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Compton Crook Award
The Compton Crook Award is presented to the best first novel of the year in the field of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, Inc, at their annual Baltimore-area science fiction convention, Balticon, held on Memorial Day weekend in the...
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| 2009 | Paul Melko |
Paul Melko (born May 22, 1968) is an American science fiction writer whose work has appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Asimov's Science Fiction, Strange Horizons and Live Without a Net.
His first professional story appeared in Realms of Fantasy in 2002....
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Singularity's Ring | |||
| 2008 | Mark L. Van Name | One Jump Ahead | ||||
| 2007 | Naomi Novik |
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Naomi Novik (born April 30, 1973) is an American novelist. She was born in New York in 1973, a first-generation American. Her father is of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, and her mother is an ethnic Pole. She studied English Literature at Brown...
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His Majesty's Dragon | ||
| 2006 | Maria Snyder | Poison Study | ||||
| 2005 | Tamara Siler Jones |
Tamara Siler Jones is a writer of fantasy novels.
Her first book, Ghosts in the Snow, won the Compton Crook Award in 2005. Her second, Threads of Malice, was nominated for the 2006 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards.
The three books focus on a group of...
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Ghosts in the Snow | |||
| 2004 | E. E. Knight |
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E. E. Knight (born March 7, 1965) is the pen name for a science fiction and fantasy writer, born in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota and now resides in Oak Park, Illinois with his wife and newborn son.
In May 2007, he...
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Way Of The Wolf | ||
| 2003 | Patricia Bray | Devlin's Luck | ||||
| 2002 | Wen Spencer |
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Wen Spencer (born in 1963) is an American Science fiction and fantasy writer whose books center around characters with unusual abilities, and which might be regarded as original variations on the standard vampire and werewolf themes. In 2003, she...
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Alien Taste | ||
| 2001 | Syne Mitchell |
Syne Mitchell (born 1970) is a novelist in the science fiction genre. She has a bachelor's degree in business administration and master's degree in physics. She lives in Seattle, Washington and is married to author Eric S. Nylund. Her first science...
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Murphy's Gambit | |||
| 2000 | Stephen L. Burns |
Stephen L. Burns is a science fiction and fantasy author. In short fiction he is most associated with Analog Science Fiction and Fact and has won their "Anlab" readers poll four times. He has also won the Compton Crook Award and in 2000 was...
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Flesh and Silver | |||
| 1999 | James Stoddard |
James Stoddard is an American fantasy author. He lives in West Texas, USA where he is also a Music Recording and Engineering Instructor. Stoddard's first published short story, The Perfect Day, was penned under the name James Turpin and appeared in...
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The High House | |||
| 1998 | Katie Waitman | The Merro Tree | ||||
| 1997 | Richard Garfinkle |
Richard Garfinkle (fl. 1990s) is an American writer of science fiction.
He is best known as the author of Celestial Matters, a novel published by Tor Books, which was nominated for the Hugo Award and Nebula Award and won the Compton Crook Award in...
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Celestial Matters | |||
| 1996 | Daniel Graham Jr. | The Gatekeepers | ||||
| 1995 | Doranna Durgin |
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Doranna Durgin is an American author. In 1995 she won the Compton Crook Award for the novel Dun Lady's Jess. In addition to writing books, she also designs web sites for authors (see ).
Doranna Durgin's works feature strong suspense elements, and...
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Dun Lady's Jess | ||
| 1994 | Mary Rosenblum |
Mary Rosenblum (born 1952 in Levittown, New York) is a science fiction and mystery author. Mary Rosenblum grew up in Allison Park, "a dead little coal mining town outside Pittsburgh PA," and attended Reed College in Oregon, earning a biology degree....
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The Drylands | |||
| 1993 | Holly Lisle |
Holly Lisle (born 1960) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, paranormal romance and romantic suspense novels. She is also known for her work in educating writers, including her e-book Mugging the Muse: Writing Fiction for Love And...
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Fire in the Mist | |||
| 1992 | Carol Severance | Reefsong | ||||
| 1991 | Michael Flynn |
Michael Francis Flynn (b. 1947) is an American statistician and science fiction author.
Nearly all of Flynn's work falls under the category of hard science fiction, although his treatment of it can be unusual since he has applied the rigor of hard...
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In the Country of the Blind | |||
| 1990 | Josepha Sherman |
Josepha Sherman is an American author. In 1990 she won the Compton Crook Award for the novel The Shining Falcon.
9. The Invisibility Factor (1986)
1. A Cast of Corbies (1994)
1. The Shattered Oath (1995) 2. Forging the Runes (1996)
The Adventures of...
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The Shining Falcon | |||
| 1989 | Elizabeth Moon |
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Elizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
Moon was born Susan Elizabeth Norris and grew up in McAllen, Texas. Moon started writing when she was a child and attempted her first book, which was about her...
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Sheepfarmer's Daughter | ||
| 1988 | Christopher Hinz |
Christopher Hinz (born March 10, 1951) is an American writer best known for the Paratwa science fiction trilogy. Hinz has also written comic book for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He won the Compton Crook Award in 1988 for his novel Liege-Killer....
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Liege-Killer | |||
| 1987 | Thomas Thurston Thomas |
Thomas Thurston Thomas, also writing as Thomas T. Thomas and Thomas Wren, is a science fiction author.
He has also contributed one title, An Honorable Defense (1988), to the Crisis of Empire series (with David Drake), and the novelette Hey Diddle...
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The Doomsday Effect | |||
| 1986 | Sheila Finch |
Sheila Finch (born 1935) is a science fiction author. She has won the Nebula Award for her 1998 novella “Reading the Bones,” which was later expanded into a novel. She was born in London, and currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Infinity's Web | |||
| 1985 | David R. Palmer |
David R. Palmer (b 1941 in Chicago), Highland Park High School (Class of 1959) , is a science fiction author who has been nominated three times for Hugo Awards. He is married and lives in Florida , where he works as a court reporter.
His first novel...
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Emergence | |||
| 1984 | Christopher Rowley |
Christopher Rowley (b. 1948) is an American writer of both science fiction and fantasy novels.
Rowley was born in 1948 in Lynn, Massachusetts to an American mother and an English father. Educated for the most part at Brentwood School, Essex, England...
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War For Eternity | |||
| 1983 | Donald Kingsbury |
Donald MacDonald Kingsbury (born 12 February 1929 in San Francisco, California) is an American–Canadian science fiction author. Kingsbury taught mathematics at McGill University, Montreal, from 1956 until his retirement in 1986.
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Courtship Rite | |||
