2025 FRANK R. PAUL AWARD NOMINEES
The Frank R. Paul Award judges are very pleased to announce the nominees and honorable mentions for this year’s awards, for Best Magazine Cover Art and Best Book Cover Art.
BEST MAGAZINE COVER ART
Zara Alfonso, Uncanny #58, May/June 2024
James Beveridge, On Spec #129
Longque Chen, Clarkesworld #211
Galen Dara, Uncanny #56, Jan/Feb 2024
Stefan Koidl, Cosmic Horror #53, Nov 2024
Tithi Luadthong, Lightspeed #167, April 2024
Maurizio Manzieri, Asimov’s, Jan/Feb 2024
Bruce Pennington, Galaxy #263
John Picacio, Uncanny #60, Sept/Oct 2024
John Sumrow, Asimov’s, July/Aug 2024
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Ninja Jo, Clarkesworld #214
Stefan Koidl, The Dark #110, July 2024
Ana Niki, Worlds of Possibility, June 2024
Alex Ries, Clarkesworld #219
Marco Zagara, Clarkesworld #210
BEST BOOK COVER ART
Stephen Andrade, I Want That Twink Obliterated!, Ed. Trip Galey, Robert Berg & C.L. McCartney
Lulu Chen, The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
Dan Dos Santos, Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs
Maurizio Manzieri, The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 8 edited by Allan Kaster
Maurizio Manzieri, Schemes & Scandals by Kelley Armstrong
Kurt Miller, Mountain of Fire by Jason Cordova
Tran Nguyen, Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier
Tomislav Tikulin, Adventures in Intergalactic Shipping by Matt Lieberman
Eleonor Piteira, A Fate Inked in Blood, by Danielle L. Jensen
Alyssa Winans, Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Audrey Benjaminsen, Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Julie Dillon, Unexploded Remnants by Elaine Gallagher
Ashley Mackenzie, Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao
Maurizio Manzieri, In the Shadow of the Ship by Aliette de Bodard
Kurt Miller, The Down Deep by Catherine Asaro
The awards will be presented this year at Philcon (Nov. 21-23 in Philadelphia), https://philcon.org/ Winners (one in each category) receive an honorarium of $500 and a trophy which features a 3D print of the “Tiger-bot” smashing a car, from FRP’s cover for the September 1935 Wonder Stories. https://file770.com/frank-r-paul-awards-2024/
The FRP awards were originally presented from 1976 to 1996, and revived last year. The website for the FRP awards: https://www.frankwuwrites.net/frank-r-paul-awards
Frank R. Paul was the first great science fiction artist, as he painted all the covers for the first few years of Amazing Stories, the first science fiction magazine. These include his famous covers for “The War of the Worlds” and “The Land that Time Forgot”. For decades, he was the go-to artist for Hugo Gernsback, also working with him on Wonder Stories, Science Wonder Stories, Science Fiction Plus and annual Christmas magazines that Gernsback published. A fun factoid about FRP: He was the first person to make a living drawing aliens, robots and spaceships (what could be cooler than that?).
For a gallery of FRP’s work: http://www.frankwu.com/paul1.html
Judges this year were Frank Wu, Brianna Wu, Linda Pierce and Eliza Engle (FRP’s granddaughter).
NOTE: While the FRP Awards rule state that normally only 2 nominees are allowed from the same magazine, in this case there are 3 nominees from Uncanny due to a tie. There is no limit to the numbers for honorable mentions.
For additional information, please contact the chief administrator, Frank Wu, at FWu@FrankWu.com