Wen Spencer, accepting the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at Torcon 3 (the 2003 Worldcon).
is an American fantasy and SF writer whose works include Alien Taste , Tainted Trail , Bitter Waters , and Dog Warrior ; Tinker and Wolf Who Rules ; and A Brother's Price.
Wen Spencer provides examples of the following tropes:
Winners of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer / Astounding Award for Best New Writer
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer: 1973–2019
Jerry Pournelle (1973)
tie: Spider Robinson and Lisa Tuttle (1974)
P. J. Plauger (1975)
Tom Reamy (1976)
C. J. Cherryh (1977)
Orson Scott Card (1978)
Stephen R. Donaldson (1979)
Barry B. Longyear (1980)
Somtow Sucharitkul (1981)
Alexis A. Gilliland (1982)
Paul O. Williams (1983)
R. A. MacAvoy (1984)
Lucius Shepard (1985)
Melissa Scott (1986)
Karen Joy Fowler (1987)
Judith Moffett (1988)
Michaela Roessner (1989)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch (1990)
Julia Ecklar (1991)
Ted Chiang (1992)
Laura Resnick (1993)
Amy Thomson (1994)
Jeff Noon (1995)
David Feintuch (1996)
Michael A. Burstein (1997)
Mary Doria Russell (1998)
Nalo Hopkinson (1999)
Cory Doctorow (2000)
Kristine Smith (2001)
Jo Walton (2002)
(2003)
Jay Lake (2004)
Elizabeth Bear (2005)
John Scalzi (2006)
Naomi Novik (2007)
Mary Robinette Kowal (2008)
David Anthony Durham (2009)
Seanan McGuire (2010)
Lev Grossman (2011)
E. Lily Yu (2012)
Mur Lafferty (2013)
Sofia Samatar (2014)
Wesley Chu (2015)
Andy Weir (2016)
Ada Palmer (2017)
Rebecca Roanhorse (2018)
Jeannette Ng (2019)
Astounding Award for Best New Writer: 2020–present
R. F. Kuang (2020)
Emily Tesh (2021)
Shelley Parker-Chan (2022)
Travis Baldree (2023)
Xiran Jay Zhao (2024)