A list of awards I have won. I am humbled and gratified by each and every one of them.
In February 2025, at the 62nd iteration of Boskone, the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) named me the 59th recipient of their Edward E. Smith Memorial “Skylark” Award. The award is presented annually by NESFA “to some person, who, in the opinion of the membership, has contributed significantly to science fiction, both through work in the field and by exemplifying the personal qualities which made the late ‘Doc’ Smith well-loved by those who knew him.” For more details, see https://data.nesfa.org/rules/Bylaws.html#bl11.5.
American Mensa awarded me the National Service Award in 2024. The Award is given in recognition of “faithful service to American Mensa.” At the time, I had just completed my term as Secretary of the organization, following two terms as Regional Vice Chairman. For more details, see https://www.us.mensa.org/recognize/national-awards/national-service/.
In 1997, I won two AnLab Awards for my work appearing in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. My short story, “Living it is the Best Revenge,” was named the Best Short Story of 1996, and my non-fiction “The Coming of the Money Card: Boon or Bane?” was named the Best Fact Article of 1996. The AnLab Awards (short for Analytical Laboratory Awards) are the readers’ choice awards, voted by the readers of the magazine. For more details, see https://www.sfadb.com/Ian_Randal_Strock.
In the 1990s, I combined my love of black-and-white photography with my short-short fiction to create Phototales, which I exhibited at science fiction convention art shows. At Philcon (the Philadelpahia Science Fiction Society’s annual convention) in 1997, I won the Popular Choice Award for my Phototale titled “Night Attack.” And in 1999, at the New York Science Fiction Society’s Lunacon, I won the Judges’ Choice Award for Body of Work, in which they cited my “Creation of a New Art Form.”
Ian Randal Strock 