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Foundation Essay Prize 2006
| Previous 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' |
Winner: 2006
Many congratulations to Jolene McCann, the winner of the 2006 Science Fiction Foundation Essay Prize.
Jolene's essay 'Establishing "the library of a lift up literature": Judith Merril's Spaced Out Library' traces the development of a unique sf resource and the unique woman who formed it. Jolene explores Merril's many roles as an archivist, activist, and curator, and tells how she transported her collection of books and correspondence to Canada, transformed her personal resource into a library in Toronto's free Rochdale Collage, and finally donated this collection to the Toronto Public Library in 1970.
Jolene McCann is studying at the University of British Columbia.
Congratulations also go to Lee Skallerup for her highly commended essay ‘Re-Evaluating Suvin: Brown Girl in the Ring as Effective Magical Dystopia'.