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Astounding Award for Best New Writer

Not a Hugo. 1973 to 2026

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  1. 2026
    Antonia Hodgson
  2. 2025
    Moniquill Blackgoose
  3. 2024
    Xiran Jay Zhao
  4. 2023
    Travis Baldree
  5. 2022
    Shelley Parker-Chan
  6. 2021
    Emily Tesh
  7. 2020
    R. F. Kuang
  8. 2019
    Jeannette Ng
  9. 2018
    Rebecca Roanhorse
  10. 2017
    Ada Palmer
  11. 2016
    Andy Weir
  12. 2015
    Wesley Chu
  13. 2014
    Sofia Samatar
  14. 2013
    Mur Lafferty
  15. 2012
    E. Lily Yu
  16. 2011
    Lev Grossman
  17. 2010
    Seanan McGuire
  18. 2009
    David Anthony Durham
  19. 2008
    Mary Robinette Kowal
  20. 2007
    Naomi Novik
  21. 2006
    John Scalzi
  22. 2005
    Elizabeth Bear
  23. 2004
    Jay Lake
  24. 2003
    Wen Spencer
  25. 2002
    Jo Walton
  26. 2001
    Kristine Smith
  27. 2000
    Cory Doctorow
  28. 1999
    Nalo Hopkinson
  29. 1998
    Mary Doria Russell
  30. 1997
    Michael A. Burstein
  31. 1996
    David Feintuch
  32. 1995
    Jeff Noon
  33. 1994
    Amy Thomson
  34. 1993
    Laura Resnick
  35. 1992
    Ted Chiang
  36. 1991
    Julia Ecklar
  37. 1990
    Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  38. 1989
    Michaela Roessner
  39. 1988
    Judith Moffett
  40. 1987
    Karen Joy Fowler
  41. 1986
    Melissa Scott
  42. 1985
    Lucius Shepard
  43. 1984
    R. A. MacAvoy
  44. 1983
    Paul O. Williams
  45. 1982
    Alexis Gilliland
  46. 1981
    Somtow Sucharitkul
  47. 1980
    Barry B. Longyear
  48. 1979
    Stephen R. Donaldson
  49. 1978
    Orson Scott Card
  50. 1977
    C. J. Cherryh
  51. 1976
    Tom Reamy
  52. 1975
    P. J. Plauger
  53. 1974
    Spider RobinsonLisa Tuttle
  54. 1973
    Jerry Pournelle
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