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Most-Reviewed Titles of 1956

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Count Reviews Title Type Authors
1 34 The Stars My Destination NOVEL Alfred Bester
2 24 Double Star NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
3 20 Under Pressure NOVEL Frank Herbert
4 20 In Search of Wonder NONFICTION Damon Knight
5 20 The Death of Grass NOVEL John Christopher
6 20 The City and the Stars NOVEL Arthur C. Clarke
7 16 The Shrinking Man NOVEL Richard Matheson
8 16 Nerves NOVEL Lester del Rey
9 16 Time for the Stars NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
10 12 The World Jones Made NOVEL Philip K. Dick
11 11 Reach for Tomorrow COLLECTION Arthur C. Clarke
12 11 Sometime, Never ANTHOLOGY William Golding and Mervyn Peake and John Wyndham
13 11 They Shall Have Stars NOVEL James Blish
14 10 Tomorrow's World NOVEL Evan Hunter
15 10 The Winds of Time NOVEL Chad Oliver
16 10 Strangers in the Universe COLLECTION Clifford D. Simak
17 10 The Power NOVEL Frank M. Robinson
18 10 To Live Forever NOVEL Jack Vance
19 10 Police Your Planet NOVEL Lester del Rey
20 9 Star Ways NOVEL Poul Anderson
21 9 Aniara COLLECTION Harry Martinson
22 9 The Pawns of Null-A NOVEL A. E. van Vogt
23 9 Alternating Currents COLLECTION Frederik Pohl
24 8 The Man Who Japed NOVEL Philip K. Dick
25 8 Highways in Hiding NOVEL George O. Smith
26 8 Three to Conquer NOVEL Eric Frank Russell
27 8 S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy ANTHOLOGY Judith Merril
28 8 No Man Friday NOVEL Rex Gordon
29 8 The Human Angle COLLECTION William Tenn
30 7 Plague Ship NOVEL Andre Norton
31 7 Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury NOVEL Isaac Asimov
32 7 The Exploration of Mars NONFICTION Wernher von Braun and Willy Ley
33 7 Forbidden Planet NOVEL Philip MacDonald
34 6 Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter COLLECTION John Wyndham
35 6 The Complete Book of Space Travel NONFICTION Albro T. Gaul
36 6 The Secret People NOVEL Raymond F. Jones
37 6 The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories ANTHOLOGY Ray Bradbury
38 6 The Best Science-Fiction Stories and Novels: 1956 ANTHOLOGY T. E. Dikty
39 6 Jules Verne, Master of Science Fiction COLLECTION Jules Verne
40 6 High Vacuum NOVEL Charles Eric Maine
41 6 Escapement NOVEL Charles Eric Maine
42 5 Space Police ANTHOLOGY Andre Norton
43 5 The Twenty-Seventh Day NOVEL John Mantley
44 5 The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects NONFICTION Edward J. Ruppelt
45 5 Exploring Mars NONFICTION Roy A. Gallant
46 5 A Scientific Report on "The Search for Bridey Murphy" NONFICTION Milton V. Kline
47 5 Interplanetary Hunter NOVEL Arthur K. Barnes
48 5 Colonial Survey NOVEL Murray Leinster
49 5 They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers NONFICTION Gray Barker
50 5 The Search for Bridey Murphy NONFICTION Morey Bernstein
51 4 Kommt ein Mädchen geflogen NOVEL Henry Winterfeld
52 4 Islands of Space NOVEL John W. Campbell, Jr.
53 4 Planet of No Return SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
54 4 Satellite! NONFICTION William Beller and Erik Bergaust
55 4 Undersea Fleet NOVEL Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
56 4 Forbidden Area NOVEL Pat Frank
57 4 Two Rubles to Times Square NOVEL Guy Richards
58 4 The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fifth Series ANTHOLOGY Anthony Boucher
59 4 The Mars Monopoly NOVEL Jerry Sohl
60 3 The Golden Kazoo NOVEL John G. Schneider
61 3 The End of the World ANTHOLOGY Donald A. Wollheim
62 3 Les soleils verts NOVEL Henry Ward
63 3 Inside the Atom NONFICTION Isaac Asimov
64 3 Alien from Arcturus NOVEL Gordon R. Dickson
65 3 Contraband Rocket NOVEL G. Harry Stine
66 3 There is Life on Mars NONFICTION The Earl Nelson
67 3 The Crossroads of Time NOVEL Andre Norton
68 3 Electrons, Waves and Messages NONFICTION John R. Pierce
69 3 Flying Saucers and Common Sense NONFICTION Waveney Girvan
70 3 Mysteries of Ancient South America NONFICTION Harold T. Wilkins
71 3 Mission to the Moon NOVEL Lester del Rey
72 3 You Do Take It with You NONFICTION R. DeWitt Miller
73 3 Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint NOVEL Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams
74 3 The Unknown, Is It Nearer? NONFICTION Eric J. Dingwall and John Langdon-Davies
75 3 Consider Her Ways SHORTFICTION John Wyndham
76 3 The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine OMNIBUS H. G. Wells
77 3 One Against the Moon NOVEL Donald A. Wollheim
78 3 Edgar Rice Burroughs Biblio: Materials toward a Bibliography of the Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs NONFICTION Bradford M. Day
79 3 Heller als tausend Sonnen: Das Schicksal der Atomforscher NONFICTION Robert Jungk
80 3 The UFO Annual NONFICTION M. K. Jessup
81 3 Flying Saucers: An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14 NONFICTION Leon Davidson
82 3 The Man Who Lived Forever NOVEL Anna Hunger and R. DeWitt Miller
83 2 The Curve of the Snowflake NOVEL W. Grey Walter
84 2 Spooks Deluxe NONFICTION Danton Walker
85 2 A Gun for Dinosaur SHORTFICTION L. Sprague de Camp
86 2 The Great Captains NOVEL Henry Treece
87 2 Between the Planets NONFICTION Fletcher G. Watson
88 2 The Far Traveller NOVEL Cyril Henry Coles and Adelaide F. O. Manning
89 2 Le 9 de pique NOVEL John Amila
90 2 The Coast of Coral NONFICTION Arthur C. Clarke
91 2 The Red Wagon SHORTFICTION Jane Roberts
92 2 Heaven and Hell NONFICTION Aldous Huxley
93 2 NONFICTION
94 2
Retour à "0"?Retour a "0"
NOVEL Stefan Wul
95 2 The "Lomokome" Papers SHORTFICTION Herman Wouk
96 2 The Shoddy Lands SHORTFICTION C. S. Lewis
97 2 The Inexplicable Sky NONFICTION Arthur Constance
98 2 Shadow Over the Earth NOVEL Philip Wilding
99 2 Und es ward Licht: Roman der Weltallforschung NONFICTION Rudolf Thiel
100 2 La foudre anti-D NOVEL Jean-Gaston Vandel
101 2
Le troisième bocal?Le troisieme bocal
NOVEL Jean-Gaston Vandel
102 2 The Man Who Lived Forever / The Mars Monopoly OMNIBUS Anna Hunger and R. DeWitt Miller and Jerry Sohl
103 2 Mankind on the Run NOVEL Gordon R. Dickson
104 2 Agent of the Unknown NOVEL Margaret St. Clair
105 2 Overlords from Space NOVEL Joseph E. Kelleam
106 2 Escape to Venus NOVEL S. Makepeace Lott
107 2 The Green Queen NOVEL Margaret St. Clair
108 2 The Lost Planet NOVEL Paul Dallas
109 2 The Long Night NOVEL Martin Caidin
110 2 Pursuit Through Time NOVEL John Burke
111 2 The Seeds of Time COLLECTION John Wyndham
112 2 Fear Is the Same NOVEL John Dickson Carr
113 2 Zip-Zip and His Flying Saucer NOVEL John M. Schealer
114 2 The Ugglians NOVEL L. M. Fallaw
115 2 UFO and the Bible NONFICTION M. K. Jessup
116 2 Forgotten Mysteries NONFICTION R. DeWitt Miller
117 2 Starboy NOVEL Carl L. Biemiller
118 2 The Ranger Boys in Space NOVEL Hal Clement
119 2 No Refuge NOVEL John Boland
120 2 Till We Have Faces NOVEL C. S. Lewis
121 1 The Portobello Road SHORTFICTION Muriel Spark
122 1 Sinister Madonna NOVEL Sax Rohmer
123 1 Predictions: Pictorial Predictions from the Past NONFICTION John Durant
124 1 Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot (F&SF, May 1956) SHORTFICTION Reginald Bretnor
125 1 Title Fight SHORTFICTION William Campbell Gault
126 1 Psychical Research NONFICTION R. C. Johnson
127 1 Successful Hypnotism NONFICTION J. Brandon
128 1 Knight's Castle NOVEL Edward Eager
129 1
Par-delà le mur du sommeil?Par-dela le mur du sommeil
OMNIBUS H. P. Lovecraft
130 1 Poor Little Saturday SHORTFICTION Madeleine L'Engle
131 1 Moonshine SHORTFICTION Ruth M. Goldsmith
132 1 Time Trammel SHORTFICTION Miriam Allen deFord
133 1 Flying Pan SHORTFICTION Robert F. Young
134 1 Substance "Arka" NOVEL B. R. Bruss
135 1
Route du néant?Route du neant
NOVEL
F. Richard-Bessière?F. Richard-Bessiere
136 1
Prisonniers du passé?Prisonniers du passe
NOVEL Jimmy Guieu
137 1 Attaque sub-terrestre NOVEL
Max-André Rayjean?Max-Andre Rayjean
138 1
Les monstres du néant?Les monstres du neant
NOVEL Jimmy Guieu
139 1 Objectif Soleil NOVEL
F. Richard-Bessière?F. Richard-Bessiere
140 1 Contraband Rocket / The Forgotten Planet OMNIBUS Murray Leinster and G. Harry Stine
141 1 Feu dans le ciel NOVEL
F. Richard-Bessière?F. Richard-Bessiere
142 1
Nos ancêtres de l'avenir?Nos ancetres de l'avenir
NOVEL Jimmy Guieu
143 1 Impact with the Devil SHORTFICTION Theodore R. Cogswell
144 1 And the Waters Prevailed NOVEL D. Moreau Barringer
145 1 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? NOVEL George Axelrod
146 1
Les êtres de feu?Les etres de feu
NOVEL Jimmy Guieu
147 1 Visit to a Small Planet SHORTFICTION Gore Vidal
148 1 The Shield Ring NOVEL Rosemary Sutcliff
149 1 Woman's Work SHORTFICTION
Garen Drussaï?Garen Drussai
150 1 The Damnedest Thing SHORTFICTION Garson Kanin
151 1 Threesie SHORTFICTION Theodore R. Cogswell
152 1 The Robot Rocket NOVEL Carey Rockwell
153 1 Pincher Martin NOVEL William Golding
154 1 White Goddess SHORTFICTION Margaret St. Clair
155 1 The Piece Thing SHORTFICTION Carol Emshwiller
156 1 The Listening Child COLLECTION Rosemary Timperley
157 1 August Derleth: Thirty Years of Writing, 1926-1956 NONFICTION August Derleth
158 1 Survival in the Sky NONFICTION Charles Coombs
159 1 The Ka of Gifford Hillary NOVEL Dennis Wheatley
160 1 Die Zeit ist gegen uns NOVEL Clark Darlton
161 1 Le septième ciel NOVEL Jacques-Henri Juillet
162 1 Tarnished Utopia NOVEL Malcolm Jameson
163 1 She Only Goes Out at Night ... SHORTFICTION William Tenn
164 1 From the Tablets of Sumer NONFICTION Samuel Noah Kramer
165 1 The Earth Beneath Us NONFICTION H. H. Swinnerton
166 1 The Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz SHORTFICTION L. Frank Baum and uncredited
167 1 The Last Battle NOVEL C. S. Lewis
168 1 La sortie est au fond de l'espace NOVEL Jacques Sternberg
169 1
Rideau magnétique?Rideau magnetique
NOVEL B. R. Bruss
170 1 Les voix de l'univers NOVEL Jean-Gaston Vandel
171 1 Les voyants NOVEL Christian Russell
172 1 La parole perdue NOVEL
Albert Crémieux?Albert Cremieux
and
Jean Crémieux?Jean Cremieux
173 1
Et le temps s'arrêtera...?Et le temps s'arretera...
NOVEL
Grégoire Brainin?Gregoire Brainin
and Henri Keller
174 1 Argle's Mist NOVEL Margot Pardoe
175 1 McGillicuddy McGotham NOVEL Leonard Wibberley
176 1 The Guinness Book of Superlatives NONFICTION uncredited
177 1 Traumerei SHORTFICTION Charles Beaumont
178 1 Time Transfer SHORTFICTION Arthur Sellings
179 1 Second Chance SHORTFICTION Jack Finney
180 1 Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet NOVEL Eleanor Cameron
181 1 The Golden Archer: A Satirical Novel of 1975 NOVEL Gregory Mason
182 1 Fiabe italiane COLLECTION Italo Calvino
183 1 Ghost Stories COLLECTION Walter de la Mare
184 1 Moon Magic NOVEL Dion Fortune
185 1 The World Jones Made / Agent of the Unknown OMNIBUS Philip K. Dick and Margaret St. Clair
186 1 Martin Magnus on Mars NOVEL William F. Temple
187 1 Im Banne des roten Planeten NOVEL Hans K. Kaiser
188 1 The Fabulous Future NONFICTION uncredited
189 1 Portes sur l'inconnu NOVEL Marc Agapit
190 1 The Man Who Japed / The Space-Born OMNIBUS Philip K. Dick and E. C. Tubb
191 1 Towards the Hereafter NONFICTION Reginald M. Lester
192 1 The Coming of the Space Ships NONFICTION Gavin Gibbons
193 1 The Mystery Writer's Handbook NONFICTION Herbert Brean
194 1 A Parable of Love SHORTFICTION Robert M. Coates
195 1
Maléfices?Malefices
NOVEL B. R. Bruss
196 1 Mathematics Magic and Mystery NONFICTION Martin Gardner
197 1 Risk and Gambling: The Study of Subjective Probability NONFICTION John Cohen and Mark Hansel
198 1 Best SF Two ANTHOLOGY Edmund Crispin
199 1 Still Digging NONFICTION Sir Mortimer Wheeler
200 1 19 Tales of Terror ANTHOLOGY Hallie Burnett and Whit Burnett
201 1 Nous avons tous peur NOVEL B. R. Bruss
202 1 1999 Our Hopeful Future NONFICTION Victor Cohn
203 1 The Key to Interplanetary Space Travel NONFICTION Bradford Chambers
204 1 Electronics: The Science of Electrons in Action NONFICTION A. W. Keen
205 1 Time Transfer and Other Stories COLLECTION Arthur Sellings
206 1 The Stars by Clock and Fist NONFICTION Henry M. Neely
207 1 The Vengeful Sea NONFICTION Edward Rowe Snow
208 1 Exploring the Deep NONFICTION Helen Raitt
209 1 How to Make and Use a Telescope NONFICTION Patrick Moore and H. Percy Wilkins
210 1 The Rape of the Mind NONFICTION Joost A. M. Merloo, M.D.
211 1 Beyond Doubt NONFICTION Mary LeBeau
212 1 Worlds Without End NONFICTION Isabel Barclay
213 1 Clouds, Rings and Crocodiles NONFICTION H. Percy Wilkins
214 1 Atomic Quest NONFICTION Arthur Holly Compton
215 1 Un saint au néon COLLECTION Jean-Louis Curtis
216 1 Wednesday's Child SHORTFICTION William Tenn
217 1 The Ascent of Rum Doodle NOVEL W. E. Bowman
218 1 The Little Witch of Elm Street SHORTFICTION Mildred Clingerman
219 1 Past Finding Out NONFICTION G. R. Balleine
220 1 Kipling: A Selection of His Stories and Poems COLLECTION Rudyard Kipling
221 1 Shane Leslie's Ghost Book NONFICTION Shane Leslie
222 1 Great Scenes from Great Novels ANTHOLOGY Robert Terrall
223 1 Further Fables for Our Time COLLECTION James Thurber
224 1 Seven Stars for Catfish Bend NOVEL Ben Lucien Burman
225 1 Count Luna OMNIBUS Alexander Lernet-Holenia
226 1 The Best American Short Stories 1956 ANTHOLOGY Martha Foley
227 1 New World Writing: Ninth Selection ANTHOLOGY Nelson Algren
228 1 The Man Who Came Early SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
229 1 Mr. Sakrison's Halt SHORTFICTION Mildred Clingerman
230 1 First Lesson SHORTFICTION Mildred Clingerman
231 1 Prima Belladonna SHORTFICTION J. G. Ballard
232 1 Molesworth's Guide to the Atommic Age NOVEL Ronald Searle and Geoffrey Willans
233 1 On se bat sur la Lune NOVEL Émile Debard and Jeanne Fage-Antonelli
234 1 Second Satellite NOVEL R. S. Richardson
235 1 The Genesis of Nam: A New Earth with Its Own Blue Heaven NOVEL Charles Goodrich
236 1 Digging the Weans SHORTFICTION Robert Nathan
237 1 Gumption Island: A Fantasy of Coexistence NOVEL Felix Morley
238 1 NONFICTION and
239 1 On the Hills and Everywhere SHORTFICTION Manly Wade Wellman
240 1 The Wonderful Cat of Cobbie Bean SHORTFICTION Barbee Oliver Carleton
241 1 Into the Tenth Millennium NOVEL Paul Capon
242 1 The Fields of Force NONFICTION Winifred Duncan
243 1 Gimmicks Three SHORTFICTION Isaac Asimov
244 1 The Anything Box SHORTFICTION Zenna Henderson
245 1 No Man Pursueth SHORTFICTION Ward Moore
246 1 Put Them All Together, They Spell Monster SHORTFICTION Ray Russell
247 1 Old Devlins Was A-Waiting SHORTFICTION Manly Wade Wellman
248 1 The Dark Music SHORTFICTION Charles Beaumont
249 1 Les visiteurs de l'an 2.000 NOVEL Jacques-Henri Juillet
250 1 I Kiss Your Shadow SHORTFICTION Robert Bloch
251 1 Doubting Thomas NOVEL Winston Brebner
252 1 Try This for Psis SHORTFICTION Robert Bloch
253 1 Rain, Rain, Go Away SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
254 1 Gnomebody SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
255 1 All on a Golden Afternoon SHORTFICTION Robert Bloch
256 1 Terror in the Night SHORTFICTION Robert Bloch
257 1 Icarus Montgolfier Wright SHORTFICTION Ray Bradbury
258 1 Final Clearance SHORTFICTION Rachel Maddux
259 1 Stawdust SHORTFICTION Margaret St. Clair
260 1 Planet of No Return / Star Guard OMNIBUS Poul Anderson and Andre Norton
261 1 Altitude moins X NOVEL
F. Richard-Bessière?F. Richard-Bessiere
262 1 A Scientific Sampler NONFICTION Howard F. Hamacher and Alan A. Smith and Raymond Stevens
263 1 The Mountains of Pharaoh NONFICTION Leonard Cottrell
264 1 Send for Johnny Danger NOVEL M. E. Patchett
265 1 Clock Without Hands NONFICTION Ronald Edwin
266 1 Great Adventures in Science NONFICTION Samuel Rapport and Helen Wright (1914-1997)
267 1 The Lost Pyramid NONFICTION M. Zakaria Goneim
268 1 The Crossroads of Time / Mankind on the Run OMNIBUS Gordon R. Dickson and Andre Norton
269 1 H.P. Lovecraft: The Books ESSAY Lin Carter
270 1 A Likely Story SHORTFICTION Damon Knight
271 1 Backward, O Time SHORTFICTION Damon Knight
272 1 The Red Planet NOVEL Charles Chilton
273 1 The Cosmic Charge Account SHORTFICTION C. M. Kornbluth
274 1 World of Mists NOVEL Patrick Moore
275 1 Atom Curtain NOVEL Nick Boddie Williams
276 1 Uns riefen die Sterne NOVEL Hans Kneifel
277 1 Verdammt für alle Zeiten NOVEL K. H. Scheer
278 1 Understanding Science NONFICTION William H. Crouse
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