Myke Cole’s novel Control Point has won the 2013 Compton Crook Award. The presentation was made May 24 at Balticon – click here to see Cole in dress blues holding his plaque.

The Compton Crook Award honors the best first novel of the year written by an individual author (collaborations are not eligible) in the SF/fantasy/horror genres.

[Via Locus, Amazing Stories and basically the rest of the internet.]