Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:20:40 -0400
From: Samuel Lubell <samlubell at verizon.net>
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Cc: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Compton Crook nominees
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

The only one of these I've read is Singularity's Ring which I thought
amazingly good for a first novel.  It does some interesting things with
the idea of a gestalt relationship between a group in which the
different people have different roles in the gestalt.

Michael Walsh wrote:
> At the BSFS meeting last night Mark Owings handed out the ballots for the Crook Award (Best first  novel) to be given out at Balticon:
>
> Into the Storm - Taylor Anderson
> Black Ships - Jo Graham
> Singularity's Ring - Paul Melko
> The Way of Shadows - Brent Weeks
>
> Any typos are probably due to my typing from Mark's handwritten ballot.
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> mjw
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