Best Novel - 1980s

Links to reviews of the novels are given where available. One day I hope to have all of them reviewed. Because of various information given with the novel listings I have broken them down by decade:

• The 2000s
• The 1990s
• The 1970s
• The 1960s
• The 1950s
• The 1940s

1989

Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh

1988

The Uplift War, David Brin

1987

Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card

1986

Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card

1985

Neuromancer, William Gibson

1984

Startide Rising, David Brin

1983

Foundation's Edge, Isaac Asimov

1982

Downbelow Station, C. J. Cherryh

1981

The Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge

1980

The Fountains of Paradise, Arthur C. Clarke