Highest Ranked Short Fiction published in 1987

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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	270	Rachel in Love	SHORTFICTION	Pat Murphy
2	214	Angel	SHORTFICTION	Pat Cadigan
3	200	The Secret Sharer	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
4	200	Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight	SHORTFICTION	Ursula K. Le Guin
5	165	Eye for Eye	SHORTFICTION	Orson Scott Card
6	163	The Pear-Shaped Man	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
7	162	Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers	SHORTFICTION	Lawrence Watt-Evans
8	146	The Evening and the Morning and the Night	SHORTFICTION	Octavia E. Butler
9	145	Forever Yours, Anna	SHORTFICTION	Kate Wilhelm
10	108	Mother Goddess of the World	SHORTFICTION	Kim Stanley Robinson
11	98	The Faithful Companion at Forty	SHORTFICTION	Karen Joy Fowler
12	95	Friend's Best Man	SHORTFICTION	Jonathan Carroll
13	93	Flowers of Edo	SHORTFICTION	Bruce Sterling
14	91	Dream Baby	SHORTFICTION	Bruce McAllister
15	88	Cassandra's Photographs	SHORTFICTION	Lisa Goldstein
16	87	The Forest of Time	SHORTFICTION	Michael F. Flynn
17	87	Schwarzschild Radius	SHORTFICTION	Connie Willis
18	87	To Hell with the Stars	SHORTFICTION	Jack McDevitt
19	85	The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead	SHORTFICTION	Alan Rodgers
20	81	Dinosaurs	SHORTFICTION	Walter Jon Williams
21	75	Love Sickness	SHORTFICTION	Geoff Ryman
22	70	Shades	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
23	70	Pamela's Get	SHORTFICTION	David J. Schow
24	65	The Circular Library of Stones	SHORTFICTION	Carol Emshwiller
25	57	Fugue State	SHORTFICTION	John M. Ford
26	55	On the Border	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
27	55	Yanqui Doodle	SHORTFICTION	James Tiptree, Jr.
28	53	Night of the Cooters	SHORTFICTION	Howard Waldrop
29	52	Winter's Tale	SHORTFICTION	Connie Willis
30	52	He-We-Await	SHORTFICTION	Howard Waldrop
31	51	The Gift	SHORTFICTION	Pat Forde
32	50	Leaks	SHORTFICTION	Steve Rasnic Tem
33	50	For as Long as You Burn	SHORTFICTION	Terry Dowling
34	50	Le parc zoonirique	SHORTFICTION	Francis Berthelot
35	50	Das liederlich machend Liedermacher-Leben	SHORTFICTION	Ernst Petz
36	50	The Deep End	SHORTFICTION	Robert R. McCammon
37	50	Sokolar	SHORTFICTION	Vladimir Lazović?Vladimir Lazovic Владимир Лазовић
38	50	The Last Elephant	SHORTFICTION	Terry Dowling
39	50	Die Endlösung der Arbeitslosenfrage	SHORTFICTION	Karl Michael Armer
40	50	Les crabes de Vénus regardent vers le ciel	SHORTFICTION	Alain Bergeron
41	50	山の上の交響楽?Yama no Ue no Kōkyōgaku	SHORTFICTION	中井紀夫?なかいのりお Norio Nakai
42	50	The Love Song of Laura Morrison	SHORTFICTION	Jerry Oltion
43	49	The Little Magic Shop	SHORTFICTION	Bruce Sterling
44	47	The Moon and Michelangelo	SHORTFICTION	Ian Watson
45	35	The Tale of Rumor and Desire	SHORTFICTION	Samuel R. Delany
46	35	The Tiger Sweater	SHORTFICTION	Keith Roberts
47	35	And Who Is Joah?	SHORTFICTION	Tanya Huff
48	35	Dat-Tay-Vao	SHORTFICTION	F. Paul Wilson
49	35	The Grand Tour	SHORTFICTION	Charles Sheffield
50	35	Nesting Instinct	SHORTFICTION	Scott Baker
51	35	Temple to a Minor Goddess	SHORTFICTION	Susan Shwartz
52	35	Best Friends	SHORTFICTION	Robert R. McCammon
53	35	A Hypothetical Lizard	SHORTFICTION	Alan Moore
54	35	In the House of Gingerbread	SHORTFICTION	Gene Wolfe
55	35	Traps	SHORTFICTION	F. Paul Wilson
56	35	Geisha Blues	SHORTFICTION	Jean Dion and Guy Sirois
57	35	The Dirty Little Unicorn	SHORTFICTION	Stephen Dedman
58	35	Marmordesse	SHORTFICTION	Terry Dowling
59	35	Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands	SHORTFICTION	Garry Kilworth
60	35	The Supramarket	SHORTFICTION	Leanne Frahm
61	35	The Celestial Intervention Agency	SHORTFICTION	Karen Herkes
62	35	La marquise de Tchernobyl	SHORTFICTION	Claude-Michel Prévost?Claude-Michel Prevost
63	35	Splatter: A Cautionary Tale	SHORTFICTION	Douglas E. Winter
64	35	This Old Man	SHORTFICTION	Charles L. Grant
65	35	ResurrecTech™	SHORTFICTION	S. P. Somtow
66	35	Kid Charlemagne	SHORTFICTION	Paul Di Filippo
67	35	Zu Fuß von Schilda nach Krummbach	SHORTFICTION	Georg Zauner
68	35	Begegnung am Strand	SHORTFICTION	Carl Amery
69	35	Ivresse choréique?Ivresse choreique	SHORTFICTION	Jean-Pierre Hubert
70	30	Candle in a Cosmic Wind	SHORTFICTION	Joseph Manzione
71	30	Neither Rain Nor Sleet Nor Weirdness	SHORTFICTION	Jerry Oltion
72	30	Delta Sly Honey	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
73	29	Banshee	SHORTFICTION	Timothy Zahn
74	29	In Midst of Life	SHORTFICTION	James Tiptree, Jr.
75	29	Mortality	SHORTFICTION	Rick Cook
76	29	In the Kingdom at Morning	SHORTFICTION	Stephen L. Burns
77	28	The Glassblower's Dragon	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
78	28	Silent Night	SHORTFICTION	Ben Bova
79	28	Superwine	SHORTFICTION	Harry Turtledove
80	28	Carthage City	SHORTFICTION	Orson Scott Card
81	28	Independents	SHORTFICTION	Eric Vinicoff
82	27	Glass Cloud	SHORTFICTION	James Patrick Kelly
83	27	Cobwebs	SHORTFICTION	Ray Brown
84	27	America	SHORTFICTION	Orson Scott Card
85	26	The Borders of Infinity	SHORTFICTION	Lois McMaster Bujold
86	25	The Few, the Proud	SHORTFICTION	Harlan Ellison
87	23	Glass	SHORTFICTION	Nancy Kress
88	23	Saving Time	SHORTFICTION	Russell M. Griffin
89	22	Displaced Person	SHORTFICTION	Ian Stewart
90	21	The Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar	SHORTFICTION	William S. Burroughs
91	21	Runaway	SHORTFICTION	Orson Scott Card
92	20	The Pardoner's Tale	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
93	19	A Hole in the Sun	SHORTFICTION	Roger MacBride Allen
94	18	Highbrow	SHORTFICTION	Neal Barrett, Jr.
95	17	Perpetuity Blues	SHORTFICTION	Neal Barrett, Jr.
96	16	Diner	SHORTFICTION	Neal Barrett, Jr.
97	16	The Sun Spider	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
98	14	The Return from Rainbow Bridge	SHORTFICTION	Kim Stanley Robinson
99	14	For Thus Do I Remember Carthage	SHORTFICTION	Michael Bishop
100	13	Cage 37	SHORTFICTION	Wayne Wightman
101	13	Daemon	SHORTFICTION	James Patrick Kelly
102	12	Adeste Fideles	SHORTFICTION	Frederik Pohl
103	12	The Iron Star	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
104	11	Skylab Done It	SHORTFICTION	George Alec Effinger
105	11	The World Next Door	SHORTFICTION	Brad Ferguson
106	10	Second Going	SHORTFICTION	James Tiptree, Jr.
107	9	Lapidary Nights	SHORTFICTION	Marta Randall
108	9	Mandikini	SHORTFICTION	Gregory Benford
109	8	Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair	SHORTFICTION	Charles de Lint
110	8	What Bleak Land	SHORTFICTION	Robert F. Young
111	7	Crying in the Rain	SHORTFICTION	Tanith Lee
112	7	My Life as a Born-Again Pig	SHORTFICTION	Frederik Pohl
113	7	Heroics	SHORTFICTION	James Patrick Kelly
114	6	At the Cross-Time Jaunters' Ball	SHORTFICTION	Alexander Jablokov
115	5	Extras	SHORTFICTION	Robert Charles Wilson
116	5	The Alien in the Lake	SHORTFICTION	Andrew Weiner
117	4	Dutchman	SHORTFICTION	Jack McDevitt

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