Highest Ranked Titles published in 1973

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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	322	Rendezvous with Rama	NOVEL	Arthur C. Clarke
2	168	Time Enough for Love	NOVEL	Robert A. Heinlein
3	155	The Embedding	NOVEL	Ian Watson
4	135	The Deathbird	SHORTFICTION	Harlan Ellison
5	135	The Death of Dr. Island	SHORTFICTION	Gene Wolfe
6	120	Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand	SHORTFICTION	Vonda N. McIntyre
7	114	The Girl Who Was Plugged In	SHORTFICTION	James Tiptree, Jr.
8	110	Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death	SHORTFICTION	James Tiptree, Jr.
9	109	Protector	NOVEL	Larry Niven
10	95	With Morning Comes Mistfall	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
11	91	Death and Designation Among the Asadi	SHORTFICTION	Michael Bishop
12	85	Hrolf Kraki's Saga	NOVEL	Poul Anderson
13	80	Locus - 1973 (Fanzine)	EDITOR	Charles N. Brown and Dena Brown
14	78	The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	SHORTFICTION	Ursula K. Le Guin
15	71	The White Otters of Childhood	SHORTFICTION	Michael Bishop
16	70	The Dark Is Rising	NOVEL	Susan Cooper
17	67	The People of the Wind	NOVEL	Poul Anderson
18	64	The Man Who Folded Himself	NOVEL	David Gerrold
19	64	Chains of the Sea	SHORTFICTION	Gardner Dozois
20	62	Wings	SHORTFICTION	Vonda N. McIntyre
21	59	Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home	COLLECTION	James Tiptree, Jr.
22	58	In the Group	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
23	57	Junction	SHORTFICTION	Jack Dann
24	56	Gravity's Rainbow	NOVEL	Thomas Pynchon
25	54	Case and the Dreamer	SHORTFICTION	Theodore Sturgeon
26	50	Hellstrom's Hive	NOVEL	Frank Herbert
27	50	The Fallible Fiend	NOVEL	L. Sprague de Camp
28	50	Collision Course	NOVEL	Barrington J. Bayley
29	50	Algol - 1973	EDITOR	Andrew Porter
30	50	The Alien Critic - 1973	EDITOR	Richard E. Geis
31	50	The Hollow Hills	NOVEL	Mary Stewart
32	50	The Ghost of Thomas Kempe	NOVEL	Penelope Lively
33	50	日本以外全部沈没?Nihon Igai Zenbu Chinbotsu	SHORTFICTION	筒井康隆?Tsutsui Yasutaka つつい やすたか
34	50	For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga	NOVEL	Robert Sobel
35	50	The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2	ANTHOLOGY	Terry Carr
36	50	Astounding: John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology	ANTHOLOGY	Harry Harrison
37	50	Worse Things Waiting	COLLECTION	Manly Wade Wellman
38	50	Pages from a Young Girl's Journal	SHORTFICTION	Robert Aickman
39	50	Myrtis et autres histoires de nuit et de peur	COLLECTION	Daniel Mallinus
40	50	Le temps incertain	NOVEL	Michel Jeury
41	50	The Jade Man's Eyes	SHORTFICTION	Michael Moorcock
42	50	C. S. Lewis, Mere Christian	NONFICTION	Kathryn Lindskoog
43	50	Billion Year Spree	NONFICTION	Brian W. Aldiss
44	50	The Cosmic Connection	ESSAY	Carl Sagan
45	50	Réhabilitation?Rehabilitation	SHORTFICTION	Gérard Klein?Gerard Klein
46	50	日本沈没?Nihon Chinbotsu	NOVEL	小松左京?Komatsu Sakyou Komatsu Sakyō こまつさきょう Komatsu Sakyo
47	35	The Green Gene	NOVEL	Peter Dickinson
48	35	Frankenstein Unbound	NOVEL	Brian W. Aldiss
49	35	High Deryni	NOVEL	Katherine Kurtz
50	35	Tunnel	NOVEL	André Ruellan?Andre Ruellan
51	35	Excalibur	NOVEL	Sanders Anne Laubenthal
52	35	The Soft Kill	NOVEL	Colin Free
53	35	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B	ANTHOLOGY	Ben Bova
54	35	New Dimensions 3	ANTHOLOGY	Robert Silverberg
55	35	From Evil's Pillow	COLLECTION	Basil Copper
56	35	Shark	SHORTFICTION	Edward Bryant
57	35	After King Kong Fell	SHORTFICTION	Philip José Farmer
58	35	A Thing of Beauty	SHORTFICTION	Norman Spinrad
59	35	How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion	SHORTFICTION	Gene Wolfe
60	35	La princesse myope du building pourpre	SHORTFICTION	Jean-Pierre Andrevon
61	35	Les étoiles en gelée de songes?Les etoiles en gelee de songes	SHORTFICTION	Daniel Walther
62	35	Les sept soleils de l'archipel humain	NOVEL	Landry Merillac
63	35	Ghoul's Garden	SHORTFICTION	John Jakes
64	35	Manden Der Ville Vaer Skyldig	NOVEL	Henrik Stangerup
65	35	Crash	NOVEL	J. G. Ballard
66	35	Sous les cendres	SHORTFICTION	Gérard Klein?Gerard Klein
67	30	The 1973 Annual World's Best SF	ANTHOLOGY	Arthur W. Saha and Donald A. Wollheim
68	30	Universe 3	ANTHOLOGY	Terry Carr
69	30	The Feast of St. Dionysus	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
70	30	Construction Shack	SHORTFICTION	Clifford D. Simak
71	30	The Expensive Delicate Ship	SHORTFICTION	Brian W. Aldiss
72	29	An Exaltation of Stars	ANTHOLOGY	Terry Carr
73	29	Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind	SHORTFICTION	Philip José Farmer
74	28	Orbit 12	ANTHOLOGY	Damon Knight
75	28	Jupiter	ANTHOLOGY	Carol Pohl and Frederik Pohl
76	28	Ms. Found in an Abandoned Time Machine	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
77	27	Trullion: Alastor 2262	NOVEL	Jack Vance
78	27	Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader	ANTHOLOGY	Robin Scott Wilson
79	27	The Alien Condition	ANTHOLOGY	Stephen Goldin
80	27	The Defenseless Dead	SHORTFICTION	Larry Niven
81	26	Chains of the Sea	ANTHOLOGY	Robert Silverberg
82	26	The Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume 2	ANTHOLOGY	Brian W. Aldiss and Harry Harrison
83	25	Today We Choose Faces	NOVEL	Roger Zelazny
84	25	To Die in Italbar	NOVEL	Roger Zelazny
85	25	Alpha 4	ANTHOLOGY	Robert Silverberg
86	25	Ten Tomorrows	ANTHOLOGY	Roger Elwood
87	25	Rumfuddle	SHORTFICTION	Jack Vance
88	24	The Safety Engineer	SHORTFICTION	William E. Cochrane
89	24	The Book of Philip José Farmer	COLLECTION	Philip José Farmer
90	24	Nova 3	ANTHOLOGY	Harry Harrison
91	24	Mud Violet	SHORTFICTION	R. A. Lafferty
92	23	The Cloud Walker	NOVEL	Edmund Cooper
93	23	Nebula Award Stories 8	ANTHOLOGY	Isaac Asimov
94	23	Future City	ANTHOLOGY	Roger Elwood
95	23	In the Problem Pit	SHORTFICTION	Frederik Pohl
96	22	Relatives	NOVEL	George Alec Effinger
97	22	Flashing Swords! #1	ANTHOLOGY	Lin Carter
98	22	Many Mansions	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
99	22	The Field of Vision	SHORTFICTION	Ursula K. Le Guin
100	21	Science Fiction: the Great Years	ANTHOLOGY	Carol Pohl and Frederik Pohl
101	21	Eros in Orbit	ANTHOLOGY	Joseph Elder
102	21	My Brother Leopold	SHORTFICTION	Edgar Pangborn
103	20	Herovit's World	NOVEL	Barry N. Malzberg
104	20	Showcase	ANTHOLOGY	Roger Elwood
105	20	'Kjwalll'kje'k'koothaïlll'kje'k	SHORTFICTION	Roger Zelazny
106	20	The Answer	SHORTFICTION	Terry Carr
107	20	Barnaby's Clock	SHORTFICTION	R. A. Lafferty
108	20	Brothers	SHORTFICTION	Gordon R. Dickson
109	19	A Spaceship for the King	NOVEL	Jerry Pournelle
110	19	Hiero's Journey	NOVEL	Sterling E. Lanier
111	19	The Brave Free Men	NOVEL	Jack Vance
112	19	The Flight of the Horse	COLLECTION	Larry Niven
113	19	Bad Moon Rising	ANTHOLOGY	Thomas M. Disch
114	19	The Star Road	COLLECTION	Gordon R. Dickson
115	17	The World Is a Sphere	SHORTFICTION	Edgar Pangborn
116	16	Epilog	SHORTFICTION	Clifford D. Simak
117	15	The Women Men Don't See	SHORTFICTION	James Tiptree, Jr.
118	12	Beyond the Resurrection	NOVEL	Gordon Eklund
119	1	Burr	NOVEL	Gore Vidal
120	1	The City on the Sand	SHORTFICTION	George Alec Effinger
121	1	He Fell Into a Dark Hole	SHORTFICTION	Jerry Pournelle
122	1	The Time Machine	SHORTFICTION	Robert F. Young

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