The Endeavour Award, named after the ship of Captain James Cook, is awarded to a distinguished science fiction of fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author(s) and published the previous year.The award in announced yearly at the OryCon and will be presented in November 2008. A $1,000 grant accompanies the award.
The finalists for the 2008 awards are as follows
- The Book of Joby by Mark J. Ferrari
- Bright of the Sky: Book One of the Entire and the Rose by Kay Kenyon
- Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cherie Priest
- Powers by Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Silver Ship and the Sea by Brenda Cooper
The 2008 awards will be judged by Ellen Asher, Steven Barnes and Russell Davis.
Robin Hobb won the 2007 Endeavour Award with the book Forest Mage, from the Soldier Son trilogy.