Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:39:04 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu> To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com> Subject: [WSFA] Compton Crook Award Nominees Announced: Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> from the BSFS email news: "The nominees for 2011 are: Veracity, Laura Bynum; Entangled, Graham = Hancock; Tome of the Undergates, Sam Sykes; Massively Mutiplayer, P. Aaron Potter; State of Decay, James Knapp; Alcestis, Katharine Beutner; Black Blade = Blues, J.A. Pitts; Shadow's Son, Jon Sprunk; Spellwright, Blake Charlton; The Spanish Gatekeeper, Bernard Dukas. BSFS presents the Crook Award every = year for the best first novel in the genera at Balticon." Not mentioned, butthe award will be presented to the 2011 by the 2010 = winner: Paolo Bacigalupi. He also won a Hugo and Nebula for the same = novel. mjw