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One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back
yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once,
then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best
friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big
Blackout. It would shape their lives (read
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Strange and Mr. Norrell by
Susanna Clarke
2004
Paladin of
Souls by
Lois McMaster Bujold
2003
Hominids by
Robert J. Sawyer
2002
American Gods
by
Neil Gaiman
2001
Harry Potter
and The Goblet of Fire by
J. K. Rowling
2000
A Deepness in
the Sky by
Vernor Vinge
1999
To Say Nothing
of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump At Last by
Connie Willis
1998
Forever Peace
by
Joe Haldeman
1997
Blue Mars
by
Kim Stanley Robinson
1996
The Diamond
Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by
Neal Stephenson
1995
Mirror Dance
by
Lois Mcmaster Bujold
1994
Green Mars
by
Kim Stanley Robinson
1993
Doomsday Book
by
Connie Willis and
A Fire Upon the
Deep by
Vernor Vinge
1992
Barrayar by
Lois McMaster Bujold
1991
The Vor Game:
The Continuing Adventures of Miles Vorkosigan by
Lois McMaster Bujold
1990
Hyperion by
Dan Simmons
1989
Cyteen by
C. J. Cherryh
1988
The Uplift War
by
David Brin
1987
Speaker for the
Dead by
Orson Scott Card
1986
Ender's Game
by
Orson Scott Card
1985
Neuromancer
by
William Gibson
1984
Startide Rising
by
David Brin
1983
Foundation's
Edge by
Isaac Asimov
1982
Downbelow
Station by
C. J. Cherryh
1981
The Snow Queen
by
Joan D. Vinge
1980
The Fountains
of Paradise by
Arthur Charles Clarke
1979
Dreamsnake
by
Vonda N. Mcintyre
1978
Gateway by
Frederik Pohl
1977
Where Late the
Sweet Birds Sang by
Kate Wilhelm
1976
The Forever War
by
Joe Haldeman
1975
The
Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by
Ursula Le Guin
1974
Rendezvous With
Rama by
Arthur Charles Clarke
1973
The Gods
Themselves by
Isaac Asimov
1972
To Your
Scattered Bodies by
Philip Jose Farmer
1971
Ringworld
by
Larry Niven
1970
The Left Hand
of Darkness by
Ursula Le Guin
1969
Stand on
Zanzibar by
John Brunner
1968
Lord of Light
by
Roger Zelazny
1967
The Moon Is a
Harsh Mistress by
Robert A. Heinlein
1966
Dune by
Frank Herbert and
This Immortal by
Roger Zelazny
1965
The Wanderer
by
Fritz Leiber
1964
Way
Station by
Clifford D. Simak
1963
The Man in the
High Castle by
Philip K. Dick
1962
Stranger in a
Strange Land by
Robert A. Heinlein
1961
A Canticle for
Leibowitz by
Walter M. Miller
1960
Starship
Troopers by
Robert A. Heinlein
1959
A Case of
Conscience by
James Blish
1958
The Big Time
by
Fritz Leiber
1957 No award was given.
1956
Double Star
by
Robert A Heinlein
1955
They'd Rather Be Right by
Frank Riley
1954 No award was given.
1953
The Demolished
Man by
Alfred Bester