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The Baltimore Science Fiction Society has announced (via
File 770) its slate of six finalists for the annual Compton Crook Award, which honors the best genre work from a debut author.
The award was first established by the BSFS in 1983, and is handed out during the society’s annual convention, Balticon, the Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention. The award was established to honor fantasy author Stephen Tall, who wrote under the name Compton Crook.
Here are this year’s finalists:
Architects of Memory by Karen Osbourne
Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis
Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
Docile by K.M Szpara
London-based Indian restaurant group Gunpowder is launching a delivery-only offshoot available across the capital that s centred around the Northern Indian tradition of dum biryani.
Called Empire Biryani, the brand is inspired by founders Harneet Baweja and Devina Seth s memories of celebratory occasions that featured the dish as a centrepiece.
All dishes on the Empire Biryani menu will be prepared fresh every morning and delivered via courier to addresses within the M25 and via Deliverioo for same day delivery within six miles of the group s Tower Bridge restaurant.
The signature biryani, prepared over a 36-hour period and delivered topped with shortcrust pastry to bind the flavours, is available to order with either lamb shank or Shahi mushroom and is designed as either a main or to share.