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Highest Ranked Short Fiction of the 1960s

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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 Year Title Type Authors
1 150 1965 "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
2 101 1966 The Last Castle SHORTFICTION Jack Vance
3 100 1968 Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones SHORTFICTION Samuel R. Delany
4 100 1967 Gonna Roll the Bones SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
5 100 1963 No Truce with Kings SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
6 100 1962 The Dragon Masters SHORTFICTION Jack Vance
7 85 1969 Ship of Shadows SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
8 85 1969 A Boy and His Dog SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
9 85 1968 Nightwings SHORTFICTION Robert Silverberg
10 85 1968 Passengers SHORTFICTION Robert Silverberg
11 85 1968 The Sharing of Flesh SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
12 85 1967 Dragonrider SHORTFICTION Anne McCaffrey
13 85 1967 Riders of the Purple Wage SHORTFICTION Philip José Farmer
14 85 1967 Weyr Search SHORTFICTION Anne McCaffrey
15 70 1968 Total Environment SHORTFICTION Brian W. Aldiss
16 65 1969 Not Long Before the End SHORTFICTION Larry Niven
17 65 1968 The Dance of the Changer and the Three SHORTFICTION Terry Carr
18 64 1969 Deeper Than the Darkness SHORTFICTION Gregory Benford
19 64 1969 Dramatic Mission SHORTFICTION Anne McCaffrey
20 63 1969 To Jorslem SHORTFICTION Robert Silverberg
21 51 1968 Mother to the World SHORTFICTION Richard Wilson
22 51 1967 Aye, and Gomorrah ... SHORTFICTION Samuel R. Delany
23 51 1966 The Secret Place SHORTFICTION Richard McKenna
24 51 1966 Neutron Star SHORTFICTION Larry Niven
25 51 1966 Call Him Lord SHORTFICTION Gordon R. Dickson
26 51 1965 The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth SHORTFICTION Roger Zelazny
27 51 1963 Think Blue, Count Two SHORTFICTION Cordwainer Smith
28 50 1969 Dancing Gerontius SHORTFICTION Lee Harding
29 50 1968 The Beast That Shouted Love SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
30 50 1968 The Planners SHORTFICTION Kate Wilhelm
31 50 1968 Rozprawa SHORTFICTION
Stanisław Lem?Stanislaw Lem
32 50 1967 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
33 50 1966 Behold the Man SHORTFICTION Michael Moorcock
34 50 1966 A Relic of the Empire SHORTFICTION Larry Niven
35 50 1966 The Squirrel Cage SHORTFICTION Thomas M. Disch
36 50 1965 He Who Shapes SHORTFICTION Roger Zelazny
37 50 1965 The Saliva Tree SHORTFICTION Brian W. Aldiss
38 50 1964 Soldier, Ask Not SHORTFICTION Gordon R. Dickson
39 50 1961 A Planet Named Shayol SHORTFICTION Cordwainer Smith
40 50 1961 All of Us Are Dying SHORTFICTION George Clayton Johnson
41 50 1961 Harrison Bergeron SHORTFICTION Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
42 50 1960 The Longest Voyage SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
43 36 1968 Hawk Among the Sparrows SHORTFICTION Dean McLaughlin
44 36 1968 Lines of Power SHORTFICTION Samuel R. Delany
45 36 1968 Masks SHORTFICTION Damon Knight
46 36 1967 Hawksbill Station SHORTFICTION Robert Silverberg
47 36 1967 Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
48 36 1966 When I Was Miss Dow SHORTFICTION Sonya Dorman
49 36 1966 The Eskimo Invasion SHORTFICTION Hayden Howard
50 36 1966 An Ornament to His Profession SHORTFICTION Charles L. Harness
51 36 1966 Apology to Inky SHORTFICTION Robert M. Green, Jr.
52 36 1966 The Alchemist SHORTFICTION Charles L. Harness
53 36 1966 This Moment of the Storm SHORTFICTION Roger Zelazny
54 36 1966 Light of Other Days SHORTFICTION Bob Shaw
55 36 1965 Man in His Time SHORTFICTION Brian W. Aldiss
56 35 1969 The Kinsolving's Planet Irregulars SHORTFICTION A. Bertram Chandler
57 35 1969 Nine Lives SHORTFICTION Ursula K. Le Guin
58 35 1969 The Big Flash SHORTFICTION Norman Spinrad
59 35 1969 Anchor Man SHORTFICTION Jack Wodhams
60 35 1969 The Man Who Learned Loving SHORTFICTION Theodore Sturgeon
61 35 1969 The Last Flight of Dr. Ain SHORTFICTION James Tiptree, Jr.
62 35 1968 Shattered Like a Glass Goblin SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
63 35 1968 Conquest by Default SHORTFICTION Vernor Vinge
64 35 1968 Final War SHORTFICTION Barry N. Malzberg
65 35 1968 Once There Was a Giant SHORTFICTION Keith Laumer
66 35 1968 The Listeners SHORTFICTION James E. Gunn
67 35 1968 Split Personality SHORTFICTION Jack Wodhams
68 35 1968 Probable Cause SHORTFICTION Charles L. Harness
69 35 1968 All the Myriad Ways SHORTFICTION Larry Niven
70 35 1968 Final Flower SHORTFICTION Stephen Cook
71 35 1968 The Guerrilla Trees SHORTFICTION H. H. Hollis
72 35 1968 Sword Game SHORTFICTION H. H. Hollis
73 35 1968 Kyrie SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
74 35 1968 Idiot's Mate SHORTFICTION Robert Taylor
75 35 1967 The Fearsome Inn SHORTFICTION Isaac Bashevis Singer
76 35 1967 This Mortal Mountain SHORTFICTION Roger Zelazny
77 35 1967 The Jigsaw Man SHORTFICTION Larry Niven
78 35 1967 Earthwoman SHORTFICTION Reginald Bretnor
79 35 1967 The Doctor SHORTFICTION Theodore L. Thomas
80 35 1967 Wizard's World SHORTFICTION Andre Norton
81 35 1967 The Day Before Forever SHORTFICTION Keith Laumer
82 35 1967 Answering Service SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
83 35 1967 If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? SHORTFICTION Theodore Sturgeon
84 35 1967 Starfog SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
85 35 1967 Baby, You Were Great! SHORTFICTION Kate Wilhelm
86 35 1967 Driftglass SHORTFICTION Samuel R. Delany
87 35 1967 Flatlander SHORTFICTION Larry Niven
88 35 1966 The Keys to December SHORTFICTION Roger Zelazny
89 35 1965 The Earth Merchants SHORTFICTION Norman Kagan
90 35 1965 Eyes Do More Than See SHORTFICTION Isaac Asimov
91 35 1965 Uncollected Works SHORTFICTION Lin Carter
92 35 1965 Laugh Along with Franz SHORTFICTION Norman Kagan
93 35 1965 The Mercurymen SHORTFICTION C. C. MacApp
94 35 1965 Founding Father SHORTFICTION Isaac Asimov
95 35 1965 Though a Sparrow Fall SHORTFICTION Thomas N. Scortia
96 35 1965 Lord Moon SHORTFICTION M. J. Engh
97 35 1965 Alfred's Ark SHORTFICTION Jack Vance
98 35 1965 The House the Blakeneys Built SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson
99 35 1965 Four Ghosts in Hamlet SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
100 35 1965 Calling Dr. Clockwork SHORTFICTION Ron Goulart
101 35 1965 Over the River and Through the Woods SHORTFICTION Clifford D. Simak
102 35 1965 The Masculinist Revolt SHORTFICTION William Tenn
103 35 1965 Cyclops SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
104 35 1965 Small One SHORTFICTION E. Clayton McCarty
105 35 1965 Of One Mind SHORTFICTION James Durham
106 35 1965 At the Institute SHORTFICTION Norman Kagan
107 35 1965 Research Alpha SHORTFICTION James H. Schmitz and A. E. van Vogt
108 35 1965 In Our Block SHORTFICTION R. A. Lafferty
109 35 1965 Under Two Moons SHORTFICTION Frederik Pohl
110 35 1965 A Leader for Yesteryear SHORTFICTION Mack Reynolds
111 35 1965 A Few Kindred Spirits SHORTFICTION John Christopher
112 35 1965 The Peacock King SHORTFICTION Larry McCombs and Ted White
113 35 1965 Vanishing Point SHORTFICTION Jonathan Brand
114 35 1965 Maiden Voyage SHORTFICTION J. W. Schutz
115 35 1965 Better Than Ever SHORTFICTION Alex Kirs
116 35 1965 Keep Them Happy SHORTFICTION Robert Rohrer
117 35 1965 Rogue Dragon SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson
118 35 1965 The Eight Billion SHORTFICTION Richard Wilson
119 35 1965 Becalmed in Hell SHORTFICTION Larry Niven
120 35 1965 Balanced Ecology SHORTFICTION James H. Schmitz
121 35 1965 Come to Venus Melancholy SHORTFICTION Thomas M. Disch
122 35 1965 Masque of the Red Shift SHORTFICTION Fred Saberhagen
123 35 1965 The Good New Days SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
124 35 1965 A Better Mousehole SHORTFICTION Edgar Pangborn
125 35 1965 Half a Loaf SHORTFICTION R. C. FitzPatrick
126 35 1965 The Adventure of the Extraterrestrial SHORTFICTION Mack Reynolds
127 35 1965 The Life of Your Time SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
128 35 1965 Goblin Night SHORTFICTION James H. Schmitz
129 35 1965 102 H-Bombs SHORTFICTION Thomas M. Disch
130 35 1965 Computers Don't Argue SHORTFICTION Gordon R. Dickson
131 35 1965 Game SHORTFICTION Donald Barthelme
132 35 1965 Wrong-Way Street SHORTFICTION Larry Niven
133 35 1965 On the Storm Planet SHORTFICTION Cordwainer Smith
134 35 1965 The Mischief Maker SHORTFICTION Richard Olin
135 35 1965 Inside Man SHORTFICTION H. L. Gold
136 35 1965 Shall We Have a Little Talk? SHORTFICTION Robert Sheckley
137 35 1965 The Shipwrecked Hotel SHORTFICTION James Blish and Norman L. Knight
138 35 1965 Devil Car SHORTFICTION Roger Zelazny
139 35 1965 Slow Tuesday Night SHORTFICTION R. A. Lafferty
140 35 1965 The Decision Makers SHORTFICTION Joseph Green
141 35 1965 Planet of Forgetting SHORTFICTION James H. Schmitz
142 35 1964 The Drowned Giant SHORTFICTION J. G. Ballard
143 35 1964 Once a Cop SHORTFICTION Rick Raphael
144 35 1963 Code Three SHORTFICTION Rick Raphael
145 35 1961 The Immortal SHORTFICTION Olaf Ruhen
146 30 1969 We All Die Naked SHORTFICTION James Blish
147 30 1968 Getting Through University SHORTFICTION Piers Anthony
148 30 1967 Damnation Alley SHORTFICTION Roger Zelazny
149 30 1964 Little Dog Gone SHORTFICTION Robert F. Young
150 30 1963 A Rose for Ecclesiastes SHORTFICTION Roger Zelazny
151 30 1963 The Long Remembered Thunder SHORTFICTION Keith Laumer
152 30 1963 Savage Pellucidar SHORTFICTION Edgar Rice Burroughs
153 29 1963 The Great Slow Kings SHORTFICTION Roger Zelazny
154 29 1963 The Borgia Hand SHORTFICTION Roger Zelazny
155 28 1969 Winter's King SHORTFICTION Ursula K. Le Guin
156 22 1964 SHORTFICTION and
157 11 1969 Cliffs That Laughed SHORTFICTION R. A. Lafferty
158 2 1966 For a Breath I Tarry SHORTFICTION Roger Zelazny
159 2 1966 Delusion for a Dragon Slayer SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
160 2 1964 The Lords of Quarmall SHORTFICTION Harry Fischer and Fritz Leiber
161 2 1963 No Great Magic SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
162 2 1963 The Visitor at the Zoo SHORTFICTION Damon Knight
163 2 1962 The Unholy Grail SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
164 1 1968 The Steiger Effect SHORTFICTION Betsy Curtis
165 1 1967 Faith of Our Fathers SHORTFICTION Philip K. Dick
166 1 1967 The Star Pit SHORTFICTION Samuel R. Delany
167 1 1966 We Can Remember It for You Wholesale SHORTFICTION Philip K. Dick
168 1 1966 In the Imagicon SHORTFICTION George H. Smith
169 1 1966 Bordered in Black SHORTFICTION Larry Niven
170 1 1966 Rat Race SHORTFICTION Raymond F. Jones
171 1 1966 Who Needs Insurance? SHORTFICTION Robin Scott Wilson
172 1 1966 The Empty Man SHORTFICTION Gardner Dozois
173 1 1966 The Light of Darkness SHORTFICTION Arthur C. Clarke
174 1 1966 Deliver the Man! SHORTFICTION Raymond E. Banks
175 1 1966 A Planet of Your Own SHORTFICTION John Brunner
176 1 1966 The Message SHORTFICTION Piers Anthony and Frances Hall
177 1 1966 The Sons of Prometheus SHORTFICTION Alexei Panshin
178 1 1966 The Body Builders SHORTFICTION Keith Laumer
179 1 1966 The Manor of Roses SHORTFICTION Thomas Burnett Swann
180 1 1966 The Age of Invention SHORTFICTION Norman Spinrad
181 1 1966 The Plot is the Thing SHORTFICTION Robert Bloch
182 1 1966 The Manse of Iucounu SHORTFICTION Jack Vance
183 1 1966 Brain Bank SHORTFICTION Ardrey Marshall
184 1 1966 The Little Blue Weeds of Spring SHORTFICTION Doris Pitkin Buck
185 1 1966 The Wings of a Bat SHORTFICTION Pauline Ashwell
186 1 1966 A Sun Invisible SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
187 1 1966 Kangaroo Court SHORTFICTION Virginia Kidd
188 1 1966 Strangers to Paradise SHORTFICTION Christopher Anvil
189 1 1966 Golden Trabant SHORTFICTION R. A. Lafferty
190 1 1966 Silkies in Space SHORTFICTION A. E. van Vogt
191 1 1966 Among the Hairy Earthmen SHORTFICTION R. A. Lafferty
192 1 1966 Mr. Jester SHORTFICTION Fred Saberhagen
193 1 1966 Comes Now the Power SHORTFICTION Roger Zelazny
194 1 1966 The Primitives SHORTFICTION Frank Herbert
195 1 1966 Prototaph SHORTFICTION Keith Laumer
196 1 1965 Stardock SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
197 1 1965 The Inner Ring SHORTFICTION C. S. Lewis
198 1 1965 Marque and Reprisal SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
199 1 1965 Day of the Great Shout SHORTFICTION Philip José Farmer
200 1 1964 The Permanent Implosion SHORTFICTION Dean McLaughlin
201 1 1964 Lord of the Uffts SHORTFICTION Murray Leinster
202 1 1964 The Eternal Machines SHORTFICTION William Spencer
203 1 1964 The Night-Flame SHORTFICTION Colin Kapp
204 1 1963 Black Sword's Brothers SHORTFICTION Michael Moorcock
205 1 1963 Territory SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
206 1 1963 The Men in the Walls SHORTFICTION William Tenn
207 1 1963 Another Rib SHORTFICTION Marion Zimmer Bradley and Juanita Coulson
208 1 1963 Home from the Shore SHORTFICTION Gordon R. Dickson
209 1 1963 Turn Off the Sky SHORTFICTION Ray Nelson
210 1 1963 Girl of My Dreams SHORTFICTION Richard Matheson
211 1 1963 Cerebrum SHORTFICTION Albert Teichner
212 1 1963 "I I I }Was a Spider for the SBI" SHORTFICTION Neal Barrett, Jr.
213 1 1963 'Tis the Season to Be Jelly SHORTFICTION Richard Matheson
214 1 1963 The Weremartini SHORTFICTION Vance Aandahl
215 1 1963 A Night with Hecate SHORTFICTION Edward W. Ludwig
216 1 1963 Tallien Three SHORTFICTION Murray Leinster
217 1 1963 The Cloud of Hate SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
218 1 1963 To the Chicago Abyss SHORTFICTION Ray Bradbury
219 1 1963 The Winds of If SHORTFICTION A. Bertram Chandler
220 1 1963 The Lesson for Today SHORTFICTION David Rome
221 1 1963 Treaty in Tartessos SHORTFICTION Karen Anderson
222 1 1963 Skeleton Crew SHORTFICTION Brian W. Aldiss
223 1 1963 They Don't Make Life Like They Used to SHORTFICTION Alfred Bester
224 1 1963 Hunter, Come Home SHORTFICTION Richard McKenna
225 1 1963 The Days of Perky Pat SHORTFICTION Philip K. Dick
226 1 1963 Thin Edge SHORTFICTION Randall Garrett
227 1 1963 All Day Wednesday SHORTFICTION Richard Olin
228 1 1963 "What'll You Give?" SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
229 1 1963 The Happy Man SHORTFICTION Gerald W. Page
230 1 1963 New Folks' Home SHORTFICTION Clifford D. Simak
231 1 1963 Industrial Revolution SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
232 1 1963 Speakeasy SHORTFICTION Mack Reynolds
233 1 1963 Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory SHORTFICTION Robert F. Young
234 1 1963 Problem of Command SHORTFICTION Christopher Anvil
235 1 1963 War Games SHORTFICTION Christopher Anvil
236 1 1963 On the Gem Planet SHORTFICTION Cordwainer Smith
237 1 1963 The Dolphin and the Deep SHORTFICTION Thomas Burnett Swann
238 1 1963 Hot Planet SHORTFICTION Hal Clement
239 1 1963 The Earth War SHORTFICTION Mack Reynolds
240 1 1963 To Plant a Seed SHORTFICTION Neal Barrett, Jr.
241 1 1963 Bazaar of the Bizarre SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
242 1 1963 The Three-Cornered Wheel SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
243 1 1963 A World by the Tale SHORTFICTION Randall Garrett
244 1 1962 When You Care, When You Love SHORTFICTION Theodore Sturgeon
245 1 1962 Myrrha SHORTFICTION Gary Jennings
246 1 1962 The Ballad of Lost C'mell SHORTFICTION Cordwainer Smith
247 1 1962 Where Is the Bird of Fire? SHORTFICTION Thomas Burnett Swann
248 1 1962 All the Sounds of Fear SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
249 1 1961 Mustang SHORTFICTION Randall Garrett
250 1 1961 Special Effect SHORTFICTION J. F. Bone
251 1 1961 Court of Judgment SHORTFICTION David Ely
252 1 1961 The Kappa Nu Nexus SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson and Morton Klass
253 1 1961 Kreativity for Kats SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
254 1 1961 Adapted SHORTFICTION Carol Emshwiller
255 1 1961 Hopsoil SHORTFICTION Robert F. Young
256 1 1961 The Fiesta at Managuay SHORTFICTION John Anthony West
257 1 1961 The Voice Box SHORTFICTION Allan W. Eckert
258 1 1961 The Memory of Mars SHORTFICTION Raymond F. Jones
259 1 1961 No Harm Done SHORTFICTION Jack Sharkey
260 1 1961 The Tunnel Ahead SHORTFICTION Alice Glaser
261 1 1961 I-C-a-BeM SHORTFICTION Jack Vance
262 1 1961 The Beginning SHORTFICTION Henry Hasse
263 1 1961 Rub-a-Dub SHORTFICTION Daniel F. Galouye
264 1 1961 The Interplanetary Cat SHORTFICTION Rick Rubin
265 1 1961 The Map Country SHORTFICTION Kenneth Bulmer
266 1 1961 Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? SHORTFICTION Jack Sharkey
267 1 1961 The Face in the Mask SHORTFICTION Estelle Frye
268 1 1961 Lion Loose SHORTFICTION James H. Schmitz
269 1 1961 Scylla's Daughter SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
270 1 1961 Status Quo SHORTFICTION Mack Reynolds
271 1 1961 Ultima Thule SHORTFICTION Mack Reynolds
272 1 1961 Freedom SHORTFICTION Mack Reynolds
273 1 1961 The Quaker Cannon SHORTFICTION C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
274 1 1961 The Foreign Hand-Tie SHORTFICTION Randall Garrett
275 1 1961 The Blaze of Noon SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson and Randall Garrett
276 1 1961 A Spaceship Named McGuire SHORTFICTION Randall Garrett
277 1 1961 The Highest Treason SHORTFICTION Randall Garrett
278 1 1961 Death and the Senator SHORTFICTION Arthur C. Clarke
279 1 1961 No Small Enemy SHORTFICTION Christopher Anvil
280 1 1961 Hiding Place SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
281 1 1961 Alpha Ralpha Boulevard SHORTFICTION Cordwainer Smith
282 1 1961 Return SHORTFICTION Zenna Henderson
283 1 1961 The Sources of the Nile SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson
284 1 1961 Monument SHORTFICTION Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
285 1 1961 Try to Remember! SHORTFICTION Frank Herbert
286 1 1961 Gone Fishing SHORTFICTION James H. Schmitz
287 1 1961 The First One SHORTFICTION Herbert D. Kastle
288 1 1961 The Weakling SHORTFICTION Everett B. Cole
289 1 1961 Magnanthropus SHORTFICTION Manly Banister
290 1 1961 Hate SHORTFICTION Arthur C. Clarke
291 1 1961 The Machine That Won the War SHORTFICTION Isaac Asimov
292 1 1961 Something Rich and Strange SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson and Randall Garrett
293 1 1961 Go for Baroque SHORTFICTION Jody Scott
294 1 1961 Arcturus Times Three SHORTFICTION Jack Sharkey
295 1 1961 The Beat Cluster SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
296 1 1961 Hatchery of Dreams SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
297 1 1961 A Dusk of Idols SHORTFICTION James Blish
298 1 1961 Doctor SHORTFICTION Murray Leinster
299 1 1961 Tandy's Story SHORTFICTION Theodore Sturgeon
300 1 1960
真夜中の檻?Mayonaka no Ori
SHORTFICTION
平井呈一?ひらいていいち
Hirai Tei'ichi
Hirai Teiichi
301 1 1960 Open to Me, My Sister SHORTFICTION Philip José Farmer
302 1 1960 Need SHORTFICTION Theodore Sturgeon
303 1 1960 I Remember Babylon SHORTFICTION Arthur C. Clarke
304 1 1960 The Lost Kafoozalum SHORTFICTION Pauline Ashwell
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