Coverage · decade
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)