Author discovery of the year
I didn’t happen to read many new authors in 2015. I spent a fair amount of the year reading 4 series by authors I’d read before — Dune, The Quintaglio Ascension, Spin, and Old Man’s War. The big winner is Charles Stross for Accelerando and the runner ups are Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson for Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune.
Here are all the winners and runner ups…
| Year | Winner | Runner ups | ||
| 2015 | Charles Stross | Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson | ||
| 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 | |