The Science Fiction Research Association announced the winners of this year’s SFRA Awards at the organization’s annual meeting, held this year in Riverside, CA, from June 28-July 1.

Student Paper Award

Recognizes the best student paper as presented at the previous year’s conference:

• Francis Gene-Rowe, for “You Are The Hero: Stephen Mooney’s The Cursory Epic.”

Honorary Mention

• Brittany Roberts, for “’The Present Doesn’t Exist’: Music, Animation, and the Rupture of Cultural Memory in Vladimir Tarasov’s The Passage.”

Mary Kay Bray Award

For the best essay, interview, or extended review to appear in the SFRA Review in a given year:

• A.P. Canavan, for his review of Netflix’s Daredevil and Jessica Jones

Pioneer Award

Recognizes the writer or writers of the best critical essay-length work of the year (2016):

• Lindsay Thomas, for “Forms of Duration: Preparedness, the Mars Trilogy, and the Management of Climate Change,” American Literature 88.1 (March 2016)

Thomas D. Clareson Award

Recognizes outstanding service activities-promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations:

• Pawel Frelik

Pilgrim Award

Honoring lifetime contributions to science fiction and fantasy scholarship:

• Tom Moylan

Tom Moylan accepting the Pilgrim Award at #sfra2017. pic.twitter.com/ph4CvAJkAN

— Pawel Frelik (@Nomad93) July 2, 2017

Also at the meeting, the University of California, Riverside presented –

Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Program Book Award

• Steven Shaviro for his Discognition (Repeater Books, 2016).

Honorary mention

• Rebekah Sheldon for The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (University of Minnesota Press, 2016)
• Scott Selisker for Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).