SFF: Events and Awards: Essay Prize
Essay Prize
| Winners | |
|---|---|
| 2001: | Wendy Pearson, 'Science Fiction as Pharmacy: Plato, Derrida, Ryman' |
| 2002: | Matthew Wolf-Meyer, 'Technics, Memes, Ideology: The Affirmation of Lies and the Pursuit of the Future' |
| 2003: | No Award |
| 2004: | Elizabeth Throesch, 'Engendering New Perspectives and Envisaging New Spaces: the early work of 'scientific romancer' Charles Howard Hintion' |
| 2005: | Michael LeBlanc, 'Beyond Science Fiction: Judith Merril and Isaac Asimov's Quest to Save the Future' |
| 2006: | Jolene McCann, 'Establishing "the library of a lift up literature"': Judith Merril's Spaced Out Library' |
| 2007: | No competition |
| 2008: | Jason Bourget, 'Biological Determinism, Masculine Politics and the Failure of Libertarianism in Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' |
| 2009: | No competition |
| 2010: | No competition |
| 2011: | Winner: Chris Pak, ' "A Fantastic Reflex of Itself, An Echo, A Symbol, A Myth, A Crazy Dream”: Terraforming as Landscaping Nature’s Otherness in H.G. Wells’s The Shape of Things to Come and Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men and Star Maker’ Special citation: ‘Cannibalizing “Ancient” Technologies and Art Forms: William Gibson’s Utilization of Avant-Garde and Art Deco’, by Sander Klapcsik |