| 1989 | | My Rating |
| The Boat of a Million Years | Poul Anderson |
| Prentice Alvin | Orson Scott Card |
| Good News From Outer Space | John Kessel |
| Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future | Mike Resnick |
| The Healer's War | Elizabeth Ann Scarborough |
| Sister Light, Sister Dark | Jane Yolen |
| 1988 |
| Great Sky River | Gregory Benford |
| Falling Free | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| Red Prophet | Orson Scott Card |
| Mona Lisa Overdrive | William Gibson |
| Deserted Cities of the Heart | Lewis Shiner |
| The Sea and the Summer | George Turner |
| The Urth of the New Sun | Gene Wolfe |
| 1987 |
| The Forge of God | Greg Bear |
| The Uplift War | David Brin |
| Vergil in Averno | Avram Davidson |
| When Gravity Fails | George Alec Effinger |
| The Falling Woman | Pat Murphy |
| Soldier of the Mist | Gene Wolfe |
| 1986 |
| The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood |  | | |
| Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | | | |
| Count Zero | William Gibson | | | | |
| The Journal of Nicholas the American | Leigh Kennedy |
| This is the Way the World Ends | James Morrow |
| Free Live Free | Gene Wolfe |
| 1985 |
| Helliconia Winter | Brian W. Aldiss |
| Blood Music | Greg Bear |
| The Postman | David Brin |
| Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | | | | |
| The Remaking of Sigmund Freud | Barry N. Malzberg |
| Dinner at Deviant's Palace | Tim Powers |
| Schismatrix | Bruce Sterling |
| 1984 |
| The Man Who Melted | Jack Dann |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson | | | |
| Job: A Comedy of Justice | Robert A. Heinlein |
| The Integral Trees | Larry Niven |
| The Wild Shore | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| Frontera | Lewis Shiner |
| 1983 |
| Against Infinity | Gregory Benford |
| Startide Rising | David Brin |
| Tea with the Black Dragon | R. A. MacAvoy |
| The Void Captain's Tale | Norman Spinrad |
| Lyonesse | Jack Vance |
| The Citadel of the Autarch | Gene Wolfe | | | | |
| 1982 |
| Helliconia Spring | Brian W. Aldiss |
| Foundation's Edge | Isaac Asimov | | |
| No Enemy But Time | Michael Bishop |
| The Transmigration of Timothy Archer | Philip K. Dick |
| Friday | Robert A. Heinlein |
| The Sword of the Lictor | Gene Wolfe | | | | |
| 1981 |
| Radix | A. A. Attanasio | | | | | |
| The Vampire Tapestry | Suzy McKee Charnas |
| Little, Big | John Crowley |
| Riddley Walker | Russell Hoban |
| The Many-Colored Land | Julian May |
| The Claw of the Conciliator | Gene Wolfe | | | | |
| 1980 |
| Timescape | Gregory Benford | | | | | |
| Beyond the Blue Event Horizon | Frederik Pohl |
| The Orphan | Robert Stallman |
| Mockingbird | Walter Tevis |
| The Snow Queen | Joan D. Vinge |
| The Shadow of the Torturer | Gene Wolfe | | | | |