Author discovery of the year
As usual this year I read some authors I was familiar with and some new to me. Of the ones that were new to me, the author who wowed me the most is Adrian Tchaikovsky for Children of Time. Runner ups are Mary Doria Russell for The Sparrow, Marie Brennan for A Natural History of Dragons, and Paolo Bacigalupi for The Windup Girl. I also changed the winner for last year (I do that sometimes). Here is last year’s announcement.
Here are all the winners and runner ups…
| Year | Winner | Runner ups | ||
| 2017 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Mary Doria Russell | Marie Brennan | Paolo Bacigalupi |
| 2016 | Claire North | Ken Liu | Erin Morgenstern | Hal Clement |
| 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 | |