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