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Highest Ranked Titles published in 1961

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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
1 247 Stranger in a Strange Land NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
2 50 Harrison Bergeron SHORTFICTION Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
3 50 Analog Science Fact -> Fiction - 1961 EDITOR John W. Campbell, Jr.
4 50 All of Us Are Dying SHORTFICTION George Clayton Johnson
5 50 A Planet Named Shayol SHORTFICTION Cordwainer Smith
6 50 A Stranger at Green Knowe NOVEL L. M. Boston
7 36 Three Hearts and Three Lions NOVEL Poul Anderson
8 35 The Immortal SHORTFICTION Olaf Ruhen
9 3 A Fall of Moondust NOVEL Arthur C. Clarke
10 1 Adapted SHORTFICTION Carol Emshwiller
11 1 Science Fantasy - 1961 EDITOR John Carnell
12 1 Hopsoil SHORTFICTION Robert F. Young
13 1 Kreativity for Kats SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
14 1 Lion Loose SHORTFICTION James H. Schmitz
15 1 Gone Fishing SHORTFICTION James H. Schmitz
16 1 The First One SHORTFICTION Herbert D. Kastle
17 1 The Weakling SHORTFICTION Everett B. Cole
18 1 Sylva NOVEL Vercors
19 1 The Stainless Steel Rat NOVEL Harry Harrison
20 1 Hate SHORTFICTION Arthur C. Clarke
21 1 The Machine That Won the War SHORTFICTION Isaac Asimov
22 1 Something Rich and Strange SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson and Randall Garrett
23 1 Go for Baroque SHORTFICTION Jody Scott
24 1 Arcturus Times Three SHORTFICTION Jack Sharkey
25 1 Doctor SHORTFICTION Murray Leinster
26 1 A Dusk of Idols SHORTFICTION James Blish
27 1 Hatchery of Dreams SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
28 1 The Beat Cluster SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
29 1 No Harm Done SHORTFICTION Jack Sharkey
30 1 Rendezvous on a Lost World NOVEL A. Bertram Chandler
31 1 Why Is a Fan?: The Second SaFari Annual NONFICTION Earl Kemp and Nancy Kemp
32 1 The Map Country SHORTFICTION Kenneth Bulmer
33 1 Rub-a-Dub SHORTFICTION Daniel F. Galouye
34 1 The Beginning SHORTFICTION Henry Hasse
35 1 I-C-a-BeM SHORTFICTION Jack Vance
36 1 The Memory of Mars SHORTFICTION Raymond F. Jones
37 1 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - 1961 EDITOR Robert P. Mills
38 1 The Voice Box SHORTFICTION Allan W. Eckert
39 1 The Sources of the Nile SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson
40 1 Special Effect SHORTFICTION J. F. Bone
41 1 Court of Judgment SHORTFICTION David Ely
42 1 Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? SHORTFICTION Jack Sharkey
43 1 Mustang SHORTFICTION Randall Garrett
44 1 The Tunnel Ahead SHORTFICTION Alice Glaser
45 1 The Interplanetary Cat SHORTFICTION Rick Rubin
46 1 The Fiesta at Managuay SHORTFICTION John Anthony West
47 1 The Kappa Nu Nexus SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson and Morton Klass
48 1 Who's Who in Science Fiction Fandom 1961 NONFICTION L. D. Broyles
49 1 Amra - 1961 EDITOR George H. Scithers
50 1 Magnanthropus SHORTFICTION Manly Banister
51 1 The Face in the Mask SHORTFICTION Estelle Frye
52 1 Time Is the Simplest Thing NOVEL Clifford D. Simak
53 1 Dark Universe NOVEL Daniel F. Galouye
54 1 New Worlds Science Fiction - 1961 EDITOR John Carnell
55 1 Pilgrimage: The Book of the People NOVEL Zenna Henderson
56 1 Some of Your Blood NOVEL Theodore Sturgeon
57 1 The Lovers NOVEL Philip José Farmer
58 1 The ATom Anthology NONFICTION Ella Parker
59 1 Amazing Stories - 1961 EDITOR Cele Goldsmith
60 1 Fantastic Stories of Imagination - 1961 EDITOR Cele Goldsmith
61 1 If - 1961 EDITOR H. L. Gold
62 1 Galaxy Magazine - 1961 EDITOR H. L. Gold
63 1 Science Fiction Times - 1961 (Fanzine) EDITOR James V. Taurasi and Ray Van Houten
64 1 The Angry Espers NOVEL Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
65 1 Delusion World NOVEL Gordon R. Dickson
66 1 Naked to the Stars NOVEL Gordon R. Dickson
67 1 Death and the Senator SHORTFICTION Arthur C. Clarke
68 1 This World Is Taboo NOVEL Murray Leinster
69 1 Status Quo SHORTFICTION Mack Reynolds
70 1 Ultima Thule SHORTFICTION Mack Reynolds
71 1 Freedom SHORTFICTION Mack Reynolds
72 1 The Quaker Cannon SHORTFICTION C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
73 1 The Foreign Hand-Tie SHORTFICTION Randall Garrett
74 1 The Blaze of Noon SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson and Randall Garrett
75 1 A Spaceship Named McGuire SHORTFICTION Randall Garrett
76 1 The Highest Treason SHORTFICTION Randall Garrett
77 1 Try to Remember! SHORTFICTION Frank Herbert
78 1 Monument SHORTFICTION Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
79 1 No Small Enemy SHORTFICTION Christopher Anvil
80 1 Hiding Place SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
81 1 Tandy's Story SHORTFICTION Theodore Sturgeon
82 1 Return SHORTFICTION Zenna Henderson
83 1 Alpha Ralpha Boulevard SHORTFICTION Cordwainer Smith
84 1 Scylla's Daughter SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
85 1 Yandro - 1961 (Fanzine) EDITOR Juanita Coulson and Robert Coulson
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