The Science Fiction Research Association announced the 2024 award winners at their annual conference in Tartu, Estonia.

Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service

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

• Jeffrey Weinstock

Innovative Research Award

Given to the writer or writers of the best critical essay-length work of the year.

• Rebekah Sheldon for “Generativity without Reserve: Sterility Apocalypses and the Enclosure of Life-Itself” (Science Fiction Film and Television)

SFRA Award for Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship

• Lisa Yaszek

SFRA Book Award

Given to the author of the best first scholarly monograph in SF, in each calendar year.

• Mingwei Song, for Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction (Columbia University Press)

Mary Kay Bray Award

Given for the best review to appear in the SFRA Review in a given year.

• David Welch, for “Hades” (SFRA Review 53.1)

Student Paper Award

Presented to the outstanding scholarly essay read at the annual conference of the SFRA by a student.

• Vicky Brewster (Swansea University), for “Simulated Worlds and Digital Disruptions: Gothic Glitch in The Tenth Girl”