Author discovery of the year

Here’s an update to this list. The big winner this year is Sue Burke for Semiosis. Runner ups are Dennis E. Taylor for We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone for This Is How You Lose the Time War, and John Gregory Betancourt for Star Trek: TNG — Double Helix: Infection.

Year Winner Runner ups
2020 Sue Burke Dennis E. Taylor Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone John Gregory Betancourt  
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  

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