Endeavour Award

For the Australian scholarship programme, see Endeavour Awards.

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.

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.

Past winners

Year	Title	Author	Ref
2015	Last Plane to Heaven	Jay Lake
2014 (tie)	Nexus Requiem	Ramez Naam Ken Scholes
2013	Goodbye For Now	Laurie Frankel
2012	City of Ruins	Kristine Kathryn Rusch
2011	Dreadnought	Cherie Priest
2010	Mind Over Ship	David Marusek
2009	Space Magic	David D. Levine
2008	The Silver Ship and the Sea	Brenda Cooper
2007	Forest Mage	Robin Hobb
2006	Anywhere but Here	Jerry Oltion
2005	The Child Goddess	Louise Marley
2004	Red Thunder	John Varley
2003 (tie)	The Disappeared Lion's Blood	Kristine Kathryn Rusch Steven Barnes
2002	Tales from Earthsea	Ursula K. Le Guin
2001 (tie)	The Telling The Glass Harmonica	Ursula K. Le Guin Louise Marley
2000	Darwin's Radio	Greg Bear
1999	Dinosaur Summer	Greg Bear

External links

• Official website
• OryCon Portland Oregon's premiere science fiction convention
• Oregon Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. (OSFCI)