| 1979 | | My Rating |
| The Fountains of Paradise | Arthur C. Clarke |
| The Road to Corlay | Richard Cowper |
| On Wings of Song | Thomas M. Disch |
| Jem | Frederik Pohl |
| Titan | John Varley |
| Juniper Time | Kate Wilhelm |
| 1978 |
| Strangers | Gardner Dozois |
| The Faded Sun: Kesrith | C. J. Cherryh |
| Dreamsnake | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| Blind Voices | Tom Reamy |
| Kalki | Gore Vidal |
| 1977 |
| In the Ocean of Night | Gregory Benford |
| Cirque | Terry Carr |
| Moonstar Odyssey | David Gerrold |
| Sword of the Demon | Richard A. Lupoff |
| Gateway | Frederik Pohl |
| 1976 |
| Triton | Samuel R. Delany |
| Inferno | Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven |
| Man Plus | Frederik Pohl |  | | | |
| Islands | Marta Randall |
| Shadrach in the Furnace | Robert Silverberg |
| Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang | Kate Wilhelm | | | | |
| 1975 |
| A Midsummer Tempest | Poul Anderson |
| Extro | Alfred Bester |
| A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire | Michael Bishop |
| The Heritage of Hastur | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| Invisible Cities | Italo Calvino |
| Autumn Angels | Arthur Byron Cover |
| Dhalgren | Samuel R. Delany |
| Ragtime | E. L. Doctorow |
| The Forever War | Joe Haldeman |
| The Birthgrave | Tanith Lee |
| The Missing Man | Katherine MacLean |
| Guernica Night | Barry N. Malzberg |
| The Exile Waiting | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| The Mote in God's Eye | Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven |
| The Female Man | Joanna Russ |
| The Stochastic Man | Robert Silverberg |
| The Embedding | Ian Watson |
| Doorways in the Sand | Roger Zelazny |
| 1974 |
| Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said | Philip K. Dick |
| 334 | Thomas M. Disch |
| The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| The Godwhale | T. J. Bass |
| 1973 |
| The People of the Wind | Poul Anderson |
| Rendezvous With Rama | Arthur C. Clarke |
| The Man Who Folded Himself | David Gerrold |
| Time Enough for Love | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon |
| 1972 |
| The Gods Themselves | Isaac Asimov |
| The Sheep Look Up | John Brunner |
| What Entropy Means to Me | George Alec Effinger |
| When Harlie Was One | David Gerrold |
| The Book of Skulls | Robert Silverberg |
| Dying Inside | Robert Silverberg |
| The Iron Dream | Norman Spinrad |
| 1971 |
| The Byworlder | Poul Anderson |
| Half Past Human | T. J. Bass |
| The Lathe of Heaven | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| The Devil is Dead | R. A. Lafferty |
| A Time of Changes | Robert Silverberg |
| Margaret and I | Kate Wilhelm |
| 1970 |
| The Steel Crocodile | D. G. Compton |
| Fourth Mansions | R. A. Lafferty |
| Ringworld | Larry Niven |
| And Chaos Died | Joanna Russ |
| Tower of Glass | Robert Silverberg |
| The Year of the Quiet Sun | Wilson Tucker |