- Arthur C. Clarke — Rendezvous with Rama
- George Eliot — Middlemarch
- Ursula K. Le Guin — The Dispossessed
- Ursula K. Le Guin — A Wizard of Earthsea
- Doris Lessing — Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta
- Brandon Sanderson — Tress of the Emerald Sea
- Gene Wolfe — The Book of the New Sun