Locus is announcing the winners of this year’s Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) awards. The presentation of the awards will be at this year’s SFRA conference, 28 June-1 July, in Detroit, Michigan. The award winners are:
Pilgrim Award (for life time contributions to SF/F studies): Pamela Sargent
Pioneer Award (for outstanding essay-length work of the year):
     Winner: “Toward a Cosmopolitan Science Fiction” by David M. Higgins (published in American Literature, 6/11)
     Honorable Mention: “The Predisposed Agency of Genomic Fiction” by Everett Hamner (American Literature, 6/11)
     Honorable Mention: “Reproductive Technologies, Fetal Icons, and Genetic Freaks: Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl and the Limits of Possibilities of Donna Haraway’s Cyborg” by Heather Latimer (Modern Fiction Studies, Summer 2011)
Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service: Art Evans
Mary Kay Bray Award (for the best essay, interview, or extended review in the past year’s SFRA Review):
     Winner: Review of Rise of the Planet of the Apes by T.S. Miller
     Honorable Mention: “Video Games Studies 101” by Lars Schmeink
Student Essay Award (for best student paper presented at the previous year’s SFRA conference): “Fantastic Voices: Octavia Butler’s First-Person Narrators and ‘The Evening and the Morning and the Night'” by Florian Bast