Winner - Points of Departure by Pat Murphy (Bantam Spectra)
Special Citation - The Schizogenic Man by Raymond Harris (Ace)
Nominees
The Oxygen Barons by Gregory Feeley (Ace)
Winterlong by Elizabeth Hand (Bantam Spectra)
Clarke County, Space by Allen Steele (Ace)
Presented at Norwescon 14, Tacoma WA, March 1991
Judges: Peter Fitting, Mel Gilden (resigned), Richard Kadrey (resigned), John Kessel, Walter Jon Williams