The Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service is presented by the Science Fiction Research Association for outstanding service activities. Particularly recognized are: promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF/fantasy organizations.
Recipients Previous winners include: 1996: Frederik Pohl 1997: James Gunn 1998: Elizabeth Anne Hull 1999: David G. Hartwell 2000: Arthur O. Lewis 2001: Donald "Mack" Hassler 2002: Joan Gordon 2003: Joe Sanders 2004: Patricia S. Warrick 2005: Muriel Becker 2006: Paul Kincaid 2007: Michael Levy 2008: Andrew Sawyer 2009: Hal Hall 2010: David Mead 2011: The Tiptree Motherboard (Karen Joy Fowler, Debbie Notkin, Ellen Klages, Jeanne Gomoll, Jeff Smith, and Pat Murphy) 2012: Arthur B. Evans 2013: Rob Latham 2014: Lisa Yaszek 2015: Farah Mendlesohn 2017: SFRA Awards 2017 2018: Veronica Hollinger 2019: Sherryl Vint 2020: Wu Yan 2021: Grace Dillon 2022: Gerry Canavan 2023: Shelley S. Steeby 2024: Jeffrey Weinstock 2025: Keren Omry
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