1. Mary Robinette Kowall: The Lady Astronaut series
2. Linda Nagata: Nanotech Succession and Inverted Frontiers series
3. James SA Corey: The Expanse
4. Kameron Hurley: Bel Dame series
5. Jim Infantino: Wakeful Wanderer
6. Martha Wells: Murderbot
7. Kameron Hurley: Worldbreaker Saga
8. Tamsyn Muir: Locked Tomb
9. Arkady Martine: Teixcalan series
10. NK Jemisin: Dreamblood Duology
11. Yoon Ha Lee: Machinations of Empire/Hexarcate
12. Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice trilogy (Imperial Radch)
13. Megan O’Keefe: The Protectorate
14. Liu Cixin: Three Body Problem series
15. NK Jemisin: Broken Earth
16. Rosemary Kirstein: Steerswoman
17. Kim Stanley Robinson: Mars/Earth series
18. Hugh Howey: Wool series
19. Octavia Butler: Xenogenesis series
20. Octavia Butler: Patternist series