Compton Crook Award

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The Compton Crook / Stephen Tall Memorial Award is an American literary prize that has been awarded since 1983 for the best debut novel in the fields of science fiction , fantasy and horror published in the previous year . The award honors the memory of the author Compton Crook (1908–1981), who published science fiction under the pseudonym Stephen Tall . Crook was a professor at Towson University and long lived in Baltimore , Maryland .

The winner will be chosen by members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society from a list previously published in the association's newsletter. The award will be presented at the Balticon , the annual convention held in the Baltimore area on Memorial Day . The prize pool is $ 1,000.

List of award winners

year author Original title German title
1983 Donald Kingsbury Courtship Rite The rites of love
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 Lounger killer Ice killer
1989 Elizabeth Moon Sheepfarmer's Daughter
1990 Josepha Sherman The Shining Falcon
1991 Michael F. Flynn In the Country of the Blind -
1992 Carol Severance Reef song
1993 Holly Lisle Fire in the Mist
1994 Mary Rosenblum The Drylands The silent springs
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 button
2003 Patricia Bray Devlin's Luck
2004 EE Knight Way of the Wolf Day of darkness
2005 Tamara Siler Jones Ghosts in the Snow
2006 Maria V. Snyder Poison Study
2007 Naomi Novik His Majesty's Dragon Brood of dragons
2008 Mark L. Van name One jump ahead
2009 Paul Melko Singularity's ring The ring
2010 Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl Bio war
2011 James Knapp State of Decay
2012 TC McCarthy Germline
2013 Myke Cole Control point
2014 Charles E. Gannon Fire with Fire
2015 Alexandra Duncan Salvage
2016 Fran Wilde Updraft City of wind and bones
2017 Ada Palmer Too Like The Lightning
2018 Nicky Drayden The Prey of Gods
2019 Rebecca F. Kuang The Poppy War Under the sign of the poppy - the shaman
2020 Arkady Martine A Memory Called Empire In the heart of the empire

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