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Compton Crook Award

Speculative fiction award for first novel

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Speculative fiction award for first novel

The Compton Crook Award is presented by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) to the year's best English language debut novel in the science fiction, fantasy, or horror genres, as voted by its members. BSFS confers the award at their annual science fiction convention, Balticon, held in Baltimore on Memorial Day weekend. The award, also known as the Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award, has been presented since 1983. Compton Crook, who wrote under the name of Stephen Tall, was a long-time Baltimore resident, Towson University professor, and science fiction author who died in 1981.

The list of eligible books is published in the monthly newsletter so that all club members will have a chance to read and vote. The winning author receives a cash award of $1,000 as well as a plaque, and their Balticon attendance is sponsored for two years; in the second year, the author presents the award to their successor. The invitation to Balticon is intended in part as a professional networking opportunity for the new author.

Winners

1983: Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite
1984: Christopher Rowley, War For Eternity
1985: David R. Palmer, Emergence
1986: Sheila Finch, Infinity's Web
1987: Thomas Wren, Doomsday Effect
1988: Christopher Hinz, Liege-Killer
1989: Elizabeth Moon, Sheepfarmer's Daughter
1990: Josepha Sherman, The Shining Falcon
1991: Michael Flynn, In the Country of the Blind
1992: Carol Severance, Reefsong
1993: Holly Lisle, Fire in the Mist
1994: Mary Rosenblum, The Drylands
1995: Doranna Durgin, Dun Lady's Jess
1996: Daniel Graham Jr., The Gatekeepers
1997: Richard Garfinkle, Celestial Matters
1998: Katie Waitman, The Merro Tree
1999: James Stoddard, The High House
2000: Stephen L. Burns, Flesh and Silver
2001: Syne Mitchell, Murphy's Gambit
2002: Wen Spencer, Alien Taste
2003: Patricia Bray, Devlin's Luck
2004: E. E. Knight, Way of the Wolf
2005: Tamara Siler Jones, Ghosts in the Snow
2006: Maria V. Snyder, Poison Study
2007: Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
2008: Mark L. Van Name, One Jump Ahead
2009: Paul Melko, Singularity's Ring
2010: Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl
2011: James Knapp, State of Decay
2012: T. C. McCarthy, Germline
2013: Myke Cole, Control Point
2014: Charles E. Gannon, Fire with Fire
2015: Alexandra Duncan, Salvage
2016: Fran Wilde, Updraft
2017: Ada Palmer, Too Like the Lightning
2018: Nicky Drayden, The Prey of Gods
2019: R. F. Kuang, The Poppy War
2020: Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire
2021: Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds
2022: P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn
2023: Alex Jennings, The Ballad of Perilous Graves
2024: Kemi Ashing-Giwa, The Splinter in the Sky
2025: Samantha Mills, The Wings Upon Her Back

References

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(August 20, 2007). "Compton Crook Award". Science Fiction Awards Watch.
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(August 17, 2017). "2017 Compton Crook Award Announced". SFWA.
["Compton Crook Award Winners V. 2017-5". Baltimore Science Fiction Society.
(April 25, 2023). "Compton Crook Award". Balticon 57.
(April 16, 2024). "Ashing-Giwa Wins Compton Crook Award". Locus.

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