Compton Crook Award
| "The Compton Crook Award is presented
to the author of the best first novel in the field of science fiction,
fantasy, or horror by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction
Society, at their annual convention, Balticon, held on Memorial Day
weekend." |
Winner: Way of the Wolf, E. E.
Knight
Winner: Devlin's Luck, Patricia Bray
Winner: Alien Taste, Wen Spencer
Winner: Murphy's Gambit, Syne
Mitchell
Finalists:
- Dykstra's
War, Jeffery D. Kooistra
- The King's
Peace, Jo Walton
- Mars
Crossing, Geoffrey A. Landis
- Storm Front,
Jim Butcher
- Transformation,
Carol Berg
Winner: Flesh and Silver, Stephen
L. Burns
Winner: The High House, James
Stoddard
Winner: The Merro Tree, Katie
Waitman
Winner: Celestial Matters, Richard
Garfinkle
Winner: The Gatekeepers, Daniel,
Graham Jr.
Finalists:
- Assassin's
Apprentice, Robin Hobb
- Becoming
Human, Valerie J. Freireich
- The End of
the Age, Pat Robertson
- Primary
Inversion, Catherine Asaro
Winner: Dun Lady's Jess, Doranna
Durgin
Finalists:
- Love Bite,
Sherry Gottlieb
- Mistwalker,
Denise Lopes Heald
Winner: The Drylands, Mary Rosenblum
Finalists:
- Chiller,
Sterling Blake
- Cold Allies,
Patricia Anthony
- The Element
of Fire, Martha Wells
Winner: Fire in the Mist, Holly
Lisle
Finalist: Jumper, Steven Gould
Winner: Reefsong, Carol Severance
Finalists:
- Groundties,
Jane Fancher
- Into the
Dark Lands, Michelle Sagara
Winner: In the Country of the Blind,
Michael F. Flynn
Finalists:
- In the Net
of Dreams, Wm. Mark Simmons
- The
Interior Life, Katherine Blake
Winner: The Shining Falcon, Josepha
Sherman
Finalists:
- Child of
Saturn, Teresa Edgerton
- The Gate of
Ivory, Doris Egan
- The
Steerswoman, Rosemary Kirstein
- Sunglasses
After Dark, Nancy A. Collins
- Twistor,
John Cramer
Winner: Sheepfarmer's Daughter,
Elizabeth Moon
Finalists:
- Dragon
Prince, Melanie Rawn
- The
Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West, Mary Stanton
- The Leaves
of October, Don Sakers
Winner: Liege-Killer, Christopher
Hinz
Finalists:
- After the
Zap, Michael Armstrong
- In Conquest
Born, C. S. Friedman
- War for the
Oaks, Emma Bull
Winner: The Doomsday Effect, Thomas
Wren
Finalists:
- The
Cross-Time Engineer, Leo Frankowski
- The Game of
Fox and Lion, Robert R. Chase
- A Hidden
Place, Robert Charles Wilson
- Shards of
Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
Winner: Infinity's Web, Sheila Finch
Winner: Emergence, David R. Palmer
Finalists:
- Aubade for
Gamelon, John Willett
- The Copper
Crown, Patricia K. Morrison
- The Game
Beyond, Melissa Scott
- The Land
Beyond the Gate, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
- Them Bones,
Howard Waldrop
Winner: The War for Eternity,
Christopher B. Rowley
Finalists:
- The
Blackcollar, Timothy Zahn
- The Helix
and the Sword, John C. McLoughlin
- Paradise,
Dan Henderson
- A Rumor of
Angels, M. Bradley Kellogg
- Tea with
the Black Dragon, R. A. MacAvoy
Winner: Courtship Rite, by Donald
Kingsbury
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