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  "description": "The winner will be announced in April and will attend Balticon 60 in May",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-26T18:48:27.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "_A Song of Legends Lost_",
    "_Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory_",
    "_All the Water in the World_",
    "_The Book of Lost Hours_",
    "_The Raven Scholar_",
    "_Splinter Effect_",
    "_The Wings Upon Her Back_",
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  "textContent": "The Baltimore Science Fiction Society has announced this year's finalists for the 2026 Compton Crook Award!\n\nThis is an annual award (since 1983), handed out by the members of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society at each year's Balticon. It's named for Compton Crook (the pen-name for author Stephen Tall), it award honors the \"best of each year's English language first novel by an author in the field of science fiction, fantasy, or horror.\"\n\nHere's this year's finalists:\n\n  * _A Song of Legends Lost_ by M.H. Ayinde\n  * _Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory_ by Yaroslav Barsukov\n  *  _All the Water in the World_ by Eiren Caffall\n  * _The Book of Lost Hours_ by Hayley Gelfuso\n  * _The Raven Scholar_ by Antonia Hodgson\n  *  _Splinter Effect_ by Andrew Ludington\n\n\n\nThe winner gets a prize of $1,000 and an invitation to be the Compton Crook Guest at Balticon for two years. Last year's winner was Samantha Mills, for her book _The Wings Upon Her Back_ _,_ and the __ 2024 winner was Kemi Ashing-Giwa for _Splinter in the Sky_ _._\n\nThis year's winner will be announced in April. This year's convention is Balticon 60, which will be held between May 22nd and 25th, 2025 in Baltimore.",
  "title": "Here are the finalists for the 2026 Compton Crook Awards",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-28T21:50:36.968Z"
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