Author discovery of the year
I read a fair number of books by authors I’d read before in 2014, but I managed to squeeze in a few new ones. The winner of the big prize is Douglas Preston, for his wonderful book Blasphemy. Runner ups are Peter F. Hamilton for The Reality Dysfunction, Carrie Vaughn for After the Golden Age, and Christopher Moore for Lamb. One more runner up is William Goldman for The Princess Bride.
Here are all the winners and runner ups…
| Year | Winner | Runner ups | ||
| 2014 | Douglas Preston | Peter F. Hamilton | Carrie Vaughn | Christopher Moore |
| 2013 | Iain M. Banks | Sarah Zettel | Michael Swanwick | Jo Walton |
| 2012 | Alastair Reynolds | Joanne Bertin | Ken Grimwood | Gregory Maguire |
| 2011 | Robin Hobb | Audrey Niffenegger | Richard Adams | George R. R. Martin |
| 2010 | Clifford D. Simak | Yves Meynard | Tim Powers | Harry Harrison |
| 2009 | Dan Simmons | Peter S. Beagle | Ray Bradbury | |
| 2008 | Connie Willis | David Mack | Jeanne Cavelos | John Scalzi |
| 2007 | Vernor Vinge | James Morrow | ||
| 2006 | Edward Willett | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 2005 | Stephen Baxter | Sean Russell | Christopher L. Bennett | |
| 2004 | Karin Lowachee | Peter Watts | Adam Roberts | Jasper Fforde |
| 2003 | Neal Stephenson | Ted Chiang | Stanislaw Lem | Candas Jane Dorsey |
| 2002 | Karl Schroeder | |||
| 2001 | Jim Munroe | Nalo Hopkinson | ||
| 2000 | Charles de Lint | J. Gregory Keyes | Kurt Vonnegut | Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz |
| 1999 | Robert Charles Wilson | Kim Stanley Robinson | L. Sprague de Camp | |
January 7th, 2015 at 10:31 am
Cool list! For me, the last year or so has been Carrie Vaughn and Jacqueline Carey. Now I’m reading the two Ann Leckie books, and they are great.