Finalists for 2017 Compton Crook Award Announced
The Compton Crook Award is presented by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society for the best first novel in the genre published during the previous year.
The Compton Crook Award is presented by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society for the best first novel in the genre published during the previous year.
A science fantasy novel, with themes of neurodivergency and chosen family, about a marine scientist who, drawn by converging mysteries to the skipper of a sailboat, climbs aboard offering to barter stories and hot chocolate for passage to Hawaiʻi.
Stephen K Stanford hails from Melbourne, Australia and misspent a youth devouring his fathers’ vast “golden age” collection of Science Fiction. His debut novel Jubilee, a witty space opera, will be released in February 2024 by Flame Tree Press.
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