Highest Ranked Titles published in 1972

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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	201	The Gods Themselves	NOVEL	Isaac Asimov
2	177	Dying Inside	NOVEL	Robert Silverberg
3	130	Goat Song	SHORTFICTION	Poul Anderson
4	128	When It Changed	SHORTFICTION	Joanna Russ
5	120	The Word for World Is Forest	SHORTFICTION	Ursula K. Le Guin
6	120	The Gold at the Starbow's End	SHORTFICTION	Frederik Pohl
7	117	The Fifth Head of Cerberus	SHORTFICTION	Gene Wolfe
8	117	Eurema's Dam	SHORTFICTION	R. A. Lafferty
9	115	Watership Down	NOVEL	Richard Adams
10	115	Basilisk	SHORTFICTION	Harlan Ellison
11	108	The Iron Dream	NOVEL	Norman Spinrad
12	105	Patron of the Arts	SHORTFICTION	William Rotsler
13	99	When Harlie Was One	NOVEL	David Gerrold
14	93	And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side	SHORTFICTION	James Tiptree, Jr.
15	85	Locus - 1972 (Fanzine)	EDITOR	Charles N. Brown and Dena Brown
16	84	When We Went to See the End of the World	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
17	74	The Meeting	SHORTFICTION	C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
18	67	Beyond Apollo	NOVEL	Barry N. Malzberg
19	64	A Kingdom by the Sea	SHORTFICTION	Gardner Dozois
20	62	The Sheep Look Up	NOVEL	John Brunner
21	62	With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama	SHORTFICTION	Richard A. Lupoff
22	60	The Listeners	COLLECTION	James E. Gunn
23	59	The Guns of Avalon	NOVEL	Roger Zelazny
24	58	The Funeral	SHORTFICTION	Kate Wilhelm
25	56	What Entropy Means to Me	NOVEL	George Alec Effinger
26	56	There Will Be Time	NOVEL	Poul Anderson
27	55	On the Downhill Side	SHORTFICTION	Harlan Ellison
28	53	Deryni Checkmate	NOVEL	Katherine Kurtz
29	50	Son of the Morning	SHORTFICTION	Phyllis Gotlieb
30	50	Elric of Melniboné	NOVEL	Michael Moorcock
31	50	Let It Ring	SHORTFICTION	John Foyster
32	50	Again, Dangerous Visions	ANTHOLOGY	Harlan Ellison
33	50	結晶星団^?Kesshō Seidan	SHORTFICTION	小松左京^?Komatsu Sakyou Komatsu Sakyō こまつさきょう Komatsu Sakyo
34	50	鏡の国のアリス^?Kagami no Kuni no Arisu かがみのくにのアリス	NOVEL	広瀬正^?ひろせただし Hirose Tadashi
35	50	Malevil	NOVEL	Robert Merle
36	50	Master of Middle-Earth	NONFICTION	Paul H. Kocher
37	50	Marchers of Valhalla	SHORTFICTION	Robert E. Howard
38	50	Han	NOVEL	Jean-Paul Raemdonck
39	50	The Song of Rhiannon	NOVEL	Evangeline Walton
40	50	Encyclopédie de l'utopie des voyages extraordinaires et de la science fiction	NONFICTION	Pierre Versins
41	50	継ぐのは誰か?^?Tsugu no wa Dare ka?	NOVEL	小松左京^?Komatsu Sakyou Komatsu Sakyō こまつさきょう Komatsu Sakyo
42	50	The Best Science Fiction of the Year	ANTHOLOGY	Terry Carr
43	42	Nebula Award Stories 7	ANTHOLOGY	Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
44	36	334	COLLECTION	Thomas M. Disch
45	36	Пикник на обочине^?Piknik na obochine	NOVEL	Аркадий Стругацкий^?Arkady Strugatsky and Борис Стругацкий^?Boris Strugatsky
46	35	The Hard Way Up	COLLECTION	A. Bertram Chandler
47	35	Shaffery Among the Immortals	SHORTFICTION	Frederik Pohl
48	35	The Witches of Worm	NOVEL	Zilpha Keatley Snyder
49	35	Gone Fishing	SHORTFICTION	David Rome
50	35	The Gorgon Festival	NOVEL	John Boyd
51	35	Budnip	SHORTFICTION	Jack Wodhams
52	35	Le città invisibili	NOVEL	Italo Calvino
53	35	The I.Q. Merchant	NOVEL	John Boyd
54	35	The 1972 Annual World's Best SF	ANTHOLOGY	Arthur W. Saha and Donald A. Wollheim
55	35	Green Phoenix	NOVEL	Thomas Burnett Swann
56	35	The Animal Fair	SHORTFICTION	Alfred Bester
57	35	The Farthest Shore	NOVEL	Ursula K. Le Guin
58	35	Universe 2	ANTHOLOGY	Terry Carr
59	35	Against the Lafayette Escadrille	SHORTFICTION	Gene Wolfe
60	35	In the Deadlands	SHORTFICTION	David Gerrold
61	35	The Events at Poroth Farm	SHORTFICTION	T. E. D. Klein
62	35	Frog and Toad Together	COLLECTION	Arnold Lobel
63	30	Algol - 1972 (Fanzine)	EDITOR	Andrew Porter
64	30	Fugue for a Darkening Island	NOVEL	Christopher Priest
65	30	Hero	SHORTFICTION	Joe Haldeman
66	30	A Science Fiction Argosy	ANTHOLOGY	Damon Knight
67	30	New Dimensions II	ANTHOLOGY	Robert Silverberg
68	29	A Choice of Gods	NOVEL	Clifford D. Simak
69	29	Orbit 10	ANTHOLOGY	Damon Knight
70	29	Alpha Three	ANTHOLOGY	Robert Silverberg
71	28	Nova 2	ANTHOLOGY	Harry Harrison
72	28	Midsummer Century	SHORTFICTION	James Blish
73	28	The Early Asimov	COLLECTION	Isaac Asimov
74	27	The Gold at the Starbow's End	COLLECTION	Frederik Pohl
75	27	Orbit 11	ANTHOLOGY	Damon Knight
76	26	Generation	ANTHOLOGY	David Gerrold and Stephen Goldin
77	26	The Second Kind of Loneliness	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
78	26	The Merchants of Venus	SHORTFICTION	Frederik Pohl
79	26	Painwise	SHORTFICTION	James Tiptree, Jr.
80	26	Best Science Fiction for 1972	ANTHOLOGY	Frederik Pohl
81	25	Things Which Are Caesar's	SHORTFICTION	Gordon R. Dickson
82	25	Infinity Four	ANTHOLOGY	Robert Hoskins
83	25	The Wind from the Sun	COLLECTION	Arthur C. Clarke
84	24	The Day the Sun Stood Still	ANTHOLOGY	uncredited
85	24	334	SHORTFICTION	Thomas M. Disch
86	23	Clarion II	ANTHOLOGY	Robin Scott Wilson
87	23	Seventy Years of Decpop	SHORTFICTION	Philip José Farmer
88	23	The Second Trip	NOVEL	Robert Silverberg
89	23	A Day in the Life	ANTHOLOGY	Gardner Dozois
90	22	What Good Is a Glass Dagger?	SHORTFICTION	Larry Niven
91	22	The Mercenary	SHORTFICTION	Jerry Pournelle
92	22	Best SF: 1971	ANTHOLOGY	Brian W. Aldiss and Harry Harrison
93	22	New Worlds Quarterly 4	ANTHOLOGY	Michael Moorcock
94	22	Man's Reach	SHORTFICTION	Anthony Boucher
95	21	Caliban	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
96	21	New Worlds Quarterly 3	ANTHOLOGY	Michael Moorcock
97	21	First Person, Peculiar	COLLECTION	T. L. Sherred
98	20	Common Denominator	SHORTFICTION	David Lewis
99	20	The Pritcher Mass	NOVEL	Gordon R. Dickson
100	20	Infinity Three	ANTHOLOGY	Robert Hoskins
101	20	The Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume 1	ANTHOLOGY	Brian W. Aldiss and Harry Harrison
102	20	Strange Doings	COLLECTION	R. A. Lafferty
103	20	Solo Kill	SHORTFICTION	William E. Cochrane
104	20	Collision Course	SHORTFICTION	William E. Cochrane
105	19	Nobody's Home	SHORTFICTION	Joanna Russ
106	19	And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire and Other Science Fiction Stories	ANTHOLOGY	Roger Elwood
107	18	New Writings in SF (21)	ANTHOLOGY	John Carnell
108	18	The Doomsday Gene	NOVEL	John Boyd
109	17	Love Is a Dragonfly	SHORTFICTION	Thomas Burnett Swann
110	17	The Big Space Fuck	SHORTFICTION	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
111	16	In the Ocean of Night	SHORTFICTION	Gregory Benford
112	16	A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!	NOVEL	Harry Harrison
113	16	Other Days, Other Eyes	NOVEL	Bob Shaw
114	15	The Milk of Paradise	SHORTFICTION	James Tiptree, Jr.
115	15	{Now + n, Now - n}	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
116	14	Yesterday's Children	NOVEL	David Gerrold
117	13	The Castle Keeps	NOVEL	Andrew J. Offutt
118	1	The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman	NOVEL	Angela Carter
119	1	Blackman's Burden	NOVEL	Mack Reynolds
120	1	SF Commentary - 1972	EDITOR	Bruce Gillespie

Highest Ranked Titles published in 1972

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