Winning articles published in Science Fiction Studies of the Pioneer Award, given by the Science Fiction Research Association to the writer or writers of the best critical essay-length work of the year. 1990 - Veronica Hollinger, "The Vampire and the Alien: Variations on the Outsider" #48, 16. 2 (July 1989) 1991 - H. Bruce Franklin, "The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy" #52, 17.3 (November 1990) 1992 - Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., "The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haraway" #55, 18.3 (November 1991) 1995 - Roger Luckhurst, "The Many Deaths of Science Fiction: A Polemic" #62, 21.1 (March 1994) 1998 - I. F. Clarke, "Future-War Fiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900" #73, 24.3 (November 1997) 1999 - Carl Freedman, "Kubrick's 2001 and the Possibility of a Science-Fiction Cinema" #75, 25.2 (July 1998) 2000 - Wendy Pearson, "Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer" #77, 26.1 (March 1999) 2001 - De Witt Douglas Kilgore, "Changing Regimes: Vonda N. McIntyre's Parodic Astrofuturism" #81, 27.2 (July 2000) 2004 - Andrew M. Butler, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom" #91, 30.3 (November 2003) 2007 - Amy J. Ransom, "Oppositional Postcolonialism in Québécois Science Fiction" #99, 33.2 (July 2006) 2010 - Allison de Fren, “The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow’s Eve” #108, 36.2 (July 2009) 2011 - John Rieder, "On Defining SF, or Not" #111, 37.2 (July 2010) 2013 - Lysa Rivera, "Future Histories and Cyborg Labor: Reading Borderlands Science Fiction after NAFTA" #118, 39.3 (November 2012) 2014 - Jaak Tomberg, “On the “Double Vision” of Realism and SF Estrangement in William Gibson’s Bigend Trilogy” #120, 40.2 (July 2013) 2016 - Scott Selisker, "'Shutter-Stop Flash-Bulb Strange': GMOs and the Aesthetics of Scale in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl" #127 42.3 (November 2015) 2017 - Thomas Strychacz, "The Political Economy of Potato Farming in Andy Weir's The Martian” #131 44.1 (March 2017) 2018 - Jed Mayer, “The Weird Ecologies of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” #135 45.2 (July 2018) 2021 - Jesse S. Cohn, “The Fantastic from Counterpublic to Public Imaginary: The Darkest Timeline?” #142 47.3 (November 2020)
1990 - Veronica Hollinger, "The Vampire and the Alien: Variations on the Outsider" #48, 16. 2 (July 1989) 1991 - H. Bruce Franklin, "The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy" #52, 17.3 (November 1990) 1992 - Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., "The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haraway" #55, 18.3 (November 1991) 1995 - Roger Luckhurst, "The Many Deaths of Science Fiction: A Polemic" #62, 21.1 (March 1994) 1998 - I. F. Clarke, "Future-War Fiction: The First Main Phase, 1871-1900" #73, 24.3 (November 1997) 1999 - Carl Freedman, "Kubrick's 2001 and the Possibility of a Science-Fiction Cinema" #75, 25.2 (July 1998) 2000 - Wendy Pearson, "Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer" #77, 26.1 (March 1999) 2001 - De Witt Douglas Kilgore, "Changing Regimes: Vonda N. McIntyre's Parodic Astrofuturism" #81, 27.2 (July 2000) 2004 - Andrew M. Butler, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom" #91, 30.3 (November 2003) 2007 - Amy J. Ransom, "Oppositional Postcolonialism in Québécois Science Fiction" #99, 33.2 (July 2006) 2010 - Allison de Fren, “The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow’s Eve” #108, 36.2 (July 2009) 2011 - John Rieder, "On Defining SF, or Not" #111, 37.2 (July 2010) 2013 - Lysa Rivera, "Future Histories and Cyborg Labor: Reading Borderlands Science Fiction after NAFTA" #118, 39.3 (November 2012) 2014 - Jaak Tomberg, “On the “Double Vision” of Realism and SF Estrangement in William Gibson’s Bigend Trilogy” #120, 40.2 (July 2013) 2016 - Scott Selisker, "'Shutter-Stop Flash-Bulb Strange': GMOs and the Aesthetics of Scale in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl" #127 42.3 (November 2015) 2017 - Thomas Strychacz, "The Political Economy of Potato Farming in Andy Weir's The Martian” #131 44.1 (March 2017) 2018 - Jed Mayer, “The Weird Ecologies of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” #135 45.2 (July 2018) 2021 - Jesse S. Cohn, “The Fantastic from Counterpublic to Public Imaginary: The Darkest Timeline?” #142 47.3 (November 2020)
