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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 Steven Barnes
"Gypsies" by Robert Charles Wilson
"Nemesis" by Isaac Asimov
"Victims Of The Nova" by John Brunner
"Good News From Outer Space" by John Kessel
"Farewell Horizontal" by K. W. Jeter
"The Night Mayor" by Kim Newman
"The Abyss" by Orson Scott Card
"Rimrunners" by C. J. Cherryh
"Black Milk" by Robert Reed

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
"Red Prophet" by Orson Scott Card
"Fade" by Robert Cormier
"Orphan Of Creation" by Roger MacBride Allen
"Beyond Heaven's River" by Greg Bear
"Eternity" by Greg Bear
"A Matter Of Oaths" by Helen Wright
"The Player Of Games" by Iain M. Banks
"Araminta Station" by Jack Vance
"Ambient" by Jack Womack
"The Man-Kzin Wards" by Larry Niven, Poul Anderson and Dean Ing
"Final Circuit" by Melinda M. Snodgrass
"Mother London" by Michael Moorcock
"The War Against Chaos" by Anita Mason
"Adulthood Rites" by Octavia E. Butler
"Outpassage" by Janet Morris and Chris Morris
"Brasyl" by Ian McDonald
"Inner Eclpise" by Richard Paul Russo
"Children Of The Thunder" by John Brunner

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 E. Butler
"Wyrms" by Orson Scott Card
"Mindplayers" by Pat Cadigan
"The Uplift Wars" by David Brin
"The Annals Of The Heechee" by Frederik Pohl
"Infernal Devices" by K. W. Jeter
"The Net" by Loren J. MacGregor
"The Empress Of Earth" by Melissa Scott
"Fool's Run" by Patricia McKillip
"Equal Rites" by Terry Pratchett
"Mort" by Terry Pratchett
"Stranger Tides" by Tim Powers
"K.I.D.S." by Trevor Hoyle
"The Dark Of Creation" by J. G. Ballard
"Seventh Son" by Orson Scott Card
"The Deep" by John Crowley
"Exit Earth" by Martin Caidin
"The Legacy Of Heorot" by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes
"Sphere" by Michael Crichton
"Memories" by Mike McQuay
"Expecting Someone Taller" by Tom Holt

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
"The God Game" by Andrew M. Greeley
"Heart Of The Comet" by David Brin and Gregory Benford
"Foundation and Earth" by Isaac Asimov
"Circuit" by Melinda M. Snodgrass
"Lords Of The Levels" by Michael Bentine
"Ghost" by Piers Anthony
"The Light Fantastic" by Terry Pratchett
"Man Of Two Worlds" by Frank Herbert and Brian Herbert
"Replay" by Ken Grimwood
"Viriconium Nights" by M. John Harrison
"Blood Of Amber" by Roger Zelazny
"The Bones Of God" by Stephen Leigh
"Across Realtime" by Vernor Vinge

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 Jon Williams
"Helliconia Summer" by Brian W. Aldiss
"Helliconia Winter" by Brian W. Aldiss
"Blood Music" by Greg Bear
"1983_Millennium" by John Varley
"The Glass Hammer" by K. W. Jeter
"Limits" by Larry Niven
"Night Of Power" by Spider Robinson
"The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" by Robert A. Heinlein
"CV" by Damon Knight
"Black Star Rising" by Frederik Pohl
"Dealing In Futures" by Joe Haldeman
"Trumps Of Doom" by Roger Zelazny

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. Delany
"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
"Fire Pattern" by Bob Shaw
"Voyager In night" by C. J. Cherryh
"Theatre Of Timesmiths" by Garry Kilworth
"Continent Of Lies" by James Morrow
"Worlds End" by Joan D. Vinge
"Icehenge" by Kim Stanley Robinson
"Bearing an Hourglass" by Piers Anthony
"Crewel Lye" by Piers Anthony
"Emergence" by David R. Palmer
"The Adversary" by Julian May
"Heechee Rendevous" by Frederik Pohl
"The Wild Shore" by Kim Stanley Robinson
"Mythago Wood" by Robert Holdstock

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
"Chekhov's Journey" by Ian Watson
"Rainbow Cadenza" by J. Neil Schulman
"The Non Born King" by Julian May
"Dream Thief" by Stephen Lawhead
"The Anubis Gates" by Tim Powers
"Computer Eye" by A. E. Van Vogt
"Code Of The Lifemaker" by James P. Hogan
"The Celestial Steam Locomotive" by Michael Coney
"Unicorn Variations" by Roger Zelazny

1982

"The White Plague" by Frank Herbert
"Invasion Earth" by Harry Harrison
"A Rose For Armageddon" by Hilbert Schenck
"The Crucible Of Time" by John Brunner
"War Of Omission" by Kevin O'Donnell Jr.
"Software" by Rudy Rucker
"Helliconia Spring" by Brian W. Aldiss
"Foundation's Edge" by Isaac Asimov
"War Of Omission" by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
"Stargate" by Pauline Gedge
"Juxtaposition" by Piers Anthony
"Dilvish, The Damned" by Roger Zelazny
"Eye of Cat" by Roger Zelazny
"The Eye Of The Queen" by Phillip Mann
"Chimera" by Stephen Gallagher
"Pzyche" by Amanda Hemingway
"The Descent Of Anansi" by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes

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
"Dream Park" by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
"Night Of The Running Man" by Lee Wells
"Blue Adept" by Piers Anthony
"Madwand" by Roger Zelazny
"The Changing Land" by Roger Zelazny
"Strata" by Terry Pratchett
"Voyagers" by Ben Bova

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
"The Priests Of Psi" by Frank Herbert
"The Patchwork Girl" by Larry Niven
"Split Infinity" by Piers Anthony
"The Last Defender Of Camelot" by Roger Zelazny
"Serpent's Reach" by C. J. Cherryh
"Thrice Upon A Time" by James P. Hogan
"The Visitors" by Clifford D. Simak
"The Russian Intelligence" by Michael Moorcock
"Mockingbird" by Walter Tevis