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Chronology by the decade - 1980s

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1989

"Light Raid" by Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice
"A Rage For Revenge" by David Gerrold
"Soldier Of Arete" by Gene Wolfe
"The Archivist" by Gill Alderman
"A Talent For War" by Jack McDevitt
"Twistor" by John Cramer
"Prisoner Of Dreams" by Karen Ripley
"The Barsoom Project" by Larry Niven and Stephen Barnes
"Gypsies" by Robert Charles Wilson
"The Night Mayor" by Kim Newman

1988

"The Ascension Factor" by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom
"Crazy Time" by Kate Wilhelm
"Falling Free" by Lois McMaster Bujold
"Final Circuit" by Melinda M Snodgrass
"Treason" by Orson Scott Card
"Metrophage" by Richard Kadrey
"Mona Lisa Overdrive" by William Gibson
"Forgotten Life" by Brian W. Aldiss
"Outpassage" by Janet Morris and Chris Morris
"Red Prophet" by Orson Scott Card
"Fade" by Robert Cormier
"Orphan Of Creation" by Roger MacBride Allen
"Mother London" by Michael Moorcock

1987

"Sea Of Glass" by Barry B. Longyear
"Lincoln's Dreams" by Connie Willis
"The Forge of God" by Greg Bear
"Great Sky River" by Gregory Benford
"The Rapture Effect" by Jeffrey A. Carver
"Tool Of The Trade" by Joe Haldeman
"The Shift Key" by John Brunner
"Life During Wartime" by Lucius Shepard
"The Kindly Ones" by Melissa Scott
"Mercedes Nights" by Michael Weaver
"Little Heroes" by Norman Spinrad
"Dawn" by Octavia Butler
"Wyrms" by Orson Scott Card
"Mindplayers" by Pat Cadigan

1986

"Redworld" by Charles L. Harness
"Texas On The Rocks" by Daniel da Cruz
"The Falling Woman" by Pat Murphy
"Halo" by Paul Cook
"Gilpin's Space" by Reginald Bretnor
"A Hidden Place" by Robert Charles Wilson
"Marooned In Realtime" by Vernor Vinge
"Count Zero" by William Gibson
"The Reality Matrix" by John Dalmas
"The Ragged Astronauts" by Bob Shaw
"Wild Cards 1" by George R. R. Martin
"The Planet On The Table" by Kim Stanley Robinson

1985

"Privateers" by Ben Bova
"Between The Strokes OF Night" by Charles Sheffield
"The Postman" by David Brin
"Free Live Free" by Gene Wolfe
"Eon" by Greg Bear
"Footfall" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
"Five Twelfths Of Heaven" by Melissa Scott
"In The Drift" by Michael Swanwick
"Knight Moves" by Walter John Williams
"Helliconia Summer" by Brian W. Aldiss
"Helliconia Winter" by Brian W. Aldiss

1984

"The Practice Effect" by David Brin
"A Day For Damnation" by David Gerrold
"Empire of the Sun" by J. G. Ballard
"Demon" by John Varley
"Eternity" by Mack Reynolds and Dean Ing
"Blank Slate" by Mark J. McGarry
"The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike" by Philip K. Dick
"Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand" by Samuel R. Delaney
"Airship Nine" by Thomas Block
"The Peace War" by Vernor Vinge
"Across Realtime" by Vernor Vinge
"Neuromancer" by William Gibson
"The Man In The Tree" by Damon Knight
"The Tides Of Time" by John Brunner

1983

"Forty Thousand In Gehenna" by C. J. Cherryh
"A Matter For Men" by David Gerrold
"The Lazarus Effect" by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom
"Rebel In Time" by Harry Harrison
"There Is No Darkness" by Joe Haldeman and Jack C. Haldeman II
"The Dragon Waiting" by John M. Ford
"India's Story" by Kathlyn S. Starbuck
"The Glory Game" by Keith Laumer
"ORA:CLE" by Kevin O'Donnell Jr.
"Orion Shall Rise" by Poul Anderson
"Superluminal" by Vonda N. McIntyre
"The Winds of Altair" by Ben Bova

1982

"The White Plague" by Frank Herbert
"Invasion Earth" by Harry Harrison
"A Rose For Armageddon" by Hilbert Schenk
"The Crucible Of Time" by John Brunner
"War Of Omission" by Kevin O'Donnell Jr.
"Software" by Rudy Rucker
"Helliconia Spring" by Brian Aldiss
"War Of Omission" by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.

1981

"Downbelow Station" by C. J. Cherryh
"Wave Without A Shore" by C. J. Cherryh
"Bound In Time" by D. F. Jones
"Strength Of Stones" by Greg Bear
"Janissaries" by Jerry Pournelle
"The Deceivers" by Alfred Bester
"Where Time Winds Blow" by Robert Holdstock
"Starworld" by Harry Harrison
"The Many-Coloured Land" by Julian May
"The Golden Torc" by Julian May
"Oath Of Fealty" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

1980

"Direct Descent" by Frank Herbert
"Shiva Descending" by Gregory Benford and William Rotsler
"Homeworld" by Harry Harrison
"King David's Spaceship" by Jerry Pournelle
"The Ringworld Engineers" by Larry Niven
"Wild Seed" by Octavia E. Butler
"Sundiver" by David Brin