SFRA Pioneer Award
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The Pioneer Award is given by the Science Fiction Research Association
Science Fiction Research Association
The Science Fiction Research Association , 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
    H. Bruce Franklin
    Howard Bruce Franklin is an American cultural historian who has authored or edited nineteen books on a range of subjects. As of 2011, he is the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. He first attained prominence as a Melville scholar...

    , "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
    Larry McCaffery
    Lawrence F. "Larry" McCaffery Jr. is a literary critic, editor, and retired professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University...

     and Takayuki Tatsumi
    Takayuki Tatsumi
    Takayuki Tatsumi is a Japanese scholar. He is a Professor at Keio University, where he has taught literary theory and American literature since 1989.- External links :* at Keio University* at Flickr...

    , "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 Stableford
    Brian Michael Stableford is a British science fiction writer who has published more than 70 novels. His earlier books were published as by Brian M. Stableford, but more recent ones have dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name 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
    Judith Berman
    Judith Berman is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She is a linguistic anthropologist by training and has published articles on Native American myth and translations. In particular those of the Pacific Northwest. She also has a form of synesthesia.Her science fiction and fantasy has...

    , "Science Fiction Without the Future," published in the May 2001 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction
  • 2003 - Lance Olsen
    Lance Olsen
    - Biography :Lance Olsen received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison , an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop , and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia...

    , "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)
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