Reviews of Compton Crook Award Winners
This is a list of Compton Crook Award winners, including ratings for those books that I've
read and links to reviews where I've written one. The Compton Crook Award
is given to the best English language first novel in the field of science
fiction, fantasy, or horror, as determined by a vote of members of the
Baltimore Science Fiction Society.
| 2023 |
Alex Jennings |
The Ballad of Perilous Graves |
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| 2022 |
P. Djèlí Clark |
A Master of Djinn |
7 out of 10 |
| 2021 |
Micaiah Johnson |
The Space Between Worlds |
8 out of 10 |
| 2020 |
Arkady Martine |
A Memory Called Empire |
10 out of 10 |
| 2019 |
R.F. Kuang |
The Poppy War |
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| 2018 |
Nicky Drayden |
Prey of Gods |
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| 2017 |
Ada Palmer |
Too Like the Lightning |
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| 2016 |
Fran Wilde |
Updraft |
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| 2015 |
Alexandra Duncan |
Salvage |
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| 2014 |
Charles E. Gannon |
Fire With Fire |
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| 2013 |
Myke Kole |
Shadow Ops: Control Point |
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| 2012 |
T.C. McCarthy |
Germline |
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| 2011 |
James Knapp |
State of Decay |
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| 2010 |
Paolo Bacigalupi |
The Windup Girl |
7 out of 10 |
| 2009 |
Paul Melko |
Singularity's Ring |
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| 2008 |
Mark L. Van Name |
One Jump Ahead |
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| 2007 |
Naomi Novik |
His Majesty's Dragon |
7 out of 10 |
| 2006 |
Maria Snyder |
Poison Study |
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| 2005 |
Tamara Siler Jones |
Ghosts in the Snow |
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| 2004 |
E.E. Knight |
Way of the World |
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| 2003 |
Patricia Bray |
Devlin's Luck |
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| 2002 |
Wen Spencer |
Alien Taste |
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| 2001 |
Syne Mitchell |
Murphy's Gambit |
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| 2000 |
Stephen L. Burns |
Flesh and Silver |
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| 1999 |
James Stoddard |
The High House |
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| 1998 |
Katie Waitman |
The Merro Tree |
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| 1997 |
Richard Garfinkle |
Celestial Matters |
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| 1996 |
Daniel Graham Jr. |
The Gatekeepers |
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| 1995 |
Doranna Durgin |
Dun Lady's Jess |
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| 1994 |
Mary Rosenblum |
The Drylands |
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| 1993 |
Holly Lisle |
Fire in the Mist |
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| 1992 |
Carol Severance |
Reefsong |
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| 1991 |
Michael F. Flynn |
In the Country of the Blind |
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| 1990 |
Josepha Sherman |
The Shining Falcon |
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| 1989 |
Elizabeth Moon |
Sheepfarmer's Daughter |
8 out of 10 |
| 1988 |
Christopher Hinz |
Liege-Killer |
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| 1987 |
Thomas Wren |
Doomsday Effect |
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| 1986 |
Sheila Finch |
Infinity's Web |
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| 1985 |
David R. Palmer |
Emergence |
9 out of 10 |
| 1984 |
Christopher Rowley |
War for Eternity |
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| 1983 |
Donald Kingsbury |
Courtship Rite |
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Ratings for books that don't have a review are based on my memory of the
book. The rating may well change if I get a chance to read the book
again.
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