Endeavour Award

Endeavour Award

The Endeavour Award, announced annually at OryCon in Portland, Oregon, is awarded to a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published in the previous year. It is also the name of awards given by the Australian Commonwealth Government under the Endeavour Programme to promote scientific linkages as part of a 1.4 billion AUD initiative.

Pacific Northwest is home to many of the best science fiction and fantasy writers in North America. The award is dedicated to helping these science fiction and fantasy writers to produce the best literature in the field. Annual presentation of the Endeavour Award is in November at OryCon for books published during the previous year.

Award history

The Endeavour Award, named for HM Bark "Endeavour", the ship of Northwest explorer Captain James Cook, was first presented in 1999. Funded by a collaboration of Portland, Oregon area writers and readers of science fiction and fantasy in 1996 and chartered by Oregon Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. (OSFCI) tax-exempt non-profit corporation.

2007 Endeavour Award

*Winner:
**Forest Mage by Robin Hobb
*Finalists:
**Children of Chaos, by Dave Duncan
**Fortress of Ice, by C.J. Cherryh
**Horizon, by Mary Rosenblum
**Spirits that Walk in Shadow, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
*Judges
**Adam-Troy Castro
**Claude Lalumière
**John G Hemry

Past winners

2006"Anywhere But Here" by Jerry Oltion
2005"The Child Goddess" by Louise Marley
2004"Red Thunder" by John Varley
2003"The Disappeared" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"Lion's Blood" by Steven Barnes
2002"Tales from Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
2001"The Telling" by Ursula K. Le Guin
"The Glass Harmonica" by Louise Marley
2000"Darwin's Radio" by Greg Bear
1999"Dinosaur Summer" by Greg Bear

External links

* [http://www.osfci.org/endeavour/ Official website]
* [http://www.orycon.org OryCon] Portland Oregon's premiere science fiction convention
* [http://www.osfci.org/ Oregon Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. (OSFCI)]
* [http://www.endeavour.dest.gov.au/about_the_programme.htm] Australian Government Endeavour Programme Website


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