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Highest Ranked Short Fiction published in 1978

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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
1 185 The Persistence of Vision SHORTFICTION John Varley
2 172 Fireship SHORTFICTION Joan D. Vinge
3 135 Mikal's Songbird SHORTFICTION Orson Scott Card
4 114 Hunter's Moon SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
5 112 Cassandra SHORTFICTION C. J. Cherryh
6 94 View from a Height SHORTFICTION Joan D. Vinge
7 86 The Barbie Murders SHORTFICTION John Varley
8 85 Count the Clock That Tells the Time SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
9 81 Stone SHORTFICTION Edward Bryant
10 66 Seven American Nights SHORTFICTION Gene Wolfe
11 65 The Watched SHORTFICTION Christopher Priest
12 64 Devil You Don't Know SHORTFICTION Dean Ing
13 55 A Quiet Revolution for Death SHORTFICTION Jack Dann
14 55 The Man Who Had No Idea SHORTFICTION Thomas M. Disch
15 55 A Good Night's Sleep SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson
16 53 Vernalfest Morning SHORTFICTION Michael Bishop
17 52 Within the Walls of Tyre SHORTFICTION Michael Bishop
18 50 Lifeloop SHORTFICTION Orson Scott Card
19 50 Lipidleggin' SHORTFICTION F. Paul Wilson
20 50 Naples SHORTFICTION Avram Davidson
21 50 Death from Exposure SHORTFICTION Pat Cadigan
22 50
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梶尾真治?Shinji Kajio
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23 50 Funnyway SHORTFICTION Serge Brussolo
24 35 Et pourtant ils ont des couleurs SHORTFICTION Pierre Marlson
25 35 The Great Gray Dolphin SHORTFICTION Ben Schumacher
26 35 Pie Row Joe SHORTFICTION Kevin McKay
27 35 Land Deal SHORTFICTION Gerald Murnane
28 35 Play Little Victims SHORTFICTION Kenneth Cook
29 35 The Lady in White SHORTFICTION Stephen R. Donaldson
30 35 Hear Me Now, My Sweet Abbey Rose SHORTFICTION Charles L. Grant
31 30 Fixed Price War SHORTFICTION Charles Sheffield
32 30 Starships in Whose Future? SHORTFICTION Sam Nicholson
33 29 Virra SHORTFICTION Terry Carr
34 29 Old Folks at Home SHORTFICTION Michael Bishop
35 29 Swanilda's Song SHORTFICTION Frederik Pohl
36 28 The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
37 28 To Bring in the Steel SHORTFICTION Donald Kingsbury
38 28 A Hiss of Dragon SHORTFICTION Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw
39 27 The Doctor of Death Island SHORTFICTION Gene Wolfe
40 27 In Alien Flesh SHORTFICTION Gregory Benford
41 26 Drink Me, Francesca SHORTFICTION Richard Cowper
42 26 The Renewal SHORTFICTION Pamela Sargent
43 26 The Nuptial Flight of Warbirds SHORTFICTION Algis Budrys
44 25 The Gunslinger SHORTFICTION Stephen King
45 25 Insects in Amber SHORTFICTION Tom Reamy
46 25 A Thousand Deaths SHORTFICTION Orson Scott Card
47 24 Whores SHORTFICTION Christopher Priest
48 24 Flare Time SHORTFICTION Larry Niven
49 24 The Treasure of Odirex SHORTFICTION Charles Sheffield
50 24 SQ SHORTFICTION Ursula K. Le Guin
51 23 The Very Slow Time Machine SHORTFICTION Ian Watson
52 23 A Chinese Perspective SHORTFICTION Brian W. Aldiss
53 23 Shipwright SHORTFICTION Donald Kingsbury
54 22 Black Glass SHORTFICTION Fritz Leiber
55 21 Starswarmer SHORTFICTION Gregory Benford
56 21 Gotcha! SHORTFICTION Ray Bradbury
57 19 The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck SHORTFICTION Hilbert Schenck
58 18 Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies SHORTFICTION R. A. Lafferty
59 16 The Rooms of Paradise SHORTFICTION Ian Watson
60 16 Indifference SHORTFICTION Brian W. Aldiss
61 12 The Curse of the Mohndoro Nkabele or The Revenge of Stanley G. Weinbaum SHORTFICTION Eric Norden
62 1 Enemies of the System: A Tale of Homo Uniformis SHORTFICTION Brian W. Aldiss
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