The second Endeavour Award was awarded to Seattle author Greg Bear for his science fiction novel, Darwin's Radio(Del Rey Books.) The award included a photo print of a painting by Portland, Oregon, artist John R. Foster and an honorarium of $1,000. The award was presented November 17, 2000 at OryCon science fiction convention in Portland. Marilyn J. Holt, a member of the Endeavour Award Committee accepted the award for Mr. Bear.

The other finalists for the award were Calculus of Angels by J. Gregory Keyes of Seattle, WA, (Del Rey Books); The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb of Tacoma, WA, (Bantam Spectra); A Red Heart of Memories, by Nina Kikiri Hoffman, of Eugene, OR, (Ace Books); and The Terrorists of Irustan by Louise Marley of Redmond, WA, (Ace Science Fiction.)

The annual Endeavour Award honors a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book, either a novel or a single-author collection, created by a writer from the Pacific Northwest and first published in the year preceding the award. The first Endeavour Award was presented last November at OryCon, and was won by Greg Bear's Dinosaur Summer (Warner Books.)

Posted November 18, 2000