Highest Ranked Short Fiction published in 1982

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Note: Some recent awards are yet to be integrated into the database.
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	214	Fire Watch	SHORTFICTION	Connie Willis
2	185	Souls	SHORTFICTION	Joanna Russ
3	147	Petra	SHORTFICTION	Greg Bear
4	128	Melancholy Elephants	SHORTFICTION	Spider Robinson
5	110	The Breathing Method	SHORTFICTION	Stephen King
6	105	Pawn's Gambit	SHORTFICTION	Timothy Zahn
7	104	Another Orphan	SHORTFICTION	John Kessel
8	100	Unsound Variations	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
9	100	Myths of the Near Future	SHORTFICTION	J. G. Ballard
10	98	Horrible Imaginings	SHORTFICTION	Fritz Leiber
11	90	Swarm	SHORTFICTION	Bruce Sterling
12	87	Spider Rose	SHORTFICTION	Bruce Sterling
13	85	Sur	SHORTFICTION	Ursula K. Le Guin
14	83	Kitemaster	SHORTFICTION	Keith Roberts
15	80	Brainchild	SHORTFICTION	Joseph H. Delaney
16	76	A Letter from the Clearys	SHORTFICTION	Connie Willis
17	76	The Gorgon	SHORTFICTION	Tanith Lee
18	70	Beyond Any Measure	SHORTFICTION	Karl Edward Wagner
19	65	The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever	SHORTFICTION	James Tiptree, Jr.
20	64	God's Hooks!	SHORTFICTION	Howard Waldrop
21	64	The Postman	SHORTFICTION	David Brin
22	63	High Steel	SHORTFICTION	Jack Dann and Jack C. Haldeman, II
23	58	Brothers	SHORTFICTION	Richard Cowper
24	58	The Man Who Met Picasso	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
25	58	Understanding Human Behavior	SHORTFICTION	Thomas M. Disch
26	57	Nightlife	SHORTFICTION	Phyllis Eisenstein
27	56	The Pope of the Chimps	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
28	54	Moon of Ice	SHORTFICTION	Brad Linaweaver
29	53	The Scourge	SHORTFICTION	James White
30	51	To Leave a Mark	SHORTFICTION	Kim Stanley Robinson
31	51	Burning Chrome	SHORTFICTION	William Gibson
32	50	Osiris Land	SHORTFICTION	Wolfgang Jeschke
33	50	Papa 1er	SHORTFICTION	Jacques Mondoloni
34	50	The Man Who Walks Away Behind the Eyes	SHORTFICTION	Terry Dowling
35	50	言葉使い師?Kotoba Tsukaishi ことばづかいし Kotobazukaishi Kotobadzukaishi	SHORTFICTION	神林長平?Chōhei Kanbayashi Chohei Kambayashi Chouhei Kambayashi Chōhei Kambayashi Chouhei Kanbayashi Chohei Kanbayashi かんばやしちょうへい
36	50	Vrijeme je, maestro	SHORTFICTION	Biljana Mateljan
37	50	Дети синего фламинго?Deti sinego flamingo	SHORTFICTION	Владислав Крапивин?Vladislav Krapivin
38	50	Confess the Seasons	SHORTFICTION	Charles L. Grant
39	50	Die Planktonfischer	SHORTFICTION	Andreas Brandhorst
40	50	Djinn, No Chaser	SHORTFICTION	Harlan Ellison
41	49	Aquila	SHORTFICTION	S. P. Somtow
42	48	The Garden of the Cognoscenti	SHORTFICTION	Michael P. Kube-McDowell
43	46	Corridors	SHORTFICTION	Barry N. Malzberg
44	45	Ike at the Mike	SHORTFICTION	Howard Waldrop
45	35	Die Eingeborenen des Betondschungels	SHORTFICTION	Karl Michael Armer
46	35	Deathtracks	SHORTFICTION	Dennis Etchison
47	35	Night's Swift Dragons	SHORTFICTION	Charles L. Grant
48	35	Overture and Incidental Music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream"	SHORTFICTION	Angela Carter
49	35	Delirion: Liza	SHORTFICTION	Thomas Ziegler
50	35	Firestorm	SHORTFICTION	Steve Rasnic Tem
51	35	Mondsturmzeit	SHORTFICTION	Andreas Brandhorst
52	35	Le mystère des femelles de pierre	SHORTFICTION	Daniel Martinange
53	35	At the City Limits of Fate	SHORTFICTION	Michael Bishop
54	35	Histoire de Pachymo	SHORTFICTION	Sylviane Corgiat and Bruno Lecigne
55	35	The General's Wife	SHORTFICTION	Peter Straub
56	35	Willow	SHORTFICTION	C. J. Cherryh
57	35	City	SHORTFICTION	Thomas Ziegler
58	35	A Pursuit of Miracles	SHORTFICTION	George Turner
59	35	Der Papst ist da!	SHORTFICTION	Ronald M. Hahn
60	35	Die Geschichte von den raumfahrenden Mohawks der Außenstationen	SHORTFICTION	Gero Reimann
61	35	The Third Test	SHORTFICTION	Andrew Weiner
62	35	The Dissemblers	SHORTFICTION	Garry Kilworth
63	35	The Mystery of the Young Gentleman	SHORTFICTION	Joanna Russ
64	35	Name and Number	SHORTFICTION	Brian Lumley
65	35	Ein kurzes, vertrauliches Gespräch mit dem Herausgeber	SHORTFICTION	Uwe Anton
66	35	Inmitten der großen Leere	SHORTFICTION	Ronald M. Hahn
67	35	Collaboration	SHORTFICTION	Mark C. Jarvis
68	35	An Act of Faith	SHORTFICTION	Galad Elflandsson
69	30	Green-Eyed Lady, Laughing Lady	SHORTFICTION	Alison Tellure
70	30	Walk with Me	SHORTFICTION	Rob Chilson
71	30	Thesme and the Ghayrog	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
72	29	Schrödinger's Plague	SHORTFICTION	Greg Bear
73	28	Who Will Guard the Guardians?	SHORTFICTION	Catherine McCollum and Michael McCollum
74	27	My Brother's Keeper	SHORTFICTION	Joseph H. Delaney
75	26	The Fishing of the Demon-Sea	SHORTFICTION	Michael Shea
76	25	Dr. Bhumbo Singh	SHORTFICTION	Avram Davidson
77	24	The Devil of Malkirk	SHORTFICTION	Charles Sheffield
78	22	It Grows on You	SHORTFICTION	Stephen King
79	21	Rats in the Moon	SHORTFICTION	Pauline Ashwell
80	21	The Sorceress in Spite of Herself	SHORTFICTION	Pat Cadigan
81	21	The Theology of Water	SHORTFICTION	Hilbert Schenck
82	19	The Horror on the #33	SHORTFICTION	Michael Shea
83	19	The Raft	SHORTFICTION	Stephen King
84	18	The Magi	SHORTFICTION	Damien Broderick
85	18	Golden Gate	SHORTFICTION	R. A. Lafferty
86	18	Come Then, Mortal. We Will Seek Her Soul	SHORTFICTION	Michael Shea
87	18	Blair House	SHORTFICTION	Barry N. Malzberg
88	17	Farmer on the Dole	SHORTFICTION	Frederik Pohl
89	16	Co-Existence	SHORTFICTION	David Brin
90	15	Gianni	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
91	15	The Little Dirty Girl	SHORTFICTION	Joanna Russ
92	14	Relativistic Effects	SHORTFICTION	Gregory Benford
93	14	Written in Water	SHORTFICTION	Tanith Lee
94	13	A Private Whale	SHORTFICTION	Brian W. Aldiss
95	12	Blind Windows	SHORTFICTION	Garry Kilworth
96	11	Helen, Whose Face Launched Twenty-Eight Conestoga Hovercraft	SHORTFICTION	Leigh Kennedy
97	10	The Broken Hoop	SHORTFICTION	Pamela Sargent
98	9	The Comedian	SHORTFICTION	Tim Sullivan
99	8	Poems to Play in the Piccolo	SHORTFICTION	George C. Chesbro
100	7	The River Styx Runs Upstream	SHORTFICTION	Dan Simmons
101	6	Meet Me at Apogee	SHORTFICTION	Bill Johnson
102	5	What in Solemn Silence	SHORTFICTION	Charles L. Grant
103	1	The Plant: Zenith Rising	SHORTFICTION	Stephen King

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