Highest Ranked Novels published in 1981

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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	316	Little, Big	NOVEL	John Crowley
2	290	The Claw of the Conciliator	NOVEL	Gene Wolfe
3	185	The Many-Colored Land	NOVEL	Julian May
4	150	The Minds of Billy Milligan	NOVEL	Daniel Keyes
5	128	The Affirmation	NOVEL	Christopher Priest
6	120	Le silence de la cité	NOVEL	Élisabeth Vonarburg?Elisabeth Vonarburg
7	116	Radix	NOVEL	A. A. Attanasio
8	100	吉里吉里人?Kirikirijin	NOVEL	井上ひさし?Hisashi Inoue
9	97	Cujo	NOVEL	Stephen King
10	89	Downbelow Station	NOVEL	C. J. Cherryh
11	77	Camber the Heretic	NOVEL	Katherine Kurtz
12	65	The War Hound and the World's Pain	NOVEL	Michael Moorcock
13	61	The Keep	NOVEL	F. Paul Wilson
14	59	Oath of Fealty	NOVEL	Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
15	58	The Divine Invasion	NOVEL	Philip K. Dick
16	57	Project Pope	NOVEL	Clifford D. Simak
17	56	VALIS	NOVEL	Philip K. Dick
18	56	Delusion's Master	NOVEL	Tanith Lee
19	52	Behind the Wind	NOVEL	Patricia Wrightson
20	52	At the Eye of the Ocean	NOVEL	Hilbert Schenck
21	51	The Sable Moon	NOVEL	Nancy Springer
22	50	Starship & Haiku	NOVEL	S. P. Somtow
23	50	La fée et le géomètre?La fee et le geometre	NOVEL	Jean-Pierre Andrevon
24	50	The Firelings	NOVEL	Carol Kendall
25	50	The Man Who Loved Morlocks	NOVEL	David J. Lake
26	50	Dawn	NOVEL	Dean McLaughlin
27	50	The Scarecrows	NOVEL	Robert Westall
28	50	Der letzte Tag der Schöpfung	NOVEL	Wolfgang Jeschke
29	50	火星人先史?Kaseijin Senshi	NOVEL	川又千秋?かわまたちあき Kawamata Chiaki
30	35	The Anarch Lords	NOVEL	A. Bertram Chandler
31	35	Windhaven	NOVEL	George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
32	35	The White Hotel	NOVEL	D. M. Thomas
33	35	The Nameless	NOVEL	Ramsey Campbell
34	35	Hello America	NOVEL	J. G. Ballard
35	35	Imaro	NOVEL	Charles R. Saunders
36	35	Vaneglory	NOVEL	George Turner
37	35	The Sirian Experiments	NOVEL	Doris Lessing
38	35	City of Women	NOVEL	David Ireland
39	35	Bard	NOVEL	Keith Taylor
40	35	Shuttle Down	NOVEL	G. Harry Stine
41	35	Der Mols-Zwischenfall	NOVEL	Reinmar Cunis
42	35	Strength of Stones	NOVEL	Greg Bear
43	35	The Fledgling	NOVEL	Jane Langton
44	35	Where Time Winds Blow	NOVEL	Robert Holdstock
45	35	Der Pflanzen Heiland	NOVEL	Thomas R. P. Mielke
46	35	La nuit des enfants rois	NOVEL	Bernard Lenteric
47	35	Farfadets et folies douces	NOVEL	Christian Poslaniec
48	35	Sternenstaub	NOVEL	Rolf W. Liersch
49	35	Zeit der Wanderungen	NOVEL	David Chippers
50	35	Les îles du vacarme	NOVEL	Pierre Pelot
51	30	Dragonstar	NOVEL	David Bischoff and Thomas F. Monteleone
52	30	The Changing Land	NOVEL	Roger Zelazny
53	29	Dream Park	NOVEL	Steven Barnes and Larry Niven
54	29	The Breaking of Northwall	NOVEL	Paul O. Williams
55	28	The Captive	NOVEL	Robert Stallman
56	28	War Games	NOVEL	Karl Hansen
57	27	The Prince of Morning Bells	NOVEL	Nancy Kress
58	27	God Emperor of Dune	NOVEL	Frank Herbert
59	26	The Cool War	NOVEL	Frederik Pohl
60	26	The Revolution from Rosinante	NOVEL	Alexis A. Gilliland
61	25	Sharra's Exile	NOVEL	Marion Zimmer Bradley
62	25	Horn Crown	NOVEL	Andre Norton
63	25	A Storm Upon Ulster	NOVEL	Kenneth C. Flint
64	24	A Sense of Shadow	NOVEL	Kate Wilhelm
65	24	Under the City of Angels	NOVEL	Jerry Earl Brown
66	23	Lycanthia, or The Children of Wolves	NOVEL	Tanith Lee
67	23	Slow Fall to Dawn	NOVEL	Stephen Leigh
68	22	Path of the Eclipse	NOVEL	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
69	22	Tintagel	NOVEL	Paul Cook
70	21	The Book of Dreams	NOVEL	Jack Vance
71	21	Lanark: A Life in Four Books	NOVEL	Alasdair Gray
72	20	The Sardonyx Net	NOVEL	Elizabeth A. Lynn
73	20	Peregrine: Secundus	NOVEL	Avram Davidson
74	20	Pilgrimage	NOVEL	Drew Mendelson
75	19	Kingdom of Summer	NOVEL	Gillian Bradshaw
76	19	Daystar and Shadow	NOVEL	James B. Johnson
77	18	Worlds	NOVEL	Joe Haldeman
78	18	Esbae: A Winter's Tale	NOVEL	Linda Haldeman
79	18	The Tularemia Gambit	NOVEL	Steve Perry
80	18	The Former King	NOVEL	Adam Corby
81	15	Voyagers	NOVEL	Ben Bova
82	15	The Unreasoning Mask	NOVEL	Philip José Farmer
83	15	Madwand	NOVEL	Roger Zelazny
84	14	Gryphon in Glory	NOVEL	Andre Norton
85	13	Too Long a Sacrifice	NOVEL	Mildred Downey Broxon
86	11	The Dreamers	NOVEL	James E. Gunn
87	11	Blue Adept	NOVEL	Piers Anthony
88	10	Twelve Fair Kingdoms	NOVEL	Suzette Haden Elgin
89	9	Giants' Star	NOVEL	James P. Hogan
90	7	Deathhunter	NOVEL	Ian Watson
91	5	Lilith: A Snake in the Grass	NOVEL	Jack L. Chalker
92	4	Systemic Shock	NOVEL	Dean Ing
93	3	Wave Without a Shore	NOVEL	C. J. Cherryh
94	3	In the Hands of Glory	NOVEL	Phyllis Eisenstein
95	1	The Venus Belt	NOVEL	L. Neil Smith
96	1	Their Majesties' Bucketeers	NOVEL	L. Neil Smith
97	1	The Morphodite	NOVEL	M. A. Foster
98	1	Masks of the Illuminati	NOVEL	Robert Anton Wilson
99	1	Cities of the Red Night	NOVEL	William S. Burroughs
100	1	The California Coven Project	NOVEL	Bob Stickgold
101	1	Noble House	NOVEL	James Clavell
102	1	The Steel Tsar	NOVEL	Michael Moorcock

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