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Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Memorial Award
Sf/fantasy/horror Award which honours the best first novel of the year, as voted by members of the US Baltimore area's annual Convention, Balticon. It is named for Compton Crook (1908-1981), who published sf as Stephen Tall. The award was first presented in 1983 for work first published in 1982. An additional prize of, currently, $1000 goes to the winner. [DRL]
Winners
- 1983: Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite (1982; vt Geta 1984)
- 1984: Christopher B Rowley, The War for Eternity (1983)
- 1985: David R Palmer, Emergence (1981-1983 Analog; fixup 1984)
- 1986: Sheila Finch, Infinity's Web (1985)
- 1987: Thomas T Thomas, The Doomsday Effect (1986) as by Thomas Wren
- 1988: Christopher Hinz, Liege-Killer (1987)
- 1989: Elizabeth Moon, Sheepfarmer's Daughter (1988)
- 1990: Josepha Sherman, The Shining Falcon (1989)
- 1991: Michael F Flynn, In the Country of the Blind (1990)
- 1992: Carol Severance, Reefsong (1991)
- 1993: Holly Lisle, Fire in the Mist (1992)
- 1994: Mary Rosenblum, The Drylands (1993)
- 1995: Doranna Durgin, Dun Lady's Jess (1994)
- 1996: Daniel Graham Jr, The Gatekeepers (1995)
- 1997: Richard Garfinkle, Celestial Matters (1996)
- 1998: Katie Waitman, The Merro Tree (1997)
- 1999: James Stoddard, The High House (1998)
- 2000: Stephen L Burns, Flesh and Silver (1999)
- 2001: Syne Mitchell, Murphy's Gambit (2000)
- 2002: Wen Spencer, Alien Taste (2001)
- 2003: Patricia Bray, Devlin's Luck (2002)
- 2004: E E Knight, Way of the Wolf (2003)
- 2005: Tamara Siler Jones, Ghosts in the Snow (2004)
- 2006: Maria V Snyder, Poison Study (2005)
- 2007: Naomi Novik, Temeraire (2006; vt Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon 2006)
- 2008: Mark L Van Name, One Jump Ahead (2007)
- 2009: Paul Melko, Singularity's Ring (2008)
- 2010: Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl (2009)
- 2011: James Knapp, State of Decay (2010)
- 2012: T C McCarthy, Germline (2011)
- 2013: Myke Cole, Shadow Ops: Control Point (2012)
- 2014: Charles E Gannon, Fire with Fire (2013)
- 2015: Alexandra Duncan, Salvage (2014)
- 2016: Fran Wilde, Updraft (2015)
- 2017: Ada Palmer, Too Like the Lightning (2016)
- 2018: Nicky Drayden, The Prey of Gods (2017)
- 2019: R F Kuang, The Poppy War (2018)
- 2020: Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (2019)
- 2021: Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (2020)
- 2022: P Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (2021)
- 2023: Alex Jennings, The Ballad of Perilous Graves (2022)
- 2024: Kemi Ashing-Giwa, The Splinter in the Sky (2023)
- 2025: Samantha Mills, The Wings Upon Her Back (2024)
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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 07:34 am on 11 April 2026.
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