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Compton Crook Award

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Compton Crook Award
Awarded forThe best English-language debut novel in the science fiction, fantasy, or horror genre
Presented byBaltimore Science Fiction Society
First award1983; 43 years ago (1983)
Websitewww.bsfs.org/CCA/bsfsccnu-current.htm

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.[1][2][3] 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.[4]

Winners and finalists

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  *   Winners

Year Author Title Ref.
1983 Donald Kingsbury* Courtship Rite [5]
1984 Christopher Rowley* The War for Eternity [6]
Timothy Zahn The Blackcollar [6]
John C. McLoughlin The Helix and the Sword [6]
Dan Henderson Paradise [6]
M. Bradley Kellogg A Rumor of Angels [6]
R. A. MacAvoy Tea with the Black Dragon [6]
1985 David R. Palmer* Emergence [7]
John Willett Aubade for Gamelon [7]
Patricia K. Morrison The Copper Crown [7]
Melissa Scott The Game Beyond [7]
Lloyd Arthur Eshbach The Land Beyond the Gate [7]
Howard Waldrop Them Bones [7]
1986 Sheila Finch* Infinity's Web [8]
1987 Thomas Wren* The Doomsday Effect [9]
Leo Frankowski The Cross-Time Engineer [9]
Robert R. Chase The Game of Fox and Lion [9]
Robert Charles Wilson A Hidden Place [9]
Lois McMaster Bujold Shards of Honor [9]
1988 Christopher Hinz* Liege-Killer [10]
Michael Armstrong After the Zap [10]
C. S. Friedman In Conquest Born [10]
Emma Bull War for the Oaks [10]
1989 Elizabeth Moon* Sheepfarmer's Daughter [11]
Melanie Rawn Dragon Prince [11]
Mary Stanton The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West [11]
Don Sakers The Leaves of October [11]
1990 Josepha Sherman* The Shining Falcon [12]
Teresa Edgerton Child of Saturn [12]
Doris Egan The Gate of Ivory [12]
Rosemary Kirstein The Steerswoman [12]
Nancy A. Collins Sunglasses After Dark [12]
John G. Cramer Twistor [12]
1991 Michael Flynn* In the Country of the Blind [13]
William Mark Simmons In the Net of Dreams [13]
Katherine Blake The Interior Life [13]
1992 Carol Severance* Reefsong [14]
Jane Fancher Groundties [14]
Michelle Sagara Into the Dark Lands [14]
1993 Holly Lisle* Fire in the Mist [15]
Steven Gould Jumper [15]
1994 Mary Rosenblum* The Drylands [16]
Gregory Benford[a] Chiller [16]
Patricia Anthony Cold Allies [16]
Martha Wells The Element of Fire [16]
1995 Doranna Durgin* Dun Lady's Jess [17]
Sherry Gottlieb Love Bite [17]
Denise Lopes Heald Mistwalker [17]
1996 Daniel Graham Jr.* The Gatekeepers [18]
Robin Hobb Assassin's Apprentice [18]
Valerie J. Freireich Becoming Human [18]
Pat Robertson The End of the Age [18]
Catherine Asaro Primary Inversion [18]
1997 Richard Garfinkle* Celestial Matters [19]
1998 Katie Waitman* The Merro Tree [20]
1999 James Stoddard* The High House [21]
2000 Stephen L. Burns* Flesh and Silver [22]
2001 Syne Mitchell* Murphy's Gambit [23]
Jeffery D. Kooistra Dykstra's War [23]
Jo Walton The King's Peace [23]
Geoffrey A. Landis Mars Crossing [23]
Jim Butcher Storm Front [23]
Carol Berg Transformation [23]
2002 Wen Spencer* Alien Taste [24]
2003 Patricia Bray* Devlin's Luck [25]
2004 E. E. Knight* Way of the Wolf [26]
2005 Tamara Siler Jones* Ghosts in the Snow [27]
2006 Maria V. Snyder* Poison Study [28]
2007 Naomi Novik* His Majesty's Dragon [29]
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora [29]
Joshua Palmatier The Skewed Throne [29]
Jana G. Oliver Sojourn [29]
2008 Mark L. Van Name* One Jump Ahead [30]
Joe Abercrombie The Blade Itself [30]
Lisa Shearin Magic Lost, Trouble Found [30]
Patrick Rothfuss The Name of the Wind [30]
Sandra McDonald The Outback Stars [30]
2009 Paul Melko* Singularity's Ring [31]
Jo Graham Black Ships [31]
Taylor Anderson Into the Storm [31]
Brent Weeks The Way of Shadows [31]
2010 Paolo Bacigalupi* The Windup Girl [32]
D. D. Barant Dying Bites [32]
Jonathan L. Howard Johannes Cabal the Necromancer [32]
Gail Carriger Soulless [32]
2011 James Knapp* State of Decay [33]
2012 T. C. McCarthy* Germline [34]
2013 Myke Cole* Shadow Ops: Control Point [35]
E. C. Myers Fair Coin [35]
Heather Anastasiu Glitch [35]
Jeff Salyards Scourge of the Betrayer [35]
Jay Kristoff Stormdancer [35]
2014 Charles E. Gannon* Fire with Fire [36]
Ann Leckie Ancillary Justice [36]
Miriam Forster City of a Thousand Dolls [36]
Jason M. Hough The Darwin Elevator [36]
Vonnie Winslow The Enchanted Skean [36]
T. Eric Bakutis Glyphbinder [36]
Matt Bell In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods [36]
Daniel M. Kimmel Shh! It's a Secret: A Novel About Aliens, Hollywood, and the Bartender's Guide [36]
2015 Alexandra Duncan* Salvage [37]
Laline Paull The Bees [37]
Julia Mary Gibson Copper Magic [37]
James L. Cambias A Darkling Sea [37]
E. L. Tettensor Darkwalker [37]
William Campbell Powell Expiration Day [37]
Emmi Itäranta Memory of Water [37]
2016 Fran Wilde* Updraft [38]
Holly Bodger 5 to 1 [38]
Kristi Charish Owl and the Japanese Circus [38]
Brian Groover I Will Love You Forever [38]
Kirsty Logan The Gracekeepers [38]
Marshall Ryan Maresca The Thorn of Dentonhill [38]
Cat Rambo Beasts of Tabat [38]
Ferrett Steinmetz Flex [38]
Josh Vogt Enter the Janitor [38]
2017 Ada Palmer* Too Like the Lightning [39]
Yoon Ha Lee Ninefox Gambit [39]
David D. Levine Arabella of Mars [39]
Kathy MacMillan Sword and Verse [39]
Sylvain Neuvel Sleeping Giants [39]
T. C. Weber Sleep State Interrupt [39]
2018 Nicky Drayden* The Prey of Gods [40]
Robyn Bennis The Guns Above [40]
Theodora Goss The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter [40]
Vic James Gilded Cage [40]
Elan Mastai All Our Wrong Todays [40]
Cat Sparks Lotus Blue [40]
Karin Tidbeck Amatka [40]
2019 R. F. Kuang* The Poppy War [41]
S. A. Chakraborty The City of Brass [41]
Rebecca Roanhorse Trail of Lightning [41]
Rena Rossner Sisters of the Winter Wood [41]
Lauren C. Teffeau Implanted [41]
Nick Clark Windo The Feed [41]
2020 Arkady Martine* A Memory Called Empire [42]
Mike Chen Here and Now and Then [42]
Alix E. Harrow The Ten Thousand Doors of January [42]
Ada Hoffman The Outside [42]
Sarah Pinsker A Song for a New Day [42]
2021 Micaiah Johnson* The Space Between Worlds [43]
Lindsay Ellis Axiom's End [43]
Rebecca McLaughlin Nameless Queen [43]
Karen Osborne Architects of Memory [43]
Andrea Stewart The Bone Shard Daughter [43]
K. M. Szpara Docile [43]
2022 P. Djèlí Clark* A Master of Djinn [44]
John Appel Assassin's Orbit [44]
E. J. Beaton The Councillor [44]
Genevieve Gornichec The Witch's Heart [44]
Lena Nguyen We Have Always Been Here [44]
Kimblerly Unger Nucleation [44]
2023 Alex Jennings* The Ballad of Perilous Graves [45]
Sarah J. Daley Obsidian [45]
Sara Mueller The Bone Orchard [45]
Ciel Pierlot Bluebird [45]
Sue Lynn Tan Daughter of the Moon Goddess [45]
Neon Yang The Genesis of Misery [45]
2024 Kemi Ashing-Giwa* The Splinter in the Sky [46]
Moniquill Blackgoose To Shape a Dragon's Breath [46]
Bethany Jacobs These Burning Stars [46]
Brad Pawlowsk Deathwind [46]
Michael Thompson How to Be Remembered [46]
2025 Samantha Mills* The Wings Upon Her Back [47]
Emily Hamilton The Stars Too Fondly [47]
Mariely Lares Sun of Blood and Ruin [47]
Kelly Link The Book of Love [47]
John Wiswell Someone You Can Build a Nest In [47]
2026 Hayley Gelfuso* The Book of Lost Hours [48]
M. H. Ayinde A Song of Legends Lost [48]
Yaroslav Barsukov Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory [48]
Eiren Caffall All the Water in the World [48]
Antonia Hodgson The Raven Scholar [48]
Andrew Ludington Splinter Effect [48]

Notes

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  1. ↑ Originally published under the pen name Sterling Blake; later re-issued under his own name

References

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  1. ↑ "Compton Crook Award". Fancyclopedia. August 17, 2017. Archived from the original on August 18, 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Compton Crook Award". Science Fiction Awards Watch. August 20, 2007. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
  3. ↑ David Langford (15 April 2020). "Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Memorial Award". In John Clute, David Langford (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. SFE/Ansible. Archived from the original on 27 April 2022. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  4. ↑ Thompson, Maria; Lubell, Sam. "40TH Anniversary Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Memorial Award" (PDF). Baltimore Science Fiction Society.
  5. ↑ "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1983". SFADB. Retrieved 3 Sep 2026.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1984". SFADB. Retrieved 3 Sep 2026.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1985". SFADB. Retrieved 3 Sep 2026.
  8. ↑ "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1986". SFADB. Retrieved 3 Sep 2026.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1987". SFADB. Retrieved 3 Sep 2026.
  10. 1 2 3 4 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1988". SFADB. Retrieved 3 Sep 2026.
  11. 1 2 3 4 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1989". SFADB. Retrieved 3 Sep 2026.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1990". SFADB. Retrieved 3 Sep 2026.
  13. 1 2 3 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1991". SFADB. Retrieved 3 Sep 2026.
  14. 1 2 3 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1992". SFADB. Retrieved 3 Sep 2026.
  15. 1 2 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1993". SFADB. Retrieved 3 Sep 2026.
  16. 1 2 3 4 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1994". SFADB. Retrieved 3 Sep 2026.
  17. 1 2 3 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1995". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1996". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  19. ↑ "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1997". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  20. ↑ "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1998". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  21. ↑ "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 1999". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  22. ↑ "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2000". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  23. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2001". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  24. ↑ "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2002". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  25. ↑ "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2003". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  26. ↑ "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2004". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  27. ↑ "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2005". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  28. ↑ "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2006". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  29. 1 2 3 4 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2007". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  30. 1 2 3 4 5 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2008". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  31. 1 2 3 4 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2009". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  32. 1 2 3 4 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2010". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  33. ↑ "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2011". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  34. ↑ "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2012". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  35. 1 2 3 4 5 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2013". SFADB. Retrieved 2 Sep 2026.
  36. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2014". SFADB. Retrieved 29 Aug 2026.
  37. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award 2015". SFADB. Retrieved 29 Aug 2026.
  38. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Wilde Wins 2016 Compton Crook Award". Locus. 17 May 2016. Retrieved 28 Aug 2026.
  39. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Palmer Wins 2017 Compton Crook Award". Locus. 8 May 2017. Retrieved 28 Aug 2026.
  40. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "2018 Compton Crook Award Winner". Locus. 23 Apr 2018. Retrieved 28 Aug 2026.
  41. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Kuang Wins Compton Crook Award". Locus. 15 Apr 2019. Retrieved 28 Aug 2026.
  42. 1 2 3 4 5 "Martine Wins Compton Crook Award". Locus. 13 Apr 2020. Retrieved 27 Aug 2026.
  43. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Johnson Wins Compton Crook Award". Locus. 12 Apr 2021. Retrieved 27 Aug 2026.
  44. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Clark Wins 2022 Compton Crook Award". Locus. 12 Apr 2022. Retrieved 26 Aug 2026.
  45. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Jennings Wins 2023 Compton Crook Award". Locus. 10 Apr 2023. Retrieved 26 Aug 2026.
  46. 1 2 3 4 5 "Ashing-Giwa Wins Compton Crook Award". Locus. April 16, 2024. Retrieved April 16, 2024.
  47. 1 2 3 4 5 "Mills Wins Compton Crook Award". Locus. 8 Apr 2025. Retrieved 26 Aug 2026.
  48. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Gelfuso Wins Compton Crook Award". Locus. 15 Apr 2026. Retrieved 26 Aug 2026.
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