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Highest Ranked Titles published in 1972

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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
1 201 The Gods Themselves NOVEL Isaac Asimov
2 177 Dying Inside NOVEL Robert Silverberg
3 130 Goat Song SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
4 128 When It Changed SHORTFICTION Joanna Russ
5 120 The Gold at the Starbow's End SHORTFICTION Frederik Pohl
6 120 The Word for World Is Forest SHORTFICTION Ursula K. Le Guin
7 117 The Fifth Head of Cerberus SHORTFICTION Gene Wolfe
8 117 Eurema's Dam SHORTFICTION R. A. Lafferty
9 115 Watership Down NOVEL Richard Adams
10 115 Basilisk SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
11 108 The Iron Dream NOVEL Norman Spinrad
12 105 Patron of the Arts SHORTFICTION William Rotsler
13 99 When Harlie Was One NOVEL David Gerrold
14 93 And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side SHORTFICTION James Tiptree, Jr.
15 85 Locus - 1972 (Fanzine) EDITOR Charles N. Brown and Dena Brown
16 84 When We Went to See the End of the World SHORTFICTION Robert Silverberg
17 74 The Meeting SHORTFICTION C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl
18 67 Beyond Apollo NOVEL Barry N. Malzberg
19 64 A Kingdom by the Sea SHORTFICTION Gardner Dozois
20 62 The Sheep Look Up NOVEL John Brunner
21 62 With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama SHORTFICTION Richard A. Lupoff
22 60 The Listeners COLLECTION James E. Gunn
23 59 The Guns of Avalon NOVEL Roger Zelazny
24 58 The Funeral SHORTFICTION Kate Wilhelm
25 56 What Entropy Means to Me NOVEL George Alec Effinger
26 56 There Will Be Time NOVEL Poul Anderson
27 55 On the Downhill Side SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
28 53 Deryni Checkmate NOVEL Katherine Kurtz
29 50 The Song of Rhiannon NOVEL Evangeline Walton
30 50
結晶星団?Kesshō Seidan
SHORTFICTION
小松左京?Komatsu Sakyou
Komatsu Sakyō
こまつさきょう
Komatsu Sakyo
31 50 The Best Science Fiction of the Year ANTHOLOGY Terry Carr
32 50 Again, Dangerous Visions ANTHOLOGY Harlan Ellison
33 50 Son of the Morning SHORTFICTION Phyllis Gotlieb
34 50 Elric of Melniboné NOVEL Michael Moorcock
35 50
継ぐのは誰か??Tsugu no wa Dare ka?
NOVEL
小松左京?Komatsu Sakyou
Komatsu Sakyō
こまつさきょう
Komatsu Sakyo
36 50
鏡の国のアリス?Kagami no Kuni no Arisu
かがみのくにのアリス
NOVEL
広瀬正?ひろせただし
Hirose Tadashi
37 50 Marchers of Valhalla SHORTFICTION Robert E. Howard
38 50 Han NOVEL Jean-Paul Raemdonck
39 50 Let It Ring SHORTFICTION John Foyster
40 50 Encyclopédie de l'utopie des voyages extraordinaires et de la science fiction NONFICTION Pierre Versins
41 50 Master of Middle-Earth NONFICTION Paul H. Kocher
42 50 Malevil NOVEL Robert Merle
43 42 Nebula Award Stories 7 ANTHOLOGY Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
44 36 334 COLLECTION Thomas M. Disch
45 36 NOVEL and
46 35 The I.Q. Merchant NOVEL John Boyd
47 35 The Farthest Shore NOVEL Ursula K. Le Guin
48 35 Green Phoenix NOVEL Thomas Burnett Swann
49 35 Budnip SHORTFICTION Jack Wodhams
50 35 The Witches of Worm NOVEL Zilpha Keatley Snyder
51 35 The Hard Way Up COLLECTION A. Bertram Chandler
52 35 Frog and Toad Together COLLECTION Arnold Lobel
53 35 The 1972 Annual World's Best SF ANTHOLOGY Arthur W. Saha and Donald A. Wollheim
54 35 Universe 2 ANTHOLOGY Terry Carr
55 35 The Gorgon Festival NOVEL John Boyd
56 35 Shaffery Among the Immortals SHORTFICTION Frederik Pohl
57 35 In the Deadlands SHORTFICTION David Gerrold
58 35 The Animal Fair SHORTFICTION Alfred Bester
59 35 Against the Lafayette Escadrille SHORTFICTION Gene Wolfe
60 35 The Events at Poroth Farm SHORTFICTION T. E. D. Klein
61 35 Gone Fishing SHORTFICTION David Rome
62 35 Le città invisibili NOVEL Italo Calvino
63 30 Fugue for a Darkening Island NOVEL Christopher Priest
64 30 Algol - 1972 (Fanzine) EDITOR Andrew Porter
65 30 A Science Fiction Argosy ANTHOLOGY Damon Knight
66 30 New Dimensions II ANTHOLOGY Robert Silverberg
67 30 Hero SHORTFICTION Joe Haldeman
68 29 A Choice of Gods NOVEL Clifford D. Simak
69 29 Orbit 10 ANTHOLOGY Damon Knight
70 29 Alpha Three ANTHOLOGY Robert Silverberg
71 28 Midsummer Century SHORTFICTION James Blish
72 28 The Early Asimov COLLECTION Isaac Asimov
73 28 Nova 2 ANTHOLOGY Harry Harrison
74 27 Orbit 11 ANTHOLOGY Damon Knight
75 27 The Gold at the Starbow's End COLLECTION Frederik Pohl
76 26 Generation ANTHOLOGY David Gerrold and Stephen Goldin
77 26 Best Science Fiction for 1972 ANTHOLOGY Frederik Pohl
78 26 Painwise SHORTFICTION James Tiptree, Jr.
79 26 The Second Kind of Loneliness SHORTFICTION George R. R. Martin
80 26 The Merchants of Venus SHORTFICTION Frederik Pohl
81 25 Infinity Four ANTHOLOGY Robert Hoskins
82 25 The Wind from the Sun COLLECTION Arthur C. Clarke
83 25 Things Which Are Caesar's SHORTFICTION Gordon R. Dickson
84 24 The Day the Sun Stood Still ANTHOLOGY uncredited
85 24 334 SHORTFICTION Thomas M. Disch
86 23 The Second Trip NOVEL Robert Silverberg
87 23 A Day in the Life ANTHOLOGY Gardner Dozois
88 23 Clarion II ANTHOLOGY Robin Scott Wilson
89 23 Seventy Years of Decpop SHORTFICTION Philip José Farmer
90 22 Best SF: 1971 ANTHOLOGY Brian W. Aldiss and Harry Harrison
91 22 New Worlds Quarterly 4 ANTHOLOGY Michael Moorcock
92 22 The Mercenary SHORTFICTION Jerry Pournelle
93 22 What Good Is a Glass Dagger? SHORTFICTION Larry Niven
94 22 Man's Reach SHORTFICTION Anthony Boucher
95 21 New Worlds Quarterly 3 ANTHOLOGY Michael Moorcock
96 21 First Person, Peculiar COLLECTION T. L. Sherred
97 21 Caliban SHORTFICTION Robert Silverberg
98 20 The Pritcher Mass NOVEL Gordon R. Dickson
99 20 Infinity Three ANTHOLOGY Robert Hoskins
100 20 The Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume 1 ANTHOLOGY Brian W. Aldiss and Harry Harrison
101 20 Strange Doings COLLECTION R. A. Lafferty
102 20 Collision Course SHORTFICTION William E. Cochrane
103 20 Solo Kill SHORTFICTION William E. Cochrane
104 20 Common Denominator SHORTFICTION David Lewis
105 19 And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire and Other Science Fiction Stories ANTHOLOGY Roger Elwood
106 19 Nobody's Home SHORTFICTION Joanna Russ
107 18 The Doomsday Gene NOVEL John Boyd
108 18 New Writings in SF (21) ANTHOLOGY John Carnell
109 17 The Big Space Fuck SHORTFICTION Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
110 17 Love Is a Dragonfly SHORTFICTION Thomas Burnett Swann
111 16 Other Days, Other Eyes NOVEL Bob Shaw
112 16 A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! NOVEL Harry Harrison
113 16 In the Ocean of Night SHORTFICTION Gregory Benford
114 15 The Milk of Paradise SHORTFICTION James Tiptree, Jr.
115 15 {Now + n, Now - n} SHORTFICTION Robert Silverberg
116 14 Yesterday's Children NOVEL David Gerrold
117 13 The Castle Keeps NOVEL Andrew J. Offutt
118 1 Blackman's Burden NOVEL Mack Reynolds
119 1 The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman NOVEL Angela Carter
120 1 SF Commentary - 1972 EDITOR Bruce Gillespie
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