1978

• The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
  1978 · Booker Prize · Fiction
• Stardance by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson
  1978 · Hugo Awards · Best Novella
• Jeffty is Five by Harlan Ellison
  1978 · Hugo Awards · Best Short Story
• Gateway by Frederik Pohl
  1978 · Hugo Awards · Best Novel
• Eyes of Amber by Joan D. Vinge
  1978 · Hugo Awards · Best Novelette
• The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler
  1978 · Pulitzer Prizes · History
• The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn
  1978 · Pulitzer Prizes · Drama
• The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
  1978 · Pulitzer Prizes · General Nonfiction
• Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
  1978 · Pulitzer Prizes · Biography
• Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
  1978 · Pulitzer Prizes · Fiction
• Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov
  1978 · Pulitzer Prizes · Poetry
• The Persistence of Vision by John Varley
  1978 · Nebula Awards · Best Novella
• Stone by Edward Bryant
  1978 · Nebula Awards · Best Short Story
• Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
  1978 · Nebula Awards · Best Novel
• A Glow of Candles, A Unicorn’s Eye by Charles L. Grant
  1978 · Nebula Awards · Best Novelette
• A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O'Brien
  1978 · PEN/Hemingway Award · Debut Novel