Highest Ranked Short Fiction published in 1985

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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	215	The Only Neat Thing to Do	SHORTFICTION	James Tiptree, Jr.
2	199	The Winter Market	SHORTFICTION	William Gibson
3	170	Paladin of the Lost Hour	SHORTFICTION	Harlan Ellison
4	165	Portraits of His Children	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
5	155	Sailing to Byzantium	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
6	153	Paper Dragons	SHORTFICTION	James P. Blaylock
7	129	Green Mars	SHORTFICTION	Kim Stanley Robinson
8	126	Dogfight	SHORTFICTION	William Gibson and Michael Swanwick
9	120	Fermi and Frost	SHORTFICTION	Frederik Pohl
10	114	24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai	SHORTFICTION	Roger Zelazny
11	100	Nekromanteion	SHORTFICTION	Wolfgang Jeschke
12	100	The Fringe	SHORTFICTION	Orson Scott Card
13	99	The Jaguar Hunter	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
14	95	Flying Saucer Rock & Roll	SHORTFICTION	Howard Waldrop
15	95	Snow	SHORTFICTION	John Crowley
16	92	The Gorgon Field	SHORTFICTION	Kate Wilhelm
17	90	The Scapegoat	SHORTFICTION	C. J. Cherryh
18	89	A Gift from the GrayLanders	SHORTFICTION	Michael Bishop
19	85	Hong's Bluff	SHORTFICTION	William F. Wu
20	77	Rockabye Baby	SHORTFICTION	S. C. Sykes
21	76	Loaves and Fishes	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
22	73	A Troll and Two Roses	SHORTFICTION	Patricia A. McKillip
23	70	The People on the Precipice	SHORTFICTION	Ian Watson
24	70	Tainaron: Postia toisesta kaupungista	SHORTFICTION	Leena Krohn
25	69	Out of All Them Bright Stars	SHORTFICTION	Nancy Kress
26	59	Green Days in Brunei	SHORTFICTION	Bruce Sterling
27	59	The Gods of Mars	SHORTFICTION	Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick
28	59	The Plague Star	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
29	57	Dinner in Audoghast	SHORTFICTION	Bruce Sterling
30	53	Kitemistress	SHORTFICTION	Keith Roberts
31	53	The Road Not Taken	SHORTFICTION	Harry Turtledove
32	51	Flight	SHORTFICTION	Peter Dickinson
33	51	The Slovo Stove	SHORTFICTION	Avram Davidson
34	50	Yadjine et la mort	SHORTFICTION	Daniel Sernine
35	50	Het uitzicht vanaf hoge plaatsen	SHORTFICTION	Tais Teng
36	50	With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole	SHORTFICTION	Harlan Ellison
37	50	The Forbidden	SHORTFICTION	Clive Barker
38	50	The Ungoverned	SHORTFICTION	Vernor Vinge
39	50	Cube Root	SHORTFICTION	David Langford
40	50	A Touch Beyond	SHORTFICTION	Stephen L. Burns
41	50	Nadelman's God	SHORTFICTION	T. E. D. Klein
42	50	Traumjäger?Traumjaeger	SHORTFICTION	Hans Joachim Alpers and Ronald M. Hahn
43	50	Соната моря?Sonata morya	SHORTFICTION	Ольга Ларионова?Olga Larionova
44	50	The Bullet That Grows in the Gun	SHORTFICTION	Terry Dowling
45	50	レモンパイ、お屋敷横丁 ゼロ番地?Remon Pai, Oyashiki Yokochō Zero Banchi Remon Pai, Oyashiki Yokochou Zero Banchi Remon Pai, Oyashiki Yokocho Zero Banchi	SHORTFICTION	野田昌宏?のだまさひろ Noda Masahiro
46	50	Desafinado	SHORTFICTION	Gerben Hellinga, Jr.
47	50	Het loon der zotheid, of Jettou's ei	SHORTFICTION	Gert Kuipers and Jan J. B. Kuipers
48	50	Polarlicht	SHORTFICTION	Reinmar Cunis
49	50	Most	SHORTFICTION	Slobodan Petrovski
50	46	O Happy Day!	SHORTFICTION	Geoff Ryman
51	43	Heirs of the Perisphere	SHORTFICTION	Howard Waldrop
52	38	The R Strain	SHORTFICTION	Harry Turtledove
53	35	La peau bleue	SHORTFICTION	Christian Léourier?Christian Leourier
54	35	The Fair in Emain Macha	SHORTFICTION	Charles de Lint
55	35	Der x-mal vervielfachte Held	SHORTFICTION	Günter Braun?Guenter Braun and Johanna Braun
56	35	More Than the Sum of His Parts	SHORTFICTION	Joe Haldeman
57	35	The Effect of Terminal Cancer on Potential Astronauts	SHORTFICTION	David Kirkpatrick
58	35	Chronos' Christmas	SHORTFICTION	Rhea Rose
59	35	A Young Man's Journey to Viriconium	SHORTFICTION	M. John Harrison
60	35	Die Koralleninsel	SHORTFICTION	Herbert W. Franke
61	35	Gertrude	SHORTFICTION	P. M. Fergusson
62	35	Manna from Heaven	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
63	35	Dead Image	SHORTFICTION	David Morrell
64	35	Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?	SHORTFICTION	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
65	35	Return of the Dust Vampires	SHORTFICTION	Sharon N. Farber
66	35	Der Lux-Beschleuniger	SHORTFICTION	Gerd Maximovič?Gerd Maximovic Gerd Maximovich
67	35	The Fittest	SHORTFICTION	George Turner
68	35	Glass Reptile Breakout	SHORTFICTION	Russell Blackford
69	35	The Lipton Village Society	SHORTFICTION	Lucy Sussex
70	35	Im Namen der Menschlichkeit	SHORTFICTION	Wolfgang Hohlbein
71	35	The Twist of Fate	SHORTFICTION	David Grigg
72	35	Montage	SHORTFICTION	Lucy Sussex
73	35	For the Man Who Has Everything	SHORTFICTION	Chris Simmons
74	35	L'Incident Chicago	SHORTFICTION	Jean Dion
75	35	Les voix dans la machine	SHORTFICTION	Jean Dion
76	35	La nature morte	SHORTFICTION	Charles Montpetit
77	35	Niemand außer dir	SHORTFICTION	Christian Lautenschlag
78	35	Analyse und Verantwortung	SHORTFICTION	Carl Amery
79	35	La maison au bord de la mer	SHORTFICTION	Élisabeth Vonarburg?Elisabeth Vonarburg
80	35	§1 BGB	SHORTFICTION	Martin Rossmann
81	35	Der Mann, dessen Gesicht in Fetzen ging	SHORTFICTION	Karl-Ulrich Burgdorf
82	30	Morgen en Overmorgen	SHORTFICTION	Jan Bee Landman
83	30	World of Crystal, Sky of Fire	SHORTFICTION	Bob Buckley
84	30	Cycles	SHORTFICTION	Don Sakers
85	29	Oost is oost - west is west	SHORTFICTION	Gerben Hellinga, Jr.
86	28	Jagerslied	SHORTFICTION	Jan J. B. Kuipers
87	28	The Man of Peace	SHORTFICTION	Stephen L. Burns
88	27	De doodsdromen van Sybillia Sternenstaub	SHORTFICTION	Eddy C. Bertin
89	27	Of Space-Time and the River	SHORTFICTION	Gregory Benford
90	27	Under Siege	SHORTFICTION	George R. R. Martin
91	27	Mengele	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
92	26	De lange schemering	SHORTFICTION	Cees Pamalot
93	26	All My Darling Daughters	SHORTFICTION	Connie Willis
94	26	No Regrets	SHORTFICTION	Lisa Tuttle
95	25	To the Storming Gulf	SHORTFICTION	Gregory Benford
96	25	Oorlogje spelen	SHORTFICTION	Gerben Hellinga, Jr.
97	23	In paradisum	SHORTFICTION	Peter Cuijpers
98	23	World War Last	SHORTFICTION	Norman Spinrad
99	23	"... How My Heart Breaks When I Sing This Song ..."	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
100	23	Storming the Cosmos	SHORTFICTION	Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling
101	22	A Spanish Lesson	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
102	21	The Curse of Kings	SHORTFICTION	Connie Willis
103	21	Tourists	SHORTFICTION	Lisa Goldstein
104	21	The Things That Happen	SHORTFICTION	Frederik Pohl
105	20	When Winter Ends	SHORTFICTION	Michael P. Kube-McDowell
106	20	Mercurial	SHORTFICTION	Kim Stanley Robinson
107	20	Sunrise on Pluto	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
108	19	De goede aarde	SHORTFICTION	Fred van der Meulen
109	19	The End of Life as We Know It	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
110	19	How the Wind Spoke at Madaket	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
111	18	Duke Pasquale's Ring	SHORTFICTION	Avram Davidson
112	17	The Transmigration of Philip K.	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
113	17	Side Effects	SHORTFICTION	Walter Jon Williams
114	17	George Washington Slept Here	SHORTFICTION	Charles L. Harness
115	16	Mozart in Mirrorshades	SHORTFICTION	Lewis Shiner and Bruce Sterling
116	15	My Life in the Jungle	SHORTFICTION	Jim Aikin
117	15	Vilest Beast	SHORTFICTION	Harry Turtledove
118	15	Talion	SHORTFICTION	John Brunner
119	14	The Poplar Street Study	SHORTFICTION	Karen Joy Fowler
120	13	Solstice	SHORTFICTION	James Patrick Kelly
121	13	The Great Wall	SHORTFICTION	Wayne Wightman
122	12	The War at Home	SHORTFICTION	Lewis Shiner
123	12	Shanidar	SHORTFICTION	David Zindell
124	12	The Blind Minotaur	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
125	10	The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things	SHORTFICTION	Karen Joy Fowler
126	10	Unferno	SHORTFICTION	George Alec Effinger
127	10	State of the Art	SHORTFICTION	Robert Charles Wilson
128	9	Vestibular Man	SHORTFICTION	Felix C. Gotschalk
129	7	The Last Dragon Master	SHORTFICTION	A. A. Attanasio
130	6	The Bob Dylan Tambourine Software & Satori Support Services Consortium, Ltd.	SHORTFICTION	Michael Bishop
131	1	Die Haarteppichknüpfer	SHORTFICTION	Andreas Eschbach

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