Endeavour Award winner

Brenda Cooper's The Silver Ship and the Sea, published by Tor Books, is winner of this year's Endeavour Award, which honors a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book, either a novel or a single-author collection, created by a writer living in the Pacific Northwest.

The award was announced last night at OryCon, Oregon's major science fiction convention. The award includes an honorarium of $1,000 and an engraved glass plaque.

Other finalists are listed below. Judges for the 2008 Award were Ellen Asher, Steven Barnes, and Russell Davis. Steven Barnes presented the Award.

WINNER

The Silver Ship and the Sea, Brenda Cooper

FINALISTS

The Book of Joby, Mark J. Ferrari

Bright of the Sky, Kay Kenyon

Not Flesh Nor Feathers, Cherie Priest

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