Highest Ranked Non-Fiction published in 1978

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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	76	The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends	NONFICTION	Humphrey Carpenter
2	50	Tomorrow and Beyond: Masterpieces of Science Fiction Art	NONFICTION	Ian Summers
3	50	The Way the Future Was: A Memoir	NONFICTION	Frederik Pohl
4	50	L'art hyperréaliste fantastique de Wojtek Siudmak	NONFICTION	Wojtek Siudmak
5	35	The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1968, Volume 2: Who's Who, M-Z	NONFICTION	Donald H. Tuck
6	35	Faeries	NONFICTION	Brian Froud and David Larkin and Alan Lee
7	30	Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections	NONFICTION	William G. Contento
8	29	The Fantastic Art of Boris Vallejo	NONFICTION	Boris Vallejo
9	29	The Science Fiction and Heroic Fantasy Author Index	NONFICTION	Stuart W. Wells, III
10	28	Fantasms: A Bibliography of the Literature of Jack Vance	NONFICTION	Daniel J. H. Levack and Tim Underwood
11	27	21st Century Foss	NONFICTION	Chris Foss
12	27	Alicia Austin's Age of Dreams	NONFICTION	Alicia Austin
13	26	The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth: From the Hobbit to the Silmarillion	NONFICTION	Robert Foster (author)
14	26	Encyclopedia of Science Fiction	NONFICTION	Robert Holdstock
15	25	The International Science Fiction Yearbook 1979	NONFICTION	Colin Lester
16	24	The Hills of Faraway: A Guide to Fantasy	NONFICTION	Diana Waggoner
17	24	Fantasy by Fabian: The Art of Stephen E. Fabian	NONFICTION	Gerry de la Ree and Stephen Fabian
18	23	The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch — Angouleme	NONFICTION	Samuel R. Delany
19	23	Frank Frazetta, Book Three	NONFICTION	Betty Ballantine and Frank Frazetta
20	22	The Second Book of Virgil Finlay	NONFICTION	Gerry de la Ree and Virgil Finlay
21	22	Speaking of Science Fiction	NONFICTION	Paul Walker
22	20	Beauty and the Beast: A Collection of Heroic Fantasy Illustrations	NONFICTION	Chris Achilleos

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