A press release from the Baltimore Science Fiction Society:
The Baltimore Science Fiction Society is proud to announce that T.C. McCarthy is the winner of the 2012 Compton Crook Award for his novel Germline published in August of 2011 by Orbit, the new Science Fiction and Fantasy imprint at Hachette Book Group. The award consists of a check for $1000.00 and a plaque which will be presented to T.C. McCarthy at 8:00PM on Friday, May 25, 2012 during the Opening Ceremonies of Balticon 46, the annual Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention.
The Compton Crook Award is presented to the new SF author judged to have written the best SF novel for the previous year, and is voted on by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. The award has been presented since 1983 and is also known as the Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award.
More information on author T.C. McCarthy can be found at his website: http://www.tcmccarthy.com
For more information about the Compton Crook Award please visit http://www.bsfs.org/bsfsccnu.htm