Prof. Paweł Frelik has received the Innovative Research Award given annually by the Science Fiction Research Association (USA) for the year’s best critical article in a peer-reviewed academic journal.
Prof. Frelik’s “Power Games: Towards the Rhetoric of Energy in Speculative Video Games” appeared in Er(r)go: Theory-Literature-Culture 44 and marks the first time the award has gone to an article published in a non-Anglo-American journal.
The Innovative Research Award, previously known as the Pioneer Award, has been presented since 1990 and its previous winners include Veronica Hollinger, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., Roger Luckhurst, Wendy Pearson, Carl Freedman, De Witt Douglas Kilgore, Andrew Butler, Lisa Yaszek, Sherryl Vint, John Rieder, David Higgins, Lysa Rivera, Jaak Tomberg, Graeme MacDonald, and Amy Butt, a veritable who-is-who of science fiction studies.
The article is available in OpenAccess and can be read here.
