| 1989 | | My Rating |
| Falling Free | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| Red Prophet | Orson Scott Card |
| Cyteen | C J Cherryh |  | | | | |
| Mona Lisa Overdrive | William Gibson |
| Islands in the Net | Bruce Sterling |
| 1988 |
| The Forge of God | Greg Bear |
| The Uplift War | David Brin |
| Seventh Son | Orson Scott Card |
| When Gravity Fails | George Alec Effinger |
| The Urth of the New Sun | Gene Wolfe |
| 1987 |
| Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | | | |
| Count Zero | William Gibson | | | | |
| Black Genesis | L. Ron Hubbard | | | |
| The Ragged Astronauts | Bob Shaw |
| Marooned in Realtime | Vernor Vinge |
| 1986 |
| Blood Music | Greg Bear |
| The Postman | David Brin |
| Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | | | | |
| Cuckoo's Egg | C. J. Cherryh |
| Footfall | Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven |
| 1985 |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson | | | |
| Job: A Comedy of Justice | Robert A. Heinlein |
| The Integral Trees | Larry Niven |
| Emergence | David R. Palmer |
| The Peace War | Vernor Vinge |
| 1984 |
| The Robots of Dawn | Isaac Asimov |
| Startide Rising | David Brin |
| Tea with the Black Dragon | R. A. MacAvoy |
| Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern | Anne McCaffrey |
| Millenium | John Varley |
| 1983 |
| Foundation's Edge | Isaac Asimov | | |
| The Pride of Chanur | C. J. Cherryh |
| 2010: Odyssey Two | Arthur C. Clarke |
| Friday | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Courtship Rite | Donald Kingsbury |
| The Sword of the Lictor | Gene Wolfe | | | | |
| 1982 |
| Downbelow Station | C. J. Cherryh | | | | |
| Little, Big | John Crowley |
| The Many-Colored Land | Julian May |
| Project Pope | Clifford D. Simak |
| The Claw of the Conciliator | Gene Wolfe | | | | |
| 1981 |
| The Ringworld Engineers | Larry Niven |
| Beyond the Blue Event Horizon | Frederik Pohl |
| Lord Valentine's Castle | Robert Silverberg |
| Wizard | John Varley |
| The Snow Queen | Joan D. Vinge |
| 1980 |
| The Fountains of Paradise | Arthur C. Clarke |
| On Wings of Song | Thomas M. Disch |
| Harpist in the Wind | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Jem | Frederik Pohl |
| Titan | John Varley |