Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. This past year was an outstanding one for new authors. The big winner is Annalee Newitz for The Future of Another Timeline. Runner ups include Andy Weir for Project Hail Mary, Brandon Sanderson for Elantris, Matt Ruff for Lovecraft County, and Alix E. Harrow for The Ten Thousand Doors of January.
Further runner ups are Nnedi Okorafor for Binti, Fonda Lee for Jade City, V. E. Schwab for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Terence M. Green for Shadow of Ashland, Olga Ravn for The Employees, Silvia Moreno-Garcia for Signal to Noise, Alex White for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Revenant, and Esther Friesner for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Warchild.
| Year | Winner | Runner ups | |||
| 2022 | Annalee Newitz | Andy Weir | Brandon Sanderson | Matt Ruff | Alix E. Harrow |
| 2021 | Cixin Liu | Dave Duncan | Melissa Caruso | Cory Doctorow | Kirsten Beyer |
| 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 | Elizabeth Kostova | Edward Willett | 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 | |