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About the Results
Alternate lists:
Tabulation from Short Fiction Writer votes
Tabulation from Short Fiction votes |
Tabulation from Collection votes
The last column, novelist rank, is a derived result based on the total votes for all-time best SF novel and all-time best fantasy novel in last year's Locus magazine poll. (August 1998 issue, page 35.)
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All-time Short Fiction Writer
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Pts
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Vts
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1sts
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Novelist
Rank
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1)
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Harlan Ellison
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358
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54
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22
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2)
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Ray Bradbury
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249
|
40
|
11
|
14
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3)
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Isaac Asimov
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217
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32
|
12
|
6
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4)
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Robert A. Heinlein
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141
|
21
|
9
|
2
|
5)
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Roger Zelazny
|
109
|
17
|
5
|
9
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6)
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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108
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18
|
5
|
4
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*)
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Theodore Sturgeon
|
108
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17
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6
|
25
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8)
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Fritz Leiber
|
100
|
17
|
1
|
36
|
9)
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Robert Silverberg
|
81
|
13
|
3
|
29
|
*)
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Cordwainer Smith
|
81
|
13
|
0
|
--
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11)
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Larry Niven
|
80
|
13
|
2
|
42
|
*)
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James Tiptree, Jr.
|
80
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13
|
4
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--
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13)
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Connie Willis
|
79
|
14
|
2
|
--
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14)
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Gene Wolfe
|
62
|
10
|
3
|
8
|
15)
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Avram Davidson
|
56
|
9
|
1
|
--
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16)
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Arthur C. Clarke
|
51
|
9
|
0
|
5
|
17)
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Jack Vance
|
44
|
6
|
2
|
24
|
18)
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Poul Anderson
|
43
|
7
|
3
|
46
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19)
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C.L. Moore
|
41
|
7
|
1
|
--
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*)
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Howard Waldrop
|
41
|
7
|
2
|
--
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21)
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Philip K. Dick
|
40
|
7
|
0
|
11
|
22)
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John Varley
|
39
|
7
|
0
|
--
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23)
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Greg Egan
|
37
|
6
|
2
|
--
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24)
|
H.P. Lovecraft
|
35
|
5
|
1
|
--
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*)
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Edgar Allan Poe
|
35
|
6
|
1
|
--
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26)
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Alfred Bester
|
34
|
6
|
0
|
7
|
27)
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C.M. Kornbluth
|
33
|
6
|
1
|
--
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28)
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Henry Kuttner
|
31
|
5
|
1
|
--
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*)
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Lucius Shepard
|
31
|
5
|
1
|
7
|
30)
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R.A. Lafferty
|
29
|
5
|
0
|
--
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*)
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Frederik Pohl
|
29
|
5
|
0
|
26
|
32)
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Anne McCaffrey
|
27
|
4
|
2
|
22
|
33)
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William Tenn
|
26
|
4
|
2
|
--
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34)
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Stephen King
|
25
|
4
|
1
|
21
|
*)
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Mercedes Lackey
|
25
|
4
|
0
|
--
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36)
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J.G. Ballard
|
25
|
5
|
1
|
--
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37)
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Orson Scott Card
|
23
|
4
|
1
|
10
|
38)
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Nancy Kress
|
22
|
4
|
0
|
--
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39)
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Samuel R. Delany
|
21
|
3
|
0
|
40
|
*)
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Bruce Sterling
|
21
|
4
|
0
|
--
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41)
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James H. Schmitz
|
20
|
3
|
1
|
--
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42)
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William Gibson
|
18
|
3
|
1
|
32
|
*)
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Tanith Lee
|
18
|
3
|
0
|
--
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*)
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Robert Sheckley
|
18
|
3
|
0
|
--
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45)
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Terry Bisson
|
17
|
3
|
1
|
--
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*)
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Clark Ashton Smith
|
17
|
3
|
0
|
--
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47)
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A.E. van Vogt
|
16
|
3
|
0
|
--
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