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 an author or authors from the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, The Yukon, and Alaska) and published in the previous year.

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Annual presentation of the Endeavour Award is in November at OryCon for books published during the previous year. [1]

Award history

The Endeavour Award, named for HM Bark Endeavour, the ship of Northwest explorer Captain James Cook, was first presented in 1999.

It was 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.

2021 Endeavour Award

The Endeavour Award committee announced suspension of the 2021 Endeavour Award for books published in 2020 citing to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. [2]

The winner was announced at Norwescon 45, held in SeaTac, Washington, on April 6–9, 2023. [3]

2022 Endeavour Award

The 2022 Endeavour Award was announced at OryCon 43, held in Portland, Oregon, November 10–12, 2023. [4]

Past winners

#YearTitleAuthorRef [1]
242022The Bone Orchard Sara A. Mueller [4]
232021How to Get to Apocalypse Erica L. Satifka [3]
222020
(tie)
What the Wind Brings
The Witch's Kind
Matthew Hughes
Louisa Morgan
[5]
212019Blood Orbit K. R. Richardson [6]
202018The Cold Eye Laura Anne Gilman [7]
192017
(tie)
Dreams of Distant Shores
Lovecraft Country
Patricia A. McKillip
Matt Ruff
[8]
182016Edge of Dark Brenda Cooper [9]
172015Last Plane to Heaven Jay Lake [10]
162014
(tie)
Nexus Ramez Naam [11] [12]
Requiem Ken Scholes
152013Goodbye For Now Laurie Frankel [12]
142012City of Ruins Kristine Kathryn Rusch [12]
132011Dreadnought Cherie Priest [13]
122010Mind Over Ship David Marusek [14]
112009 Space Magic David D. Levine [15]
102008 The Silver Ship and the Sea Brenda Cooper [12] [1]
92007 Forest Mage Robin Hobb
82006Anywhere but Here Jerry Oltion
72005 The Child Goddess Louise Marley
62004 Red Thunder John Varley
52003
(tie)
The Disappeared
Lion's Blood
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Steven Barnes
42002 Tales from Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin
32001
(tie)
The Telling Ursula K. Le Guin [16]
The Glass Harmonica Louise Marley
22000 Darwin's Radio Greg Bear [17]
11999 Dinosaur Summer Greg Bear [18]

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