The Pioneer Award is given by the
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. ...
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
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 ...
and
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 Tais ...
, "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
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 ...
, "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
Carl Freedman (born 1965) is the founder of Carl Freedman Gallery (formerly Counter Gallery). He previously worked as a writer and a curator.
Life and career
The 1990s and the Young British Artists
Saatchi arrived at ''Gambler'' in a green B ...
, "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''.
*2002 -
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 h ...
, "Science Fiction Without the Future," published in the May 2001 issue of ''The New York Review of Science Fiction''
*2003 -
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 ...
, "Omniphage," from the Edging into the Future collection
*2004 - Andrew M. Butler, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom," published in the November 2003 issue of ''Science Fiction Studies''.
*2005 - Lisa Yaszek, "The Women History Doesn't See: Recovering Midcentury Women's SF as a Literature of Social Critique," published in ''Extrapolation'' 45(1): 34-51.
*2006 - Maria DeRose, "Redefining Women's Power Through Science Fiction," published in ''Extrapolation'' 46(1): 66-89.
*2007 - Amy J. Ransom, "Oppositional Postcolonialism in Québécois Science Fiction," published in ''Science-Fiction Studies'' 33(2): 291-312.
*2008 - Sherryl Vint, "Speciesism and Species Being in ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?''," published in ''Mosaic: a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature'' 40(1): 111-126.
*2009 - Neil Easterbrook for "Giving an Account of Oneself: Ethics, Alterity, ''Ai,r''"
*2010 -
Allison de Fren, “The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow’s Eve,” published in "Science Fiction Studies" No. 108, Vol. 36 (2), July 2009: 235-265).
*2011 - John Rieder, "On Defining SF, or Not," published in Science Fiction Studies 37.2 (July 2010)
References
Science Fiction Research Associatio
website
Academic science fiction awards
Awards established in 1990