The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced the finalists for this year’s Compton Crook Award. The award is for “the new SF author judged to have written the best SF novel for the previous year.” The $1000 award will be presented Friday night during the Opening Ceremonies of Balticon 44, which will be held 28-31 May at the Hunt Valley Inn Marriott in Baltimore, Maryland. The award is voted on by BSFS voting members.
The nominees 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