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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 Cryptograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction Research Association
The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), founded in 1970, is the oldest, non-profit professional organization committed to encouraging, facilitating, and rewarding the study of science fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media. The organization’s international membership includes academically affiliated scholars, librarians, and archivists, as well as authors, editors, publishers, and readers. In addition to its facilitating the exchange of ideas within a network of science fiction and fantasy experts, SFRA holds an annual conference for the critical discussion of science fiction and fantasy where it confers a number of awards, and it produces the quarterly publication, ''SFRA Review'', which features reviews, review essays, articles, interviews, and professional announcements. Conferences The SFRA hosts an annual scholarly conference, which meets in a different location each year. Meetings have been held predominantly in the United States in such places as N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry McCaffery
Lawrence F. McCaffery Jr. (born May 13, 1946) is an American literary critic, editor, and retired professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University. His work and teaching focuses on postmodern literature, contemporary fiction, and Bruce Springsteen. He also played a role in helping to establish science fiction as a major literary genre. Early life and education McCaffery was born in 1946 in Dallas, Texas. He received his PhD in 1975, with a dissertation on the works of Robert Coover. Career Academic career He joined the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University in 1976. He taught in SDSU's English Department until retiring in 2010. During his career as a professor, McCaffery took up visiting professorships at University of Nice, University of California, San Diego, Deep Springs College (where William T. Vollmann attended), Seikei University in Tokyo, Japan and was a Fulbright Lecturer at Beijing Foreign St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takayuki Tatsumi
is a Japanese scholar. He is a professor at Keio University, where he has taught literary theory and American literature since 1989. As an avid science fiction fan, he authored many books and essays on science fiction. He received Nihon SF Taisho prize in 2000 for ''Nihon SF ronsōshi''. Works Single authorship * (1988) ''Saibāpanku amerika'' (サイバーパンク・アメリカ ''Cyberpunk America'') * (1992) ''Gendai SF no retorikku'' (現代SFのレトリック ''Rhetoric of Contemporary Science Fiction'') * (1993) ''Metafikushon no bōryaku'' (メタフィクションの謀略 / ''Metafiction as Ideology'') * (1993) ''Japanoido sengen—gendai nihon SF o yomu tameni'' (ジャパノイド宣言 / ''A Manifesto for Japanoids'') * (1995) ''E. A. Pou o yomu'' (Ｅ・Ａ・ポウを読む ''Disfiguration of Genres: A Reading in the Rhetorics of Edgar Allan Poe'') * (1995) ''Nyū amerikanizumu--beibungaku shisōshi no monogatarigaku'' (ニュー・アメリカニズム— ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Stableford
Brian Michael Stableford (born 25 July 1948) is a British academic, critic and science fiction writer who has published more than 70 novels. His earlier books were published under the name Brian M. Stableford, but more recent ones have dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name Brian Stableford. He has also used the pseudonym Brian Craig for a couple of very early works, and again for a few more recent works. The pseudonym derives from the first names of himself and of a school friend from the 1960s, Craig A. Mackintosh, with whom he jointly published some very early work. Biography Born in Shipley, Yorkshire, Stableford graduated with a degree in biology from the University of York in 1969 before going on to do postgraduate research in biology and later in sociology. In 1979 he received a PhD with a doctoral thesis on ''The Sociology of Science Fiction''. Until 1988, he worked as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Reading. Since then he has been a ful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Freedman (writer)
Carl Howard Freedman (born 1951) is an American writer, literary theorist and professor of English literature at Louisiana State University. He is best known for the non-fiction book ''Critical Theory and Science Fiction'', and his scholarly work on the writer Philip K. Dick. Freedman's other works include a series of books on Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin and Samuel R. Delany, and several essays and a book on China Miéville. In 2018, he won the Pilgrim Award for lifetime contribution to science fiction and fantasy scholarship. Life and career Carl Freedman was born in North Carolina in 1951. He received his BA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Oxford University, and his PhD from Yale University. He is currently the William A. Read Professor of English literature at Louisiana State University, where he was named a distinguished research master in 2013. Freedman's most highly cited work is his 2000 book, ''Critical Theory and Science Fiction' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Berman
Judith Berman (born 1958) is an American anthropologist and science fiction and fantasy writer. Biography Berman grew up in Moscow, Idaho, and read works from Golden Age science fiction during her childhood. She began writing and making up her own stories around the age of five or six. She graduated from Bennington College in 1979, where she majored in Anthropology, Russian, and comparative literature. After working as an editorial assistant at W.W. Norton, she received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. As of 2013 she lives in Victoria, British Columbia with her husband John Holland and their son Sam, born 1999. Berman has a form of synesthesia. Fiction Berman's fiction was short listed for the Nebula, the Sturgeon, and Crawford awards. She won a best critical length essay of its year SFRA Pioneer Award from the Science and Fiction Research Association for her 2001 essay, “Science Fiction Without the Future” Her short fiction app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lance Olsen
Lance Olsen (born October 14, 1956) is an American writer known for his experimental, lyrical, fragmentary, cross-genre narratives that question the limits of historical knowledge. Biography Lance Olsen was born in New Jersey. He received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1978, honors, Phi Beta Kappa), an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop (1980), and an M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1985) from the University of Virginia. For ten years he taught as associate and then full professor at the University of Idaho; for two he directed the University of Idaho's M.F.A. program. He has also taught at the University of Iowa, the University of Virginia, the University of Kentucky, on summer and semester-abroad programs in Oxford and London, on a Fulbright in Turku, Finland, and at various writing conferences. Since 2007 he has taught experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah. From 2002 to 2018, he served as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allison De Fren
Allison de Fren is a writer, professor and media scholar based in Los Angeles, California. Appointed in 2010, de Fren teaches new media theory and practice at Occidental College. Her documentary film ''The Mechanical Bride'' examines the modern-day impulse of creating artificial humanistic dolls for sex and companionship. It is narrated by Julie Newmar with music composed by Rich Ragsdale and features interviews with people who own sex-dolls, engineers who create them, artists who depict them as well as information on historical automatons and female robots portrayed in cinema. The film takes its title from the book of the same name by Marshall McLuhan. In 2010, the Science Fiction Research Association gave her the Pioneer Award for her essay “The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow’s Eve.” She regularly publishes video essays on subjects related to technology, media representation and gender. She received her doctorate from the University of Southern California School of Cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academic Science Fiction Awards
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece. Etymology The word comes from the ''Academy'' in ancient Greece, which derives from the Athenian hero, ''Akademos''. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning. The sacred space, dedicated to the goddess of wisdom, Athena, had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe". In these gardens, the philosopher Plato conversed with followers. Plato developed his sessions into a method of teaching philosophy and in 387 BC, established what is known today as the Old Academy. By extension, ''academia'' has come to mean the accumulation, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
