- Award Category: Best Novel Award Category Record # 261
- Award Type: Hugo Award
- Display Order: 1
| 1979 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dreamsnake | Vonda N. McIntyre |
| 2 | The White Dragon | Anne McCaffrey |
| 3 | The Faded Sun: Kesrith | C. J. Cherryh |
| --- Withdrawn -- Nomination Declined ------- | ||
| * ⓘPer a biography of Tiptree/Sheldon: "It was nominated for a Hugo in 1979, but Alli withdrew it from the ballot 'for personal reasons'." |
Up the Walls of the World | James Tiptree, Jr. |
| --- Finalists ------- | ||
| * | Blind Voices | Tom Reamy |
| --- Honorable Mentions ------- | ||
| * | Colony | Ben Bova |
| * | Gloriana, or, The Unfulfill'd Queen | Michael Moorcock |
| * | Stardance II | Jeanne Robinson and Spider Robinson |
| * | Stormqueen! | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| * | The Far Call | Gordon R. Dickson |