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The
Endeavour Award
is a prize for a
science fiction
or
fantasy
book written by an author from the Pacific Northwest. It is given each year in November at
OryCon
in
Portland, Oregon
. The award is for books published the year before.
The Endeavour Award started in 1999. The name comes from Northwest explorer
Captain James Cook
's ship
HM Bark
Endeavour
. A group of Portland area writers and readers of science fiction and fantasy collected money to support the award in 1996. It is managed by Oregon Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. (OSFCI) tax-exempt non-profit corporation.