Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner this year is Ann Leckie for Ancillary Justice and its sequels. Runner ups are Marina J. Lostetter for Noumenon, Robert Jackson Bennett for Foundryside, Ilsa J. Bick for Well of Souls, and Brad Meltzer for Identity Crisis.
| Year | Winner | Runner ups | |||
| 2019 | Ann Leckie | Marina J. Lostetter | Robert Jackson Bennett | Ilsa J. Bick | Brad Meltzer |
| 2018 | Becky Chambers | Matt Haig | Mur Lafferty | David Marusek | David A. Goodman |
| 2017 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Mary Doria Russell | Paolo Bacigalupi | Marie Brennan | |
| 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 | William Goldman | Christopher Moore | Peter F. Hamilton | Carrie Vaughn |
| 2013 | Iain M. Banks | Jo Walton | Sarah Zettel | Michael Swanwick | John Varley |
| 2012 | Alastair Reynolds | Joanne Bertin | Gregory Maguire | Maureen F. McHugh | Ken Grimwood |
| 2011 | Robin Hobb | David Brin | Richard Adams | George R. R. Martin | Audrey Niffenegger |
| 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 | John Scalzi | Jeanne Cavelos | David Mack | 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 | |