Analog writer Stephen L. Burns will be awarded the 1999 Compton Crook Award for his novel Flesh and Silver (ROC, pb, August, 1999) at Balticon at the Baltimore Omni Inner Harbor Hotel on Easter Weekend.

Known for the particularly human touch in his short fiction, Flesh and Silver weds bio-technology and its effect upon a specially modified "healer," one of the elite in a future medical profession whose special gifts mark him as an outcast and separated from his peers and mankind.

The Compton Crook Award has been presented since 1984 by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society for the best first science fiction, fantasy or horror novel published in the previous calendar year. No title is eligible if the author has previously won an award from any Canadian, UK, British Commonwealth, former British Commonwealth or US organization for any English-language novel. Past winners of the award include: Elizabeth Moon, Michael F. Flynn and Doranna Durgin.

Posted April-21-2000