Highest Ranked Novels published in 1979

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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	On Wings of Song	NOVEL	Thomas M. Disch
2	205	Titan	NOVEL	John Varley
3	184	Harpist in the Wind	NOVEL	Patricia A. McKillip
4	165	The Fountains of Paradise	NOVEL	Arthur C. Clarke
5	111	Watchtower	NOVEL	Elizabeth A. Lynn
6	110	Dragondrums	NOVEL	Anne McCaffrey
7	108	Death's Master	NOVEL	Tanith Lee
8	107	Juniper Time	NOVEL	Kate Wilhelm
9	105	The Dead Zone	NOVEL	Stephen King
10	100	Jem	NOVEL	Frederik Pohl
11	94	The Unlimited Dream Company	NOVEL	J. G. Ballard
12	94	Engine Summer	NOVEL	John Crowley
13	85	Жук в муравейнике?Zhuk v muraveynike	NOVEL	Аркадий Стругацкий?Arkady Strugatsky and Борис Стругацкий?Boris Strugatsky
14	69	The Ringworld Engineers	NOVEL	Larry Niven
15	64	Castle Roogna	NOVEL	Piers Anthony
16	62	Fires of Azeroth	NOVEL	C. J. Cherryh
17	57	The Palace	NOVEL	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
18	56	The Dancers of Arun	NOVEL	Elizabeth A. Lynn
19	56	Transfigurations	NOVEL	Michael Bishop
20	52	Sorcerer's Son	NOVEL	Phyllis Eisenstein
21	51	The Drawing of the Dark	NOVEL	Tim Powers
22	50	太陽風交点?Taiyōfu Kouten	NOVEL	堀晃?ほりあきら Hori Akira
23	50	L'épouvante	NOVEL	Daniel Walther
24	50	Australian Gnomes	NOVEL	Robert Ingpen
25	50	Alongside Night	NOVEL	J. Neil Schulman
26	50	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	NOVEL	Douglas Adams
27	50	消滅の光輪?しょうめつのこうりん Shōmetsu no Kōrin Shometsu no Korin Shoumetsu no Kourin	NOVEL	眉村卓?まゆむらたく Mayumura Taku
28	48	A World Between	NOVEL	Norman Spinrad
29	35	Moon in the Ground	NOVEL	Keith Antill
30	35	Benefits	NOVEL	Zoe Fairbairns
31	35	Le serpent d'éternité?Le serpent d'eternite	NOVEL	Pierre Stolze
32	35	Les frontières d'Oulan-Bator	NOVEL	Pierre Giuliani
33	35	Displaced Person	NOVEL	Lee Harding
34	35	The Universe Next Door	NOVEL	Robert Anton Wilson
35	35	The Last Call of Mourning	NOVEL	Charles L. Grant
36	35	The Starfollowers of Coramonde	NOVEL	Brian Daley
37	30	World in the Clouds	NOVEL	Bob Buckley
38	29	Stardance	NOVEL	Jeanne Robinson and Spider Robinson
39	28	The Merman's Children	NOVEL	Poul Anderson
40	27	The Faded Sun: Kutath	NOVEL	C. J. Cherryh
41	25	Malafrena	NOVEL	Ursula K. Le Guin
42	25	The Last Enchantment	NOVEL	Mary Stewart
43	24	Dragonworld	NOVEL	Byron Preiss and Michael Reaves
44	23	The Face	NOVEL	Jack Vance
45	20	Kindred	NOVEL	Octavia E. Butler
46	20	Roadmarks	NOVEL	Roger Zelazny
47	20	The Stars My Destination, Volume One: The Graphic Story Adaptation	NOVEL	Alfred Bester and Howard Chaykin
48	19	Daughter of the Bright Moon	NOVEL	Lynn Abbey
49	19	Kinsman	NOVEL	Ben Bova
50	18	Urshurak	NOVEL	Greg Hildebrandt and Tim Hildebrandt and Jerry Nichols
51	18	The Door Into Fire	NOVEL	Diane Duane
52	16	The Web Between the Worlds	NOVEL	Charles Sheffield
53	15	Mayflies	NOVEL	Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
54	13	A Planet Called Treason	NOVEL	Orson Scott Card
55	13	Die unendliche Geschichte	NOVEL	Michael Ende
56	11	The Two Faces of Tomorrow	NOVEL	James P. Hogan
57	10	The Day of the Klesh	NOVEL	M. A. Foster
58	9	Trafalgar	NOVEL	Angélica Gorodischer
59	8	Janissaries	NOVEL	Jerry Pournelle
60	1	Hanta Yo	NOVEL	Ruth Beebe Hill
61	1	Jailbird	NOVEL	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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