Highest Ranked Short Fiction of the 1950s

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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	Year	Title	Type	Authors
1	79	1953	Sam Hall	SHORTFICTION	Poul Anderson
2	51	1956	Exploration Team	SHORTFICTION	Murray Leinster
3	50	1959	Flowers for Algernon	SHORTFICTION	Daniel Keyes
4	50	1959	Wet Paint	SHORTFICTION	A. Bertram Chandler
5	50	1958	Or All the Seas with Oysters	SHORTFICTION	Avram Davidson
6	50	1958	The Big Front Yard	SHORTFICTION	Clifford D. Simak
7	50	1958	That Hell-Bound Train	SHORTFICTION	Robert Bloch
8	50	1956	And Now the News ...	SHORTFICTION	Theodore Sturgeon
9	50	1955	The Star	SHORTFICTION	Arthur C. Clarke
10	50	1955	Allamagoosa	SHORTFICTION	Eric Frank Russell
11	50	1955	The Darfsteller	SHORTFICTION	Walter M. Miller, Jr.
12	50	1953	A Case of Conscience	SHORTFICTION	James Blish
13	50	1953	Earthman, Come Home	SHORTFICTION	James Blish
14	50	1953	The Nine Billion Names of God	SHORTFICTION	Arthur C. Clarke
15	50	1950	The Blue Bottle	SHORTFICTION	Ray Bradbury
16	50	1950	The Little Black Bag	SHORTFICTION	C. M. Kornbluth
17	50	1950	To Serve Man	SHORTFICTION	Damon Knight
18	50	1950	The Man Who Sold the Moon	SHORTFICTION	Robert A. Heinlein
19	35	1959	The Alley Man	SHORTFICTION	Philip José Farmer
20	35	1959	"All You Zombies ..."	SHORTFICTION	Robert A. Heinlein
21	35	1955	The Secret River	SHORTFICTION	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
22	35	1953	It's a Good Life	SHORTFICTION	Jerome Bixby
23	35	1953	Second Variety	SHORTFICTION	Philip K. Dick
24	35	1950	Coming Attraction	SHORTFICTION	Fritz Leiber
25	35	1950	Scanners Live in Vain	SHORTFICTION	Cordwainer Smith
26	30	1953	The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound	SHORTFICTION	Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson
27	30	1953	... And My Fear Is Great ...	SHORTFICTION	Theodore Sturgeon
28	30	1953	Star Light, Star Bright	SHORTFICTION	Alfred Bester
29	30	1950	The Helping Hand	SHORTFICTION	Poul Anderson
30	30	1950	Born of Man and Woman	SHORTFICTION	Richard Matheson
31	29	1953	Un-Man	SHORTFICTION	Poul Anderson
32	29	1953	A Saucer of Loneliness	SHORTFICTION	Theodore Sturgeon
33	29	1950	Okie	SHORTFICTION	James Blish
34	29	1950	A Subway Named Mobius	SHORTFICTION	A. J. Deutsch
35	29	1950	Last Enemy	SHORTFICTION	H. Beam Piper
36	28	1953	The Wall Around the World	SHORTFICTION	Theodore R. Cogswell
37	28	1953	Seventh Victim	SHORTFICTION	Robert Sheckley
38	28	1953	The Rose	SHORTFICTION	Charles L. Harness
39	28	1950	The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out	SHORTFICTION	Reginald Bretnor
40	28	1950	Dear Devil	SHORTFICTION	Eric Frank Russell
41	1	1959	The Man Who Lost the Sea	SHORTFICTION	Theodore Sturgeon
42	1	1959	The Pi Man	SHORTFICTION	Alfred Bester
43	1	1959	Cat and Mouse	SHORTFICTION	Ralph Williams
44	1	1959	Triplication	SHORTFICTION	Robert Sheckley
45	1	1958	Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee	SHORTFICTION	Fritz Leiber
46	1	1958	Space to Swing a Cat	SHORTFICTION	Stanley Mullen
47	1	1958	Rat in the Skull	SHORTFICTION	Rog Phillips
48	1	1958	The Miracle-Workers	SHORTFICTION	Jack Vance
49	1	1958	Theory of Rocketry	SHORTFICTION	C. M. Kornbluth
50	1	1958	Reap the Dark Tide	SHORTFICTION	C. M. Kornbluth
51	1	1958	Nine Yards of Other Cloth	SHORTFICTION	Manly Wade Wellman
52	1	1958	The Men Who Murdered Mohammed	SHORTFICTION	Alfred Bester
53	1	1958	Second Game	SHORTFICTION	Charles V. De Vet and Katherine MacLean
54	1	1958	Triggerman	SHORTFICTION	J. F. Bone
55	1	1958	They've Been Working On ...	SHORTFICTION	Anton Lee Baker
56	1	1958	The Advent on Channel Twelve	SHORTFICTION	C. M. Kornbluth
57	1	1958	Captivity	SHORTFICTION	Zenna Henderson
58	1	1958	A Deskful of Girls	SHORTFICTION	Fritz Leiber
59	1	1958	Unwillingly to School	SHORTFICTION	Pauline Ashwell
60	1	1958	The Edge of the Sea	SHORTFICTION	Algis Budrys
61	1	1956	Legwork	SHORTFICTION	Eric Frank Russell
62	1	1956	Brightside Crossing	SHORTFICTION	Alan E. Nourse
63	1	1956	Old Devlins Was A-Waiting	SHORTFICTION	Manly Wade Wellman
64	1	1956	A Gun for Dinosaur	SHORTFICTION	L. Sprague de Camp
65	1	1956	The Assistant Self	SHORTFICTION	F. L. Wallace
66	1	1955	King of the Hill	SHORTFICTION	James Blish
67	1	1955	Home There's No Returning	SHORTFICTION	Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
68	1	1955	The Dragon	SHORTFICTION	Ray Bradbury
69	1	1955	Bulkhead	SHORTFICTION	Theodore Sturgeon
70	1	1955	Citizen in Space	SHORTFICTION	Robert Sheckley
71	1	1955	Twink	SHORTFICTION	Theodore Sturgeon
72	1	1955	End as a World	SHORTFICTION	F. L. Wallace
73	1	1955	Nobody Bothers Gus	SHORTFICTION	Algis Budrys
74	1	1955	The Game of Rat and Dragon	SHORTFICTION	Cordwainer Smith
75	1	1954	The End of Summer	SHORTFICTION	Algis Budrys
76	1	1952	Daughters of Earth	SHORTFICTION	Judith Merril
77	1	1951	The End of the Line	SHORTFICTION	James H. Schmitz
78	1	1950	The Second Night of Summer	SHORTFICTION	James H. Schmitz
79	1	1950	Bindlestiff	SHORTFICTION	James Blish
80	1	1950	A Walk in the Dark	SHORTFICTION	Arthur C. Clarke
81	1	1950	The Silly Season	SHORTFICTION	C. M. Kornbluth

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