The SFRA Award for Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship

• Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.

The SFRA Innovative Research Award

• “Growth, Resource, Population: The GRP Triangle in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction by Female Writers.” , Regina Kanyu Wang (SFRA Review Summer ’25)

Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service

• Patrick Sharp

Mary Kay Bray Award

• Paromita Sarkar for the review of The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF (SFRA Review Summer ’25)

SFRA Book Award

• Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World, Tavia Nyong’o (University of California Press)

Student Paper Award

•  “‘I Must Put Things in My Mouth:’ Loving Trans Children in Octavia Butler’s Adulthood Rites”, Franklin Mitchell (University of Colorado Boulder)

The awards, selected by a committee of SFRA members, are given in recognition of “members of the SF community who exhibit outstanding scholarship, pioneering viewpoints in the science fiction discourse, and lifetime contributions to SF research.” Winners were announced at the SFRA conference banquet in East Lansing, Michigan.

For more information, see the SFRA website.