Endeavour Award

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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.

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[edit] 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.

[edit] 2006 Endeavour Award

[edit] Past winners

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

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