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, who published sf as Stephen Tall. The award was first presented in 1983 for work first published in 1982. An additional prize of $750 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)
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