SFRA Awards Renamed

158 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 47 (2020) that focus on a specific genre of videogame, such as MMORPGs, virtual worlds, fighting games, etc. Send abstracts of 300-700 words to Dr. Megan Amber Condis and Dr. Mike Sell at by 31 March 2020. .—Megan Amber Condis, Texas Tech, and Mike Sell, Indiana University of Pennsylvania SFRA Awards Renamed. After the votes were cast and tallied, the SFRA formally changed the names of two of its awards. The award formerly known as the Pilgrim Award will hereafter be known as the SFRA Award for Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship; the award formerly known as the Pioneer Award will hereafter be known as the SFRA Innovative Research Award. The former names remain on the website so that any past recipients can still be found using either the old or the new monikers. Full information on the awards, their description, recipients, and award committees can be found on our website in the pages under the Awards tab. I want to thank SFRA members for beginning this debate, for suggesting alternate names, and for voting. The forum, now closed for further discussion, remains posted on the site, so that members (current, past, and future), can retrace the considerations that led to the change.—Keren Omry, President, Science Fiction Research Association Call for Essays: Hélice. An online journal in Spanish and English, Hélice , welcomes new research for its May and November issues. We are particularly interested in discovering and encouraging new talent among graduate students in the areas of English and Spanish speculative fiction, both European and Latin American. Apart from academic articles and reviews, we welcome brief texts relevant to sf studies based on personal reflections that follow a non-academic essay format.—Dr. Sara Martin Alegre, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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