Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. Sometimes you just need 4 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 | Emily St. John Mandel |
| 2015 | Charles Stross | Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson | Tony Daniel | ||
| 2014 | Douglas Preston | Peter F. Hamilton | Carrie Vaughn | Christopher Moore | William Goldman |
| 2013 | Iain M. Banks | Sarah Zettel | Michael Swanwick | Jo Walton | John Varley |
| 2012 | Alastair Reynolds | Joanne Bertin | Ken Grimwood | Gregory Maguire | Maureen F. McHugh |
| 2011 | Robin Hobb | Audrey Niffenegger | Richard Adams | George R. R. Martin | David Brin |
| 2010 | Clifford D. Simak | Yves Meynard | Tim Powers | Harry Harrison | Neil Gaiman |
| 2009 | Dan Simmons | Peter S. Beagle | Ray Bradbury | Michael Crichton | Greg Cox |
| 2008 | Connie Willis | David Mack | Jeanne Cavelos | John Scalzi | Megan Whalen Turner |
| 2007 | Vernor Vinge | James Morrow | |||
| 2006 | Edward Willett | Elizabeth Kostova | Jeffrey Lang | ||
| 2005 | Stephen Baxter | Sean Russell | Christopher L. Bennett | Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels | |
| 2004 | Karin Lowachee | Peter Watts | Adam Roberts | Jasper Fforde | |
| 2003 | Neal Stephenson | Ted Chiang | Stanislaw Lem | Candas Jane Dorsey | Scott Mackay |
| 2002 | Karl Schroeder | ||||
| 2001 | Jim Munroe | Nalo Hopkinson | |||
| 2000 | Charles de Lint | J. Gregory Keyes | Kurt Vonnegut | Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz |
David R. George III |
| 1999 | Robert Charles Wilson | Kim Stanley Robinson | L. Sprague de Camp | Phyllis Gotlieb | |
| 1998 | Robert J. Sawyer | Julie E. Czerneda | James Alan Gardner | Tanya Huff | |