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The 1970s

Not every book published in the 1970s: the 90 that were shortlisted for, or won, Best Novel at the British Science Fiction Award, Hugo Award or Nebula Award.

By year of publication

  • And Chaos Died — Joanna Russ (1970)
  • Ringworld — Larry Niven (1970)
  • Tau Zero — Poul Anderson (1970)
  • The Moment of Eclipse — Brian W. Aldiss (1970)
  • The Steel Crocodile — D. G. Compton (1970)
  • The Year of the Quiet Sun — Wilson Tucker (1970)
  • Tower of Glass — Robert Silverberg (1970)
  • A Time of Changes — Robert Silverberg (1971)
  • Dragonquest — Anne McCaffrey (1971)
  • Half Past Human — T. J. Bass (1971)
  • Jack of Shadows — Roger Zelazny (1971)
  • Margaret and I — Kate Wilhelm (1971)
  • Star Light — Hal Clement (1971)
  • The Book of Skulls — Robert Silverberg (1971)
  • The Byworlder — Poul Anderson (1971)
  • The Devil Is Dead — R. A. Lafferty (1971)
  • The Lathe of Heaven — Ursula K. Le Guin (1971)
  • To Your Scattered Bodies Go — Philip José Farmer (1971)
  • 334 — Thomas M. Disch (1972)
  • Dying Inside — Robert Silverberg (1972)
  • Le città invisibili — Italo Calvino (1972)
  • The Gods Themselves — Isaac Asimov (1972)
  • The Iron Dream — Norman Spinrad (1972)
  • The Sheep Look Up — John Brunner (1972)
  • There Will Be Time — Poul Anderson (1972)
  • What Entropy Means to Me — George Alec Effinger (1972)
  • When Harlie Was One — David Gerrold (1972)
  • Gravity's Rainbow — Thomas Pynchon (1973)
  • Protector — Larry Niven (1973)
  • Rendezvous with Rama — Arthur C. Clarke (1973)
  • The Embedding — Ian Watson (1973)
  • The Man Who Folded Himself — David Gerrold (1973)
  • The People of the Wind — Poul Anderson (1973)
  • Time Enough for Love — Robert A. Heinlein (1973)
  • A Midsummer Tempest — Poul Anderson (1974)
  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said — Philip K. Dick (1974)
  • Inverted World — Christopher Priest (1974)
  • The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia — Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)
  • The Forever War — Joe Haldeman (1974)
  • The Godwhale — T. J. Bass (1974)
  • The Mote in God's Eye — Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven (1974)
  • A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire — Michael Bishop (1975)
  • Autumn Angels — Arthur Byron Cover (1975)
  • Dhalgren — Samuel R. Delany (1975)
  • Guernica Night — Barry N. Malzberg (1975)
  • Missing Man — Katherine MacLean (1975)
  • Orbitsville — Bob Shaw (1975)
  • Ragtime — E. L. Doctorow (1975)
  • The Birthgrave — Tanith Lee (1975)
  • The Computer Connection — Alfred Bester (1975)
  • The Exile Waiting — Vonda N. McIntyre (1975)
  • The Female Man — Joanna Russ (1975)
  • The Heritage of Hastur — Marion Zimmer Bradley (1975)
  • The Jonah Kit — Ian Watson (1975)
  • The Stochastic Man — Robert Silverberg (1975)
  • Brontomek! — Michael G. Coney (1976)
  • Doorways in the Sand — Roger Zelazny (1976)
  • Inferno — Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven (1976)
  • Islands — Marta Randall (1976)
  • Man Plus — Frederik Pohl (1976)
  • Shadrach in the Furnace — Robert Silverberg (1976)
  • Triton — Samuel R. Delany (1976)
  • Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang — Kate Wilhelm (1976)
  • A Scanner Darkly — Philip K. Dick (1977)
  • Cirque — Terry Carr (1977)
  • Gateway — Frederik Pohl (1977)
  • In the Ocean of Night — Gregory Benford (1977)
  • Lucifer's Hammer — Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven (1977)
  • Moonstar Odyssey — David Gerrold (1977)
  • Sword of the Demon — Richard A. Lupoff (1977)
  • The Forbidden Tower — Marion Zimmer Bradley (1977)
  • A.K.A.: A Cosmic Fable — Rob Swigart (1978)
  • Blind Voices — Tom Reamy (1978)
  • Dreamsnake — Vonda N. McIntyre (1978)
  • Kalki — Gore Vidal (1978)
  • Strangers — Gardner Dozois (1978)
  • The Faded Sun: Kesrith — C. J. Cherryh (1978)
  • The Road to Corlay — Richard Cowper (1978)
  • The White Dragon — Anne McCaffrey (1978)
  • A World Between — Norman Spinrad (1979)
  • Engine Summer — John Crowley (1979)
  • Harpist in the Wind — Patricia A. McKillip (1979)
  • Jem — Frederik Pohl (1979)
  • Juniper Time — Kate Wilhelm (1979)
  • On Wings of Song — Thomas M. Disch (1979)
  • The Fountains of Paradise — Arthur C. Clarke (1979)
  • The Ringworld Engineers — Larry Niven (1979)
  • The Unlimited Dream Company — J. G. Ballard (1979)
  • Titan — John Varley (1979)
  • Transfigurations — Michael Bishop (1979)