Highest Ranked Titles published in 1970

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Scoring: Wins are worth 50 points, nominations and second places are worth 35 points. For polls, third and lower places are worth (33-poll position) points.

Place	Score	Title	Type	Authors
1	303	Ringworld	NOVEL	Larry Niven
2	168	Locus - 1970 (Fanzine)	EDITOR	Charles N. Brown and Dena Brown
3	150	The Region Between	SHORTFICTION	Harlan Ellison
4	149	The Year of the Quiet Sun	NOVEL	Wilson Tucker
5	135	Tower of Glass	NOVEL	Robert Silverberg
6	135	Continued on Next Rock	SHORTFICTION	R. A. Lafferty
7	127	Slow Sculpture	SHORTFICTION	Theodore Sturgeon
8	124	I Will Fear No Evil	NOVEL	Robert A. Heinlein
9	119	Ill Met in Lankhmar	SHORTFICTION	Fritz Leiber
10	112	Tau Zero	NOVEL	Poul Anderson
11	103	Nine Princes in Amber	NOVEL	Roger Zelazny
12	92	In the Queue	SHORTFICTION	Keith Laumer
13	85	Time and Again	NOVEL	Jack Finney
14	73	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One	ANTHOLOGY	Robert Silverberg
15	70	The Thing in the Stone	SHORTFICTION	Clifford D. Simak
16	70	The Tombs of Atuan	NOVEL	Ursula K. Le Guin
17	64	And Chaos Died	NOVEL	Joanna Russ
18	63	Deryni Rising	NOVEL	Katherine Kurtz
19	59	Alchemy and Academe	ANTHOLOGY	Anne McCaffrey
20	59	The Asian Shore	SHORTFICTION	Thomas M. Disch
21	58	Dear Aunt Annie	SHORTFICTION	Gordon Eklund
22	58	Entire and Perfect Chrysolite	SHORTFICTION	R. A. Lafferty
23	58	The Fatal Fulfillment	SHORTFICTION	Poul Anderson
24	57	Beastchild	SHORTFICTION	Dean R. Koontz
25	54	The Steel Crocodile	NOVEL	D. G. Compton
26	53	Brillo	SHORTFICTION	Ben Bova and Harlan Ellison
27	50	The Moment of Eclipse	COLLECTION	Brian W. Aldiss
28	50	フル・ネルソン?Furu Neruson	SHORTFICTION	筒井康隆?Tsutsui Yasutaka つつい やすたか
29	50	Red Moon and Black Mountain	NOVEL	Joy Chant
30	50	This Perfect Day	NOVEL	Ira Levin
31	50	Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist	NONFICTION	Richard C. West
32	50	The God Beneath the Sea	NOVEL	Edward Blishen and Leon Garfield
33	50	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - 1970	EDITOR	Edward L. Ferman
34	50	The Crystal Cave	NOVEL	Mary Stewart
35	50	ビタミン?Bitamin	SHORTFICTION	筒井康隆?Tsutsui Yasutaka つつい やすたか
36	43	Orbit 8	ANTHOLOGY	Damon Knight
37	36	The Snow Women	SHORTFICTION	Fritz Leiber
38	35	Horse of Air	SHORTFICTION	Gardner Dozois
39	35	The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories	SHORTFICTION	Gene Wolfe
40	35	Of Relays and Roses	SHORTFICTION	Gene Wolfe
41	35	April Fool's Day Forever	SHORTFICTION	Kate Wilhelm
42	35	A Cold Dark Night with Snow	SHORTFICTION	Kate Wilhelm
43	35	A Style in Treason	SHORTFICTION	James Blish
44	35	The Encounter	SHORTFICTION	Kate Wilhelm
45	35	The Shaker Revival	SHORTFICTION	Gerald Jonas
46	35	The Creation of Bennie Good	SHORTFICTION	James Sallis
47	35	A Dream at Noonday	SHORTFICTION	Gardner Dozois
48	35	The Second Inquisition	SHORTFICTION	Joanna Russ
49	35	The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian	NOVEL	Lloyd Alexander
50	35	Nine Hundred Grandmothers	COLLECTION	R. A. Lafferty
51	35	After Ragnarok	SHORTFICTION	Robert Bowden
52	35	Enchantress from the Stars	NOVEL	Sylvia Louise Engdahl
53	35	By the Falls	SHORTFICTION	Harry Harrison
54	35	The Man of Slow Feeling	SHORTFICTION	Michael Wilding
55	35	Squat	NOVEL	David Rome
56	35	Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact - 1970	EDITOR	John W. Campbell, Jr.
57	30	Amazing Stories - 1970	EDITOR	Ted White
58	30	Orbit 6	ANTHOLOGY	Damon Knight
59	30	Jean Duprès	SHORTFICTION	Gordon R. Dickson
60	29	World's Best Science Fiction: 1970	ANTHOLOGY	Terry Carr and Donald A. Wollheim
61	29	The World Outside	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
62	29	Galaxy Magazine - 1970	EDITOR	Ejler Jakobsson
63	29	Speculation - 1970	EDITOR	Peter Weston
64	28	Vision of Tomorrow - 1970	EDITOR	Philip Harbottle
65	28	Orbit 7	ANTHOLOGY	Damon Knight
66	27	Quark/1	ANTHOLOGY	Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker
67	26	Five Fates	ANTHOLOGY	Keith Laumer
68	26	Runesmith	SHORTFICTION	Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon
69	25	The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde	COLLECTION	Norman Spinrad
70	23	Alpha One	ANTHOLOGY	Robert Silverberg
71	22	Beastchild	NOVEL	Dean R. Koontz
72	22	The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales	COLLECTION	L. Sprague de Camp
73	20	Great Short Novels of Science Fiction	ANTHOLOGY	Robert Silverberg
74	20	Chronocules	NOVEL	D. G. Compton
75	20	The Throwbacks	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
76	19	The Atrocity Exhibition	COLLECTION	J. G. Ballard
77	18	Nova 1	ANTHOLOGY	Harry Harrison
78	17	After Things Fell Apart	NOVEL	Ron Goulart
79	6	Cities in Flight	OMNIBUS	James Blish

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