Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:21:22 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Compton Crook Award Nominees Announced
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

This from Dale Arnold at BSFS:

Compton Crook Award Nominees Announced:

The Baltimore Science Fiction Society is proud to announce that the =
nominees
for the 2010 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award are: The Windup Girl by =
Paolo
Bacigalupi; Dying Bites by D.D. Barant; Soulless by Gail Carriger; =
Johannes
Cabal, the Necromancer  by Jonathan L. Howard. The winning author will be
invited to Balticon, the Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention, May
28-31, 2010, with BSFS paying transportation and lodging to attend for two
years and presented with the cash award of One Thousand US Dollars and a
plaque.

The Compton Crook Award is presented for the best of the first novels
published each year in the field of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror.
Selection is by vote of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society membership.
The Award is named for science fiction author Compton Crook, who used the
nom de plume Stephen Tall. Compton Crook died in 1981 and the award was
first bestowed in 1983. For more information check http://www.bsfs.org/