{"id":17151,"date":"2021-01-01T20:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T01:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=17151"},"modified":"2021-01-01T20:57:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T01:57:11","slug":"author-discovery-of-the-year-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/author-discovery-of-the-year-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Author discovery of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an update to this<\/a> list. The big winner this year is Sue Burke for Semiosis<\/strong>. Runner ups are Dennis E. Taylor for We Are Legion (We Are Bob)<\/strong>, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone for This Is How You Lose the Time War<\/strong>, and John Gregory Betancourt for Star Trek: TNG \u2014 Double Helix: Infection<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\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
2020<\/td>\nSue Burke<\/td>\nDennis E. Taylor<\/td>\nAmal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone<\/td>\nJohn Gregory Betancourt<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\nAnn Leckie<\/td>\nMarina J. Lostetter<\/td>\nRobert Jackson Bennett<\/td>\nIlsa J. Bick<\/td>\nBrad Meltzer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\nBecky Chambers<\/td>\nMatt Haig<\/td>\nMur Lafferty<\/td>\nDavid Marusek<\/td>\nDavid A. Goodman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nAdrian Tchaikovsky<\/td>\nMary Doria Russell<\/td>\nPaolo Bacigalupi<\/td>\nMarie Brennan<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\nClaire North<\/td>\nKen Liu<\/td>\nErin Morgenstern<\/td>\nHal Clement<\/td>\nEmily St. John Mandel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>\nCharles Stross<\/td>\nBrian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson<\/td>\nTony Daniel<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>\nDouglas Preston<\/td>\nWilliam Goldman<\/td>\nChristopher Moore<\/td>\nPeter F. Hamilton<\/td>\nCarrie Vaughn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\nIain M. Banks<\/td>\nJo Walton<\/td>\nSarah Zettel<\/td>\nMichael Swanwick<\/td>\nJohn Varley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/td>\nAlastair Reynolds<\/td>\nJoanne Bertin<\/td>\nGregory Maguire<\/td>\nMaureen F. McHugh<\/td>\nKen Grimwood<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nRobin Hobb<\/td>\nDavid Brin<\/td>\nRichard Adams<\/td>\nGeorge R. R. Martin<\/td>\nAudrey Niffenegger<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nClifford D. Simak<\/td>\nYves Meynard<\/td>\nTim Powers<\/td>\nHarry Harrison<\/td>\nNeil Gaiman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nDan Simmons<\/td>\nPeter S. Beagle<\/td>\nRay Bradbury<\/td>\nMichael Crichton<\/td>\nGreg Cox<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nConnie Willis<\/td>\nJohn Scalzi<\/td>\nJeanne Cavelos<\/td>\nDavid Mack<\/td>\nMegan Whalen Turner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nVernor Vinge<\/td>\nJames Morrow<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nEdward Willett<\/td>\nElizabeth Kostova<\/td>\nJeffrey Lang<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nStephen Baxter<\/td>\nSean Russell<\/td>\nChristopher L. Bennett<\/td>\nMichael A. Martin & Andy Mangels<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nKarin Lowachee<\/td>\nPeter Watts<\/td>\nAdam Roberts<\/td>\nJasper Fforde<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nNeal Stephenson<\/td>\nTed Chiang<\/td>\nStanislaw Lem<\/td>\nCandas Jane Dorsey<\/td>\nScott Mackay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nKarl Schroeder<\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>\nJim Munroe<\/td>\nNalo Hopkinson<\/td>\n <\/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		David R. George III<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\nRobert Charles Wilson<\/td>\nKim Stanley Robinson<\/td>\nL. Sprague de Camp<\/td>\nPhyllis Gotlieb<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\nRobert J. Sawyer<\/td>\nJulie E. Czerneda<\/td>\nJames Alan Gardner<\/td>\nTanya Huff<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u2014 Double Helix: Infection. […]<\/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-17151","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\/17151","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=17151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17152,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17151\/revisions\/17152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}