body, and Posthumanism" (#251, March/April 2001)

2003  Farah Mendlesohn, review of Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt (#257, March/April 2002)

Award Committees

2011 Awards Committee
Pilgrim Jury (Gary Wolfe (ch), Marleen Barr, Brian Attebery)

Pioneer Jury (Sherryl Vint (ch), De Witt Kilgore, Neil Easterbrook)

Clareson Jury (Paul Kincaid (ch), Andy Sawyer, Joan Gordon)

Mary Kay Bray Jury (Jason Ellis (ch), Susan George, Sharon Sharp)

Student Paper Jury (David Mead (ch), Alfredo Suppia, James Thrall)