Winner (tie) - 400 Billion Stars by Paul J. McAuley (Del Rey) and Wetware by Rudy Rucker (Avon)
Nominees
Orphans of Creation Roger MacBride Allen (Baen Books)
Neon Lotus by Marc Laidlaw (Bantam Spectra)
Becoming Alien Rebecca Ore (Tor Books)
Rendezvous by David Alexander Smith (Ace Books)
Presented at Norwescon 11, Tacoma, WA, March 1989
Judges: Eleanor Arnason, Michael Levy, Mike McQuay, Charles Platt, Kim Stanley Robinson