Highest Ranked Novels published in 1998

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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	270	To Say Nothing of the Dog, or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last	NOVEL	Connie Willis
2	250	Darwinia	NOVEL	Robert Charles Wilson
3	192	Brown Girl in the Ring	NOVEL	Nalo Hopkinson
4	165	Someplace to Be Flying	NOVEL	Charles de Lint
5	150	Jesus-Video	NOVEL	Andreas Eschbach
6	150	Bag of Bones	NOVEL	Stephen King
7	148	The Golden Globe	NOVEL	John Varley
8	138	Distraction	NOVEL	Bruce Sterling
9	136	A Clash of Kings	NOVEL	George R. R. Martin
10	135	Mockingbird	NOVEL	Sean Stewart
11	133	King Rat	NOVEL	China Miéville?China Mieville
12	132	The Cassini Division	NOVEL	Ken MacLeod
13	125	Dawn Song	NOVEL	Michael Marano
14	112	Silk	NOVEL	Caitlín R. Kiernan?Caitlin R. Kiernan
15	111	Parable of the Talents	NOVEL	Octavia E. Butler
16	108	The High House	NOVEL	James Stoddard
17	107	Dinosaur Summer	NOVEL	Greg Bear
18	100	Heaven's Reach	NOVEL	David Brin
19	99	Factoring Humanity	NOVEL	Robert J. Sawyer
20	98	Children of God	NOVEL	Mary Doria Russell
21	96	The Extremes	NOVEL	Christopher Priest
22	95	Sailing to Sarantium	NOVEL	Guy Gavriel Kay
23	88	Mission Child	NOVEL	Maureen F. McHugh
24	85	253	NOVEL	Geoff Ryman
25	85	The Centurion's Empire	NOVEL	Sean McMullen
26	85	Singing the Dogstar Blues	NOVEL	Alison Goodman
27	85	The Resurrected Man	NOVEL	Sean Williams
28	85	A Dark Winter	NOVEL	Dave Luckett
29	85	Samiva de Frée	NOVEL	Francine Pelletier
30	85	Skellig	NOVEL	David Almond
31	85	The Book of Knights	NOVEL	Yves Meynard
32	79	Galilee	NOVEL	Clive Barker
33	77	Newton's Cannon	NOVEL	Greg Keyes
34	77	Moonfall	NOVEL	Jack McDevitt
35	71	The Dark Lord of Derkholm	NOVEL	Diana Wynne Jones
36	71	Pilgrim	NOVEL	Sara Douglass
37	70	The Night Is for Hunting	NOVEL	John Marsden
38	70	Inversions	NOVEL	Iain M. Banks
39	70	Hungry Ghosts	NOVEL	Ellen Steiber
40	70	Halfway Human	NOVEL	Carolyn Ives Gilman
41	70	Flesh and Gold	NOVEL	Phyllis Gotlieb
42	66	The Innamorati	NOVEL	Midori Snyder
43	65	The Alien Years	NOVEL	Robert Silverberg
44	61	Song for the Basilisk	NOVEL	Patricia A. McKillip
45	61	Irrational Fears	NOVEL	William Browning Spencer
46	60	The Iron Bridge	NOVEL	David Morse
47	58	Starfarers	NOVEL	Poul Anderson
48	58	Dragon's Winter	NOVEL	Elizabeth A. Lynn
49	51	Brute Orbits	NOVEL	George Zebrowski
50	51	Dreaming in Smoke	NOVEL	Tricia Sullivan
51	50	La locura de Dios	NOVEL	Juan Miguel Aguilera
52	50	Slate Mountain	NOVEL	Mark Leyland
53	50	Resurrection Day	NOVEL	Brendan DuBois
54	50	The Taker's Key	NOVEL	Martine Leavitt
55	50	A Chill in the Blood	NOVEL	P. N. Elrod
56	50	Alien Dreams	NOVEL	Larry Segriff
57	50	Le successeur de pierre	NOVEL	Jean-Michel Truong
58	50	Carpe Jugulum	NOVEL	Terry Pratchett
59	50	Holes	NOVEL	Louis Sachar
60	50	The Antelope Wife	NOVEL	Louise Erdrich
61	50	オルガニスト?Oruganisuto	NOVEL	山之口洋?やまのぐちよう Yamanoguchi Yō Yamanoguchi You
62	50	Fire Angels	NOVEL	Jane Routley
63	47	River of Blue Fire	NOVEL	Tad Williams
64	45	The Children Star	NOVEL	Joan Slonczewski
65	41	Prisoner of Conscience	NOVEL	Susan R. Matthews
66	36	Carmilla: The Return	NOVEL	Kyle Marffin
67	36	Climb the Wind	NOVEL	Pamela Sargent
68	36	The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse	NOVEL	Keith Hartman
69	36	Chasm	NOVEL	Stephen Laws
70	36	Collectors	NOVEL	Paul Griner
71	36	One of Us	NOVEL	Michael Marshall Smith
72	36	The Queen of Darkness	NOVEL	Miguel Conner
73	36	The Halloween Man	NOVEL	Douglas Clegg
74	36	Hand of Prophecy	NOVEL	Severna Park
75	35	Project Avalon	NOVEL	B. Alexander Howerton
76	35	Second Sight	NOVEL	Chris Archer
77	35	The Sterkarm Handshake	NOVEL	Susan Price
78	35	Invasion America	NOVEL	Christie Golden
79	35	Iron Shadows	NOVEL	Steven Barnes
80	35	Gea, die vergessene Welt	NOVEL	Rainer Castor
81	35	The Martyring	NOVEL	Thomas Sullivan
82	35	Rogue Star	NOVEL	Michael F. Flynn
83	35	Flanders	NOVEL	Patricia Anthony
84	35	If I Told You Once	NOVEL	Judy Budnitz
85	35	Dracul: An Eternal Love Story	NOVEL	Nancy Kilpatrick
86	35	Secrets	NOVEL	Esther Rochon
87	35	Feral	NOVEL	Kerry Greenwood
88	35	The Tilecutter's Penny	NOVEL	Caiseal Mór
89	35	The Talisman	NOVEL	Jonathan Aycliffe
90	35	The Ice People	NOVEL	Maggie Gee
91	35	Desmond	NOVEL	Ulysses Dietz
92	35	The Squire's Tale	NOVEL	Gerald Morris
93	35	Y2K: The Millennium Bug	NOVEL	Don L. Tiggre
94	35	Horsehead Boy	NOVEL	Rory Barnes
95	35	Ghost Country	NOVEL	Sara Paretsky
96	35	Socialdemokraten auf dem Monde	NOVEL	Ronald M. Hahn
97	35	Digitale Tänzer	NOVEL	Hartwig Hilgenstein
98	35	Kalter Frühling	NOVEL	Florian Nelle
99	35	Die Meister des Lebens	NOVEL	Wilfried A. Hary and Konrad Schaef
100	35	Das Tribunal der Häuser	NOVEL	Achim Mehnert and Konrad Schaef
101	35	屍鬼 (下)?しき (か) Shiki (Ka)	NOVEL	小野不由美?Fuyumi Ono おのふゆみ
102	35	La fraternidad de Eihwaz	NOVEL	César Mallorquí
103	35	水霊?みずち ミズチ Mizuchi	NOVEL	田中啓文?たなかひろふみ Hirofumi Tanaka
104	35	Wolf	NOVEL	Joachim Körber?Joachim Koerber
105	35	ヤンのいた島?ヤンのいたしま Yan no Ita Shima	NOVEL	沢村凜?さわむらりん Sawamura Rin
106	35	ループ?Rūpu Ruupu	NOVEL	鈴木光司?Kōji Suzuki Koji Suzuki
107	35	Avril et des poussières?Avril et des poussieres	NOVEL	Benjamin Legrand
108	35	屍鬼 (上)?しき (じょう) Shiki (Jō) Shiki (Jō)	NOVEL	小野不由美?Fuyumi Ono おのふゆみ
109	35	青猫の街?あおねこのまち Aoneko no Machi	NOVEL	涼元悠一?すずもとゆういち Suzumoto Yūichi Suzumoto Yuuichi
110	35	Stinger	NOVEL	Nancy Kress
111	35	Agbala dooo!: Eine Reise durch das helvetische Territorium im Jahre 205 p.r.	NOVEL	P. M.
112	35	Der Architekt im Glashaus	NOVEL	Günter Hack?Guenter Hack
113	35	Terrordrom	NOVEL	Tim Staffel
114	35	Le roi sans visage	NOVEL	Hervé Jubert?Herve Jubert
115	35	Kofi et les buveurs de vie	NOVEL	Jean-Pierre Andrevon
116	35	Destination cauchemar !	NOVEL	Gudule
117	35	Frankenstein	NOVEL	Gilles Menegaldo
118	35	The Stormwatcher	NOVEL	Graham Joyce
119	35	Masque	NOVEL	Matthew J. Costello and F. Paul Wilson
120	35	The Good Children	NOVEL	Kate Wilhelm
121	35	Les oubliés de Vulcain	NOVEL	Danielle Martinigol
122	35	Big Dablju	NOVEL	Klaus Middendorf
123	35	Das zweite Leben	NOVEL	Alexander Kröger?Alexander Kroeger
124	35	Abschied von Newton	NOVEL	Gert Heidenreich
125	35	Statistiker des Todes	NOVEL	Uwe Anton
126	35	Stardust	NOVEL	Neil Gaiman
127	35	Cold Iron	NOVEL	Sophie Masson
128	35	Beholder's Eye	NOVEL	Julie E. Czerneda
129	35	Slaughtermatic	NOVEL	Steve Aylett
130	35	The Transall Saga	NOVEL	Gary Paulsen
131	35	Playing God	NOVEL	Sarah Zettel
132	35	The Heavenward Path	NOVEL	Kara Dalkey
133	35	Perseus Spur	NOVEL	Julian May
134	35	The Death of the Necromancer	NOVEL	Martha Wells
135	35	Sur le seuil	NOVEL	Patrick Senécal?Patrick Senecal
136	35	Picatrix, la scala per l'inferno	NOVEL	Valerio Evangelisti
137	35	Kissing the Beehive	NOVEL	Jonathan Carroll
138	35	The History of Our World Beyond the Wave	NOVEL	R. E. Klein
139	35	Wildest Dreams	NOVEL	Norman Partridge
140	35	Dream Thieves	NOVEL	Steven Lee Climer
141	35	The Masterharper of Pern	NOVEL	Anne McCaffrey
142	35	To Hold Infinity	NOVEL	John Meaney
143	35	Vampyrrhic	NOVEL	Simon Clark
144	35	A Shadow on the Glass	NOVEL	Ian Irvine
145	35	Ship of Magic	NOVEL	Robin Hobb
146	35	Night Prayers	NOVEL	P. D. Cacek
147	30	Heartfire	NOVEL	Orson Scott Card
148	30	El ayer vacío	NOVEL	José Miguel Pallarés
149	29	El sello de Salomón	NOVEL	Armando Boix
150	28	Charlie	NOVEL	Fran Morell
151	28	Fortress of Eagles	NOVEL	C. J. Cherryh
152	28	Cosm	NOVEL	Gregory Benford
153	28	Green Rider	NOVEL	Kristen Britain
154	27	Homebody	NOVEL	Orson Scott Card
155	26	The Last Dragonlord	NOVEL	Joanne Bertin
156	25	Faces Under Water	NOVEL	Tanith Lee
157	25	Judgment of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959	NOVEL	Kim Newman
158	24	Ports of Call	NOVEL	Jack Vance
159	23	Santa Steps Out	NOVEL	Robert Devereaux
160	23	Nameless Magery	NOVEL	Delia Marshall Turner
161	23	Six Moon Dance	NOVEL	Sheri S. Tepper
162	22	Prince of Dogs	NOVEL	Kate Elliott
163	21	Maximum Light	NOVEL	Nancy Kress
164	20	The One-Armed Queen	NOVEL	Jane Yolen
165	20	Komarr	NOVEL	Lois McMaster Bujold
166	20	Moonseed	NOVEL	Stephen Baxter
167	20	Daughter of the Blood	NOVEL	Anne Bishop
168	20	Changer	NOVEL	Jane Lindskold
169	19	Anvil	NOVEL	Nicholas Van Pallandt
170	18	Vengeance Moon	NOVEL	Joyce Cottrell and Linda Reames Fox
171	18	Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary	NOVEL	Pamela Dean
172	17	Vast	NOVEL	Linda Nagata
173	17	The Gilded Chain	NOVEL	Dave Duncan
174	15	Bhagavati	NOVEL	Kara Dalkey
175	14	Deepdrive	NOVEL	Alexander Jablokov
176	13	Girl in Landscape	NOVEL	Jonathan Lethem
177	13	Earth Made of Glass	NOVEL	John Barnes
178	13	Ancients of Days	NOVEL	Paul J. McAuley
179	10	Bloom	NOVEL	Wil McCarthy
180	9	Noir	NOVEL	K. W. Jeter
181	6	Kirinya	NOVEL	Ian McDonald
182	3	The Shapes of Their Hearts	NOVEL	Melissa Scott
183	2	Island in the Sea of Time	NOVEL	S. M. Stirling
184	2	Commitment Hour	NOVEL	James Alan Gardner
185	1	Revolutionary Language	NOVEL	David Calderwood
186	1	Legacies	NOVEL	F. Paul Wilson
187	1	Red Shadows	NOVEL	Yvonne Navarro
188	1	Dark Water's Embrace	NOVEL	Stephen Leigh
189	1	The Vintner's Luck	NOVEL	Elizabeth Knox
190	1	Cavalcade	NOVEL	Alison Sinclair
191	1	Freedom's Challenge	NOVEL	Anne McCaffrey
192	1	Big Rock Beat	NOVEL	Greg Kihn
193	1	The Royal Changeling	NOVEL	John Whitbourn
194	1	The Midnight Tour	NOVEL	Richard Laymon
195	1	The Lost Child	NOVEL	Sarah Ash
196	1	Naomi	NOVEL	Douglas Clegg
197	1	Come Out Tonight	NOVEL	Richard Laymon
198	1	Operation Damocles	NOVEL	Oscar L. Fellows
199	1	The Blood Jaguar	NOVEL	Michael H. Payne
200	1	Inhuman Beings	NOVEL	Jerry Jay Carroll
201	1	Tea from an Empty Cup	NOVEL	Pat Cadigan
202	1	Head Case	NOVEL	Jay Bonansinga
203	1	Vampire Nation	NOVEL	Thomas M. Sipos
204	1	ダブ(エ)ストン街道?ダブ(エ)ストンかいどう Dabu(e)suton Kaidō Dabu(e)suton Kaidou	NOVEL	浅暮三文?あさぐれみつふみ Asagure Mitsufumi
205	1	Road to Hell	NOVEL	Gerard Houarner
206	1	Between the Rivers	NOVEL	Harry Turtledove
207	1	Prophets for the End of Time	NOVEL	Marcos Donnelly
208	1	The Guardian	NOVEL	Beecher Smith
209	1	Madonna of the Dark	NOVEL	Elaine Moore
210	1	Mother of Plenty	NOVEL	Colin Greenland

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