Compton Crook Award

An award presented at Balticon from 1983 and given by the members of BSFS which honors the best first novel of the previous year. It is named for Compton Crook who published sf as Stephen Tall. It includes a small cash prize, and the winner is a guest at the following year's Balticon.

Wikipedia entry

Winners:

1983	Donald Kingsbury	Courtship Rite
1984	Christopher B. Rowley	The War for Eternity
1985	David R. Palmer	Emergence
1986	Sheila Finch	Infinity's Web
1987	Thomas T. Thomas	The Doomsday Effect as by Thomas Wren
1988	Christopher Hinz	Liege-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	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	Temeraire: 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	Shadow Ops: Control Point
2014	Charles E. Gannon	Fire With Fire
2015	Alexandra Duncan	Salvage
2016	Fran Wilde	Updraft
2017	Ada Palmer	Too Like the Lightening
2019	R. F. Kuang	The Poppy War
2018	Nicky Drayden	The Prey of Gods
2019	R. F. Kuang	The Poppy War

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