Finalist, Best Novel, 1981

The Ringworld Engineers

Larry Niven (opens in a new tab)

Hardcover, 306 pages

Louis Wu returns to the Ringworld to find it slipping out of orbit, and must find a way to save its trillions of people.

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The ballot

The Snow QueenJoan D. VingeDial Press, 1980Winner
Lord Valentine’s CastleRobert SilverbergF&SF Nov,Dec 1979,Jan,Feb 1980; Harper & Row, 1980
Beyond the Blue Event HorizonFrederik PohlBallantine Del Rey, 1980
WizardJohn VarleyBerkley Putnam, 1980