NOVEL

• Timescape, Gregory Benford (Simon & Schuster)
• Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Frederik Pohl (Ballantine Del Rey)
• Mockingbird, Walter S. Tevis (Doubleday)
• The Orphan, Robert Stallman (Pocket)
• The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe (Simon & Schuster)
• The Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge (The Dial Press/Quantum)

NOVELLA

• "Unicorn Tapestry", Suzy McKee Charnas (New Dimensions 11)
• "The Autopsy", Michael Shea (F&SF Dec 1980)
• "The Brave Little Toaster", Thomas M. Disch (F&SF Aug 1980)
• "Dangerous Games", Marta Randall (F&SF Apr 1980)
• "Lost Dorsai", Gordon R. Dickson (Destinies Vol. 2, No. 1, Feb.-Mar. 1980)
• "There Beneath the Silky-Trees and Whelmed in Deeper Gulphs Than Me", Avram Davidson (Other Worlds 2)

NOVELETTE

• "The Ugly Chickens", Howard Waldrop (Universe 10)
• "Beatnik Bayou", John Varley (New Voices III)
• "The Feast of Saint Janis", Michael Swanwick (New Dimensions 11)
• "Ginungagap", Michael Swanwick (TriQuarterly #49 Fall 1980)
• "Strata", Edward Bryant (F&SF Aug 1980)
• "The Way Station", Stephen King (F&SF Apr 1980)

SHORT STORY

• "Grotto of the Dancing Deer", Clifford D. Simak (Analog Apr 1980)
• "Secrets of the Heart", Charles L. Grant (F&SF Mar 1980)
• "A Sunday Visit with Great-Grandfather", Craig Strete (New Dimensions 11 [nomination withdrawn])
• "War Beneath the Tree", Gene Wolfe (Omni Dec 1979)
• "Window", Bob Leman (F&SF May 1980)