Chronology by the decade - 1980s

Books listed by copyright dates.

• Light Raid by Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice
• The Archivist by Gill Alderman
• Twistor by John Cramer
• Prisoner Of Dreams by Karen Ripley
• The Barsoom Project by Larry Niven and Stephen Barnes

• Crazy Time by Kate Wilhelm
• Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Treason by Orson Scott Card
• Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

• Sea Of Glass by Barry B. Longyear
• Great Sky River by Gregory Benford
• The Rapture Effect by Jeffrey A. Carver
• Tool Of The Trade by Joe Haldeman
• The Shift Key by John Brunner
• Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard
• The Kindly Ones by Melissa Scott
• Mercedes Nights by Michael Weaver
• Dawn by Octavia Butler
• Wyrms by Orson Scott Card
• Mindplayers by Pat Cadigan

• Redworld by Charles L. Harness
• The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy
• Halo by Paul Cook
• Gilpin's Space by Reginald Bretnor
• A Hidden Place by Robert Charles Wilson
• Marooned In Realtime by Vernor Vinge
• Count Zero by William Gibson

• Privateers by Ben Bova
• Between The Strokes Of Night by Charles Sheffield
• The Postman by David Brin
• Free Live Free by Gene Wolfe
• Eon by Greg Bear
• Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• In The Drift by Michael Swanwick

• The Practice Effect by David Brin
• Demon by John Varley
• Eternity by Mack Reynolds and Dean Ing
• Blank Slate by Mark J. McGarry
• Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand by Samuel R. Delaney
• Airship Nine by Thomas Block
• Neuromancer by William Gibson

• The Lazarus Effect by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom
• There Is No Darkness by Joe Haldeman and Jack C. Haldeman II
• ORACLE by Kevin O'Donnell Jr.

• Invasion Earth by Harry Harrison
• The Crucible Of Time by John Brunner
• Software by Rudy Rucker

• Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
• Wave Without A Shore by C. J. Cherryh
• Strength Of Stones by Greg Bear

• Direct Descent by Frank Herbert
• Shiva Descending by Gregory Benford and William Rotsler
• Homeworld by Harry Harrison
• King David's Spaceship by Jerry Pournelle
• The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven
• Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler