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 McCaffrey 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".
*2002 - Judith Berman, "Science Fiction Without the Future," published in the May 2001 issue of "The New York Review of Science Fiction"
*2003 - Lance Olsen, "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.

References

Science Fiction Research Association [http://www.sfra.org website]