The Mary Kay Bray Award is given for the best essay, interview, or extended review to appear in the SFRA Review in a given year. [*The SFRA award season begins in June of the year of record; awards are bestowed during the annual conference the following year.] | Award Committee Katherine Bishop (chair) Agnieszka Kotwasińska Jessica FitzPatrick |
2019 2018 |
Tied winners: Amandine Faucheux’s review of The Stone Sky (#324) T.S. Miller’s review of The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (#323) Hugh C. O'Connell, review of Jack Fennell's Irish Science Fiction (#319, Winter 2017) |
| 2017 | A.P. Canavan, review of Netflix's Daredevil and Jessica Jones (#315, Winter 2016) |
| 2016 | Amy Ransom, review of The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film (#312, Spring 2015) |
| 2015 | Marleen S. Barr, Paweł Frelik, and Andy Hageman, roundtable on Under the Skin (#310, Fall 2014) |
| 2014 | Lisa Yaszek, "Narrative, Archive, Database: The Digital Humanities and Science Fiction Scholarship 101," (#303 Winter 2013) |
| 2013 | Chris Pak, "Terraforming 101," (#302, Fall 2012) |
| 2012 | T. S. Miller, "Review of Rise of the Planet of the Apes" (#298, Fall 2011) |
| 2011 | Alfredo Suppia, "Southern Portable Panic: Frederico Álvarez's Ataque de Pánico!" (#292, Spring 2010) |
| 2010 | Ritch Calvin, "Mundane SF 101," (#289, Summer 2009) |
| 2009 | Sandor Klapcsik, review of James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel's Rewired(#284, Spring 2008) |
| 2008 | Jason Ellis, reviews of Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers (#280, April/May/June 2007) and of Ian McDonald's Brasyl (#281, July/August/September 2007) |
| 2007 | Ed Carmien, review of The Space Opera Renaissance by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (#277, July/August/September 2006) |
| 2006 | Thomas J. Morrissey, Review of The Shores of Women by Pamela Sargent (#271, January/February/March 2005) |
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| 2004 | Bruce A. Beatie, Review of L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz by Katharine M. Rogers (#268, April/May/June 2004) |
| 2003 | Farah Mendlesohn, review of Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt(#257, March/April 2002) |
| 2002 | Karen Hellekson, "Transforming the Subject: Humanity, The Body, and Posthumanism" (#251, March/April 2001) |