Highest Ranked Novels published in 1983

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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	354	The Citadel of the Autarch	NOVEL	Gene Wolfe
2	239	The Anubis Gates	NOVEL	Tim Powers
3	237	Startide Rising	NOVEL	David Brin
4	209	Tea with the Black Dragon	NOVEL	R. A. MacAvoy
5	169	Helliconia Summer	NOVEL	Brian W. Aldiss
6	156	Tik-Tok	NOVEL	John Sladek
7	116	The Armageddon Rag	NOVEL	George R. R. Martin
8	111	The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica	NOVEL	John Calvin Batchelor
9	99	Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden	NOVEL	Jack Vance
10	96	Millennium	NOVEL	John Varley
11	85	The Zen Gun	NOVEL	Barrington J. Bayley
12	85	Yesterday's Men	NOVEL	George Turner
13	70	The Blackcollar	NOVEL	Timothy Zahn
14	70	The Tempting of the Witch King	NOVEL	Russell Blackford
15	70	Thor's Hammer	NOVEL	Wynne Whiteford
16	65	A Rumor of Angels	NOVEL	Marjorie B. Kellogg
17	64	Floating Dragon	NOVEL	Peter Straub
18	63	The Void Captain's Tale	NOVEL	Norman Spinrad
19	63	The Robots of Dawn	NOVEL	Isaac Asimov
20	61	Thendara House	NOVEL	Marion Zimmer Bradley
21	61	Pet Sematary	NOVEL	Stephen King
22	61	The Dragon Waiting	NOVEL	John M. Ford
23	61	Against Infinity	NOVEL	Gregory Benford
24	59	Orion Shall Rise	NOVEL	Poul Anderson
25	56	Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern	NOVEL	Anne McCaffrey
26	50	Songs from the Drowned Lands	NOVEL	Eileen Kernaghan
27	50	When Voiha Wakes	NOVEL	Joy Chant
28	50	The War for Eternity	NOVEL	Christopher Rowley
29	50	The Rainbow Cadenza: A Novel in Logosata Form	NOVEL	J. Neil Schulman
30	50	Incarnate	NOVEL	Ramsey Campbell
31	50	Les semeurs d'abîmes?Les semeurs d'abimes	NOVEL	Serge Brussolo
32	50	Das Sakriversum	NOVEL	Thomas R. P. Mielke
33	50	Le champ du rêveur	NOVEL	Jean-Pierre Hubert
34	50	Le naviluk	NOVEL	Thérèse Roche?Therese Roche
35	50	Nile Shadows	NOVEL	Edward Whittemore
36	50	敵は海賊・海賊版?Teki wa Kaizoku: Kaizokuban	NOVEL	神林長平?Chōhei Kanbayashi Chohei Kambayashi Chouhei Kambayashi Chōhei Kambayashi Chouhei Kanbayashi Chohei Kanbayashi かんばやしちょうへい
37	46	Golden Witchbreed	NOVEL	Mary Gentle
38	35	The Nagasaki Vector	NOVEL	L. Neil Smith
39	35	Équinoxe de cendre?Equinoxe de cendre	NOVEL	Francis Berthelot
40	35	Valencies	NOVEL	Rory Barnes and Damien Broderick
41	35	Pilgermann	NOVEL	Russell Hoban
42	35	The Helix and the Sword	NOVEL	John C. McLoughlin
43	35	Paradise	NOVEL	Dan Henderson
44	35	Double Crossing	NOVEL	Erika Holzer
45	35	Solstice de fer	NOVEL	Francis Berthelot
46	35	The Celestial Steam Locomotive	NOVEL	Michael G. Coney
47	35	Die Temponauten	NOVEL	Ronald M. Hahn and Harald Pusch
48	35	Alles ist gut	NOVEL	Thomas Ziegler
49	35	Das Ende des Sehers	NOVEL	Malte Heim
50	35	.Digit.	NOVEL	Michael Weisser
51	35	Patrouille du conte	NOVEL	Pierre Gripari
52	35	Stein und Flöte	NOVEL	Hans Bemmann
53	35	Tour de France	NOVEL	Alfred Tilp
54	35	Winter's Tale	NOVEL	Mark Helprin
55	35	City	NOVEL	Joël Houssin?Joel Houssin
56	29	King's Blood Four	NOVEL	Sheri S. Tepper
57	28	White Gold Wielder	NOVEL	Stephen R. Donaldson
58	28	The Shadow of the Ship	NOVEL	Robert Wilfred Franson
59	28	Starrigger	NOVEL	John DeChancie
60	27	Christine	NOVEL	Stephen King
61	26	Anvil of the Heart	NOVEL	Bruce T. Holmes
62	26	Harpy's Flight	NOVEL	Robin Hobb
63	25	The Dreamstone	NOVEL	C. J. Cherryh
64	24	The Nonborn King	NOVEL	Julian May
65	24	Neveryóna or: The Tale of Signs and Cities	NOVEL	Samuel R. Delany
66	24	The Forest of App	NOVEL	Gloria Dank
67	23	Ratha's Creature	NOVEL	Clare Bell
68	22	Superluminal	NOVEL	Vonda N. McIntyre
69	22	Dragon on a Pedestal	NOVEL	Piers Anthony
70	21	Welcome, Chaos	NOVEL	Kate Wilhelm
71	21	Hart's Hope	NOVEL	Orson Scott Card
72	20	The Sword of Winter	NOVEL	Marta Randall
73	20	Cugel's Saga	NOVEL	Jack Vance
74	20	The Crucible of Time	NOVEL	John Brunner
75	19	Worlds Apart	NOVEL	Joe Haldeman
76	18	Valentine Pontifex	NOVEL	Robert Silverberg
77	17	Magician's Gambit	NOVEL	David Eddings
78	17	Gods of Riverworld	NOVEL	Philip José Farmer
79	16	The Tree of Swords and Jewels	NOVEL	C. J. Cherryh
80	16	On a Pale Horse	NOVEL	Piers Anthony
81	15	A Matter for Men	NOVEL	David Gerrold
82	15	Forty Thousand in Gehenna	NOVEL	C. J. Cherryh
83	12	Wall Around a Star	NOVEL	Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
84	12	Anackire	NOVEL	Tanith Lee
85	10	Broken Symmetries	NOVEL	Paul Preuss
86	10	Sung in Shadow	NOVEL	Tanith Lee
87	9	Roderick at Random	NOVEL	John Sladek
88	9	'Ware Hawk	NOVEL	Andre Norton
89	8	The Silent Gondoliers	NOVEL	William Goldman
90	8	Code of the Lifemaker	NOVEL	James P. Hogan
91	8	There Is No Darkness	NOVEL	Jack C. Haldeman, II and Joe Haldeman
92	7	The Sword Is Forged	NOVEL	Evangeline Walton
93	5	Transformer	NOVEL	M. A. Foster
94	1	Ariel	NOVEL	Steven R. Boyett
95	1	Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka	NOVEL	L. Neil Smith
96	1	Jonuta Rising!	NOVEL	Victor Koman and Andrew J. Offutt
97	1	The Tomorrow Testament	NOVEL	Barry B. Longyear
98	1	Triangle	NOVEL	Myrna Culbreath and Sondra Marshak
99	1	Refugee	NOVEL	Piers Anthony
100	1	The Lagrangists	NOVEL	Mack Reynolds
101	1	Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire	NOVEL	Doris Lessing
102	1	The Man Who Used the Universe	NOVEL	Alan Dean Foster
103	1	Khi to Freedom	NOVEL	Ardath Mayhar

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