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Highest Ranked Collection Authors of the 1980s

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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 Author
1 419 Harlan Ellison
2 272 Tanith Lee
3 205 J. R. R. Tolkien
4 192 Gene Wolfe
5 184 Roger Zelazny
6 172 Jane Yolen
7 171 James Tiptree, Jr.
8 160 Frederik Pohl
9 149 Stephen King
10 142 Dennis Etchison
11 134 George R. R. Martin
12 133 Michael Shea
13 131 Charles Beaumont
14 129 Spider Robinson
15 125 Ursula K. Le Guin
16 121 Richard Matheson
17 121 Charles Sheffield
18 115 Fritz Leiber
19 105 George Clayton Johnson
20 100 John Varley
21 100 Lucius Shepard
22 98 Charles L. Grant
23 94 Greg Bear
24 92 Joe R. Lansdale
25 91 Isaac Asimov
26 89 Philip K. Dick
27 88 Karl Edward Wagner
28 87 Robert R. McCammon
29 86 Robert Bloch
30 85 Pat Cadigan
31 85 Ramsey Campbell
32 84 Michael Blumlein
33 84 Ray Bradbury
34 82 Clark Ashton Smith
35 81 Orson Scott Card
36 76 Stephen R. Donaldson
37 75 Michael Bishop
38 71 Joanna Russ
39 70 Francine Pelletier
40 70 Esther Rochon
41 70 M. John Harrison
42 67 Ian Watson
43 66 Poul Anderson
44 64 Robert Silverberg
45 62 H. Beam Piper
46 61 Samuel R. Delany
47 59 Elizabeth A. Lynn
48 59 John Crowley
49 59 Karen Joy Fowler
50 59 C. J. Cherryh
51 56 Parke Godwin
52 52 Randall Garrett
53 50 Christopher Tolkien
54 50
神林長平?Chōhei Kanbayashi
Chohei Kambayashi
Chouhei Kambayashi
Chōhei Kambayashi
Chouhei Kanbayashi
Chohei Kanbayashi
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55 50 Charles Dobzynski
56 50 Barry B. Longyear
57 50 Jeffrey N. McMahan
58 50 Serge Brussolo
59 50 Robertson Davies
60 48 Gordon R. Dickson
61 48 Kim Stanley Robinson
62 47 Thomas M. Disch
63 46 Patrick McGrath
64 45 Pamela Zoline
65 44 J. G. Ballard
66 43 Kate Wilhelm
67 41 Vernor Vinge
68 41 S. P. Somtow
69 40 Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
70 37 R. A. Lafferty
71 36 John Sladek
72 36 Andre Norton
73 35
Stanley Péan?Stanley Pean
74 35 William Gibson
75 35
Кир Булычев?Kir Bulychev
76 35 Connie Willis
77 35 Joseph Payne Brennan
78 35 Virginia Hamilton
79 35 Angela Carter
80 35 Thom Nickels
81 35 Bill Brittain
82 35 Gerald Murnane
83 35 F. Paul Wilson
84 35 Garry Kilworth
85 35 Bruce Sterling
86 35 Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
87 35 Robin McKinley
88 35 Candas Jane Dorsey
89 35 Paul Fleischman
90 35 Jacques Sternberg
91 35 John Farris
92 31 Timothy Zahn
93 30 Arthur C. Clarke
94 30 Larry Niven
95 30 Howard Waldrop
96 29 Fredric Brown
97 29 Edward Bryant
98 29 Norman Spinrad
99 28 Lois McMaster Bujold
100 28 Brian W. Aldiss
101 28 Manly Wade Wellman
102 27 David Brin
103 27 Ian McDonald
104 26 Robert A. Heinlein
105 26 Rudy Rucker
106 25 Jack Vance
107 24 Joe Haldeman
108 23 Robert Sheckley
109 23 Richard Cowper
110 23 John Shirley
111 22 Piers Anthony
112 22 Walter M. Miller, Jr.
113 22 Gregory Benford
114 22 James White
115 22 Avram Davidson
116 21 Theodore Sturgeon
117 21 Jack L. Chalker
118 20 John Brunner
119 20 Joan D. Vinge
120 19 Philip José Farmer
121 19 Pamela Sargent
122 18 Anne McCaffrey
123 18 Marion Zimmer Bradley
124 17 Hilbert Schenck
125 17 Walter Tevis
126 17 James P. Hogan
127 17 F. M. Busby
128 16 Barry N. Malzberg
129 16 George Alec Effinger
130 16 Frank M. Robinson
131 16 George O. Smith
132 15 A. A. Attanasio
133 15 Michael Shaara
134 14 Frank Herbert
135 14 Keith Laumer
136 14 Mark Clifton
137 14 Nancy Springer
138 13 Robert Westall
139 13 Russell Kirk
140 12 Nancy Kress
141 12 Keith Roberts
142 12 Michael Moorcock
143 8 Robert Aickman
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