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The 1990s

Not every book published in the 1990s: the 136 that were shortlisted for, or won, Best Novel at the British Science Fiction Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Hugo Award or Nebula Award. For the Arthur C. Clarke Award, mostly winners: its shortlists are largely unrecorded.

By year of publication

  • Earth — David Brin (1990)
  • Mary Reilly — Valerie Martin (1990)
  • Only Begotten Daughter — James Morrow (1990)
  • Queen of Angels — Greg Bear (1990)
  • Rats and Gargoyles — Mary Gentle (1990)
  • Redshift Rendezvous — John E. Stith (1990)
  • Take Back Plenty — Colin Greenland (1990)
  • Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea — Ursula K. Le Guin (1990)
  • The Difference Engine — Bruce Sterling, William Gibson (1990)
  • The Fall of Hyperion — Dan Simmons (1990)
  • The Quiet Pools — Michael P. Kube-McDowell (1990)
  • The Vor Game — Lois McMaster Bujold (1990)
  • Use of Weapons — Iain M. Banks (1990)
  • All the Weyrs of Pern — Anne McCaffrey (1991)
  • Barrayar — Lois McMaster Bujold (1991)
  • Bone Dance — Emma Bull (1991)
  • Eternal Light — Paul J. McAuley (1991)
  • He, She and It — Marge Piercy (1991)
  • Orbital Resonance — John Barnes (1991)
  • Raft — Stephen Baxter (1991)
  • Sarah Canary — Karen Joy Fowler (1991)
  • Stations of the Tide — Michael Swanwick (1991)
  • Synners — Pat Cadigan (1991)
  • The Architecture of Desire — Mary Gentle (1991)
  • The Summer Queen — Joan D. Vinge (1991)
  • Witches Abroad — Terry Pratchett (1991)
  • Xenocide — Orson Scott Card (1991)
  • A Fire Upon the Deep — Vernor Vinge (1992)
  • A Million Open Doors — John Barnes (1992)
  • Briar Rose — Jane Yolen (1992)
  • China Mountain Zhang — Maureen F. McHugh (1992)
  • Doomsday Book — Connie Willis (1992)
  • Fools — Pat Cadigan (1992)
  • Hearts, Hands and Voices — Ian McDonald (1992)
  • Hot Head — Simon Ings (1992)
  • Lost Futures — Lisa Tuttle (1992)
  • Red Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson (1992)
  • Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson (1992)
  • Steel Beach — John Varley (1992)
  • A Night in the Lonesome October — Roger Zelazny (1993)
  • Ammonite — Nicola Griffith (1993)
  • Assemblers of Infinity — Doug Beason, Kevin J. Anderson (1993)
  • Aztec Century — Christopher Evans (1993)
  • Beggars in Spain — Nancy Kress (1993)
  • Coelestis — Paul Park (1993)
  • Glory Season — David Brin (1993)
  • Green Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson (1993)
  • Hard Landing — Algis Budrys (1993)
  • Harm's Way — Colin Greenland (1993)
  • Moving Mars — Greg Bear (1993)
  • Nightside the Long Sun — Gene Wolfe (1993)
  • Parable of the Sower — Octavia E. Butler (1993)
  • Virtual Light — William Gibson (1993)
  • Vurt — Jeff Noon (1993)
  • Beggars & Choosers — Nancy Kress (1994)
  • Brittle Innings — Michael Bishop (1994)
  • Caldé of the Long Sun — Gene Wolfe (1994)
  • Engineman — Eric Brown (1994)
  • Feersum Endjinn — Iain M. Banks (1994)
  • Gun, with Occasional Music — Jonathan Lethem (1994)
  • Interface — J. Frederick George, Neal Stephenson (1994)
  • Mirror Dance — Lois McMaster Bujold (1994)
  • Mother of Storms — John Barnes (1994)
  • Necroville — Ian McDonald (1994)
  • North Wind — Gwyneth Jones (1994)
  • Permutation City — Greg Egan (1994)
  • Queen City Jazz — Kathleen Ann Goonan (1994)
  • Remake — Connie Willis (1994)
  • Temporary Agency — Rachel Pollack (1994)
  • Towing Jehovah — James Morrow (1994)
  • Blood: A Southern Fantasy — Michael Moorcock (1995)
  • Brightness Reef — David Brin (1995)
  • Chaga — Ian McDonald (1995)
  • Expiration Date — Tim Powers (1995)
  • Fairyland — Paul J. McAuley (1995)
  • Metropolitan — Walter Jon Williams (1995)
  • Slow River — Nicola Griffith (1995)
  • The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson (1995)
  • The Nano Flower — Peter F. Hamilton (1995)
  • The Prestige — Christopher Priest (1995)
  • The Silent Strength of Stones — Nina Kiriki Hoffman (1995)
  • The Star Fraction — Ken MacLeod (1995)
  • The Terminal Experiment — Robert J. Sawyer (1995)
  • The Time Ships — Stephen Baxter (1995)
  • A Game of Thrones — George R. R. Martin (1996)
  • Ancient Shores — Jack McDevitt (1996)
  • Bellwether — Connie Willis (1996)
  • Blue Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson (1996)
  • Excession — Iain M. Banks (1996)
  • Holy Fire — Bruce Sterling (1996)
  • Memory — Lois McMaster Bujold (1996)
  • Remnant Population — Elizabeth Moon (1996)
  • Starplex — Robert J. Sawyer (1996)
  • The Calcutta Chromosome — Amitav Ghosh (1996)
  • The Memory Palace — Gill Alderman (1996)
  • The Sparrow — Mary Doria Russell (1996)
  • The Stone Canal — Ken MacLeod (1996)
  • Winter Rose — Patricia A. McKillip (1996)
  • A Son of the Rock — Jack Deighton (1997)
  • City on Fire — Walter Jon Williams (1997)
  • Earthquake Weather — Tim Powers (1997)
  • Forever Peace — Joe Haldeman (1997)
  • Frameshift — Robert J. Sawyer (1997)
  • How Few Remain — Harry Turtledove (1997)
  • Jack Faust — Michael Swanwick (1997)
  • King's Dragon — Kate Elliott (1997)
  • Signs of Life — M. John Harrison (1997)
  • The Last Hawk — Catherine Asaro (1997)
  • The Moon and the Sun — Vonda N. McIntyre (1997)
  • The Rise of Endymion — Dan Simmons (1997)
  • A Clash of Kings — George R. R. Martin (1998)
  • Children of God — Mary Doria Russell (1998)
  • Darwinia — Robert Charles Wilson (1998)
  • Distraction — Bruce Sterling (1998)
  • Dreaming in Smoke — Tricia Sullivan (1998)
  • Factoring Humanity — Robert J. Sawyer (1998)
  • Inversions — Iain M. Banks (1998)
  • Mission Child — Maureen F. McHugh (1998)
  • Mockingbird — Sean Stewart (1998)
  • Moonfall — Jack McDevitt (1998)
  • Parable of the Talents — Octavia E. Butler (1998)
  • The Cassini Division — Ken MacLeod (1998)
  • The Death of the Necromancer — Martha Wells (1998)
  • The Extremes — Christopher Priest (1998)
  • To Hold Infinity — John Meaney (1998)
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last — Connie Willis (1998)
  • A Civil Campaign — Lois McMaster Bujold (1999)
  • A Deepness in the Sky — Vernor Vinge (1999)
  • A Secret History — Mary Gentle (1999)
  • Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson (1999)
  • Darwin's Radio — Greg Bear (1999)
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — J. K. Rowling (1999)
  • Headlong — Simon Ings (1999)
  • Silver Screen — Justina Robson (1999)
  • The Sky Road — Ken MacLeod (1999)
  • ThiGMOO — Eugene Byrne (1999)