Astounding Award for Best New Writer

Established in 1973 by the magazine Astounding Science Fiction (now Analog Science Fiction and Fact), the Astounding Award for Best New Writer (previously known as John W Campbell Award) is presented to outstanding novels in the genre of science fiction. Winners are selected by a Jury, made up of noted and award winning authors, critics and journalists.

The award name was changed in 2019 after a discussion in the science fiction community following Jeannette Ng's acceptance speech.Jeannette raised the awareness of the award names appropriateness given Campbell's racist and extreme political views (something that has been well known within the industry for quite some time).  

Presented here is a full list of the award winners, however there was no award given in 1994 due to a breakdown in the nomination process. There have also been a number of ties over the years.

• 2019 - Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng
• 2018 - Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience by Rebecca Roanhorse
• 2017 - Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
• 2016 - The Martian by Andy Weir
• 2015 - The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
• 2014 - A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar
• 2013 - Jack Glass by Adam Roberts
• 2012 - The Islanders by Christopher Priest
• 2012 - The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski
• 2011 - The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
• 2010 - The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
• 2009 - Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• 2009 - Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
• 2008 - In War Times by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• 2007 - Titan by Ben Bova
• 2006 - Mindscan by Robert J. Sawyer
• 2005 - Market Forces by Richard Morgan
• 2004 - Omega by Jack McDevitt
• 2003 - Probability Space by Nancy Kress
• 2002 - Terraforming Earth by Jack Williamson
• 2002 - The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson
• 2001 - Genesis by Poul Anderson
• 2000 - A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
• 1999 - Brute Orbits by George Zebrowski
• 1998 - Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
• 1997 - Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley
• 1996 - The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
• 1995 - Permutation City by Greg Egan
• 1994 - No award
• 1993 - Brother to Dragons by Charles Sheffield
• 1992 - Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede by Bradley Denton
• 1991 - Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson
• 1990 - The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
• 1989 - Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
• 1988 - Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis
• 1987 - A Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
• 1986 - The Postman by David Brin
• 1985 - The Years of the City by Frederik Pohl
• 1984 - The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe
• 1983 - Helliconia Spring by Brian W. Aldiss
• 1982 - Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
• 1981 - Timescape by Gregory Benford
• 1980 - On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch
• 1979 - Gloriana by Michael Moorcock
• 1978 - Gateway by Frederik Pohl
• 1977 - The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
• 1976 - The Year of the Quiet Sun by  Wilson Tucker
• 1975 - Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
• 1974 - Malevil by Robert Merle
• 1974 - Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
• 1973 - Beyond Apollo by Barry N. Malzberg