Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner this year is Becky Chambers for The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Runner ups are Matt Haig for How to Stop Time, Mur Lafferty for Six Wakes, David Marusek for Counting Heads, and David A. Goodman for The Autobiography of James T. Kirk.
| Year | Winner | Runner ups | |||
| 2018 | Becky Chambers | Matt Haig | Mur Lafferty | David Marusek | David A. Goodman |
| 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 | |