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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