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Locus Award for Best Novel

1971 NOVEL 1) Ringworld, Larry Niven (Ballantine) 2*) Tower of Glass, Robert Silverberg (Galaxy Apr,May,Jun 1970; Scribner's) 2*) The Year of the Quiet Sun, Wilson Tucker (Ace) 4) And Chaos Died, Joanna Russ (Ace) 5*) Downward to the Earth, Robert Silverberg (Galaxy Nov,Dec 1969, Feb,Mar 1970; Science Fiction Book Club) 5*) Fourth Mansions, R. A. Lafferty (Ace) 7) Tau Zero, Poul Anderson (Doubleday) 8) "The Tactics of Mistake", Gordon R. Dickson (Analog Oct,Nov,Dec 1970, Jan 1971) 9) I Will Fear No Evil, Robert A. Heinlein (Galaxy Jul,Aug/Sep,Oct/Nov,Dec 1970; Putnam) 10) "Star Light", Hal Clement (Analog Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep 1970) 11) Beastchild, Dean Koontz (Lancer) 12) Deryni Rising, Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine) 13) Chronocules, D. G. Compton (Ace) 14) The Steel Crocodile, D. G. Compton (Ace) 15) Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny (Doubleday) 16) After Things Fell Apart, Ron Goulart (Ace)

1972 NOVEL 1) The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin (Amazing Stories Mar,May 1971; Scribners) 2) To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer (Putnam) 3) A Time of Changes, Robert Silverberg (Galaxy Mar,Apr,May/Jun 1971; Nelson Doubleday) 4) Jack of Shadows, Roger Zelazny (F&SF Jul,Aug 1971; Walker) 5) Dragonquest, Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine) 6) The World Inside, Robert Silverberg (Doubleday) 7) The Devil Is Dead, R. A. Lafferty (Avon) 8) The Fabulous Riverboat, Philip José Farmer (Putnam) 9) Son of Man, Robert Silverberg (Ballantine) 10) "The Second Trip", Robert Silverberg (Amazing Stories Jul,Sep 1971) 11) The World Menders, Lloyd, Biggle Jr (Analog Feb,Mar,Apr 1971; Doubleday) 12) The Byworlder, Poul Anderson (Signet) 13) Furthest, Suzette Haden Elgin (Ace) 14) Arrive at Easterwine, R. A. Lafferty (Scribners) 15) The Forest of Forever, Thomas Burnett Swann (Ace)

1973 NOVEL 1) The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov (Galaxy Mar/Apr, May/Jun 1972; If Mar/Apr 1972) 2) The Book of Skulls, Robert Silverberg (Scribner's) 3) Dying Inside, Robert Silverberg (Galaxy Jul/Aug,Sep/Oct 1972; Scribner's) 4) When Harlie Was One, David Gerrold (Nelson Doubleday; Ballantine) 5) A Choice of Gods, Clifford D. Simak (Putnam) 6) The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner (Harper & Row) 7) There Will Be Time, Poul Anderson (Science Fiction Book Club; Signet) 8) The Listeners, James E. Gunn (Scribner's) 9) The Guns of Avalon, Roger Zelazny (Doubleday) 10) The Iron Dream, Norman Spinrad (Avon) 11) The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe (Scribners) 12) What Entropy Means to Me, Geo. Alec Effinger (Doubleday) 13) The Pritcher Mass, Gordon R. Dickson (Analog Aug,Sep,Oct 1972; Doubleday) 14) "The Brave, Free Men", Jack Vance (F&SF Jul,Aug 1972) 15) Deryni Checkmate, Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine) 16) Beyond Apollo, Barry N. Malzberg (Random House) 17*) Other Days, Other Eyes, Bob Shaw (Ace) 17*) "A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!" (book title Tunnel Through the Deeps), Harry Harrison (Analog Apr,May,Jun 1972; Putnam) 19) Yesterday's Children, David Gerrold (Dell) 20) The Castle Keeps, andrew j. offutt (Berkley) 21) Beyond the Resurrection, Gordon Eklund (Doubleday)

1974 NOVEL 1) Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke (Galaxy Sep,Oct 1973; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) 2) Time Enough for Love, Robert A. Heinlein (Putnam) 3) The People of the Wind, Poul Anderson (Signet) 4) Protector, Larry Niven (Ballantine) 5) The Man Who Folded Himself, David Gerrold (Random House) 6) Trullion: Alastor 2262, Jack Vance (Amazing Stories Mar,Jun 1973; Ballantine) 7) "The Far Call", Gordon R. Dickson (Analog Aug,Sep,Oct 1973) 8) To Die In Italbar, Roger Zelazny (Doubleday) 9) Today We Choose Faces, Roger Zelazny (Signet) 10) The Cloud Walker, Edmund Cooper (Ballantine) 11) Relatives, George Alec Effinger (Harper & Row) 12) Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon (Viking) 13) Herovit's World, Barry N. Malzberg (Random House) 14) Hiero's Journey, Sterling Lanier (Chilton) 15) The Doomsday Gene, John Boyd (Galaxy May/Jun,Jul/Aug 1973; Weybright & Talley)

1975 NOVEL 1) The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harper & Row) 2) The Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle (Simon & Schuster) 3) Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Philip K. Dick (Doubleday) 4) The Godwhale, T. J. Bass (Ballantine) 5) The Unsleeping Eye, D. G. Compton (DAW) 6) The Inverted World, Christopher Priest (Galaxy Dec 1973, Jan,Feb,Mar 1974; Harper & Row) 7) Fire Time, Poul Anderson (Doubleday) 8) The Forever War, Joe Haldeman (St. Martin's) 9) The Dream Millennium, James White (Ballantine) 10) The Twilight of Briareus, Richard Cowper (Gollancz) 11) The Company of Glory, Edgar Pangborn (Galaxy Aug,Sep,Oct 1974; Pyramid) 12) The Domains of Koryphon, Jack Vance (Amazing Stories Aug,Oct 1974; Bobbs Merrill) 13) The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Patricia A. McKillip (Atheneum) 14) How Are the Mighty Fallen, Thomas Burnett Swann (DAW) 15) Total Eclipse, John Brunner (Amazing Stories Apr,Jun 1974; Doubleday) 16) The Destruction of the Temple, Barry N. Malzberg (Pocket) 17) "Star Gate", Tak Hallus (Analog Jun,Jul,Aug 1974) 18) Star Rider, Doris Piserchia (Bantam) 19) A Midsummer Tempest, Poul Anderson (Doubleday) 20) Prince of Annwn, Evangeline Walton (Ballantine) 21) Walk to the End of the World, Suzy McKee Charnas (Ballantine) 22) Icerigger, Alan Dean Foster (Ballantine) 23) "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows", Poul Anderson (If Sep/Oct,Dec 1974)

1976

NOVEL 1) The Forever War, Joe Haldeman (St. Martin's 1974) 2) The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner (Harper & Row) 3) The Computer Connection (mg title "The Indian Giver"), Alfred Bester (Berkley Putnam; Analog Nov,Dec 1974, Jan 1975) 4) The Stochastic Man, Robert Silverberg (F&SF Apr,May,Jun 1975; Harper & Row) 5) Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany (Bantam) 6) Imperial Earth, Arthur C. Clarke (Gollancz; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) 7) The Heritage of Hastur, Marion Zimmer Bradley (DAW) 8) Doorways in the Sand, Roger Zelazny (Analog Jun,Jul,Aug 1975; Harper & Row) 9) Norstrilia, Cordwainer Smith (Ballantine Del Rey) 10) The Female Man, Joanna Russ (Bantam) 11) Sign of the Unicorn, Roger Zelazny (Galaxy Jan,Feb,Mar 1975; Doubleday) 12) "Inferno", Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle (Galaxy Aug,Sep,Oct 1975) 13) Showboat World, Jack Vance (Pyramid) 14) A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire, Michael Bishop (Ballantine) 15) The Exile Waiting, Vonda N. McIntyre (Fawcett) 16) Blake's Progress, Ray Nelson (Laser) 17) Warriors of Dawn, M. A. Foster (DAW) 18) Lifeboat, Gordon R. Dickson & Harry Harrison (Analog Feb,Mar,Apr 1975; Harper & Row) 19) Illuminatus!, Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson (Dell) 20) The Birthgrave, Tanith Lee (DAW) 21) Missing Man, Katherine MacLean (Berkley Putnam)

1977

1977 Locus Awards

Eligibility Year: 1976 (Remarks below)

NOVEL 1) Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Kate Wilhelm (Harper & Row) 2) Mindbridge, Joe Haldeman (St. Martin's) 3) Man Plus, Frederik Pohl (F&SF Apr,May,Jun 1976; Random House) 4) Children of Dune, Frank Herbert (Analog Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr 1976; Berkley/Putnam) 5) A World Out of Time, Larry Niven (Holt, Rinehart & Winston) 6) Shadrach in the Furnace, Robert Silverberg (Analog Aug,Sep,Oct 1976; Bobbs-Merrill) 7) Imperial Earth, Arthur C. Clarke (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1975) 8) Millennium, Ben Bova (Random House) 9) The Hand of Oberon, Roger Zelazny (Galaxy May,Jul,Sep 1976; Doubleday) 10) Brothers of Earth, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 11) The Shattered Chain, Marion Zimmer Bradley (DAW) 12) Maske: Thaery, Jack Vance (Berkley/Putnam) 13) "Michaelmas", Algis Budrys (F&SF Aug,Sep 1976) 14) Triton, Samuel R. Delany (Bantam) 15) The Clewiston Test, Kate Wilhelm (Farrar Straus Giroux) 16) Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey (Atheneum) 17) Inferno, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle (Pocket) 18) The Dragon and the George, Gordon R. Dickson (Ballantine) 19) Cloned Lives, Pamela Sargent (Fawcett) 20) The End of All Songs, Michael Moorcock (Harper & Row) 21) Floating Worlds, Cecelia Holland (Knopf) 22) Time of the Fourth Horseman, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Doubleday)

1978 1978 Locus Awards

Eligibility Year: 1977

SF NOVEL 1) Gateway, Frederik Pohl (St. Martin's) 2) In the Ocean of Night, Gregory Benford (Dial) 3) The Ophiuchi Hotline, John Varley (The Dial Press/James Wade/Quantum) 4) Time Storm, Gordon R. Dickson (St. Martin's) 5) Michaelmas, Algis Budrys (Berkley/Putnam) 6) A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick (Doubleday) 7) The Dosadi Experiment, Frank Herbert (Berkley/Putnam) 8) Lucifer's Hammer, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle (Playboy) 9) Dragonsinger, Anne McCaffrey (Atheneum) 10) Dying of the Light, George R. R. Martin (Simon & Schuster) 11) The Forbidden Tower, Marion Zimmer Bradley (DAW) 12) Hunter of Worlds, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 13) Mirkheim, Poul Anderson (Berkley/Putnam) 14) The Dark Design, Philip José Farmer (Berkley/Putnam) 15) A Heritage of Stars, Clifford D. Simak (Berkley/Putnam) 16) Cirque, Terry Carr (Bobbs-Merrill) 17) Moonstar Odyssey, David Gerrold (NAL/Signet) 18) Midnight at the Well of Souls, Jack Chalker (Ballantine Del Rey) 19) Inherit the Stars, James P. Hogan (Ballantine Del Rey) 20) All My Sins Remembered, Joe Haldeman (St. Martin's) 21) The Martian Inca, Ian Watson (Gollancz; Scribners) 22) A Little Knowledge, Michael Bishop (Berkley/Putnam) 23) If the Stars Are Gods, Gregory Benford & Gordon Eklund (Berkley/Putnam)

1979 NOVEL 1) Dreamsnake, Vonda N. McIntyre (Houghton Mifflin) 2) Blind Voices, Tom Reamy (Berkley Putnam) 3) The White Dragon, Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine Del Rey) 4) The Faded Sun: Kesrith, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 5) Colony, Ben Bova (Pocket) 6) Stormqueen!, Marion Zimmer Bradley (DAW) 7) The Far Call, Gordon R. Dickson (Dial) 8) The Avatar, Poul Anderson (Berkley/Putnam) 9) The Courts of Chaos, Roger Zelazny (Doubleday) 10) Strangers, Gardner Dozois (Berkley/Putnam) 11) The Stars In Shroud, Gregory Benford (Berkley/Putnam) 12) Up the Walls of the World, James, Tiptree Jr (Berkley/Putnam) 13) The Outcasts of Heaven's Belt, Joan D. Vinge (Signet) 14) Sight of Proteus, Charles Sheffield (Ace) 15) The Stand, Stephen King (Doubleday) 16) Journey, Marta Randall (Pocket) 17) Gloriana, Michael Moorcock (Allison & Busby) 18) Saint Camber, Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey) 19) The Faded Sun: Shon'jir, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 20) "Stardance II", Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson (Analog Sep,Oct,Nov 1978) 21*) "The Eye of the Heron", Ursula K. Le Guin (Millennial Women) 21*) Hotel Transylvania, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (St. Martin's) 23) Masters of Solitude, Marvin Kaye & Parke Godwin (Doubleday) 24) A Different Light, Elizabeth A. Lynn (Berkley) 25) Kalki, Gore Vidal (Random House)

Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

1978 FANTASY NOVEL 1) The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin) 2) Our Lady of Darkness, Fritz Leiber (Berkley/Putnam) 3) The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson (Holt, Rinehart & Winston) 4) The Shining, Stephen King (Doubleday) 5) The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks (Random House) 6) Sword of the Demon, Richard Lupoff (Harper & Row) 7) Heir of Sea and Fire, Patricia A. McKillip (Atheneum) 8) The Book of Merlyn, T. H. White (Texas Press) 9) A Spell for Chameleon, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey) 10) The Grey Mane of Morning, Joy Chant (Allen & Unwin) 11) Cry Silver Bells, Thomas Burnett Swann (DAW) 12) Trey of Swords, Andre Norton (Grosset & Dunlap) 13) Queens Walk in the Dusk, Thomas Burnett Swann (Heritage) 14) Silver on the Tree, Susan Cooper (Atheneum)

1980 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Harpist in the Wind, Patricia A. McKillip (Atheneum) 2) The Dead Zone, Stephen King (Viking) 3) Tales of Nevèrÿon, Samuel R. Delany (Bantam) 4) Castle Roogna, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey) 5) The Merman's Children, Poul Anderson (Berkley/Putnam) 6) Fires of Azeroth, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 7) Watchtower, Elizabeth A. Lynn (Berkley Putnam) 8) The Last Enchantment, Mary Stewart (Morrow) 9) Malafrena, Ursula K. Le Guin (Putnam) 10) Death's Master, Tanith Lee (DAW) 11) The Palace, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (St. Martin's) 12) The Dancers of Arun, Elizabeth A. Lynn (Berkley Putnam) 13) Kindred, Octavia E. Butler (Doubleday) 14) Daughter of the Bright Moon, Lynn Abbey (Ace) 15) The Door Into Fire, Diane Duane (Dell) 16) Sorcerer's Son, Phyllis Eisenstein (Ballantine Del Rey) 17) The Drawing of the Dark, Tim Powers (Ballantine Del Rey)

1981 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Lord Valentine's Castle, Robert Silverberg (Harper & Row) 2) The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe (Simon & Schuster) 3) The Wounded Land, Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey) 4) Changeling, Roger Zelazny (Ace) 5) The Northern Girl, Elizabeth A. Lynn (Berkley Putnam) 6) Split Infinity, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey) 7) The Beginning Place, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harper & Row) 8) The Vampire Tapestry, Suzy McKee Charnas (Simon & Schuster) 9) Shadowland, Peter Straub (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan) 10) "The Mist", Stephen King (Dark Forces) 11) Ariosto, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Pocket) 12) Kill the Dead, Tanith Lee (DAW) 13) Thorn, Fred Saberhagen (Ace) 14) Sabella, Tanith Lee (DAW) 15) After Dark, Manly Wade Wellman (Doubleday) 16) A Storm of Wings, M. John Harrison (Doubleday) 17) The Orphan, Robert Stallman (Pocket) 18) Duncton Wood, William Horwood (McGraw-Hill) 19) All Darkness Met, Glen Cook (Berkley) 20*) Firelord, Parke Godwin (Doubleday) 20*) Necropolis, Basil Copper (Arkham House) 22) Master of the Five Magics, Lyndon Hardy (Ballantine Del Rey)

1982 FANTASY NOVEL 1) The Claw of the Conciliator, Gene Wolfe (Timescape) 2) Little, Big, John Crowley (Bantam) 3) The Changing Land, Roger Zelazny (Ballantine Del Rey) 4) The War Hound and the World's Pain, Michael Moorcock (Timescape) 5) The Captive, Robert Stallman (Timescape) 6) Camber the Heretic, Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey) 7) The Keep, F. Paul Wilson (Morrow) 8) Horn Crown, Andre Norton (DAW) 9) A Sense of Shadow, Kate Wilhelm (Houghton Mifflin) 10) Lycanthia, Tanith Lee (DAW) 11) Path of the Eclipse, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (St. Martin's) 12) Delusion's Master, Tanith Lee (DAW) 13) Peregrine: Secundus, Avram Davidson (Berkley) 14) Kingdom of Summer, Gillian Bradshaw (Simon & Schuster) 15) Esbae: A Winter's Tale, Linda Haldeman (Avon) 16) Journey Behind the Wind, Patricia Wrightson (Atheneum) 17) The Sable Moon, Nancy Springer (Pocket) 18) Madwand, Roger Zelazny (Phantasia; Ace) 19) Gryphon in Glory, Andre Norton (Atheneum) 20) Too Long a Sacrifice, Mildred Downey Broxon (Dell) 21) Cujo, Stephen King (Viking) 22) Blue Adept, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey)

1983 FANTASY NOVEL 1) The Sword of the Lictor, Gene Wolfe (Timescape) 2) The Citadel of the Autarch, Gene Wolfe (Timescape 1983) 3) Fevre Dream, George R. R. Martin (Poseidon) 4) The One Tree, Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey) 5) The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Philip K. Dick (Timescape) 6) Ogre, Ogre, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey) 7) Tempting Fate, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (St. Martin's) 8) Centaur Aisle, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey) 9) Juxtaposition, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey) 10) Oh, Susannah, Kate Wilhelm (Houghton Mifflin) 11) Pawn of Prophecy, David Eddings (Ballantine Del Rey) 12) Elfstones of Shannara, Terry Brooks (Ballantine Del Rey) 13) The Black Beast, Nancy Springer (Timescape) 14) The Swordbearer, Glen Cook (Timescape) 15) In Winter's Shadow, Gillian Bradshaw (Simon & Schuster) 16) In Viriconium, M. John Harrison (Gollancz) 17) The Delicate Dependency, Michael Talbot (Avon) 18) The Blue Sword, Robin McKinley (Morrow Greenwillow) 19) The Bloodwind, Charles L. Grant (Fawcett)

1984 FANTASY NOVEL 1) The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley (Knopf) 2) The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers (Ace) 3) The Armageddon Rag, George R. R. Martin (Poseidon) 4) Lyonesse, Jack Vance (Berkley) 5) White Gold Wielder, Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey) 6) Christine, Stephen King (Viking) 7) Pet Sematary, Stephen King (Doubleday) 8) The Dreamstone, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 9) Damiano, R. A. MacAvoy (Bantam) 10) Neveryóna, Samuel R. Delany (Bantam) 11) Dragon on a Pedestal, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey) 12) Hart's Hope, Orson Scott Card (Berkley) 13*) Cugel's Saga, Jack Vance (Timescape) 13*) The Sword of Winter, Marta Randall (Timescape) 15) Tea with the Black Dragon, R. A. MacAvoy (Bantam) 16) Magician's Gambit, David Eddings (Ballantine Del Rey) 17) The Tree of Swords and Jewels, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 18) On a Pale Horse, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey) 19) Floating Dragon, Peter Straub (Putnam) 20) The Neverending Story, Michael Ende (Doubleday) 21) Anackire, Tanith Lee (DAW) 22) The Dragon Waiting, John M. Ford (Timescape) 23) Sung in Shadow, Tanith Lee (DAW) 24) 'Ware Hawk!, Andre Norton (Atheneum) 25) The Silent Gondoliers, S. Morgenstern (Ballantine Del Rey) 26) The Sword Is Forged, Evangeline Walton (Timescape)

1985 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Job: A Comedy of Justice, Robert A. Heinlein (Ballantine Del Rey) 2) Damiano's Lute, R. A. MacAvoy (Bantam) 3) Raphael, R. A. MacAvoy (Bantam) 4) The Talisman, Stephen King & Peter Straub (Viking) 5) The Infinity Concerto, Greg Bear (Berkley) 6) Gilgamesh the King, Robert Silverberg (Arbor House) 7) The Ladies of Mandrigyn, Barbara Hambly (Ballantine Del Rey) 8) Enchanter's End Game, David Eddings (Ballantine Del Rey) 9) The Businessman, Thomas M. Disch (Harper & Row) 10) Bearing an Hourglass, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey) 11) Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey) 12) Castle of Wizardry, David Eddings (Ballantine Del Rey) 13) Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock (Gollancz) 14) Who Made Stevie Crye?, Michael Bishop (Arkham House) 15) Vampire Junction, S. P. Somtow (Donning) 16) Cards of Grief, Jane Yolen (Ace) 17) The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley (Morrow Greenwillow) 18) Maia, Richard Adams (Viking UK; Knopf) 19) Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter (Chatto & Windus; Viking) 20) Brisingamen, Diana L. Paxson (Berkley) 21) Moonheart, Charles de Lint (Ace) 22) The Third Book of Swords, Fred Saberhagen (Tor) 23) Fire and Hemlock, Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow) 24) Half a Sky, R. A. Lafferty (Corroboree) 25) The Ceremonies, T. E. D. Klein (Viking) 26) The Bishop's Heir, Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey) 27) The Beggar Queen, Lloyd Alexander (Dutton)

1986 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Trumps of Doom, Roger Zelazny (Arbor House) 2) The Book of Kells, R. A. MacAvoy (Bantam Spectra) 3) Dragonsbane, Barbara Hambly (Ballantine Del Rey 1986) 4) The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice (Knopf) 5) Lyonesse: The Green Pearl, Jack Vance (Underwood-Miller; Berkley) 6) The King's Justice, Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey) 7) The Summer Tree, Guy Gavriel Kay (Arbor House) 8) The Dream Years, Lisa Goldstein (Bantam Spectra) 9) With a Tangled Skein, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey) 10) Dark of the Moon, P. C. Hodgell (Atheneum) 11) Silverthorn, Raymond E. Feist (Doubleday) 12) Mulengro, Charles de Lint (Ace) 13) Lovecraft's Book, Richard A. Lupoff (Arkham House) 14) Brokedown Palace, Steven Brust (Ace) 15) The Damnation Game, Clive Barker (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) 16) The Wishsong of Shannara, Terry Brooks (Ballantine Del Rey) 17) Wizard of the Pigeons, Megan Lindholm (Ace 1986) 18) In Yana, the Touch of Undying, Michael Shea (DAW) 19) The Last Rainbow, Parke Godwin (Bantam Spectra) 20) Things Invisible to See, Nancy Willard (Knopf) 21) The Song of Mavin Manyshaped, Sheri S. Tepper (Ace) 22) Wings of Flame, Nancy Springer (Tor) 23) The Bronze King, Suzy McKee Charnas (Houghton Mifflin) 24) Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore, Sheri S. Tepper (Ace)

1987 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Soldier of the Mist, Gene Wolfe (Tor) 2) Blood of Amber, Roger Zelazny (Arbor House) 3) It, Stephen King (Viking) 4) Godbody, Theodore Sturgeon (Donald I. Fine) 5) Twisting the Rope, R. A. MacAvoy (Bantam Spectra) 6) The Folk of the Air, Peter S. Beagle (Ballantine Del Rey) 7) The Serpent Mage, Greg Bear (Berkley) 8) Wizard of the Pigeons, Megan Lindholm (Ace) 9) The Quest for Saint Camber, Katherine Kurtz (Ballantine Del Rey) 10) A Darkness at Sethanon, Raymond E. Feist (Doubleday) 11) The Mirror of Her Dreams, Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey) 12) The Darkest Road, Guy Gavriel Kay (Arbor House) 13) Magic Kingdom For Sale--Sold!, Terry Brooks (Ballantine Del Rey) 14) Homunculus, James P. Blaylock (Ace) 15) Wielding a Red Sword, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey) 16) The Falling Woman, Pat Murphy (Tor) 17) The Dragon in the Sword, Michael Moorcock (Ace) 18) Jinian Star-Eye, Sheri S. Tepper (Tor) 19) New York by Knight, Esther M. Friesner (Signet) 20) The King of Ys: Roma Mater, Poul Anderson & Karen Anderson (Baen) 21) The Hounds of God, Judith Tarr (Bluejay) 22) The Unconquered Country, Geoff Ryman (Allen & Unwin) 23) Yarrow, Charles de Lint (Ace) 24) The Hungry Moon, Ramsey Campbell (Macmillan) 25) Dragonsbane, Barbara Hambly (Ballantine Del Rey) 26) A Voice for Princess, John Morressy (Ace) 27) Talking Man, Terry Bisson (Arbor House)

1988 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Seventh Son, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 2) On Stranger Tides, Tim Powers (Ace) 3) Sign of Chaos, Roger Zelazny (Arbor House) 4) Weaveworld, Clive Barker (Simon & Schuster/Poseidon; Collins) 5) Lincoln's Dreams, Connie Willis (Bantam Spectra) 6) Ægypt, John Crowley (Bantam Spectra) 7) The Witches of Wenshar, Barbara Hambly (Ballantine Del Rey) 8) The Grey Horse, R. A. MacAvoy (Bantam Spectra) 9) Infernal Devices, K. W. Jeter (St. Martin's) 10) Guardians of the West, David Eddings (Ballantine Del Rey) 11) A Man Rides Through, Stephen R. Donaldson (Ballantine Del Rey) 12) Being a Green Mother, Piers Anthony (Ballantine Del Rey) 13) War for the Oaks, Emma Bull (Ace) 14) Bones of the Moon, Jonathan Carroll (Century; Arbor House) 15) Swan Song, Robert R. McCammon (Pocket) 16) The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three, Stephen King (Donald M. Grant) 17) Land of Dreams, James P. Blaylock (Arbor House) 18) Strange Toys, Patricia Geary (Bantam Spectra) 19) Daughter of the Empire, Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts (Doubleday) 20) The Firebrand, Marion Zimmer Bradley (Simon & Schuster) 21) Never the Twain, Kirk Mitchell (Ace) 22) Darkspell, Katharine Kerr (Doubleday) 23) Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz) 24) The Falling Woman, Pat Murphy (Tor 1986)

1989 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Red Prophet, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 2) The Paladin, C. J. Cherryh (Baen) 3) There Are Doors, Gene Wolfe (Tor) 4) Unicorn Mountain, Michael Bishop (Morrow/Arbor House) 5) King of the Murgos, David Eddings (Ballantine Del Rey) 6) The Last Coin, James P. Blaylock (Ace) 7) The Story of the Stone, Barry Hughart (Doubleday Foundation) 8) Greenmantle, Charles de Lint (Ace) 9) Lavondyss, Robert Holdstock (Gollancz) 10*) The Dragonbone Chair, Tad Williams (DAW) 10*) Wyvern, A. A. Attanasio (Ticknor & Fields) 12) The Healer's War, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (Doubleday Foundation) 13) Druid's Blood, Esther M. Friesner (NAL Signet) 14) The White Serpent, Tanith Lee (DAW) 15*) Sister Light, Sister Dark, Jane Yolen (Tor) 15*) Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz) 17) Who's Afraid of Beowulf?, Tom Holt (St. Martin's) 18) The Changeling Sea, Patricia A. McKillip (Atheneum) 19) The Reindeer People, Megan Lindholm (Ace) 20) Sleeping in Flame, Jonathan Carroll (Legend) 21) The White Raven, Diana L. Paxson (Morrow) 22) Walkabout Woman, Michaela Roessner (Bantam Spectra) 23) Silk Roads and Shadows, Susan Shwartz (Tor) 24) The Nightingale, Kara Dalkey (Ace) 25) Death in the Spirit House, Craig Strete (Doubleday Foundation)

1990 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Prentice Alvin, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 2) The Stress of Her Regard, Tim Powers (Ace) 3) Soldier of Arete, Gene Wolfe (Tor) 4) Rusalka, C. J. Cherryh (Ballantine Del Rey) 5) Dream Baby, Bruce McAllister (Tor) 6) Lyonesse: Madouc, Jack Vance (Underwood-Miller) 7) White Jenna, Jane Yolen (Tor) 8) The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie (Viking UK; Viking) 9) Sorceress of Darshiva, David Eddings (Ballantine Del Rey) 10) A Child Across the Sky, Jonathan Carroll (Legend; Century) 11) Tourists, Lisa Goldstein (Simon & Schuster) 12) The Fortress of the Pearl, Michael Moorcock (Gollancz; Ace) 13) The Stone Giant, James P. Blaylock (Ace) 14) Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz) 15) Snow White and Rose Red, Patricia C. Wrede (Tor) 16) A Heroine of the World, Tanith Lee (DAW) 17) Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse, Sheri S. Tepper (Ace) 18) Ars Magica, Judith Tarr (Bantam Spectra) 19) Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light, Tanya Huff (DAW) 20) Apocalypse, Nancy Springer (Baen) 21) Queen's Gambit Declined, Melinda Snodgrass (Popular Library Questar) 22) Arthur, Stephen R. Lawhead (Crossway) 23) The Coachman Rat, David Henry Wilson (Robinson; Carroll & Graf) 24) Tours of the Black Clock, Steve Erickson (Poseidon) 25) The Cockroaches of Stay More, Donald Harington (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

1991 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (Macmillan Atheneum) 2) Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (Gollancz; Workman) 3) Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay (Roc) 4) Only Begotten Daughter, James Morrow (Morrow) 5) Thomas the Rhymer, Ellen Kushner (Morrow) 6) The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan (Tor) 7) The Blood of Roses, Tanith Lee (Legend) 8) Servant of the Empire, Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts (Doubleday Foundation) 9) Drink Down the Moon, Charles de Lint (Ace) 10) Rats and Gargoyles, Mary Gentle (Bantam UK) 11) Ghostwood, Charles de Lint (Pulphouse) 12) Moving Pictures, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz) 13) Dealing with Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) 14) Time and Chance, Alan Brennert (Tor) 15) In Between Dragons, Michael Kandel (Bantam Spectra) 16) Gossamer Axe, Gaèl Baudino (Penguin/Roc) 17) Chase the Morning, Michael Scott Rohan (Orbit) 18) Castleview, Gene Wolfe (Tor)

1992 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Beauty, Sheri S. Tepper (Doubleday Foundation) 2) The Little Country, Charles de Lint (Morrow) 3) Eight Skilled Gentlemen, Barry Hughart (Doubleday Foundation) 4) King of Morning, Queen of Day, Ian McDonald (Bantam Spectra) 5) The Rainbow Abyss, Barbara Hambly (Grafton; Ballantine Del Rey) 6) The Hereafter Gang, Neal, Barrett Jr (Mark V. Ziesing) 7) Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz) 8) Riverrun, S. P. Somtow (Avon) 9) Outside the Dog Museum, Jonathan Carroll (Macdonald) 10) King of the Dead, R. A. MacAvoy (Morrow) 11) Nothing Sacred, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (Doubleday Foundation) 12) The Sorceress and the Cygnet, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace) 13) The Revenge of the Rose, Michael Moorcock (Grafton; Ace) 14) Cloven Hooves, Megan Lindholm (Bantam Spectra) 15) The Magic Spectacles, James P. Blaylock (Morrigan) 16) The End-of-Everything Man, Tom De Haven (Doubleday Foundation) 17) Flying Dutch, Tom Holt (Orbit; St. Martin's) 18) Elsewhere, Will Shetterly (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) 19) The White Mists of Power, Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Roc) 20) The Architecture of Desire, Mary Gentle (Bantam UK) 21) Illusion, Paula Volsky (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)

1993 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Last Call, Tim Powers (Morrow) 2) The Spirit Ring, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) 3) Briar Rose, Jane Yolen (Tor) 4) A Song for Arbonne, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; Crown) 5) Was, Geoff Ryman (HarperCollins UK; Knopf) 6) Winds of Change, Mercedes Lackey (DAW) 7) The Magicians of Night (Magicians of the Night), Barbara Hambly (Ballantine Del Rey; HarperCollins UK) 8) The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan (Tor) 9) Domes of Fire, David Eddings (HarperCollins UK; Ballantine Del Rey) 10) Small Gods, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz) 11) Last Refuge, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (Bantam Spectra) 12) The Cutting Edge, Dave Duncan (Ballantine Del Rey) 13) A Sudden Wild Magic, Diana Wynne Jones (Morrow AvoNova) 14) The Gypsy, Steven Brust & Megan Lindholm (Tor) 15) Forest of the Night, S. P. Somtow (AvoNova) 16) Flying in Place, Susan Palwick

1994 FANTASY NOVEL 1) The Innkeeper's Song, Peter S. Beagle (Roc) 2) The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Michael Swanwick (Millennium; Morrow AvoNova) 3) To Green Angel Tower, Tad Williams (DAW) 4) The Thread That Binds the Bones, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (AvoNova) 5) Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon, Lisa Goldstein (Tor) 6) The Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan (Tor) 7) Deerskin, Robin McKinley (Ace) 8) Dog Wizard, Barbara Hambly (Ballantine Del Rey) 9) Lord of the Two Lands, Judith Tarr (Tor) 10) The Hollowing, Robert Holdstock (HarperCollins UK) 11) Faery in Shadow, C. J. Cherryh (Legend; Science Fiction Book Club) 12) The Porcelain Dove, Delia Sherman (Dutton) 13) Winter of the Wolf (The Belly of the Wolf), R. A. MacAvoy (Headline; Morrow) 14) The Far Kingdoms, Allan Cole & Chris Bunch (Ballantine Del Rey) 15) The Cygnet and the Firebird, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace) 16) The Wizard's Apprentice, S. P. Somtow (Atheneum) 17) Bones of the Past, Holly Lisle (Baen) 18) Dragon Star Book III: Skybowl, Melanie Rawn (DAW) 19) The Robin & the Kestrel, Mercedes Lackey (Baen)

1995 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Brittle Innings, Michael Bishop (Bantam) 2) Towing Jehovah, James Morrow (Harcourt Brace) 3) Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan (Tor) 4) Finder, Emma Bull (Tor) 5) Memory & Dream, Charles de Lint (Tor) 6) Love & Sleep, John Crowley (Bantam) 7) Five Hundred Years After, Steven Brust (Tor) 8) Storm Warning, Mercedes Lackey (DAW) 9) Larque on the Wing, Nancy Springer (Morrow AvoNova) 10) Summer King, Winter Fool, Lisa Goldstein (Tor) 11) Merlin's Wood, Robert Holdstock (HarperCollins UK) 12) A College of Magics, Caroline Stevermer (Tor) 13) The Warrior's Tale, Allan Cole & Chris Bunch (Legend; Ballantine Del Rey) 14) The Forest House, Marion Zimmer Bradley (Michael Joseph 1993; Viking) 15) Slow Funeral, Rebecca Ore (Tor) 16) Shadow of a Dark Queen, Raymond E. Feist (HarperCollins UK; Morrow) 17) Temporary Agency, Rachel Pollack (Orbit; St. Martin's) 18) Rhinegold, Stephan Grundy (Michael Joseph; Bantam) 19) The Dubious Hills, Pamela Dean (Tor) 20) Exiles 1: The Ruins of Ambrai, Melanie Rawn (DAW)

1996 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Alvin Journeyman, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 2) Waking the Moon, Elizabeth Hand (HarperPrism) 3) Fortress in the Eye of Time, C. J. Cherryh (HarperPrism) 4) The Lions of Al-Rassan, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; HarperPrism) 5) Resurrection Man, Sean Stewart (Ace) 6) The Silent Strength of Stones, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (AvoNova) 7) The Book of Atrix Wolfe, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace) 8) Blood, Michael Moorcock (Millennium; Morrow AvoNova) 9) Storm Rising, Mercedes Lackey (DAW) 10) City of Bones, Martha Wells (Tor) 11) Crown of Shadows, C. S. Friedman (DAW) 12) Maskerade, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz) 13) Zod Wallop, William Browning Spencer (St. Martin's) 14) Assassin's Apprentice, Robin Hobb (Bantam Spectra) 15) Stone of Tears, Terry Goodkind (Millennium; Tor) 16) The Tower of Beowulf, Parke Godwin (Morrow) 17) A Sorcerer and a Gentleman, Elizabeth Willey (Tor) 18) World Without End, Sean Russell (DAW) 19) Harp of Winds, Maggie Furey (Legend; Bantam Spectra)

1997 FANTASY NOVEL 1) A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin (HarperCollins Voyager; Bantam Spectra) 2) Lunatics, Bradley Denton (St. Martin's) 3) Winter Rose, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace) 4) Blameless in Abaddon, James Morrow (Harcourt Brace) 5) Royal Assassin, Robin Hobb (HarperCollins Voyager; Bantam Spectra) 6) A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan (Tor) 7) Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz) 8) Nadya, Pat Murphy (Tor) 9) The Prestige, Christopher Priest (Simon & Schuster UK/Touchstone 1995; St. Martin's) 10) The Wood Wife, Terri Windling (Tor) 11) One for the Morning Glory, John Barnes (Tor) 12) Walking the Labyrinth, Lisa Goldstein (Tor) 13) Ancient Echoes, Robert Holdstock (HarperCollins Voyager; Roc) 14) Clouds End, Sean Stewart (Ace) 15) The Golden Compass (UK title His Dark Materials 1: Northern Lights), Philip Pullman (Knopf 1995; Scholastic UK 1995) 16) Mother of Winter, Barbara Hambly (Ballantine Del Rey) 17) Fair Peril, Nancy Springer (Avon) 18) Blood of the Fold, Terry Goodkind (Tor) 19) Firebird, Mercedes Lackey (Baen) 20) The Golden Key, Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson & Kate Elliott (DAW) 21) The Dragon and the Unicorn, A. A. Attanasio (Hodder & Stoughton 1994; HarperPrism) 22) Sea Without a Shore, Sean Russell (DAW)

1998 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Earthquake Weather, Tim Powers (Tor) 2) Jack Faust, Michael Swanwick (Avon) 3) City on Fire, Walter Jon Williams (HarperPrism) 4) The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, Stephen King (Donald M. Grant) 5) Assassin's Quest, Robin Hobb (Bantam Spectra) 6) The Moon and the Sun, Vonda N. McIntyre (Pocket) 7) Freedom & Necessity, Steven Brust & Emma Bull (Tor) 8) Trader, Charles de Lint (Tor) 9) The Gift, Patrick O'Leary (Tor) 10) Winter Tides, James P. Blaylock (Ace) 11) The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman (Knopf) 12) Rose Daughter, Robin McKinley (Morrow Greenwillow) 13) Dogland, Will Shetterly (Tor) 14) King's Dragon, Kate Elliott (DAW) 15) Lord of the Isles, David Drake (Tor) 16) Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn, Robert Holdstock (Roc) 17) Running with the Demon, Terry Brooks (Ballantine Del Rey) 18) The Mines of Behemoth, Michael Shea (Baen) 19) My Soul to Keep, Tananarive Due (HarperCollins) 20) The Night Watch, Sean Stewart (Ace) 21) The Stars Dispose, Michaela Roessner (Tor) 22) The Blackgod, J. Gregory Keyes (Ballantine Del Rey)

1999 FANTASY NOVEL 1) A Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin (HarperCollins Voyager; Bantam Spectra) 2) Stardust, Neil Gaiman (DC/Vertigo; Avon 1999) 3) Mockingbird, Sean Stewart (Ace) 4) Heartfire, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 5) Fortress of Eagles, C. J. Cherryh (HarperPrism) 6) Newton's Cannon, J. Gregory Keyes (Ballantine Del Rey) 7) Song for the Basilisk, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace) 8*) Sailing to Sarantium, Guy Gavriel Kay (Earthlight UK; HarperPrism) 8*) Someplace to Be Flying, Charles de Lint (Tor) 10) Dragon's Winter, Elizabeth A. Lynn (Ace) 11) Prince of Dogs, Kate Elliott (DAW) 12) Dark Lord of Derkholm, Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow) 13) The One-Armed Queen, Jane Yolen (Tor) 14) Changer, Jane Lindskold (Avon Eos) 15) Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary, Pamela Dean (Tor) 16) The Gilded Chain, Dave Duncan (Avon Eos) 17) The Innamorati, Midori Snyder (Tor) 18*) Bhagavati, Kara Dalkey (Tor) 18*) The Book of Knights, Yves Meynard (Tor) 20) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone), J. K. Rowling (Bloomsbury 1997; Scholastic/Levine 1998)

2000 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling (Bloomsbury; Scholastic) 2) The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperPrism 2000) 3) Fortress of Owls, C. J. Cherryh (HarperPrism) 4) Dark Cities Underground, Lisa Goldstein (Tor) 5) Tamsin, Peter S. Beagle (Roc) 6) The Eternal Footman, James Morrow (Harcourt Brace) 7) Enchantment, Orson Scott Card (Ballantine Del Rey) 8) Mr. X, Peter Straub (Random House) 9) A Calculus of Angels, J. Gregory Keyes (Ballantine Del Rey) 10) The Marriage of Sticks, Jonathan Carroll (Gollancz; Tor) 11) Dragonshadow, Barbara Hambly (Ballantine Del Rey) 12) A Red Heart of Memories, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Ace) 13) The Rainy Season, James P. Blaylock (Ace) 14) Black Light, Elizabeth Hand (HarperPrism) 15) The Stars Compel, Michaela Roessner (Tor) 16) The Sub, Thomas M. Disch (Knopf) 17) Saint Fire, Tanith Lee (Overlook Press) 18) The Wild Swans, Peg Kerr (Warner Aspect) 19) Sea Dragon Heir, Storm Constantine (Gollancz; Tor 2000) 20) Rhapsody, Elizabeth Haydon (Tor)

2001 FANTASY NOVEL 1) A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin (HarperCollins Voyager; Bantam Spectra) 2) Declare, Tim Powers (Subterranean Press; Morrow 2001) 3) His Dark Materials 3: The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman (Knopf) 4) Perdido Street Station, China Miéville (Macmillan; Ballantine Del Rey 2001) 5) Ash: A Secret History, Mary Gentle (Gollancz; Eos) 6) Galveston, Sean Stewart (Ace) 7) Lord of Emperors, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada; HarperPrism) 8) Forests of the Heart, Charles de Lint (Tor) 9) The Truth, Terry Pratchett (Transworld; HarperCollins) 10) Fortress of Dragons, C. J. Cherryh (Eos) 11) The Tower at Stony Wood, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace) 12) Daemonomania, John Crowley (Bantam) 13) A Kiss of Shadows, Laurell K. Hamilton (Ballantine) 14) Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan (Tor) 15) White as Snow, Tanith Lee (Tor) 16) Prophecy, Elizabeth Haydon (Tor) 17) Ship of Destiny, Robin Hobb (HarperCollins Voyager; Bantam Spectra) 18) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling (Bloomsbury; Scholastic) 19*) Canyons, P. D. Cacek (Tor) 19*) King Kelson's Bride, Katherine Kurtz (Ace) 21) Empire of Unreason, J. Gregory Keyes (Ballantine Del Rey) 22*) Spindle's End, Robin McKinley (Putnam) 22*) Year of the Griffin, Diana Wynne Jones (Greenwillow) 24) Knight of the Demon Queen, Barbara Hambly (Ballantine Del Rey) 25) The Gate of Fire, Thomas Harlan (Tor) 26) The Grand Ellipse, Paula Volsky (Bantam Spectra)

2002 FANTASY NOVEL 1) American Gods, Neil Gaiman (Morrow) 2) The Other Wind, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt) 3) The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos) 4) The Wooden Sea, Jonathan Carroll (Tor) 5) Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins) 6) The Onion Girl, Charles de Lint (Tor) 7) Black House, Stephen King & Peter Straub (Random House) 8) From the Dust Returned, Ray Bradbury (Morrow) 9) Otherland: Sea of Silver Light, Tad Williams (DAW) 10) Fool's Errand, Robin Hobb (Voyager; Bantam Spectra) 11) The Dreamthief's Daughter, Michael Moorcock (Earthlight; Warner Aspect) 12) Smoking Poppy, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Pocket) 13) Mother of Kings, Poul Anderson (Tor) 14) Coldheart Canyon, Clive Barker (HarperCollins UK; HarperCollins) 15) Lirael, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin Australia) 16) Past the Size of Dreaming, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Ace) 17) The Beyond, Jeffrey Ford (Eos) 18) Kushiel's Dart, Jacqueline Carey (Tor) 19) Bold as Love, Gwyneth Jones (Gollancz) 20) The House in the High Wood, Jeffrey E. Barlough (Ace) 21) Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris (Ace) 22) The Shadows of God, J. Gregory Keyes (Del Rey) 23) The One Kingdom, Sean Russell (Orbit; Eos) 24) The Hauntings of Hood Canal, Jack Cady (St. Martin's) 25) Lost, Gregory Maguire (HarperCollins)

2003

FANTASY NOVEL 1) The Scar, China Miéville (Macmillan; Del Rey) 2) Night Watch, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins) 3) A Winter Haunting, Dan Simmons (Morrow) 4) White Apples, Jonathan Carroll (Tor) 5) Kushiel's Chosen, Jacqueline Carey (Tor) 6) Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde (Hodder & Stoughton; Viking 2003) 7) Ombria in Shadow, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace) 8) The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow) 9) The Fall of the Kings, Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman (Bantam Spectra) 10) A Fistful of Sky, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Ace) 11) The Alchemist's Door, Lisa Goldstein (Tor) 12) Voyage of the Shadowmoon, Sean McMullen (Tor) 13) The Facts of Life, Graham Joyce (Gollancz) 14) The Iron Grail, Robert Holdstock (Earthlight; Tor Jan 2004) 15) The Isle of Battle, Sean Russell (Eos) 16) A Bed of Earth, Tanith Lee (Overlook) 17) The Lady of the Sorrows, Cecilia Dart-Thornton (Macmillan Tor Australia; Warner Aspect) 18) Castles Made of Sand, Gwyneth Jones (Gollancz)

2004 FANTASY NOVEL 1) Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos) 2) Monstrous Regiment, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins) 3) The Light Ages, Ian R. MacLeod (Ace) 4) The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, Stephen King (Donald M. Grant/Scribner) 5) 1610: A Sundial in a Grave, Mary Gentle (Gollancz) 6) The War of the Flowers, Tad Williams (DAW) 7) The Briar King, Greg Keyes (Del Rey) 8) lost boy lost girl, Peter Straub (Random House) 9) Fool's Fate, Robin Hobb (Voyager; Bantam Spectra 2004) 10) The Salt Roads, Nalo Hopkinson (Warner) 11) The Crystal City, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 12) The Skrayling Tree, Michael Moorcock (Warner Aspect) 13) The Anvil of the World, Kage Baker (Tor) 14) In the Forests of Serre, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace) 15) Sunshine, Robin McKinley (Berkley) 16) Midnight Lamp, Gwyneth Jones (Gollancz) 17) Mortal Suns, Tanith Lee (Overlook) 18) The Night Country, Stewart O'Nan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

2005 FANTASY NOVEL # Iron Council, China Miéville (Del Rey)

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

1980 SF NOVEL 1) Titan, John Varley (Berkley/Putnam) 2) Jem, Frederik Pohl (St. Martin's) 3) The Fountains of Paradise, Arthur C. Clarke (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) 4) Stardance, Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson (Dial) 5) On Wings of Song, Thomas M. Disch (St. Martin's) 6) The Faded Sun: Kutath, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 7) The Road to Corlay, Richard Cowper (Pocket 1978) 8) Dragondrums, Anne McCaffrey (Atheneum) 9) Engine Summer, John Crowley (Doubleday) 10) The Face, Jack Vance (DAW) 11) Juniper Time, Kate Wilhelm (Harper & Row) 12) Transfigurations, Michael Bishop (Berkley/Putnam) 13) Roadmarks, Roger Zelazny (Ballantine Del Rey) 14) Kinsman, Ben Bova (Dial) 15) SS-GB, Len Deighton (Knopf) 16) Catacomb Years, Michael Bishop (Berkley/Putnam) 17) The Web Between the Worlds, Charles Sheffield (Ace) 18) Mayflies, Kevin, O'Donnell Jr (Berkley) 19) The Unlimited Dream Company, J. G. Ballard (Holt, Rinehart & Winston) 20) A Planet Called Treason, Orson Scott Card (St. Martin's) 21) A World Between, Norman Spinrad (Pocket) 22) The Two Faces of Tomorrow, James P. Hogan (Ballantine Del Rey) 23) The Day of the Klesh, M. A. Foster (DAW) 24) The Ringworld Engineers, Larry Niven (Phantasia 1980) 25) Janissaries, Jerry Pournelle (Ace)

1981 SF NOVEL 1) The Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge (The Dial Press/Quantum) 2) Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Frederik Pohl (Ballantine Del Rey) 3) The Ringworld Engineers, Larry Niven (Phantasia; Holt Rinehart and Winston) 4) Wizard, John Varley (Berkley/Putnam) 5) Timescape, Gregory Benford (Simon & Schuster) 6) Mockingbird, Walter Tevis (Doubleday) 7) Serpent's Reach, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 8) Firestarter, Stephen King (Phantasia; Viking) 9) The Number of the Beast, Robert A. Heinlein (Fawcett) 10) The Magic Labyrinth, Philip José Farmer (Berkley/Putnam) 11) Two to Conquer, Marion Zimmer Bradley (DAW) 12) Wild Seed, Octavia E. Butler (Doubleday) 13) Golem 100, Alfred Bester (Simon & Schuster) 14) Dragon's Egg, Robert L. Forward (Ballantine Del Rey) 15) Dangerous Games, Marta Randall (Pocket) 16) Songs from the Stars, Norman Spinrad (Simon & Schuster) 17) Songmaster, Orson Scott Card (Dial) 18) Eyes of Fire, Michael Bishop (Pocket) 19*) The Gardens of Delight, Ian Watson (Gollancz) 19*) Molly Zero, Keith Roberts (Gollancz) 21) Thrice Upon a Time, James P. Hogan (Ballantine Del Rey) 22) Waves, M. A. Foster (DAW) 23) First Channel, Jean Lorrah & Jacqueline Lichtenberg (Doubleday) 24) City Come A'Walking, John Shirley (Dell)

1982 SF NOVEL 1) The Many-Colored Land, Julian May (Houghton Mifflin) 2) Windhaven, George R. R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle (Timescape) 3) Downbelow Station, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 4) Dream Park, Larry Niven & Steven Barnes (Phantasia; Ace) 5) Project Pope, Clifford D. Simak (Ballantine Del Rey) 6) God-Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert (Putnam) 7) The Cool War, Frederik Pohl (Ballantine Del Rey) 8) Sharra's Exile, Marion Zimmer Bradley (DAW) 9) Oath of Fealty, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle (Phantasia; Timescape) 10) Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban (Summit) 11) The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick (Timescape) 12) The Book of Dreams, Jack Vance (DAW) 13) The Sardonyx Net, Elizabeth A. Lynn (Putnam) 14) King David's Spaceship, Jerry Pournelle (Simon & Schuster) 15) Worlds, Joe Haldeman (Viking) 16) At the Eye of the Ocean, Hilbert Schenck (Timescape) 17) Radix, A. A. Attanasio (Morrow) 18) The Unreasoning Mask, Philip José Farmer (Putnam) 19) Voyagers, Ben Bova (Doubleday) 20) Dream Dancer, Janet Morris (Putnam) 21) The Pride of Chanur, C. J. Cherryh (DAW 1982) 22) The Dreamers, James Gunn (Simon & Schuster) 23) Twelve Fair Kingdoms, Suzette Haden Elgin (Doubleday) 24) Giants' Star, James Hogan (Ballantine Del Rey) 25) The Affirmation, Christopher Priest (Scribners) 26) Deathhunter, Ian Watson (Gollancz) 27) VALIS, Philip K. Dick (Bantam) 28) Lilith, Jack L. Chalker (Ballantine Del Rey) 29) Systemic Shock, Dean Ing (Ace) 30*) In the Hands of Glory, Phyllis Eisenstein (Timescape) 30*) Wave Without a Shore, C. J. Cherryh (DAW)

1983 SF NOVEL 1) Foundation's Edge, Isaac Asimov (Doubleday) 2) 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke (Ballantine Del Rey) 3) Friday, Robert A. Heinlein (Holt, Rinehart & Winston) 4) The Pride of Chanur, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 5) Courtship Rite, Donald Kingsbury (Timescape) 6) Helliconia Spring, Brian W. Aldiss (Atheneum) 7) The Crystal Singer, Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine Del Rey) 8) Starburst, Frederik Pohl (Ballantine Del Rey) 9) Merchanter's Luck, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 10) Life, the Universe and Everything, Douglas Adams (Harmony) 11) The Golden Torc, Julian May (Houghton Mifflin) 12) Hawkmistress!, Marion Zimmer Bradley (DAW) 13) Roderick, John Sladek (Timescape) 14) No Enemy But Time, Michael Bishop (Timescape) 15) Eye of Cat, Roger Zelazny (Timescape) 16) The Descent of Anansi, Larry Niven & Steven Barnes (Tor) 17) Mindkiller, Spider Robinson (Holt, Rinehart & Winston) 18) A Rose for Armageddon, Hilbert Schenck (Timescape) 19) The White Plague, Frank Herbert (Putnam) 20) Coils, Roger Zelazny & Fred Saberhagen (Tor) 21) Wintermind, Marvin Kaye & Parke Godwin (Doubleday) 22) Birthright: The Book of Man, Mike Resnick (NAL) 23) Aurelia, R. A. Lafferty (Starblaze) 24) Light on the Sound, Somtow Sucharitkul (Timescape) 25) Nor Crystal Tears, Alan Dean Foster (Ballantine Del Rey) 26) The Fall of the Shell, Paul O. Williams (Ballantine Del Rey)

1984 SF NOVEL 1) Startide Rising, David Brin (Bantam) 2) The Robots of Dawn, Isaac Asimov (Doubleday) 3) Millennium, John Varley (Berkley) 4) Helliconia Summer, Brian W. Aldiss (Atheneum) 5) The Void Captain's Tale, Norman Spinrad (Timescape) 6) Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern, Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine Del Rey) 7) Thendara House, Marion Zimmer Bradley (DAW) 8) Against Infinity, Gregory Benford (Timescape) 9) Orion Shall Rise, Poul Anderson (Phantasia; Timescape) 10) The Nonborn King, Julian May (Houghton Mifflin) 11) Superluminal, Vonda N. McIntyre (Houghton Mifflin) 12) Welcome, Chaos, Kate Wilhelm (Houghton Mifflin) 13) The Crucible of Time, John Brunner (Ballantine Del Rey) 14) Worlds Apart, Joe Haldeman (Viking) 15) Valentine Pontifex, Robert Silverberg (Arbor House) 16) Gods of Riverworld, Philip José Farmer (Putnam) 17) The Citadel of the Autarch, Gene Wolfe (Timescape) 18) Forty Thousand in Gehenna, C. J. Cherryh (Phantasia) 19) A Matter for Men, David Gerrold (Timescape) 20) The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica, John Calvin Batchelor (Dial) 21) Wall Around a Star, Jack Williamson & Frederik Pohl (Ballantine Del Rey) 22) Golden Witchbreed, Mary Gentle (Gollancz) 23) Broken Symmetries, Paul Preuss (Timescape) 24) Roderick at Random, John Sladek (Granada) 25) There Is No Darkness, Joe Haldeman & Jack C. Haldeman II (Ace) 26) Code of the Lifemaker, James P. Hogan (Ballantine Del Rey) 27) Tik-Tok, John Sladek (Gollancz) 28) Transformer, M. A. Foster (DAW)

1985 SF NOVEL 1) The Integral Trees, Larry Niven (Ballantine Del Rey) 2) Demon, John Varley (Berkley/Putnam) 3) Heechee Rendezvous, Frederik Pohl (Ballantine Del Rey) 4) Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Samuel R. Delany (Bantam) 5) Chanur's Venture, C. J. Cherryh (Phantasia; DAW) 6) Across the Sea of Suns, Gregory Benford (Timescape) 7) West of Eden, Harry Harrison (Bantam) 8) Neuromancer, William Gibson (Ace) 9) The Final Encyclopedia, Gordon R. Dickson (Tor) 10) City of Sorcery, Marion Zimmer Bradley (DAW) 11) Icehenge, Kim Stanley Robinson (Ace) 12) The Peace War, Vernor Vinge (Bluejay) 13) World's End, Joan D. Vinge (Bluejay) 14) Clay's Ark, Octavia E. Butler (St. Martin's) 15) The Adversary, Julian May (Houghton Mifflin) 16) The Wild Shore, Kim Stanley Robinson (Ace) 17) Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert (Gollancz; Putnam) 18) Emergence, David R. Palmer (Bantam) 19) A Day for Damnation, David Gerrold (Timescape) 20) Native Tongue, Suzette Haden Elgin (DAW) 21) Green Eyes, Lucius Shepard (Ace) 22) Free Live Free, Gene Wolfe (Mark V. Ziesing) 23) Star Rebel, F. M. Busby (Bantam) 24) Dr. Adder, K. W. Jeter (Bluejay) 25) The Man Who Melted, Jack Dann (Bluejay) 26) The Glamour, Christopher Priest (Jonathan Cape) 27) The Practice Effect, David Brin (Bantam) 28) "Steam Bird", Hilbert Schenck (F&SF Apr,May 1984) 29) Them Bones, Howard Waldrop (Ace) 30) Circumpolar!, Richard Lupoff (Timescape)

1986 SF NOVEL 1) The Postman, David Brin (Bantam Spectra) 2) Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 3) Footfall, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle (Ballantine Del Rey) 4) Robots and Empire, Isaac Asimov (Doubleday) 5) Helliconia Winter, Brian W. Aldiss (Atheneum) 6) The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Robert A. Heinlein (Putnam) 7) Dinner at Deviant's Palace, Tim Powers (Ace) 8) Brightness Falls from the Air, James, Tiptree Jr (Tor) 9) Cuckoo's Egg, C. J. Cherryh (Phantasia; DAW) 10) Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harper & Row) 11) Blood Music, Greg Bear (Arbor House) 12) Eon, Greg Bear (Bluejay) 13) The Proteus Operation, James P. Hogan (Bantam Spectra) 14) The Kif Strike Back, C. J. Cherryh (Phantasia; DAW) 15) Contact, Carl Sagan (Simon & Schuster) 16) Artifact, Gregory Benford (Tor) 17) The Memory of Whiteness, Kim Stanley Robinson (Tor) 18) Schismatrix, Bruce Sterling (Arbor House) 19) Between the Strokes of Night, Charles Sheffield (Baen) 20) Chapterhouse: Dune, Frank Herbert (Putnam) 21) Ancient of Days, Michael Bishop (Arbor House) 22) Emprise, Michael P. Kube-McDowell (Berkley) 23) Dayworld, Philip José Farmer (Putnam) 24) Child of Fortune, Norman Spinrad (Bantam Spectra) 25) Tom O'Bedlam, Robert Silverberg (Donald I. Fine) 26) Starquake, Robert L. Forward (Ballantine Del Rey) 27) Kiteworld, Keith Roberts (Gollancz) 28) The Remaking of Sigmund Freud, Barry N. Malzberg (Ballantine Del Rey) 29) Five-Twelfths of Heaven, Melissa Scott (Baen) 30) The Darkling Wind, Somtow Sucharitkul (Bantam Spectra)

1987 SF NOVEL 1) Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 2) Heart of the Comet, Gregory Benford & David Brin (Bantam Spectra) 3) Count Zero, William Gibson (Arbor House) 4) The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood (Houghton Mifflin 1985; McClelland & Stewart 1985) 5) Foundation and Earth, Isaac Asimov (Doubleday) 6) Chanur's Homecoming, C. J. Cherryh (Phantasia; DAW) 7) Marooned in Realtime, Vernor Vinge (Bluejay) 8) The Songs of Distant Earth, Arthur C. Clarke (Ballantine Del Rey) 9) The Coming of the Quantum Cats, Frederik Pohl (Bantam Spectra) 10) Santiago, Mike Resnick (Tor) 11) Enigma, Michael P. Kube-McDowell (Berkley) 12) When Gravity Fails, George Alec Effinger (Arbor House 1987) 13) Lear's Daughters, M. Bradley Kellogg with William Rossow (NAL Signet) 14) Star of Gypsies, Robert Silverberg (Donald I. Fine) 15) Nerilka's Story, Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine Del Rey) 16) The Warrior's Apprentice, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) 17) The Moon Goddess and the Son, Donald Kingsbury (Baen) 18) Hardwired, Walter Jon Williams (Tor) 19) The Architect of Sleep, Steven R. Boyett (Ace) 20) Venus of Dreams, Pamela Sargent (Bantam Spectra) 21) The Nimrod Hunt, Charles Sheffield (Baen) 22) This Is the Way the World Ends, James Morrow (Henry Holt) 23) The Hercules Text, Jack McDevitt (Ace) 24) The Forever Man, Gordon R. Dickson (Ace) 25) The Ragged Astronauts, Bob Shaw (Gollancz) 26) Rebels' Seed, F. M. Busby (Bantam Spectra)

1988 SF NOVEL 1) The Uplift War, David Brin (Phantasia; Bantam Spectra) 2) When Gravity Fails, George Alec Effinger (Arbor House) 3) The Urth of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe (Tor) 4) The Forge of God, Greg Bear (Tor) 5) Life During Wartime, Lucius Shepard (Bantam) 6) The Annals of the Heechee, Frederik Pohl (Ballantine Del Rey) 7) Vacuum Flowers, Michael Swanwick (Arbor House) 8) The Smoke Ring, Larry Niven (Ballantine Del Rey) 9) Great Sky River, Gregory Benford (Bantam Spectra) 10) 2061: Odyssey Three, Arthur C. Clarke (Ballantine Del Rey) 11) The Legacy of Heorot, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle & Steven Barnes (Gollancz; Simon & Schuster) 12) To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Robert A. Heinlein (Ace/Putnam) 13) Memories, Mike McQuay (Bantam Spectra) 14) Fool's Run, Patricia A. McKillip (Warner) 15) The Secret Ascension, Michael Bishop (Tor) 16) The Tommyknockers, Stephen King (Putnam) 17) Dawn, Octavia E. Butler (Warner) 18) Intervention, Julian May (Houghton Mifflin) 19) After Long Silence, Sheri S. Tepper (Bantam Spectra) 20) Code Blue—Emergency!, James White (Ballantine Del Rey) 21) Way of the Pilgrim, Gordon R. Dickson (Ace) 22) Araminta Station, Jack Vance (Underwood-Miller; Tor) 23) Voice of the Whirlwind, Walter Jon Williams (Tor) 24) The Awakeners (Northshore; Southshore), Sheri S. Tepper (Science Fiction Book Club; Tor) 25) Still River, Hal Clement (Ballantine Del Rey) 26) Dover Beach, Richard Bowker (Bantam Spectra) 27) Rumors of Spring, Richard Grant (Bantam Spectra) 28) Liege-Killer, Christopher Hinz (St. Martin's) 29) In Conquest Born, C. S. Friedman (DAW) 30) Little Heroes, Norman Spinrad (Bantam Spectra) 31) Replay, Ken Grimwood (Arbor House) 32) Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (DC/Warner) 33) A Mask for the General, Lisa Goldstein (Bantam Spectra)

1989 SF NOVEL 1) Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh (Warner) 2) Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra) 3) Islands in the Net, Bruce Sterling (Morrow/Arbor House) 4) Prelude to Foundation, Isaac Asimov (Doubleday Foundation) 5) The Gold Coast, Kim Stanley Robinson (Tor) 6) Eternity, Greg Bear (Warner) 7) Dragonsdawn, Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine Del Rey) 8) Deserted Cities of the Heart, Lewis Shiner (Doubleday Foundation) 9) Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) 10) Araminta Station, Jack Vance (Tor 1987) 11) Alternities, Michael P. Kube-McDowell (Ace) 12) Adulthood Rites, Octavia E. Butler (Warner) 13) Catspaw, Joan D. Vinge (Warner) 14) At Winter's End, Robert Silverberg (Warner) 15) Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) 16) Ivory, Mike Resnick (Tor) 17) Wetware, Rudy Rucker (Avon) 18) Crazy Time, Kate Wilhelm (St. Martin's) 19) Venus of Shadows, Pamela Sargent (Doubleday Foundation) 20) Orphan of Creation, Roger MacBride Allen (Baen) 21) The Gate to Women's Country, Sheri S. Tepper (Doubleday Foundation) 22) The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks (Macmillan UK; St. Martin's) 23) Neon Lotus, Marc Laidlaw (Bantam Spectra) 24) Hellspark, Janet Kagan (Tor) 25) Chronosequence, Hilbert Schenck (Tor) 26) Children of the Thunder, John Brunner (Ballantine Del Rey) 27) Fire on the Mountain, Terry Bisson (Arbor House) 28) Terraplane, Jack Womack (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) 29) Starfire, Paul Preuss (Tor) 30) An Alien Light, Nancy Kress (Arbor House) 31) The Company Man, Joe Clifford Faust (Ballantine Del Rey)

1990 SF NOVEL 1) Hyperion, Dan Simmons (Doubleday Foundation) 2) Rimrunners, C. J. Cherryh (Warner) 3) Grass, Sheri S. Tepper (Doubleday Foundation) 4) Tides of Light, Gregory Benford (Bantam Spectra) 5) A Fire in the Sun, George Alec Effinger (Doubleday Foundation) 6) The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson (Tor) 7) Rama II, Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra) 8) Falcon, Emma Bull (Ace) 9) Phases of Gravity, Dan Simmons (Bantam Spectra) 10) The City, Not Long After, Pat Murphy (Doubleday Foundation) 11) Imago, Octavia E. Butler (Warner) 12) A Talent for War, Jack McDevitt (Ace) 13) Good News from Outer Space, John Kessel (Tor) 14) The Third Eagle, R. A. MacAvoy (Doubleday Foundation) 15) Buying Time (UK title The Long Habit of Living), Joe Haldeman (Morrow; NEL) 16) Homegoing, Frederik Pohl (Ballantine Del Rey) 17) Being Alien, Rebecca Ore (Tor) 18) Farewell Horizontal, K. W. Jeter (St. Martin's) 19) Out on Blue Six, Ian McDonald (Bantam Spectra) 20) Orbital Decay, Allen Steele (Ace) 21) The Child Garden, Geoff Ryman (Unwin Hyman) 22) Sugar Rain, Paul Park (Morrow) 23) Eden, Stanislaw Lem (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) 24) Dawn's Uncertain Light, Neal, Barrett Jr (NAL Signet) 25) Black Milk, Robert Reed (Donald I. Fine) 26) On My Way to Paradise, Dave Wolverton (Bantam Spectra) 27) The Renegades of Pern, Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine Del Rey) 28) The Queen of Springtime (US title The New Springtime), Robert Silverberg (Gollancz; Warner)

1991 SF NOVEL 1) The Fall of Hyperion, Dan Simmons (Doubleday Foundation) 2) Earth, David Brin (Bantam Spectra) 3) Queen of Angels, Greg Bear (Warner Questar) 4) The Vor Game, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) 5) Voyage to the Red Planet, Terry Bisson (Morrow) 6) Stranger in a Strange Land (original uncut edition), Robert A. Heinlein (Ace/Putnam 1991) 7) The Quiet Pools, Michael P. Kube-McDowell (Ace) 8) The Difference Engine, William Gibson & Bruce Sterling (Gollancz) 9) Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton (Knopf) 10) The Ring of Charon, Roger MacBride Allen (Tor) 11) Pegasus in Flight, Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine Del Rey) 12) Raising the Stones, Sheri S. Tepper (Doubleday Foundation) 13) Pacific Edge, Kim Stanley Robinson (Unwin Hyman; Tor) 14) The Hemingway Hoax, Joe Haldeman (Morrow) 15) Redshift Rendezvous, John E. Stith (Ace) 16) Summertide, Charles Sheffield (Ballantine Del Rey) 17) Polar City Blues, Katharine Kerr (Bantam Spectra) 18) The World at the End of Time, Frederik Pohl (Ballantine Del Rey) 19) Clarke County, Space, Allen Steele (Ace) 20) The Hollow Earth, Rudy Rucker (Morrow) 21) The Rowan, Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine Del Rey) 22) In the Country of the Blind, Michael F. Flynn (Baen) 23) The Ghost from the Grand Banks, Arthur C. Clarke (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra) 24) The Divide, Robert Charles Wilson (Doubleday Foundation) 25) Agviq, Michael Armstrong (Questar) 26) Heathern, Jack Womack (Tor)

1992 SF NOVEL 1) Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) 2) Xenocide, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 3) Bone Dance, Emma Bull (Ace) 4) The Summer Queen, Joan D. Vinge (Warner Questar) 5) All the Weyrs of Pern, Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine Del Rey) 6) Stations of the Tide, Michael Swanwick (Morrow) 7) Heavy Time, C. J. Cherryh (Warner Questar) 8) The Dark Beyond the Stars, Frank M. Robinson (Tor) 9) Synners, Pat Cadigan (Bantam Spectra) 10) Brain Child, George Turner (Morrow) 11) The Garden of Rama, Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee (Bantam Spectra) 12) Ecce and Old Earth, Jack Vance (Underwood-Miller; Tor) 13) A Woman of the Iron People, Eleanor Arnason (Morrow) 14) Russian Spring, Norman Spinrad (Bantam Spectra) 15) The Trinity Paradox, Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason (Bantam Spectra) 16) Death Qualified: A Mystery of Chaos, Kate Wilhelm (St. Martin's) 17) The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid, Rebecca Ore (Tor) 18) The Ragged World, Judith Moffett (St. Martin's) 19) Carve the Sky, Alexander Jablokov (Morrow) 20) The Difference Engine, William Gibson & Bruce Sterling (Gollancz 1990; Bantam Spectra) 21) Eternal Light, Paul J. McAuley (Gollancz) 22) Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede, Bradley Denton (Morrow)

1993 SF NOVEL 1) Doomsday Book, Connie Willis (Bantam Spectra) 2) Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins UK; Bantam Spectra) 3) The Hollow Man, Dan Simmons (Bantam Spectra) 4) A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge (Tor) 5) Steel Beach, John Varley (Ace/Putnam) 6) Anvil of Stars, Greg Bear (Legend; Warner Questar) 7) Chanur's Legacy, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 8) Mars, Ben Bova (Bantam Spectra) 9) The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 10) Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson (Bantam Spectra) 11) Worlds Enough and Time, Joe Haldeman (Morrow) 12) Crystal Line, Anne McCaffrey (Bantam UK; Ballantine Del Rey) 13) Count Geiger's Blues, Michael Bishop (Tor) 14) Hellburner, C. J. Cherryh (Warner Questar) 15) Sideshow, Sheri S. Tepper (Bantam Spectra) 16) Aristoi, Walter Jon Williams (Tor) 17) Labyrinth of Night, Allen Steele (Legend; Ace) 18) Mining the Oort, Frederik Pohl (Ballantine Del Rey) 19) Lord Kelvin's Machine, James P. Blaylock (Arkham House) 20) Hearts, Hands and Voices (The Broken Land), Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra) 21) A Million Open Doors, John Barnes (Tor) 22) Jaran, Kate Elliott (DAW) 23) Glass Houses, Laura J. Mixon (Tor) 24) China Mountain Zhang, Maureen F. McHugh (Tor) 25) A Deeper Sea, Alexander Jablokov (Morrow AvoNova) 26) Alien Earth, Megan Lindholm (Bantam Spectra) 27) Æstival Tide, Elizabeth Hand (Bantam Spectra)

1994 SF NOVEL 1) Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins UK; Bantam Spectra) 2) Moving Mars, Greg Bear (Tor) 3) Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress (Morrow AvoNova) 4) Virtual Light, William Gibson (Bantam Spectra) 5) Glory Season, David Brin (Orbit; Bantam Spectra) 6) Hard Landing, Algis Budrys (F&SF Oct/Nov 1992; Warner Questar) 7) The Call of Earth, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 8) A Plague of Angels, Sheri S. Tepper (Bantam Spectra) 9) Harvest of Stars, Poul Anderson (Tor) 10) Against a Dark Background, Iain M. Banks (Orbit; Bantam Spectra) 11) The Hammer of God, Arthur C. Clarke (Bantam Spectra) 12) Ring of Swords, Eleanor Arnason (Tor) 13) Powers That Be, Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (Ballantine Del Rey) 14) The Broken God, David Zindell (HarperCollins UK; Bantam Spectra) 15) Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford (Bantam Spectra) 16) Brother Termite, Patricia Anthony (Harcourt Brace) 17) Godspeed, Charles Sheffield (Tor) 18) Elvissey, Jack Womack (Tor) 19) Vanishing Point, Michaela Roessner (Tor) 20) Chimera, Mary Rosenblum (Ballantine Del Rey) 21) Red Dust, Paul J. McAuley (Gollancz) 22) The Gripping Hand, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle (Pocket) 23) Nightside the Long Sun, Gene Wolfe (Tor) 24) Timelike Infinity, Stephen Baxter (HarperCollins UK) 25) Assemblers of Infinity, Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason (Bantam Spectra 1992)

1995 SF NOVEL 1) Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) 2) Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler (Four Walls Eight Windows 1993) 3) Foreigner, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 4) Mother of Storms, John Barnes (Tor) 5) Beggars and Choosers, Nancy Kress (Tor) 6) Heavy Weather, Bruce Sterling (Bantam Spectra) 7) Worldwar: In the Balance, Harry Turtledove (Ballantine Del Rey) 8) Rama Revealed, Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee (Gollancz 1993; Bantam Spectra) 9) Caldé of the Long Sun, Gene Wolfe (Tor) 10) The Dolphins of Pern, Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine Del Rey) 11) The Engines of God, Jack McDevitt (Ace) 12) Furious Gulf, Gregory Benford (Bantam Spectra) 13) The Stars Are Also Fire, Poul Anderson (Tor) 14) Shadow's End, Sheri S. Tepper (Bantam Spectra) 15) Summer of Love, Lisa Mason (Bantam Spectra) 16) Necroville (US title Terminal Café), Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra) 17) Tripoint, C. J. Cherryh (Warner Aspect) 18) The Voices of Heaven, Frederik Pohl (Tor) 19) Feersum Endjinn, Iain M. Banks (Orbit; Bantam Spectra) 20) Half the Day is Night, Maureen F. McHugh (Tor) 21) Ring, Stephen Baxter (HarperCollins UK) 22) Permutation City, Greg Egan (Millennium) 23) Genetic Soldier, George Turner (Morrow AvoNova) 24) Climbing Olympus, Kevin J. Anderson (Warner Aspect) 25) Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Jack Womack (HarperCollins UK 1993; Atlantic Monthly) 26) Wildlife, James Patrick Kelly (Tor) 27) End of an Era, Robert J. Sawyer (Ace) 28) Solis, A. A. Attanasio (HarperCollins) 29) Pasquale's Angel, Paul J. McAuley (Gollancz; Morrow AvoNova) 30) Mysterium, Robert Charles Wilson (Bantam Spectra) 31) The Jericho Iteration, Allen Steele (Ace)

1996 SF NOVEL 1) The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson (Bantam Spectra) 2) Brightness Reef, David Brin (Bantam Spectra) 3) Invader, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 4) Legacy, Greg Bear (Tor) 5) The Time Ships, Stephen Baxter (HarperCollins UK; HarperPrism) 6) Sailing Bright Eternity, Gregory Benford (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra) 7) Chaga (Evolution's Shore), Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra) 8) Metropolitan, Walter Jon Williams (HarperPrism) 9) Worldwar: Tilting the Balance, Harry Turtledove (Ballantine Del Rey) 10) Slow River, Nicola Griffith (Ballantine Del Rey) 11) Amnesia Moon, Jonathan Lethem (Harcourt Brace) 12) Kaleidoscope Century, John Barnes (Tor) 13) Fairyland, Paul J. McAuley (Gollancz) 14) The Ganymede Club, Charles Sheffield (Tor) 15) The Killing Star, Charles Pellegrino & George Zebrowski (Morrow AvoNova) 16) Gaia's Toys, Rebecca Ore (Tor) 17) The Stone Garden, Mary Rosenblum (Ballantine Del Rey) 18) Testament, Valerie J. Freireich (Roc) 19) The Golden Nineties, Lisa Mason (Bantam Spectra) 20) Shadow Man, Melissa Scott (Tor) 21) The Terminal Experiment, Robert J. Sawyer (HarperPrism) 22) An Exaltation of Larks, Robert Reed (Tor)

1997 SF NOVEL 1) Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins Voyager; Bantam Spectra) 2) Endymion, Dan Simmons (Bantam Spectra) 3) Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) 4) Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) 5) Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling (Orion; Bantam Spectra) 6) Idoru, William Gibson (Putnam) 7) Inheritor, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 8) Night Lamp, Jack Vance (Underwood Books; Tor) 9) Fairyland, Paul J. McAuley (Gollancz 1995; Avon) 10) Exodus from the Long Sun, Gene Wolfe (Hodder & Stoughton; Tor) 11) Voyage, Stephen Baxter (HarperCollins Voyager; HarperPrism) 12) Beggars Ride, Nancy Kress (Tor) 13) Excession, Iain M. Banks (Orbit; Bantam Spectra) 14) The Ringworld Throne, Larry Niven (Ballantine Del Rey) 15) Children of the Mind, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 16) Otherland: City of Golden Shadow, Tad Williams (DAW) 17) Dreamfall, Joan D. Vinge (Warner Aspect) 18) Remnant Population, Elizabeth Moon (Baen) 19) Distress, Greg Egan (Millennium 1995) 20) Pirates of the Universe, Terry Bisson (Tor) 21) River of Dust, Alexander Jablokov (Morrow AvoNova) 22) Night Sky Mine, Melissa Scott (Tor) 23) The Other End of Time, Frederik Pohl (Tor) 24) Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Sheri S. Tepper (Bantam Spectra) 25) The Tranquillity Alternative, Allen Steele (Ace) 26) Oaths and Miracles, Nancy Kress (Tor) 27) Infinity's Shore, David Brin (Bantam Spectra)

1998 SF NOVEL 1) The Rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons (Bantam Spectra) 2) Antarctica, Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins Voyager) 3) Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman (Ace) 4) Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman, Walter M., Miller Jr, with Terry Bisson (Orbit; Bantam) 5) Finity's End, C. J. Cherryh (Warner) 6) / Slant, Greg Bear (Legend; Tor) 7) Diaspora, Greg Egan (Millennium; HarperPrism) 8) Fool's War, Sarah Zettel (Warner Aspect) 9) Titan, Stephen Baxter (HarperCollins Voyager; HarperPrism) 10) 3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke (Ballantine Del Rey) 11) The Reality Dysfunction, Peter F. Hamilton (Macmillan; Warner Aspect) 12) God's Fires, Patricia Anthony (Ace) 13) Corrupting Dr. Nice, John Kessel (Tor) 14) Destiny's Road, Larry Niven (Tor) 15) Eternity Road, Jack McDevitt (HarperPrism) 16) The Black Sun, Jack Williamson (Tor) 17) The Family Tree, Sheri S. Tepper (Avon) 18) Glimmering, Elizabeth Hand (HarperPrism) 19) Secret Passages, Paul Preuss (Tor) 20) The Fleet of Stars, Poul Anderson (Tor) 21) Mississippi Blues, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor) 22) The Calcutta Chromosome, Amitav Ghosh (Picador 1995; Ravi Dayal 1995) 23*) Dreaming Metal, Melissa Scott (Tor) 23*) Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Charles Sheffield (Bantam Spectra) 25) The Dazzle of Day, Molly Gloss (Tor) 26) Once a Hero, Elizabeth Moon (Baen) 27) Einstein's Bridge, John Cramer (Avon) 28) Deception Well, Linda Nagata (Bantam Spectra)

1999 SF NOVEL 1) To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis (Bantam Spectra) 2) Darwinia, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor) 3) The Alien Years, Robert Silverberg (HarperCollins Voyager; HarperPrism) 4) Distraction, Bruce Sterling (Bantam Spectra) 5) The Golden Globe, John Varley (Ace) 6) Cosm, Gregory Benford (Avon Eos) 7) Children of God, Mary Doria Russell (Villard) 8) Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler (Seven Stories Press) 9) Ports of Call, Jack Vance (Underwood Books; Tor) 10) Starfarers, Poul Anderson (Tor) 11*) Dinosaur Summer, Greg Bear (Warner Aspect) 11*) Six Moon Dance, Sheri S. Tepper (Avon Eos) 13) Maximum Light, Nancy Kress (Tor) 14) Moonseed, Stephen Baxter (HarperCollins Voyager; HarperPrism) 15) Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) 16) Mission Child, Maureen F. McHugh (Avon Eos) 17) Vast, Linda Nagata (Bantam Spectra) 18) Child of the River, Paul J. McAuley (Gollancz 1997; Avon Eos 1998) 19) Deepdrive, Alexander Jablokov (Avon Eos) 20) Girl in Landscape, Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday Anchor) 21) Otherland: River of Blue Fire, Tad Williams (DAW) 22) Earth Made of Glass, John Barnes (Tor) 23) The Children Star, Joan Slonczewski (Tor) 24) Bloom, Wil McCarthy (Ballantine Del Rey) 25) Noir, K. W. Jeter (Bantam Spectra) 26) Moonfall, Jack McDevitt (HarperPrism) 27) Prisoner of Conscience, Susan R. Matthews (Avon Eos) 28) Kirinya, Ian McDonald (Gollancz) 29) The Cassini Division, Ken MacLeod (Orbit; Tor 1999) 30) The Shapes of Their Hearts, Melissa Scott (Tor)

2000

SF NOVEL 1) Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson (Avon) 2) Darwin's Radio, Greg Bear (HarperCollins UK; Ballantine Del Rey) 3) A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge (Tor) 4) A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) 5) Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 6) Forever Free, Joe Haldeman (Ace) 7) Precursor, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 8) On Blue's Waters, Gene Wolfe (Tor) 9) The Naked God, Peter F. Hamilton (Macmillan UK; Warner Aspect) 10) Teranesia, Greg Egan (Gollancz; HarperPrism) 11) The Cassini Division, Ken MacLeod (Orbit 1998; Tor 1999) 12) The Martian Race, Gregory Benford (Warner Aspect) 13) Waiting, Frank M. Robinson (Forge) 14) Time: Manifold 1 (US edition Manifold: Time), Stephen Baxter (HarperCollins Voyager; Ballantine Del Rey) 15) All Tomorrow's Parties, William Gibson (Putnam) 16) Bios, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor) 17) The Far Shore of Time, Frederik Pohl (Tor) 18) Greenhouse Summer, Norman Spinrad (Tor) 19) Finity, John Barnes (Tor) 20) Ancients of Days, Paul J. McAuley (Gollancz 1998; Eos) 20*) Souls in the Great Machine, Sean McMullen (Tor) 22) Singer from the Sea, Sheri S. Tepper (Avon Eos) 23) The Extremes, Christopher Priest (Simon & Schuster UK 1998; St. Martin's) 24) The Conqueror's Child, Suzy McKee Charnas (Tor) 24*) Tower of Dreams, Jamil Nasir (Bantam Spectra)

2001 SF NOVEL 1) The Telling, Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt) 2) Eater, Gregory Benford (Eos) 3) Zeitgeist, Bruce Sterling (Bantam Spectra) 4) The Coming, Joe Haldeman (Ace) 5) In Green's Jungles, Gene Wolfe (Tor) 6) The Sky Road, Ken MacLeod (Orbit 1999; Tor) 7) Look to Windward, Iain M. Banks (Orbit) 8) Space: Manifold 2 (US title Manifold: Space), Stephen Baxter (HarperCollins Voyager; Ballantine Del Rey 2001) 9) Midnight Robber, Nalo Hopkinson (Warner Aspect) 10) Probability Moon, Nancy Kress (Tor) 11) Crescent City Rhapsody, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Avon Eos) 12) The Collapsium, Wil McCarthy (Ballantine Del Rey) 13) Marrow, Robert Reed (Tor) 14) The Fountains of Youth, Brian Stableford (Tor) 15) Genesis, Poul Anderson (Tor) 16) The Fresco, Sheri S. Tepper (Eos) 17) Shrine of Stars, Paul J. McAuley (Gollancz 1999; Eos) 18) Ventus, Karl Schroeder (Tor) 19) Candle, John Barnes (Tor) 20) Hunted, James Alan Gardner (HarperCollins Eos) 21) Colony Fleet, Susan R. Matthews (Eos) 22) Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace 2001) 23*) The Jazz, Melissa Scott (Tor) 23*) The Miocene Arrow, Sean McMullen (Tor) 25) Outlaw School, Rebecca Ore (Eos) 26) Mars Crossing, Geoffrey A. Landis (Tor) 27) Distance Haze, Jamil Nasir (Bantam Spectra) 28) Ashes of Victory, David Weber (Baen) 29) Infinity Beach, Jack McDevitt (HarperPrism)

2002 SF NOVEL 1) Passage, Connie Willis (Bantam) 2) Shadow of the Hegemon, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 3) The Chronoliths, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor) 4) Return to the Whorl, Gene Wolfe (Tor) 5) Defender, C. J. Cherryh (DAW) 6) Cosmonaut Keep, Ken MacLeod (Orbit 2000; Tor) 7) Nekropolis, Maureen F. McHugh (Eos) 8) Probability Sun, Nancy Kress (Tor) 9) Chasm City, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace 2000) 10) Origin: Manifold 3, Stephen Baxter (Voyager; Del Rey 2002) 11) The Pickup Artist, Terry Bisson (Tor) 12) Ship of Fools, Richard Paul Russo (Ace) 13) Terraforming Earth, Jack Williamson (Tor) 14) Appleseed, John Clute (Orbit; Tor 2002) 15) The Secret of Life, Paul McAuley (HarperCollins Voyager; Tor) 16) The Merchants of Souls, John Barnes (Tor) 17) Dark Light, Ken MacLeod (Orbit; Tor 2002) 18) Metaplanetary, Tony Daniel (Eos) 19) Dervish Is Digital, Pat Cadigan (Macmillan 2000; Tor) 20) Going, Going, Gone, Jack Womack (Voyager 2000; Grove Press) 21) Limit of Vision, Linda Nagata (Tor) 22) The Cassandra Complex, Brian Stableford (Tor) 23) Eyes of the Calculor, Sean McMullen (Tor) 24) Maelstrom, Peter Watts (Tor) 25) The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde (Hodder & Stoughton; Viking) 26) A Paradigm of Earth, Candas Jane Dorsey (Tor) 27) Deepsix, Jack McDevitt (Eos) 28) Whole Wide World, Paul McAuley (Voyager; Tor) 29) Angel of Destruction, Susan R. Matthews (Roc)

2003

SF NOVEL 1) The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson (Bantam) 2) Kiln People, David Brin (Tor) 3) Bones of the Earth, Michael Swanwick (Eos) 4) Redemption Ark, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace Jun 2003) 5) Coyote, Allen Steele (Ace) 6) Light, M. John Harrison (Gollancz) 7) Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card (Tor) 8) Chindi, Jack McDevitt (Ace) 9) The Separation, Christopher Priest (Scribner UK) 10) Schild's Ladder, Greg Egan (Gollancz; Eos) 11) The Mount, Carol Emshwiller (Small Beer Press) 12) Probability Space, Nancy Kress (Tor) 13) Guardian, Joe Haldeman (Ace) 14) Engine City, Ken MacLeod (Orbit; Tor Jan 2003) 15) Ruled Britannia, Harry Turtledove (NAL) 16*) Evolution, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Del Rey Feb 2003) 16*) Vitals, Greg Bear (Del Rey) 18) Lion's Blood, Steven Barnes (Warner Aspect) 19) The Impossible Bird, Patrick O'Leary (Tor) 20) The Sky So Big and Black, John Barnes (Tor) 21) The Visitor, Sheri S. Tepper (Eos) 22) Light Music, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Eos) 23) Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) 24) Permanence, Karl Schroeder (Tor) 25) The Praxis, Walter Jon Williams (Earthlight; Avon Oct 2003) 26) Spaceland, Rudy Rucker (Tor) 27) The Omega Expedition, Brian Stableford (Tor)

2004 SF NOVEL 1) Ilium, Dan Simmons (Eos) 2) Pattern Recognition, William Gibson (Putnam) 3) Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson (Morrow) 4) Darwin's Children, Greg Bear (Del Rey) 5) The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon (Orbit 2002 2002; Ballantine) 6) Absolution Gap, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace 2004) 7) Singularity Sky, Charles Stross (Ace) 8) Omega, Jack McDevitt (Ace) 9) Coalescent, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Del Rey) 10) Blind Lake, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor) 11) The Golden Age: The Phoenix Exultant; The Golden Transcendence, John C. Wright (Tor two volumes; SFBC) 12) Nothing Human, Nancy Kress (Golden Gryphon) 13) Natural History, Justina Robson (Macmillan) 14) Succession: The Risen Empire; The Killing of Worlds, Scott Westerfeld (Tor two volumes; SFBC) 15) The Poison Master, Liz Williams (Bantam Spectra) 16) Sister Alice, Robert Reed (Orbit; Tor) 17) Felaheen: The Third Arabesk (Earthlight) 18) Memory, Linda Nagata (Tor) 19) The Lost Steersman, Rosemary Kirstein (Del Rey) 20) The Line of Polity, Neal Asher (Tor UK)

2005 SF NOVEL # The Baroque Cycle: The Confusion; The System of the World, Neal Stephenson (Morrow)