{"id":18303,"date":"2022-01-03T21:36:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T02:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=18303"},"modified":"2022-01-03T23:01:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T04:01:05","slug":"author-discovery-of-the-year-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/author-discovery-of-the-year-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Author discovery of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an update to this<\/a> list. I read a bunch of new authors this year. The big winner is Cixin Liu for The Three-Body Problem<\/strong> and its sequels. Runner ups are Dave Duncan for West of January<\/strong>, Melissa Caruso<\/span> for The Tethered Mage<\/strong><\/span> and its sequels, Cory Doctorow for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom<\/strong>, and Kirsten Beyer for VOY: String Theory — Fusion<\/strong> and a bunch of others.<\/p>\n

Further runner ups include Elisabeth Vonarburg for The Silent City<\/strong>, Geoff Ryman for The Child Garden<\/strong>, Yoon Ha Lee for Ninefox Gambit<\/strong>, Karina Sumner-Smith for Radiant<\/strong> and its sequels, Heather Jarman for VOY: String Theory — Evolution<\/strong>, Cassandra Rose Clarke for TNG: Shadows Have Offended<\/strong>, Ben Bova for Mars<\/strong>, and Crawford Kilian for Brother Jonathan<\/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\n
Year<\/strong><\/td>\nWinner<\/strong><\/td>\nRunner<\/strong> ups<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>\nCixin Liu<\/td>\nDave Duncan<\/td>\nMelissa Caruso<\/span><\/td>\nCory Doctorow<\/td>\nKirsten Beyer<\/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>\nElizabeth Kostova<\/td>\nEdward Willett<\/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. I read a bunch of new authors this year. The big winner is Cixin Liu for The Three-Body Problem and its sequels. Runner ups are Dave Duncan for West of January, Melissa Caruso for The Tethered Mage and its sequels, Cory Doctorow for Down and Out in the Magic […]<\/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-18303","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\/18303","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=18303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18306,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303\/revisions\/18306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}