{"id":11845,"date":"2018-01-24T21:26:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T02:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11845"},"modified":"2018-03-10T21:54:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T03:54:31","slug":"author-discovery-of-the-year-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/author-discovery-of-the-year-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Author discovery of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/author-discovery-of-the-year-6\/\">this<\/a> list. Sometimes you just need 4 runner ups.<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<table width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Year<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"4\"><strong>Runner<\/strong> <strong>ups<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2017<\/td>\n<td>Adrian Tchaikovsky<\/td>\n<td>Mary Doria Russell<\/td>\n<td>Marie Brennan<\/td>\n<td>Paolo Bacigalupi<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2016<\/td>\n<td>Claire North<\/td>\n<td>Ken Liu<\/td>\n<td>Erin Morgenstern<\/td>\n<td>Hal Clement<\/td>\n<td>Emily St. John Mandel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2015<\/td>\n<td>Charles Stross<\/td>\n<td>Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson<\/td>\n<td>Tony Daniel<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2014<\/td>\n<td>Douglas Preston<\/td>\n<td>Peter F. Hamilton<\/td>\n<td>Carrie Vaughn<\/td>\n<td>Christopher Moore<\/td>\n<td>William Goldman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2013<\/td>\n<td>Iain M. Banks<\/td>\n<td>Sarah Zettel<\/td>\n<td>Michael Swanwick<\/td>\n<td>Jo Walton<\/td>\n<td>John Varley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td>Alastair Reynolds<\/td>\n<td>Joanne Bertin<\/td>\n<td>Ken Grimwood<\/td>\n<td>Gregory Maguire<\/td>\n<td>Maureen F. McHugh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td>Robin Hobb<\/td>\n<td>Audrey Niffenegger<\/td>\n<td>Richard Adams<\/td>\n<td>George R. R. Martin<\/td>\n<td>David Brin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2010<\/td>\n<td>Clifford D. Simak<\/td>\n<td>Yves Meynard<\/td>\n<td>Tim Powers<\/td>\n<td>Harry Harrison<\/td>\n<td>Neil Gaiman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2009<\/td>\n<td>Dan Simmons<\/td>\n<td>Peter S. Beagle<\/td>\n<td>Ray Bradbury<\/td>\n<td>Michael Crichton<\/td>\n<td>Greg Cox<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2008<\/td>\n<td>Connie Willis<\/td>\n<td>David Mack<\/td>\n<td>Jeanne Cavelos<\/td>\n<td>John Scalzi<\/td>\n<td>Megan Whalen Turner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2007<\/td>\n<td>Vernor Vinge<\/td>\n<td>James Morrow<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2006<\/td>\n<td>Edward Willett<\/td>\n<td>Elizabeth Kostova<\/td>\n<td>Jeffrey Lang<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2005<\/td>\n<td>Stephen Baxter<\/td>\n<td>Sean Russell<\/td>\n<td>Christopher L. Bennett<\/td>\n<td>Michael A. Martin &amp; Andy Mangels<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004<\/td>\n<td>Karin Lowachee<\/td>\n<td>Peter Watts<\/td>\n<td>Adam Roberts<\/td>\n<td>Jasper Fforde<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2003<\/td>\n<td>Neal Stephenson<\/td>\n<td>Ted Chiang<\/td>\n<td>Stanislaw Lem<\/td>\n<td>Candas Jane Dorsey<\/td>\n<td>Scott Mackay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2002<\/td>\n<td>Karl Schroeder<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001<\/td>\n<td>Jim Munroe<\/td>\n<td>Nalo Hopkinson<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2000<\/td>\n<td>Charles de Lint<\/td>\n<td>J. Gregory Keyes<\/td>\n<td>Kurt Vonnegut<\/td>\n<td>Josepha Sherman<br \/>\n&amp; Susan Shwartz<\/td>\n<td>David R. George III<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1999<\/td>\n<td>Robert Charles Wilson<\/td>\n<td>Kim Stanley Robinson<\/td>\n<td>L. Sprague de Camp<\/td>\n<td>Phyllis Gotlieb<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1998<\/td>\n<td>Robert J. Sawyer<\/td>\n<td>Julie E. Czerneda<\/td>\n<td>James Alan Gardner<\/td>\n<td>Tanya Huff<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update to this list. Sometimes you just need 4 runner ups. Year Winner Runner ups 2017 Adrian Tchaikovsky Mary Doria Russell Marie Brennan Paolo Bacigalupi &nbsp; 2016 Claire North Ken Liu Erin Morgenstern Hal Clement Emily St. John Mandel 2015 Charles Stross Brian Herbert &amp; Kevin J. Anderson Tony Daniel &nbsp; &nbsp; 2014 [&hellip;]<\/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-11845","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\/11845","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=11845"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12089,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11845\/revisions\/12089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}