| 1999 | | My Rating |
| Parable of the Talents | Octavia E. Butler |
| Mission Child | Maureen F. McHugh |
| The Cassini Division | Ken MacLeod |  | | | |
| A Clash of Kings | George R.R. Martin |
| Mockingbird | Sean Stewart |
| A Deepness in the Sky | Vernor Vinge |
| 1998 |
| The Last Hawk | Catherine Asaro |
| Forever Peace | Joe Haldeman |
| Moonfall | Jack McDevitt |
| How Few Remain | Harry Turtledove |
| The Death of the Becromancer | Martha Wells |
| To Say Nothing of the Dog | Connie Willis |
| 1997 |
| Memory | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| King's Dragon | Kate Elliott |
| The Moon and the Sun | Vonda McIntyre |
| A Game of Thrones | George R.R. Martin |
| Ancient Shores | Jack McDevitt | | |
| Bellwether | Connie Willis | | | | |
| City on Fire | Walter Jon Williams |
| 1996 |
| Slow River | Nicola Griffith | | | | |
| The Silent Strength of Stones | Nina Kiriki Hoffman | | | |
| Winter Rose | Patricia A. McKillip | | | | | |
| Expiration Date | Tim Powers |
| Starplex | Robert J. Sawyer | | | |
| The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | | | | |
| 1995 |
| Mother of Storms | John Barnes |
| Beggars and Choosers | Nancy Kress |
| Celestis | Paul Park |
| The Terminal Experiment | Robert J. Sawyer |
| Metropolitan | Walter Jon Williams |
| Caldé of the Long Sun | Gene Wolfe |
| 1994 |
| Moving Mars | Greg Bear |
| Parable of the Sower | Octavia E. Butler |
| Gun, with Occasional Music | Jonathan Lethem |
| Towing Jehovah | James Morrow |
| Temporary Agency | Rachel Pollack |
| Green Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| A Night in the Lonesome October | Roger Zelazny |
| 1993 |
| Assemblers of Infinity | Doug Beason and Kevin J. Anderson |
| Hard Landing | Algis Budrys |
| Beggars in Spain | Nancy Kress |
| Red Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| Nightside the Long Sun | Gene Wolfe |
| 1992 |
| A Million Open Doors | John Barnes |
| Sarah Canary | Karen Joy Fowler |
| China Mountain Zhang | Maureen F. McHugh | | | | | |
| A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge |
| Doomsday Book | Connie Willis |
| Briar Rose | Jane Yolen |
| 1991 |
| Orbital Resonance | John Barnes |
| Barrayar | Lois McMaster Bujold |
| Bone Dance | Emma Bull |
| Synners | Pat Cadigan |
| The Difference Engine | Bruce Sterling and William Gibson |
| Stations of the Tide | Michael Swanwick |
| 1990 |
| Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Mary Reilly | Valerie Martin |
| Only Begotten Daughter | James Morrow |
| The Fall of Hyperion | Dan Simmons |
| Redshift Rendezvous | John E. Stith |
| White Jenna | Jane Yolen |