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1998 Categories | All-time categories: Short fiction writer | Anthology | Collection | Novella | Novelette | Short Story |

(This was the Poll and Survey form)

  All-time Novella
Pts
Vts
1sts
1)
''Vintage Season'', C.L. Moore (1946)
123
19
5
2)
''The Time Machine'', H.G. Wells (1895)
109
17
5
3)
''The Persistence of Vision'', John Varley (1978)
104
15
7
4)
''A Boy and His Dog'', Harlan Ellison (1969)
78
12
5
5)
''The Man Who Sold the Moon'', Robert A. Heinlein (1950)
75
11
4
6)
''Who Goes There?'', John W. Campbell (1938)
73
12
1
*)
''Houston, Houston, Do You Read?'', James Tiptree, Jr. (1976)
73
13
3
8)
''The Last of the Winnebagos'', Connie Willis (1988)
67
10
2
9)
''By His Bootstraps'', Robert A. Heinlein (1941)
63
11
2
10)
''The Fifth Head of Cerberus'', Gene Wolfe (1972)
62
10
3
11)
''Enemy Mine'', Barry Longyear (1979)
61
11
1
12)
''The Dead Past'', Isaac Asimov (1956)
60
9
2
13)
''The Big Front Yard'', Clifford D. Simak (1958)
59
10
1
14)
''He Who Shapes'', Roger Zelazny (1965)
59
9
3
15)
''The Mountains of Mourning'', Lois McMaster Bujold (1989)
51
8
2
16)
''The Moon Moth'', Jack Vance (1961)
47
7
3
*)
''Home Is the Hangman'', Roger Zelazny (1975)
47
8
2
18)
''R&R'', Lucius Shepard (1986)
45
7
2
19)
''The Word for World Is Forest'', Ursula K. Le Guin (1972)
42
7
1
20)
''Behold the Man'', Michael Moorcock (1966)
41
6
2
21)
''Weyr Search'', Anne McCaffrey (1967)
39
6
3
22)
''Born with the Dead'', Robert Silverberg (1974)
38
7
1
23)
''Green Mars'', Kim Stanley Robinson (1985)
38
7
1
24)
''Ill Met in Lankhmar'', Fritz Leiber (1970)
33
6
1
25)
''The Last Castle'', Jack Vance (1966)
32
5
2
26)
''Eye for Eye'', Orson Scott Card (1987)
30
4
3
*)
''PRESS ENTER []'', John Varley (1984)
30
5
0
*)
''Seven American Nights'', Gene Wolfe (1978)
30
5
1
29)
''A Planet Called Shayol'', Cordwainer Smith (1961)
27
5
0
*)
''The Dragon Masters'', Jack Vance (1962)
27
5
0
31)
''The Death of Doctor Island'', Gene Wolfe (1973)
26
4
1
32)
''Nerves'', Lester del Rey (1942)
25
4
1
33)
''A Song for Lya'', George R.R. Martin (1974)
22
3
1
34)
''The Queen of Air and Darkness'', Poul Anderson (1971)
21
3
2
*)
''Hardfought'', Greg Bear (1983)
21
3
1
*)
''The Call of Cthulhu'', H.P. Lovecraft (1928)
21
3
1
*)
''Dragonrider'', Anne McCaffrey (1968)
21
3
0
38)
''Surface Tension'', James Blish (1956)
20
4
0
39)
''Nightwings'', Robert Silverberg (1968)
19
3
1
40)
''Soldier, Ask Not'', Gordon R. Dickson (1964)
18
3
1
*)
''The Brave Little Toaster'', Thomas M. Disch (1980)
18
3
1
42)
''The Gold at the Starbow's End'', Frederik Pohl (1972)
15
3
0
43)
''Cascade Point'', Timothy Zahn (1983)
14
3
0

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