Highest Ranked Short Fiction 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	215	The Only Neat Thing to Do	SHORTFICTION	James Tiptree, Jr.
2	199	The Winter Market	SHORTFICTION	William Gibson
3	170	Paladin of the Lost Hour	SHORTFICTION	Harlan Ellison
4	165	Portraits of His Children	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
5	155	Sailing to Byzantium	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
6	153	Paper Dragons	SHORTFICTION	James P. Blaylock
7	129	Green Mars	SHORTFICTION	Kim Stanley Robinson
8	126	Dogfight	SHORTFICTION	William Gibson and Michael Swanwick
9	120	Fermi and Frost	SHORTFICTION	Frederik Pohl
10	114	24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai	SHORTFICTION	Roger Zelazny
11	100	The Fringe	SHORTFICTION	Orson Scott Card
12	100	Nekromanteion	SHORTFICTION	Wolfgang Jeschke
13	99	The Jaguar Hunter	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
14	95	Flying Saucer Rock & Roll	SHORTFICTION	Howard Waldrop
15	95	Snow	SHORTFICTION	John Crowley
16	92	The Gorgon Field	SHORTFICTION	Kate Wilhelm
17	90	The Scapegoat	SHORTFICTION	C. J. Cherryh
18	89	A Gift from the GrayLanders	SHORTFICTION	Michael Bishop
19	85	Hong's Bluff	SHORTFICTION	William F. Wu
20	77	Rockabye Baby	SHORTFICTION	S. C. Sykes
21	76	Loaves and Fishes	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
22	73	A Troll and Two Roses	SHORTFICTION	Patricia A. McKillip
23	70	The People on the Precipice	SHORTFICTION	Ian Watson
24	70	Tainaron: Postia toisesta kaupungista	SHORTFICTION	Leena Krohn
25	69	Out of All Them Bright Stars	SHORTFICTION	Nancy Kress
26	59	Green Days in Brunei	SHORTFICTION	Bruce Sterling
27	59	The Gods of Mars	SHORTFICTION	Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick
28	59	The Plague Star	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
29	57	Dinner in Audoghast	SHORTFICTION	Bruce Sterling
30	53	Kitemistress	SHORTFICTION	Keith Roberts
31	53	The Road Not Taken	SHORTFICTION	Harry Turtledove
32	51	Flight	SHORTFICTION	Peter Dickinson
33	51	The Slovo Stove	SHORTFICTION	Avram Davidson
34	50	レモンパイ、お屋敷横丁ゼロ番地^?Remon Pai, Oyashiki Yokochō Zero Banchi Remon Pai, Oyashiki Yokochou Zero Banchi Remon Pai, Oyashiki Yokocho Zero Banchi	SHORTFICTION	野田昌宏^?のだまさひろ Noda Masahiro
35	50	Het uitzicht vanaf hoge plaatsen	SHORTFICTION	Tais Teng
36	50	The Bullet That Grows in the Gun	SHORTFICTION	Terry Dowling
37	50	Traumjäger^?Traumjaeger	SHORTFICTION	Hans Joachim Alpers and Ronald M. Hahn
38	50	Het loon der zotheid, of Jettou's ei	SHORTFICTION	Gert Kuipers and Jan J. B. Kuipers
39	50	Cube Root	SHORTFICTION	David Langford
40	50	Yadjine et la mort	SHORTFICTION	Daniel Sernine
41	50	Most	SHORTFICTION	Slobodan Petrovski
42	50	Nadelman's God	SHORTFICTION	T. E. D. Klein
43	50	Polarlicht	SHORTFICTION	Reinmar Cunis
44	50	The Ungoverned	SHORTFICTION	Vernor Vinge
45	50	With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole	SHORTFICTION	Harlan Ellison
46	50	Desafinado	SHORTFICTION	Gerben Hellinga, Jr.
47	50	A Touch Beyond	SHORTFICTION	Stephen L. Burns
48	50	The Forbidden	SHORTFICTION	Clive Barker
49	46	O Happy Day!	SHORTFICTION	Geoff Ryman
50	43	Heirs of the Perisphere	SHORTFICTION	Howard Waldrop
51	38	The R Strain	SHORTFICTION	Harry Turtledove
52	35	§1 BGB	SHORTFICTION	Martin Rossmann
53	35	The Lipton Village Society	SHORTFICTION	Lucy Sussex
54	35	Montage	SHORTFICTION	Lucy Sussex
55	35	Der Mann, dessen Gesicht in Fetzen ging	SHORTFICTION	Karl-Ulrich Burgdorf
56	35	Gertrude	SHORTFICTION	P. M. Fergusson
57	35	Manna from Heaven	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
58	35	Glass Reptile Breakout	SHORTFICTION	Russell Blackford
59	35	Im Namen der Menschlichkeit	SHORTFICTION	Wolfgang Hohlbein
60	35	Dead Image	SHORTFICTION	David Morrell
61	35	La nature morte	SHORTFICTION	Charles Montpetit
62	35	Les voix dans la machine	SHORTFICTION	Jean Dion
63	35	La maison au bord de la mer	SHORTFICTION	Élisabeth Vonarburg^?Elisabeth Vonarburg
64	35	L'Incident Chicago	SHORTFICTION	Jean Dion
65	35	For the Man Who Has Everything	SHORTFICTION	Chris Simmons
66	35	The Fittest	SHORTFICTION	George Turner
67	35	The Twist of Fate	SHORTFICTION	David Grigg
68	35	Der Lux-Beschleuniger	SHORTFICTION	Gerd Maximovič^?Gerd Maximovic Gerd Maximovich
69	35	Analyse und Verantwortung	SHORTFICTION	Carl Amery
70	35	Return of the Dust Vampires	SHORTFICTION	Sharon N. Farber
71	35	Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?	SHORTFICTION	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
72	35	Niemand außer dir	SHORTFICTION	Christian Lautenschlag
73	35	Die Koralleninsel	SHORTFICTION	Herbert W. Franke
74	35	A Young Man's Journey to Viriconium	SHORTFICTION	M. John Harrison
75	35	Der x-mal vervielfachte Held	SHORTFICTION	Günter Braun^?Guenter Braun and Johanna Braun
76	35	La peau bleue	SHORTFICTION	Christian Léourier^?Christian Leourier
77	35	More Than the Sum of His Parts	SHORTFICTION	Joe Haldeman
78	35	Chronos' Christmas	SHORTFICTION	Rhea Rose
79	35	The Effect of Terminal Cancer on Potential Astronauts	SHORTFICTION	David Kirkpatrick
80	35	The Fair in Emain Macha	SHORTFICTION	Charles de Lint
81	30	Morgen en Overmorgen	SHORTFICTION	Jan Bee Landman
82	30	World of Crystal, Sky of Fire	SHORTFICTION	Bob Buckley
83	30	Cycles	SHORTFICTION	Don Sakers
84	29	Oost is oost - west is west	SHORTFICTION	Gerben Hellinga, Jr.
85	28	Jagerslied	SHORTFICTION	Jan J. B. Kuipers
86	28	The Man of Peace	SHORTFICTION	Stephen L. Burns
87	27	Mengele	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
88	27	Under Siege	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
89	27	Of Space-Time and the River	SHORTFICTION	Gregory Benford
90	27	De doodsdromen van Sybillia Sternenstaub	SHORTFICTION	Eddy C. Bertin
91	26	All My Darling Daughters	SHORTFICTION	Connie Willis
92	26	No Regrets	SHORTFICTION	Lisa Tuttle
93	26	De lange schemering	SHORTFICTION	Cees Pamalot
94	25	Oorlogje spelen	SHORTFICTION	Gerben Hellinga, Jr.
95	25	To the Storming Gulf	SHORTFICTION	Gregory Benford
96	23	Storming the Cosmos	SHORTFICTION	Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling
97	23	"... How My Heart Breaks When I Sing This Song ..."	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
98	23	World War Last	SHORTFICTION	Norman Spinrad
99	23	In paradisum	SHORTFICTION	Peter Cuijpers
100	22	A Spanish Lesson	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
101	21	The Curse of Kings	SHORTFICTION	Connie Willis
102	21	Tourists	SHORTFICTION	Lisa Goldstein
103	21	The Things That Happen	SHORTFICTION	Frederik Pohl
104	20	Mercurial	SHORTFICTION	Kim Stanley Robinson
105	20	When Winter Ends	SHORTFICTION	Michael P. Kube-McDowell
106	20	Sunrise on Pluto	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
107	19	How the Wind Spoke at Madaket	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
108	19	The End of Life as We Know It	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
109	19	De goede aarde	SHORTFICTION	Fred van der Meulen
110	18	Duke Pasquale's Ring	SHORTFICTION	Avram Davidson
111	17	The Transmigration of Philip K.	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
112	17	Side Effects	SHORTFICTION	Walter Jon Williams
113	17	George Washington Slept Here	SHORTFICTION	Charles L. Harness
114	16	Mozart in Mirrorshades	SHORTFICTION	Lewis Shiner and Bruce Sterling
115	15	Talion	SHORTFICTION	John Brunner
116	15	Vilest Beast	SHORTFICTION	Harry Turtledove
117	15	My Life in the Jungle	SHORTFICTION	Jim Aikin
118	14	The Poplar Street Study	SHORTFICTION	Karen Joy Fowler
119	13	Solstice	SHORTFICTION	James Patrick Kelly
120	13	The Great Wall	SHORTFICTION	Wayne Wightman
121	12	The Blind Minotaur	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
122	12	Shanidar	SHORTFICTION	David Zindell
123	12	The War at Home	SHORTFICTION	Lewis Shiner
124	10	State of the Art	SHORTFICTION	Robert Charles Wilson
125	10	Unferno	SHORTFICTION	George Alec Effinger
126	10	The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things	SHORTFICTION	Karen Joy Fowler
127	9	Vestibular Man	SHORTFICTION	Felix C. Gotschalk
128	7	The Last Dragon Master	SHORTFICTION	A. A. Attanasio
129	6	The Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium, Ltd.	SHORTFICTION	Michael Bishop
130	1	Die Haarteppichknüpfer	SHORTFICTION	Andreas Eschbach

Highest Ranked Short Fiction published in 1985

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