To Be Announced

The 2025 Compton Crook Award Finalists

• The Book of Love by Kelly Link

• Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

• The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton

• Sun of Blood and Ruin by Mariely Lares

• The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Mills

The 2025 Compton Crook Award winner will be announced in the weeks leading up to Balticon 59.

The Compton Crook Award is presented to the best of each year's English language first novel by an author in the field of science fiction, fantasy, or horror by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society at our annual science fiction convention, Balticon, the Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention. Awards have been presented since 1983. The award is also known as the Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award.

More Information about the Crompton Crook Award can be found on the BSFS's website...