Author discovery of the year
Here’s an update to this list. The big winner is Martha Wells for The Murderbot Diaries. Runner ups are Beth Revi for Chaotic Orbits, Joe Hart for Obscura, Nina Kiriki Hoffman for Star Trek: Voyager — Echoes, and Michael Schuster and Steve Mollmann for Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes.
Further runner ups are Ryan North for Star Trek: Lower Decks — Warp Your Own Way and Ryan Parrott for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — The Scorpius Run.
| Year | Winner | Runner ups | |||
| 2025 | Martha Wells | Beth Revi | Joe Hart | Nina Kiriki Hoffman | Michael Schuster & Steve Mollmann |
| 2024 | Naomi Novik | Naomi Kritzer | Laura J. Mixon | Roger MacBride Allen | Mickey Zucker Reichert |
| 2023 | Margarita Montimore | Ren Hutchings | Travis Baldree | Alexander Jablokov | Charles Yu |
| 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 | |