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Highest Ranked Titles of the 1950s

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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 Year Title Type Authors
1 143 1953 More Than Human NOVEL Theodore Sturgeon
2 134 1954 Mission of Gravity NOVEL Hal Clement
3 130 1959 A Canticle for Leibowitz NOVEL Walter M. Miller, Jr.
4 130 1952 The Demolished Man NOVEL Alfred Bester
5 126 1956 The Stars My Destination NOVEL Alfred Bester
6 125 1953 Childhood's End NOVEL Arthur C. Clarke
7 105 1953 Fahrenheit 451 NOVEL Ray Bradbury
8 90 1958 A Case of Conscience NOVEL James Blish
9 86 1954 A Mirror for Observers NOVEL Edgar Pangborn
10 85 1958 The Big Time NOVEL Fritz Leiber
11 82 1959 Starship Troopers NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
12 80 1950 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe NOVEL C. S. Lewis
13 79 1953 Sam Hall SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
14 70 1950 Gather, Darkness! NOVEL Fritz Leiber
15 62 1953 Science-Fiction Handbook NONFICTION Catherine Crook de Camp and L. Sprague de Camp
16 58 1951 The Illustrated Man COLLECTION Ray Bradbury
17 58 1950 The Martian Chronicles COLLECTION Ray Bradbury
18 54 1952 City COLLECTION Clifford D. Simak
19 52 1956 Double Star NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
20 51 1959 The Sirens of Titan NOVEL Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
21 51 1956 Exploration Team SHORTFICTION Murray Leinster
22 51 1955 Fantasy Times - 1955 EDITOR James V. Taurasi and Ray Van Houten
23 50 1959 Cry of the Nameless - 1959 (Fanzine) EDITOR Elinor Busby and F. M. Busby and Burnett R. Toskey and Wally Weber
24 50 1959 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - 1959 EDITOR Robert P. Mills
25 50 1959 The Lantern Bearers NOVEL Rosemary Sutcliff
26 50 1959 Flowers for Algernon SHORTFICTION Daniel Keyes
27 50 1959 Wet Paint SHORTFICTION A. Bertram Chandler
28 50 1958 Non-Stop NOVEL Brian W. Aldiss
29 50 1958 Methuselah's Children NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
30 50 1958 A Planet for Texans NOVEL John J. McGuire and H. Beam Piper
31 50 1958 Fanac - 1958 (Fanzine) EDITOR Terry Carr and Ron Ellik
32 50 1958 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - 1958 EDITOR Anthony Boucher
33 50 1958 Tom's Midnight Garden NOVEL Philippa Pearce
34 50 1958 Or All the Seas with Oysters SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson
35 50 1958 The Big Front Yard SHORTFICTION Clifford D. Simak
36 50 1958 That Hell-Bound Train SHORTFICTION Robert Bloch
37 50 1957 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - 1957 EDITOR Anthony Boucher
38 50 1957 Atlas Shrugged NOVEL Ayn Rand
39 50 1957 They'd Rather Be Right NOVEL Mark Clifton and Frank Riley
40 50 1957 A Grass Rope NOVEL William Mayne
41 50 1956 The Last Battle NOVEL C. S. Lewis
42 50 1956 Science Fiction Times - 1956 (Fanzine) EDITOR Frank Pietro and James V. Taurasi and Ray Van Houten
43 50 1956 Astounding Science Fiction - 1956 EDITOR John W. Campbell, Jr.
44 50 1956 New Worlds Science Fiction - 1956 EDITOR John Carnell
45 50 1956 And Now the News ... SHORTFICTION Theodore Sturgeon
46 50 1955 Astounding Science Fiction - 1955 EDITOR John W. Campbell, Jr.
47 50 1955 Inside - 1955 (Fanzine) EDITOR Ron Smith
48 50 1955 The Star SHORTFICTION Arthur C. Clarke
49 50 1955 The Darfsteller SHORTFICTION Walter M. Miller, Jr.
50 50 1955 Allamagoosa SHORTFICTION Eric Frank Russell
51 50 1955 The Little Bookroom COLLECTION Eleanor Farjeon
52 50 1954 Astounding Science Fiction - 1954 EDITOR John W. Campbell, Jr.
53 50 1954 A Handbook of Science Fiction and Fantasy NONFICTION Donald H. Tuck
54 50 1953 The Syndic NOVEL C. M. Kornbluth
55 50 1953 Conquest of the Moon NONFICTION Wernher von Braun and Willy Ley and Fred L. Whipple
56 50 1953 The Nine Billion Names of God SHORTFICTION Arthur C. Clarke
57 50 1953 Earthman, Come Home SHORTFICTION James Blish
58 50 1953 A Case of Conscience SHORTFICTION James Blish
59 50 1952 Astounding Science Fiction - 1952 EDITOR John W. Campbell, Jr.
60 50 1952 Galaxy Science Fiction - 1952 EDITOR H. L. Gold
61 50 1952 The Borrowers NOVEL Mary Norton
62 50 1952 Lands Beyond NONFICTION L. Sprague de Camp and Willy Ley
63 50 1951 The Weapon Shops of Isher NOVEL A. E. van Vogt
64 50 1951 Shadow Over Mars NOVEL Leigh Brackett
65 50 1951 Fancies and Goodnights COLLECTION John Collier
66 50 1951 Child of Light: A Reassessment of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley NONFICTION Muriel Spark
67 50 1951 The Exploration of Space NONFICTION Arthur C. Clarke
68 50 1950 Farmer in the Sky NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
69 50 1950 The Man Who Sold the Moon SHORTFICTION Robert A. Heinlein
70 50 1950 The Little Black Bag SHORTFICTION C. M. Kornbluth
71 50 1950 To Serve Man SHORTFICTION Damon Knight
72 50 1950 The Blue Bottle SHORTFICTION Ray Bradbury
73 45 1950 The Dying Earth COLLECTION Jack Vance
74 37 1958 Have Space Suit - Will Travel NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
75 36 1958 Who? NOVEL Algis Budrys
76 35 1959 Astounding Science Fiction - 1959 EDITOR John W. Campbell, Jr.
77 35 1959 The Gammage Cup NOVEL Carol Kendall
78 35 1959 Dorsai! NOVEL Gordon R. Dickson
79 35 1959 The Alley Man SHORTFICTION Philip José Farmer
80 35 1959 "All You Zombies ..." SHORTFICTION Robert A. Heinlein
81 35 1958 The Triumph of Time NOVEL James Blish
82 35 1958 The Once and Future King OMNIBUS T. H. White
83 35 1957 Wasp NOVEL Eric Frank Russell
84 35 1957 Citizen of the Galaxy NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
85 35 1955 Men, Microscopes and Living Things NONFICTION Katherine B. Shippen
86 35 1955 The Secret River SHORTFICTION Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
87 35 1953 Second Stage Lensmen NOVEL Edward E. Smith
88 35 1953 Second Variety SHORTFICTION Philip K. Dick
89 35 1953 It's a Good Life SHORTFICTION Jerome Bixby
90 35 1952 Takeoff NOVEL C. M. Kornbluth
91 35 1952 Player Piano NOVEL Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
92 35 1952 Charlotte's Web NOVEL E. B. White
93 35 1951 Gray Lensman NOVEL Edward E. Smith
94 35 1951 The Day of the Triffids NOVEL John Wyndham
95 35 1951 The Great Idea NOVEL Henry Hazlitt
96 35 1951 Dragons in Amber NONFICTION Willy Ley
97 35 1951 Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles and Space Ships NONFICTION Jack Coggins and Fletcher Pratt
98 35 1950 Pebble in the Sky NOVEL Isaac Asimov
99 35 1950 The Dreaming Jewels NOVEL Theodore Sturgeon
100 35 1950 Scanners Live in Vain SHORTFICTION Cordwainer Smith
101 35 1950 Coming Attraction SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
102 33 1954 The Caves of Steel NOVEL Isaac Asimov
103 30 1953 Star Light, Star Bright SHORTFICTION Alfred Bester
104 30 1953 ... And My Fear Is Great ... SHORTFICTION Theodore Sturgeon
105 30 1953 The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson
106 30 1953 Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future NONFICTION Reginald Bretnor
107 30 1950 Galactic Patrol NOVEL Edward E. Smith
108 30 1950 Born of Man and Woman SHORTFICTION Richard Matheson
109 30 1950 The Helping Hand SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
110 29 1955 The Body Snatchers NOVEL Jack Finney
111 29 1953 A Saucer of Loneliness SHORTFICTION Theodore Sturgeon
112 29 1953 Un-Man SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
113 29 1952 The Legion of Time NOVEL Jack Williamson
114 29 1952 The Mixed Men NOVEL A. E. van Vogt
115 29 1950 First Lensman NOVEL Edward E. Smith
116 29 1950 The Man Who Sold the Moon COLLECTION Robert A. Heinlein
117 29 1950 Okie SHORTFICTION James Blish
118 29 1950 Last Enemy SHORTFICTION H. Beam Piper
119 29 1950 A Subway Named Mobius SHORTFICTION A. J. Deutsch
120 28 1954 To the Stars NOVEL L. Ron Hubbard
121 28 1953 The Wall Around the World SHORTFICTION Theodore R. Cogswell
122 28 1953 The Rose SHORTFICTION Charles L. Harness
123 28 1953 Seventh Victim SHORTFICTION Robert Sheckley
124 28 1950 Dear Devil SHORTFICTION Eric Frank Russell
125 28 1950 The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out SHORTFICTION Reginald Bretnor
126 25 1951 The Green Hills of Earth COLLECTION Robert A. Heinlein
127 24 1952 Science Fiction Omnibus OMNIBUS Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
128 21 1957 Two Sought Adventure COLLECTION Fritz Leiber
129 18 1956 The City and the Stars NOVEL Arthur C. Clarke
130 10 1959 Eden NOVEL
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131 9 1953 The Space Merchants NOVEL C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
132 6 1957 The Door Into Summer NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
133 2 1955 The End of Eternity NOVEL Isaac Asimov
134 2 1952 Judgment Night NOVEL C. L. Moore
135 2 1950 Gormenghast NOVEL Mervyn Peake
136 1 1959 The Falling Torch NOVEL Algis Budrys
137 1 1959 Titus Alone NOVEL Mervyn Peake
138 1 1959 Immortality, Inc. NOVEL Robert Sheckley
139 1 1959 The Pirates of Zan NOVEL Murray Leinster
140 1 1959 Science Fiction Times - 1959 (Fanzine) EDITOR Frank Pietro and James V. Taurasi and Ray Van Houten
141 1 1959 Fanac - 1959 (Fanzine) EDITOR Terry Carr and Ron Ellik
142 1 1959 J D Argassy - 1959 (Fanzine) EDITOR Lynn Hickman
143 1 1959 Yandro - 1959 (Fanzine) EDITOR Juanita Coulson and Robert Coulson
144 1 1959 Galaxy Magazine - 1959 EDITOR H. L. Gold
145 1 1959 Amazing Science Fiction Stories - 1959 EDITOR Cele Goldsmith
146 1 1959 The Pi Man SHORTFICTION Alfred Bester
147 1 1959 The Man Who Lost the Sea SHORTFICTION Theodore Sturgeon
148 1 1959 Cat and Mouse SHORTFICTION Ralph Williams
149 1 1959 Fantastic Universe - 1959 EDITOR Hans Stefan Santesson
150 1 1959 Triplication SHORTFICTION Robert Sheckley
151 1 1958 Science Fiction Times - 1958 (Fanzine) EDITOR Frank Pietro and James V. Taurasi and Ray Van Houten
152 1 1958 Astounding Science Fiction - 1958 EDITOR John W. Campbell, Jr.
153 1 1958 J D Argassy - 1958 (Fanzine) EDITOR Lynn Hickman
154 1 1958 Yandro - 1958 (Fanzine) EDITOR Juanita Coulson and Robert Coulson
155 1 1958 Cry of the Nameless - 1958 (Fanzine) EDITOR Elinor Busby and F. M. Busby and Burnett R. Toskey and Wally Weber
156 1 1958 Galaxy Science Fiction/Galaxy Magazine - 1958 EDITOR H. L. Gold
157 1 1958 The Enemy Stars NOVEL Poul Anderson
158 1 1958 Hyphen - 1958 EDITOR Chuck Harris and Walt Willis
159 1 1958 Theory of Rocketry SHORTFICTION C. M. Kornbluth
160 1 1958 Space to Swing a Cat SHORTFICTION Stanley Mullen
161 1 1958 Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
162 1 1958 Rat in the Skull SHORTFICTION Rog Phillips
163 1 1958 Nine Yards of Other Cloth SHORTFICTION Manly Wade Wellman
164 1 1958 The Men Who Murdered Mohammed SHORTFICTION Alfred Bester
165 1 1958 The Edge of the Sea SHORTFICTION Algis Budrys
166 1 1958 A Deskful of Girls SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
167 1 1958 Captivity SHORTFICTION Zenna Henderson
168 1 1958 The Advent on Channel Twelve SHORTFICTION C. M. Kornbluth
169 1 1958 Infinity Science Fiction - 1958 EDITOR Larry T. Shaw
170 1 1958 Unwillingly to School SHORTFICTION Pauline Ashwell
171 1 1958 They've Been Working On ... SHORTFICTION Anton Lee Baker
172 1 1958 Triggerman SHORTFICTION J. F. Bone
173 1 1958 Second Game SHORTFICTION Charles V. De Vet and Katherine MacLean
174 1 1958 Reap the Dark Tide SHORTFICTION C. M. Kornbluth
175 1 1958 The Miracle-Workers SHORTFICTION Jack Vance
176 1 1958 New Worlds Science Fiction - 1958 EDITOR John Carnell
177 1 1956 Inside - 1956 (Fanzine) EDITOR Ron Smith
178 1 1956 Hyphen - 1956 EDITOR Chuck Harris and Walt Willis
179 1 1956 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - 1956 EDITOR Anthony Boucher
180 1 1956 Galaxy Science Fiction - 1956 EDITOR H. L. Gold
181 1 1956 Under Pressure NOVEL Frank Herbert
182 1 1956 Three to Conquer NOVEL Eric Frank Russell
183 1 1956 Infinity Science Fiction - 1956 EDITOR Larry T. Shaw
184 1 1956 Brightside Crossing SHORTFICTION Alan E. Nourse
185 1 1956 A Gun for Dinosaur SHORTFICTION L. Sprague de Camp
186 1 1956 Legwork SHORTFICTION Eric Frank Russell
187 1 1956 The Assistant Self SHORTFICTION F. L. Wallace
188 1 1956 Nebula Science Fiction - 1956 EDITOR Peter Hamilton
189 1 1956 Old Devlins Was A-Waiting SHORTFICTION Manly Wade Wellman
190 1 1955 Not This August NOVEL C. M. Kornbluth
191 1 1955 The Long Tomorrow NOVEL Leigh Brackett
192 1 1955 Cash McCall NOVEL Cameron Hawley
193 1 1955 End as a World SHORTFICTION F. L. Wallace
194 1 1955 Hyphen - 1955 EDITOR Chuck Harris and Walt Willis
195 1 1955 The Game of Rat and Dragon SHORTFICTION Cordwainer Smith
196 1 1955 Bulkhead SHORTFICTION Theodore Sturgeon
197 1 1955 Twink SHORTFICTION Theodore Sturgeon
198 1 1955 Nobody Bothers Gus SHORTFICTION Algis Budrys
199 1 1955 Home There's No Returning SHORTFICTION Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
200 1 1955 King of the Hill SHORTFICTION James Blish
201 1 1955 The Dragon SHORTFICTION Ray Bradbury
202 1 1955 Citizen in Space SHORTFICTION Robert Sheckley
203 1 1955 The History of Civilization OMNIBUS Edward E. Smith
204 1 1955 Peon - 1955 EDITOR Charles Lee Riddle
205 1 1954 Lord of the Flies NOVEL William Golding
206 1 1954 The End of Summer SHORTFICTION Algis Budrys
207 1 1952 The Rolling Stones NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
208 1 1952 Daughters of Earth SHORTFICTION Judith Merril
209 1 1952 East of Eden NOVEL John Steinbeck
210 1 1951 The Puppet Masters NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
211 1 1951 Renaissance NOVEL Raymond F. Jones
212 1 1951 The End of the Line SHORTFICTION James H. Schmitz
213 1 1950 Needle NOVEL Hal Clement
214 1 1950 The Silly Season SHORTFICTION C. M. Kornbluth
215 1 1950 The Voyage of the Space Beagle NOVEL A. E. van Vogt
216 1 1950 Bindlestiff SHORTFICTION James Blish
217 1 1950 The Second Night of Summer SHORTFICTION James H. Schmitz
218 1 1950 A Walk in the Dark SHORTFICTION Arthur C. Clarke
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