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Highest Ranked Short Fiction published in 1961

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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 50 Harrison Bergeron SHORTFICTION Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
2 50 All of Us Are Dying SHORTFICTION George Clayton Johnson
3 50 A Planet Named Shayol SHORTFICTION Cordwainer Smith
4 35 The Immortal SHORTFICTION Olaf Ruhen
5 1 Rub-a-Dub SHORTFICTION Daniel F. Galouye
6 1 The Kappa Nu Nexus SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson and Morton Klass
7 1 Adapted SHORTFICTION Carol Emshwiller
8 1 Hopsoil SHORTFICTION Robert F. Young
9 1 Kreativity for Kats SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
10 1 Lion Loose SHORTFICTION James H. Schmitz
11 1 Gone Fishing SHORTFICTION James H. Schmitz
12 1 The First One SHORTFICTION Herbert D. Kastle
13 1 The Weakling SHORTFICTION Everett B. Cole
14 1 The Tunnel Ahead SHORTFICTION Alice Glaser
15 1 Hate SHORTFICTION Arthur C. Clarke
16 1 The Fiesta at Managuay SHORTFICTION John Anthony West
17 1 The Interplanetary Cat SHORTFICTION Rick Rubin
18 1 The Beginning SHORTFICTION Henry Hasse
19 1 I-C-a-BeM SHORTFICTION Jack Vance
20 1 The Memory of Mars SHORTFICTION Raymond F. Jones
21 1 The Voice Box SHORTFICTION Allan W. Eckert
22 1 No Harm Done SHORTFICTION Jack Sharkey
23 1 Special Effect SHORTFICTION J. F. Bone
24 1 Court of Judgment SHORTFICTION David Ely
25 1 Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? SHORTFICTION Jack Sharkey
26 1 Mustang SHORTFICTION Randall Garrett
27 1 The Map Country SHORTFICTION Kenneth Bulmer
28 1 The Machine That Won the War SHORTFICTION Isaac Asimov
29 1 Something Rich and Strange SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson and Randall Garrett
30 1 Go for Baroque SHORTFICTION Jody Scott
31 1 A Spaceship Named McGuire SHORTFICTION Randall Garrett
32 1 The Highest Treason SHORTFICTION Randall Garrett
33 1 Death and the Senator SHORTFICTION Arthur C. Clarke
34 1 Monument SHORTFICTION Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
35 1 No Small Enemy SHORTFICTION Christopher Anvil
36 1 Hiding Place SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
37 1 Tandy's Story SHORTFICTION Theodore Sturgeon
38 1 Return SHORTFICTION Zenna Henderson
39 1 Alpha Ralpha Boulevard SHORTFICTION Cordwainer Smith
40 1 Scylla's Daughter SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
41 1 Magnanthropus SHORTFICTION Manly Banister
42 1 The Blaze of Noon SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson and Randall Garrett
43 1 The Foreign Hand-Tie SHORTFICTION Randall Garrett
44 1 Arcturus Times Three SHORTFICTION Jack Sharkey
45 1 Doctor SHORTFICTION Murray Leinster
46 1 A Dusk of Idols SHORTFICTION James Blish
47 1 Hatchery of Dreams SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
48 1 The Beat Cluster SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
49 1 Try to Remember! SHORTFICTION Frank Herbert
50 1 The Sources of the Nile SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson
51 1 Status Quo SHORTFICTION Mack Reynolds
52 1 Ultima Thule SHORTFICTION Mack Reynolds
53 1 Freedom SHORTFICTION Mack Reynolds
54 1 The Quaker Cannon SHORTFICTION C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
55 1 The Face in the Mask SHORTFICTION Estelle Frye
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