Each year, members of the Science Fiction Writers of America choose one living writer as Damon Knight Grand Master, an award for lifetime achievement in writing science fiction and/or fantasy.
https://nebulas.sfwa.org/grand-masters/
| Year | Damon Knight Grand Master | Title read by S+L | Published | Date read by S+L |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Susan Cooper | |||
| 2023 | Robin McKinley | |||
| 2022 | Mercedes Lackey | Arrows of the Queen | 1987 | Dec 2015 |
| 2021 | Nalo Hopkinson | The Salt Roads | 2004 | Feb 2017 |
| 2020 | Lois McMaster Bujold | The Curse of Chalion | 2001 | Aug 2013 |
| Cordelia's Honor | 1996 | Apr 2024 | ||
| 2019 | William Gibson | Neuromancer | 1984 | Jan 2008 |
| 2018 | Peter Beagle | The Last Unicorn | 1968 | Jun 2019 |
| 2017 | Jane Yolen | Finding Baba Yaga | 2018 | Dec 2020 |
| 2016 | C.J. Cherryh | Downbelow Station | 1981 | Mar 2013 |
| 2015 | Larry Niven | Ringworld | 1970 | Jul 2013 |
| 2014 | Samuel Delany | The Einstein Intersection | 1967 | Jan 2014 |
| 2013 | Gene Wolfe | Shadow and Claw | 1994 | Feb 2011 |
| 2012 | Connie Willis | Doomsday Book | 1992 | Nov 2017 |
| 2010 | Joe Haldeman | The Forever War | 1974 | Aug 2009 |
| 2009 | Harry Harrison | |||
| 2008 | Michael Moorcock | Elric of Melniboné | 1972 | Dec 2022 |
| 2007 | James Gunn | |||
| 2006 | Harlan Ellison | |||
| 2005 | Anne McCaffrey | Dragonflight | 1968 | Apr 2013 |
| 2004 | Robert Silverberg | |||
| 2003 | Ursula K. Le Guin | A Wizard of Earthsea | 1968 | Feb 2014 |
| The Left Hand of Darkness | 1969 | Jul 2017 | ||
| 2001 | Philip José Farmer | |||
| 2000 | Brian W. Aldiss | Helliconia Spring | 1982 | Sep 2017 |
| 1999 | Hal Clement (Harry Stubbs) | |||
| 1998 | Poul Anderson | |||
| 1997 | Jack Vance | |||
| 1996 | A.E. Van Vogt | Slan | 1940 | Sep 2018 |
| 1995 | Damon Knight | |||
| 1994 | Frederik Pohl | Gateway | 1977 | Mar 2017 |
| 1991 | Lester Del Rey | |||
| 1989 | Ray Bradbury | The Martian Chronicles | 1950 | May 2019 |
| 1988 | Alfred Bester | The Demolished Man | 1953 | Sep 2013 |
| 1987 | Isaac Asimov | Foundation | 1951 | Sep 2012 |
| 1986 | Arthur C. Clarke | Childhood's End | 1953 | Apr 2008 |
| 1984 | Andre Norton | The Time Traders | 1958 | Jul 2016 |
| 1981 | Fritz Leiber | |||
| 1979 | L. Sprague de Camp | |||
| 1977 | Clifford D. Simak | |||
| 1976 | Jack Williamson | |||
| 1975 | Robert A. Heinlein | The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | 1966 | Jul 2010 |