October, 2009

SFRA Student Paper Award Now Supports Publication

The Science Fiction Research Association executive committee has decided to add a significant bonus to the recently reconfigured Student Paper Award. Before, the winner only received a prize of $100 and a one-year membership in the SFRA. Now, the Student Paper Award winner will receive the aforesaid prizes along with a significant bonus: a letter recommending the revised paper for publication.

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Student Paper Award

SFRA Awards $1000 Grant to AboutSF

The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA) executive committee is pleased to award its first organization grant in the amount of $1000 to AboutSF to support its continued services for the science fiction studies community. AboutSF is an exceptional resource center for science fiction, the fantastic, and education, which is a joint project of the University of Kansas, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), and the SFRA.

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SFRA Organization Grant

Futuristic Fiction from Hungary (but NOT from hunger!)

Submitted by JJ Pierce on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 13:10
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This kind of takes up where Paul Alkon leaves off.

I have Istvan Aggott, a Canadian of Hungarian extraction, taking notes for me on JOVO SZAZAD REGENYE (A NOVEL OF THE COMING CENTURY), which was published in two volumes in 1872 and 1874. There was a German translation in 1879 but, to the best of my knowledge, it has never appeared in any other language.

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