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Highest Ranked Titles published in 1950

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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 Title Type Authors
1 80 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe NOVEL C. S. Lewis
2 70 Gather, Darkness! NOVEL Fritz Leiber
3 58 The Martian Chronicles COLLECTION Ray Bradbury
4 50 The Blue Bottle SHORTFICTION Ray Bradbury
5 50 The Little Black Bag SHORTFICTION C. M. Kornbluth
6 50 The Man Who Sold the Moon SHORTFICTION Robert A. Heinlein
7 50 To Serve Man SHORTFICTION Damon Knight
8 50 Farmer in the Sky NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
9 45 The Dying Earth COLLECTION Jack Vance
10 35 The Dreaming Jewels NOVEL Theodore Sturgeon
11 35 Scanners Live in Vain SHORTFICTION Cordwainer Smith
12 35 Coming Attraction SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
13 35 Pebble in the Sky NOVEL Isaac Asimov
14 30 Born of Man and Woman SHORTFICTION Richard Matheson
15 30 Galactic Patrol NOVEL Edward E. Smith
16 30 The Helping Hand SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
17 29 A Subway Named Mobius SHORTFICTION A. J. Deutsch
18 29 First Lensman NOVEL Edward E. Smith
19 29 Last Enemy SHORTFICTION H. Beam Piper
20 29 Okie SHORTFICTION James Blish
21 29 The Man Who Sold the Moon COLLECTION Robert A. Heinlein
22 28 Dear Devil SHORTFICTION Eric Frank Russell
23 28 The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out SHORTFICTION Reginald Bretnor
24 2 Gormenghast NOVEL Mervyn Peake
25 1 The Voyage of the Space Beagle NOVEL A. E. van Vogt
26 1 Bindlestiff SHORTFICTION James Blish
27 1 The Silly Season SHORTFICTION C. M. Kornbluth
28 1 Needle NOVEL Hal Clement
29 1 The Second Night of Summer SHORTFICTION James H. Schmitz
30 1 A Walk in the Dark SHORTFICTION Arthur C. Clarke
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