Highest Ranked Short Fiction published in 1989

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Note: Some recent awards are yet to be integrated into the database.
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	209	The Mountains of Mourning	SHORTFICTION	Lois McMaster Bujold
2	200	Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
3	194	Great Work of Time	SHORTFICTION	John Crowley
4	184	For I Have Touched the Sky	SHORTFICTION	Mike Resnick
5	177	Boobs	SHORTFICTION	Suzy McKee Charnas
6	169	Dori Bangs	SHORTFICTION	Bruce Sterling
7	155	Lost Boys	SHORTFICTION	Orson Scott Card
8	144	At the Rialto	SHORTFICTION	Connie Willis
9	142	The Edge of the World	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
10	135	On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks	SHORTFICTION	Joe R. Lansdale
11	135	A Touch of Lavender	SHORTFICTION	Robin Hobb
12	119	Tiny Tango	SHORTFICTION	Judith Moffett
13	119	Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana	SHORTFICTION	Michael Bishop
14	116	Time Out	SHORTFICTION	Connie Willis
15	114	Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man	SHORTFICTION	Robin Hobb
16	106	Dogwalker	SHORTFICTION	Orson Scott Card
17	105	A Dozen Tough Jobs	SHORTFICTION	Howard Waldrop
18	102	The State of the Art	SHORTFICTION	Iain M. Banks
19	90	A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned	SHORTFICTION	Edward Bryant
20	89	Everything But Honor	SHORTFICTION	George Alec Effinger
21	83	The Price of Oranges	SHORTFICTION	Nancy Kress
22	80	Labyrinth	SHORTFICTION	Lois McMaster Bujold
23	75	Computer Friendly	SHORTFICTION	Eileen Gunn
24	75	"Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'N Purty..." He Said. (Page 243)	SHORTFICTION	Chet Williamson
25	70	The Power and the Passion	SHORTFICTION	Pat Cadigan
26	70	Fast Cars	SHORTFICTION	Kristine Kathryn Rusch
27	70	Auf dem anderen Ufer der Nacht	SHORTFICTION	Rolf Krohn
28	69	The Loch Moose Monster	SHORTFICTION	Janet Kagan
29	63	Pageant Wagon	SHORTFICTION	Orson Scott Card
30	63	Gardenias	SHORTFICTION	Ian McDonald
31	63	Sisters	SHORTFICTION	Greg Bear
32	61	Dilemma	SHORTFICTION	Connie Willis
33	58	War Fever	SHORTFICTION	J. G. Ballard
34	55	Marîd Changes His Mind	SHORTFICTION	George Alec Effinger
35	53	We See Things Differently	SHORTFICTION	Bruce Sterling
36	51	Surrender	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
37	51	Soul of the City	SHORTFICTION	Michael F. Flynn
38	51	The True Nature of Shangri-La	SHORTFICTION	Kim Stanley Robinson
39	50	In Translation	SHORTFICTION	Lisa Tuttle
40	50	Windwagon Smith and the Martians	SHORTFICTION	Lawrence Watt-Evans
41	50	Zatvor	SHORTFICTION	Radovan Devlić?Radovan Devlic
42	50	The Happy Dead	SHORTFICTION	Amy Bechtel
43	50	Eat Me	SHORTFICTION	Robert R. McCammon
44	50	Carpe Diem	SHORTFICTION	Eileen Kernaghan
45	50	Les chasseurs au bord de la nuit	SHORTFICTION	Colette Fayard
46	50	The Quiet Redemption of Andy the House	SHORTFICTION	Terry Dowling
47	50	Kasperle ist wieder da	SHORTFICTION	Gert Prokop
48	50	象られた力?Katadorareta Chikara	SHORTFICTION	飛浩隆?Tobi Hirotaka とびひろたか
49	50	Eisenheim the Illusionist	SHORTFICTION	Steven Millhauser
50	50	Siebzehn Sätze	SHORTFICTION	Werner Zillig
51	50	De man met de hoorn	SHORTFICTION	Paul Evenblij
52	50	Wanderlust	SHORTFICTION	Gisbert Haefs
53	48	Varicose Worms	SHORTFICTION	Scott Baker
54	47	In Another Country	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
55	45	The Gentle Seduction	SHORTFICTION	Marc Stiegler
56	40	Red Planet Blues	SHORTFICTION	Allen Steele
57	39	Destroyer of Worlds	SHORTFICTION	Charles Sheffield
58	38	The Egg	SHORTFICTION	Steven Popkes
59	36	Little Worker	SHORTFICTION	Paul Di Filippo
60	36	Dr. Pak's Preschool	SHORTFICTION	David Brin
61	35	The Barrens	SHORTFICTION	F. Paul Wilson
62	35	La porte au fond du parc entre le cèdre et les chênes	SHORTFICTION	Jean-Pierre Andrevon
63	35	The Ommatidium Miniatures	SHORTFICTION	Michael Bishop
64	35	Before I Wake	SHORTFICTION	Kim Stanley Robinson
65	35	Not Without Honor	SHORTFICTION	Judith Moffett
66	35	The Return of the Kangaroo Rex	SHORTFICTION	Janet Kagan
67	35	Tommy Atkins	SHORTFICTION	Barrington J. Bayley
68	35	Once Upon a Time in the Park	SHORTFICTION	Ian Lee
69	35	Bestseller	SHORTFICTION	Michael Blumlein
70	35	Phantom	SHORTFICTION	Kristine Kathryn Rusch
71	35	Flaw on Serendip	SHORTFICTION	J. Brian Clarke
72	35	Humanity Test	SHORTFICTION	Charles Sheffield
73	35	At First Just Ghostly	SHORTFICTION	Karl Edward Wagner
74	35	The Confessions of St. James	SHORTFICTION	Chet Williamson
75	35	Bodies and Heads	SHORTFICTION	Steve Rasnic Tem
76	35	Each Night, Each Year	SHORTFICTION	Kathryn Ptacek
77	35	Pelts	SHORTFICTION	F. Paul Wilson
78	35	If You Go Out in the Woods	SHORTFICTION	Paula Johanson
79	35	Fertile Mind	SHORTFICTION	Clélie Rich
80	35	Duty Free	SHORTFICTION	Rhea Rose
81	35	Mr. Fiddlehead	SHORTFICTION	Jonathan Carroll
82	35	Testosteron	SHORTFICTION	Reinmar Cunis
83	35	The Adinkra Cloth	SHORTFICTION	Mary C. Aldridge
84	35	Regengrenze	SHORTFICTION	Marianne Gruber
85	35	White As Sin, Now	SHORTFICTION	Tanith Lee
86	35	The Knot Garden	SHORTFICTION	Mary Gentle
87	35	Timeskip	SHORTFICTION	Charles de Lint
88	35	La tortue sur le trottoir	SHORTFICTION	Jean Dion and Guy Sirois
89	35	The Bridge	SHORTFICTION	Christopher Evans
90	35	Pas de dum-dum pour Mister Klaus	SHORTFICTION	Claude-Michel Prévost?Claude-Michel Prevost
91	35	Akimento	SHORTFICTION	Claude-Michel Prévost?Claude-Michel Prevost
92	35	Les vertise des prisons	SHORTFICTION	Roger des Roches
93	35	The Boo-Hoo Forest	SHORTFICTION	Jack Pavey
94	35	If You Go Down to the Park Today	SHORTFICTION	Rosaleen Love
95	35	The Total Devotion Machine	SHORTFICTION	Rosaleen Love
96	35	Over the Edge	SHORTFICTION	Petrina Smith
97	35	Die Essenz des Realen	SHORTFICTION	Christian Mähr?Christian Maehr
98	35	Innen und Außen	SHORTFICTION	Hans-Joachim Schmidt
99	35	Hartelijk dank voor de paars gestippelde das	SHORTFICTION	Paul Harland and Jannelies Smit
100	35	Lilith	SHORTFICTION	Robbi Sommers
101	30	Zelle's Thursday	SHORTFICTION	Tanith Lee
102	30	Privacy	SHORTFICTION	David Brin
103	30	Marcia M. Mercedes en haar schaduw op het echostrand	SHORTFICTION	Eddy C. Bertin
104	30	The Best is Yet to Be	SHORTFICTION	John Gribbin
105	29	The Return of William Proxmire	SHORTFICTION	Larry Niven
106	29	Little Monsters	SHORTFICTION	Amy Bechtel
107	29	Twee ogen zo rood	SHORTFICTION	Antony den Ridder
108	28	The Nearly Infinite Possibilities of Junk	SHORTFICTION	Stephen L. Burns
109	28	Gridlock	SHORTFICTION	Michael McCollum
110	27	The Color of Grass, the Color of Blood	SHORTFICTION	R. V. Branham
111	26	Bound for Glory	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
112	26	Jericho	SHORTFICTION	Jan J. B. Kuipers
113	25	Abe Lincoln in McDonald's	SHORTFICTION	James Morrow
114	25	The Originist	SHORTFICTION	Orson Scott Card
115	24	The Goat Man	SHORTFICTION	Peni R. Griffin
116	24	The Happy Turnip	SHORTFICTION	Thomas M. Disch
117	23	Iridescence	SHORTFICTION	Dean Whitlock
118	23	Ride to Live, Live to Ride	SHORTFICTION	Allen Steele
119	23	Verdomde wereld	SHORTFICTION	Pim Cuijpers
120	22	Steel Dogs	SHORTFICTION	Ray Aldridge
121	22	Bible Stories for Adults, No. 31: The Covenant	SHORTFICTION	James Morrow
122	21	Just Another Perfect Day	SHORTFICTION	John Varley
123	21	No Spot of Ground	SHORTFICTION	Walter Jon Williams
124	21	Tales from the Venia Woods	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
125	20	Mozart on Morphine	SHORTFICTION	Gregory Benford
126	19	Game Night at the Fox & Goose	SHORTFICTION	Karen Joy Fowler
127	18	The Enormous Space	SHORTFICTION	J. G. Ballard
128	18	The Ends of the Earth	SHORTFICTION	Lucius Shepard
129	15	Unidentified Objects	SHORTFICTION	James P. Blaylock
130	15	The Part of Us That Loves	SHORTFICTION	Kim Stanley Robinson
131	15	Children of the Wind	SHORTFICTION	Kate Wilhelm
132	14	A Sleep and a Forgetting	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
133	14	The Steel Valentine	SHORTFICTION	Joe R. Lansdale
134	13	Prescience	SHORTFICTION	Pat Murphy
135	12	Alphas	SHORTFICTION	Gregory Benford
136	12	Listen	SHORTFICTION	Ian McDonald
137	12	The Sadness of Detail	SHORTFICTION	Jonathan Carroll
138	11	His Powder'd Wig, His Crown of Thornes	SHORTFICTION	Marc Laidlaw
139	11	Re: Generations	SHORTFICTION	Mike McQuay
140	10	Nanoware Time	SHORTFICTION	Ian Watson
141	10	Mosquito	SHORTFICTION	Richard Calder
142	10	The Sin-Eater of the Kaw	SHORTFICTION	Bradley Denton
143	9	Points of View	SHORTFICTION	Kathe Koja
144	8	Misbegotten	SHORTFICTION	Michael P. Kube-McDowell
145	8	Out of Copyright	SHORTFICTION	Charles Sheffield
146	7	Icicle Music	SHORTFICTION	Michael Bishop
147	7	Miss Carstairs and the Merman	SHORTFICTION	Delia Sherman
148	7	Useful Life	SHORTFICTION	Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
149	6	The Third Sex	SHORTFICTION	Alan Brennert
150	5	Snow Angels	SHORTFICTION	Michael Swanwick
151	5	Malheur Maar	SHORTFICTION	Vonda N. McIntyre
152	4	To the Promised Land	SHORTFICTION	Robert Silverberg
153	3	On the Wings of a Butterfly	SHORTFICTION	Michael F. Flynn
154	3	Faith	SHORTFICTION	James Patrick Kelly
155	3	Steam Engine Time	SHORTFICTION	Lewis Shiner
156	2	Solace	SHORTFICTION	Gardner Dozois
157	1	Skin Deep	SHORTFICTION	Kathe Koja
158	1	Dancing with the Chairs	SHORTFICTION	James Patrick Kelly
159	1	Kaddish	SHORTFICTION	Jack Dann
160	1	What Befell Mairiam	SHORTFICTION	Algis Budrys

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