{"id":10020,"date":"2017-01-02T21:04:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T02:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=10020"},"modified":"2017-01-04T21:35:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T02:35:28","slug":"author-discovery-of-the-year-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/author-discovery-of-the-year-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Author discovery of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

I discovered several terrific authors in 2016. The one that wins the prize is Ken Liu, for The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories<\/strong>. Runner ups are Claire North for The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August<\/strong>, Erin Morgenstern for The Night Circus<\/strong>, and Hal Clement for Mission of Gravity<\/strong>. The next runner ups are Emily St. John Mandel for Station Eleven <\/strong>and Suzanne Church for Elements<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This is the first time that the winner of this prestigious prize won it for a collection of stories as opposed to a novel (although Clifford D. Simak’s City<\/strong> is a quasi-novel: it’s a collection of related stories).<\/p>\n

Here are all the winners and runner ups…<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/strong><\/td>\nWinner<\/strong><\/td>\nRunner<\/strong> ups<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\nKen Liu<\/td>\nClaire North<\/td>\nErin Morgenstern<\/td>\nHal Clement<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>\nCharles Stross<\/td>\nBrian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>\nDouglas Preston<\/td>\nPeter F. Hamilton<\/td>\nCarrie Vaughn<\/td>\nChristopher Moore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\nIain M. Banks<\/td>\nSarah Zettel<\/td>\nMichael Swanwick<\/td>\nJo Walton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\nAlastair Reynolds<\/td>\nJoanne Bertin<\/td>\nKen Grimwood<\/td>\nGregory Maguire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nRobin Hobb<\/td>\nAudrey Niffenegger<\/td>\nRichard Adams<\/td>\nGeorge R. R. Martin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nClifford D. Simak<\/td>\nYves Meynard<\/td>\nTim Powers<\/td>\nHarry Harrison<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nDan Simmons<\/td>\nPeter S. Beagle<\/td>\nRay Bradbury<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nConnie Willis<\/td>\nDavid Mack<\/td>\nJeanne Cavelos<\/td>\nJohn Scalzi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nVernor Vinge<\/td>\nJames Morrow<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nEdward Willett<\/td>\nElizabeth Kostova<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nStephen Baxter<\/td>\nSean Russell<\/td>\nChristopher L. Bennett<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nKarin Lowachee<\/td>\nPeter Watts<\/td>\nAdam Roberts<\/td>\nJasper Fforde<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nNeal Stephenson<\/td>\nTed Chiang<\/td>\nStanislaw Lem<\/td>\nCandas Jane Dorsey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nKarl Schroeder<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>\nJim Munroe<\/td>\nNalo Hopkinson<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nCharles de Lint<\/td>\nJ. Gregory Keyes<\/td>\nKurt Vonnegut<\/td>\nJosepha Sherman
\n& Susan Shwartz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\nRobert Charles Wilson<\/td>\nKim Stanley Robinson<\/td>\nL. Sprague de Camp<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I discovered several terrific authors in 2016. The one that wins the prize is Ken Liu, for The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. Runner ups are Claire North for The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Erin Morgenstern for The Night Circus, and Hal Clement for Mission of Gravity. The next runner ups are Emily St. John […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[87,7,9,42,8],"class_list":["post-10020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-authors","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-lists","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10020"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10083,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions\/10083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}