Highest Ranked Novels published in 1985

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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	254	The Handmaid's Tale	NOVEL	Margaret Atwood
2	209	Ender's Game	NOVEL	Orson Scott Card
3	200	The Postman	NOVEL	David Brin
4	200	Blood Music	NOVEL	Greg Bear
5	183	Helliconia Winter	NOVEL	Brian W. Aldiss
6	159	Footfall	NOVEL	Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
7	146	Dinner at Deviant's Palace	NOVEL	Tim Powers
8	88	The Damnation Game	NOVEL	Clive Barker
9	85	Schismatrix	NOVEL	Bruce Sterling
10	85	Der Tag, an dem die Mauer brach	NOVEL	Thomas R. P. Mielke
11	81	Emprise	NOVEL	Michael P. Kube-McDowell
12	75	Brightness Falls from the Air	NOVEL	James Tiptree, Jr.
13	75	The Remaking of Sigmund Freud	NOVEL	Barry N. Malzberg
14	73	Infinity's Web	NOVEL	Sheila Finch
15	71	Kiteworld	NOVEL	Keith Roberts
16	70	Galapagos	NOVEL	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
17	68	Contact	NOVEL	Carl Sagan
18	67	Song of Kali	NOVEL	Dan Simmons
19	64	The Vampire Lestat	NOVEL	Anne Rice
20	60	The Dream Years	NOVEL	Lisa Goldstein
21	59	Cuckoo's Egg	NOVEL	C. J. Cherryh
22	58	Always Coming Home	NOVEL	Ursula K. Le Guin
23	58	Dark of the Moon	NOVEL	P. C. Hodgell
24	56	Mulengro: A Romany Tale	NOVEL	Charles de Lint
25	53	The Warrior Who Carried Life	NOVEL	Geoff Ryman
26	51	Spinneret	NOVEL	Timothy Zahn
27	50	Killashandra	NOVEL	Anne McCaffrey
28	50	The Cybernetic Samurai	NOVEL	Victor Milán?Victor Milan
29	50	Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders	NOVEL	Patrick Süskind?Patrick Sueskind
30	50	帝都物語2 魔都篇?ていとものがたり2 バビロンへん Teito Monogatari 2: Babiron Hen	NOVEL	荒俣宏?あらまたひろし Hiroshi Aramata
31	50	Trumps of Doom	NOVEL	Roger Zelazny
32	50	帝都物語1 神霊篇?ていとものがたり1 しんれいへん Teito Monogatari 1: Shinrei Hen	NOVEL	荒俣宏?あらまたひろし Hiroshi Aramata
33	50	首都消失 (下)?しゅとしょうしつ (か) Shuto Shōshitsu (Ka) Shuto Shoushitsu (Ka)	NOVEL	小松左京?Komatsu Sakyou Komatsu Sakyō こまつさきょう Komatsu Sakyo
34	50	首都消失 (上)?しゅとしょうしつ (じょう) Shuto Shōshitsu (Jō) Shuto Shoushitsu (Jou)	NOVEL	小松左京?Komatsu Sakyou Komatsu Sakyō こまつさきょう Komatsu Sakyo
35	50	Endzeit	NOVEL	Herbert W. Franke
36	50	ダーティペアの大逆転?Dāti Pea no Dai Gyakuten	NOVEL	高千穂遙?たかちほはるか Takachiho Haruka
37	50	Les vautours	NOVEL	Joël Houssin?Joel Houssin
38	50	Mnogo vike nizašto	NOVEL	Predrag Raos
39	49	Between the Strokes of Night	NOVEL	Charles Sheffield
40	35	A Matter of Time	NOVEL	Glen Cook
41	35	Die Erinnerungen des Helden Sigfrid	NOVEL	Georg Zauner
42	35	Biographie comparée de Jorian Murgrave?Biographie comparee de Jorian Murgrave	NOVEL	Antoine Volodine
43	35	The Changelings of Chaan	NOVEL	David J. Lake
44	35	Un navire de nulle part	NOVEL	Antoine Volodine
45	35	世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド?Sekai no Owari to Hādoboirudo Wandārando	NOVEL	村上春樹?Haruki Murakami
46	35	L'épuisement du soleil?L'epuisement du soleil	NOVEL	Esther Rochon
47	35	Elegy for a Soprano	NOVEL	Kay Nolte Smith
48	35	The Book of Kells	NOVEL	Sharon Devlin and R. A. MacAvoy
49	35	Erdstadt	NOVEL	Uwe Anton and Thomas Ziegler
50	35	The Transing Syndrome	NOVEL	Kurt von Trojan
51	35	Krisenzentrum Dschinnistan	NOVEL	Horst Pukallus
52	35	The Kingdom of the Cats	NOVEL	Phyllis Gotlieb
53	35	Coquillage	NOVEL	Esther Rochon
54	35	Terrarium	NOVEL	Scott Russell Sanders
55	35	The Time-Servers	NOVEL	Russell M. Griffin
56	35	The Gallatin Divergence	NOVEL	L. Neil Smith
57	35	Knight Moves	NOVEL	Walter Jon Williams
58	35	Winterking	NOVEL	Paul Hazel
59	30	In the Drift	NOVEL	Michael Swanwick
60	29	Robots and Empire	NOVEL	Isaac Asimov
61	28	Lyonesse: The Green Pearl	NOVEL	Jack Vance
62	28	Tailchaser's Song	NOVEL	Tad Williams
63	27	The King's Justice	NOVEL	Katherine Kurtz
64	27	Cats Have No Lord	NOVEL	Will Shetterly
65	27	The Cat Who Walks Through Walls	NOVEL	Robert A. Heinlein
66	26	Saraband of Lost Time	NOVEL	Richard Grant
67	26	Masters of Glass	NOVEL	M. Coleman Easton
68	24	With a Tangled Skein	NOVEL	Piers Anthony
69	24	Walk the Moons Road	NOVEL	Jim Aikin
70	22	The Isle of Glass	NOVEL	Judith Tarr
71	22	Silverthorn	NOVEL	Raymond E. Feist
72	22	Eon	NOVEL	Greg Bear
73	22	Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn	NOVEL	Piers Anthony
74	21	The Proteus Operation	NOVEL	James P. Hogan
75	20	The Torch of Honor	NOVEL	Roger MacBride Allen
76	20	The Kif Strike Back	NOVEL	C. J. Cherryh
77	20	Lovecraft's Book	NOVEL	Richard A. Lupoff
78	19	Brokedown Palace	NOVEL	Steven Brust
79	19	Children of the Light	NOVEL	Susan B. Weston
80	17	Artifact	NOVEL	Gregory Benford
81	17	The Wishsong of Shannara	NOVEL	Terry Brooks
82	17	The Memory of Whiteness	NOVEL	Kim Stanley Robinson
83	17	The Hounds of the Morrigan	NOVEL	Pat O'Shea
84	16	The Secret Country	NOVEL	Pamela Dean
85	15	In Yana, the Touch of Undying	NOVEL	Michael Shea
86	15	Skirmish	NOVEL	Melisa Michaels
87	14	The Long Forgetting	NOVEL	Edward A. Byers
88	14	The Last Rainbow	NOVEL	Parke Godwin
89	14	Chapterhouse: Dune	NOVEL	Frank Herbert
90	13	Things Invisible to See	NOVEL	Nancy Willard
91	13	The Sorcery Within	NOVEL	Dave Smeds
92	13	Ancient of Days	NOVEL	Michael Bishop
93	12	The Song of Mavin Manyshaped	NOVEL	Sheri S. Tepper
94	11	Wings of Flame	NOVEL	Nancy Springer
95	11	Pandora's Genes	NOVEL	Kathryn Lance
96	10	Child of Fortune	NOVEL	Norman Spinrad
97	10	The Bronze King	NOVEL	Suzy McKee Charnas
98	10	The Coachman Rat	NOVEL	David Henry Wilson
99	10	Dayworld	NOVEL	Philip José Farmer
100	10	Down Town	NOVEL	Tappan King and Viido Polikarpus
101	9	Marianne, The Magus, and the Manticore	NOVEL	Sheri S. Tepper
102	9	Ibis	NOVEL	Linda Steele
103	8	Tom O'Bedlam	NOVEL	Robert Silverberg
104	7	Starquake	NOVEL	Robert L. Forward
105	4	Five-Twelfths of Heaven	NOVEL	Melissa Scott
106	3	The Darkling Wind	NOVEL	S. P. Somtow
107	1	Executive	NOVEL	Piers Anthony
108	1	The Windrider	NOVEL	Stephanie T. Hoppe
109	1	The Glass Hammer	NOVEL	K. W. Jeter
110	1	Moscow Rules	NOVEL	Robert Moss

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