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Highest Ranked Collections of the 1980s

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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
1 149 1987 The Essential Ellison COLLECTION Harlan Ellison
2 135 1988 Angry Candy COLLECTION Harlan Ellison
3 121 1989 Richard Matheson: Collected Stories COLLECTION Richard Matheson
4 120 1980 Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth COLLECTION J. R. R. Tolkien
5 110 1988 Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories COLLECTION Charles Beaumont
6 105 1980 Writing for the Twilight Zone COLLECTION George Clayton Johnson
7 100 1987 The Jaguar Hunter COLLECTION Lucius Shepard
8 100 1983 Unicorn Variations COLLECTION Roger Zelazny
9 100 1982 The Compass Rose COLLECTION Ursula K. Le Guin
10 92 1989 By Bizarre Hands COLLECTION Joe R. Lansdale
11 88 1987 Why Not You and I? COLLECTION Karl Edward Wagner
12 87 1989 Blue World and Other Stories COLLECTION Robert R. McCammon
13 86 1986 Merlin's Booke COLLECTION Jane Yolen
14 85 1989 Patterns COLLECTION Pat Cadigan
15 85 1988 The Blood Kiss COLLECTION Dennis Etchison
16 85 1987 Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death COLLECTION Ramsey Campbell
17 85 1985 Skeleton Crew COLLECTION Stephen King
18 85 1983 The McAndrew Chronicles COLLECTION Charles Sheffield
19 84 1989 The Brains of Rats COLLECTION Michael Blumlein
20 77 1984 The Years of the City COLLECTION Frederik Pohl
21 76 1984 Daughter of Regals and Other Tales COLLECTION Stephen R. Donaldson
22 75 1982 Nifft the Lean COLLECTION Michael Shea
23 70 1987 Le temps des migrations COLLECTION Francine Pelletier
24 70 1987 Le traversier COLLECTION Esther Rochon
25 70 1984 Viriconium Nights COLLECTION M. John Harrison
26 70 1983 Red As Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer COLLECTION Tanith Lee
27 70 1980 Shatterday COLLECTION Harlan Ellison
28 67 1986 Tales of the Quintana Roo COLLECTION James Tiptree, Jr.
29 65 1989 Tangents COLLECTION Greg Bear
30 65 1988 The Knight and Knave of Swords COLLECTION Fritz Leiber
31 65 1982 Stalking the Nightmare COLLECTION Harlan Ellison
32 64 1982 Different Seasons COLLECTION Stephen King
33 63 1984 Melancholy Elephants COLLECTION Spider Robinson
34 59 1989 Novelty COLLECTION John Crowley
35 59 1987 Night's Sorceries COLLECTION Tanith Lee
36 59 1986 Artificial Things COLLECTION Karen Joy Fowler
37 59 1981 The Woman Who Loved the Moon and Other Stories COLLECTION Elizabeth A. Lynn
38 58 1987 Polyphemus COLLECTION Michael Shea
39 57 1988 The Toynbee Convector COLLECTION Ray Bradbury
40 56 1984 The Fire When It Comes COLLECTION Parke Godwin
41 54 1986 Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee COLLECTION Tanith Lee
42 51 1985 Dragonfield and Other Stories COLLECTION Jane Yolen
43 50 1989 Somewhere in the Night COLLECTION Jeffrey N. McMahan
44 50 1988 Storeys from the Old Hotel COLLECTION Gene Wolfe
45 50 1988 The Return of the Shadow COLLECTION Christopher Tolkien and J. R. R. Tolkien
46 50 1986 Blue Champagne COLLECTION John Varley
47 50 1986
Весна света?Vesna sveta
 COLLECTION
Виктор Колупаев?Viktor Kolupaev
48 50 1986
プリズム?Purizumu
 COLLECTION
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
49 50 1985 Le commerce des mondes COLLECTION Charles Dobzynski
50 50 1984 Bibliomen COLLECTION Gene Wolfe
51 50 1984 The Ghost Light COLLECTION Fritz Leiber
52 50 1983 High Spirits COLLECTION Robertson Davies
53 50 1982 Nightmare Seasons COLLECTION Charles L. Grant
54 50 1981 Sandkings COLLECTION George R. R. Martin
55 50 1980 The Barbie Murders COLLECTION John Varley
56 50 1980 Vue en coupe d'une ville malade COLLECTION Serge Brussolo
57 46 1987 Blood and Water and Other Tales COLLECTION Patrick McGrath
58 45 1988 Busy About the Tree of Life and Other Stories COLLECTION Pamela Zoline
59 35 1989 Walking Water / After All This COLLECTION Thom Nickels
60 35 1989 Crystal Express COLLECTION Bruce Sterling
61 35 1989 Soft and Others COLLECTION F. Paul Wilson
62 35 1988 La plage des songes et autres récits d'exil COLLECTION
Stanley Péan?Stanley Pean
63 35 1988
Поселок?Poselok
 COLLECTION
Кир Булычев?Kir Bulychev
64 35 1988 188 contes à régler COLLECTION Jacques Sternberg
65 35 1988 Crown of Stars COLLECTION James Tiptree, Jr.
66 35 1988 Scare Tactics COLLECTION John Farris
67 35 1988 Machine Sex and Other Stories COLLECTION Candas Jane Dorsey
68 35 1988 In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World COLLECTION Virginia Hamilton
69 35 1987 Midnight Pleasures COLLECTION Robert Bloch
70 35 1987 Historias de política ficción COLLECTION Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
71 35 1986 Burning Chrome COLLECTION William Gibson
72 35 1985 Landscape with Landscape COLLECTION Gerald Murnane
73 35 1985 Black Venus COLLECTION Angela Carter
74 35 1985 Fire Watch COLLECTION Connie Willis
75 35 1984 The Songbirds of Pain COLLECTION Garry Kilworth
76 35 1984 Pohlstars COLLECTION Frederik Pohl
77 35 1983 The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree COLLECTION Bill Brittain
78 35 1983 The Book of Lost Tales: Part I COLLECTION J. R. R. Tolkien
79 35 1983 Tales of Wonder COLLECTION Jane Yolen
80 35 1982 The Dark Country COLLECTION Dennis Etchison
81 35 1982 Graven Images COLLECTION Paul Fleischman
82 35 1982 The Last Incantation COLLECTION Clark Ashton Smith
83 35 1982 Majipoor Chronicles COLLECTION Robert Silverberg
84 35 1981 Circus World COLLECTION Barry B. Longyear
85 35 1981 The Door in the Hedge COLLECTION Robin McKinley
86 35 1981 Tales from the Nightside COLLECTION Charles L. Grant
87 35 1981 Gene Wolfe's Book of Days COLLECTION Gene Wolfe
88 35 1981 Mysteries of the Worm COLLECTION Robert Bloch
89 35 1981 The City of the Singing Flame COLLECTION Clark Ashton Smith
90 35 1981 Creep to Death COLLECTION Joseph Payne Brennan
91 30 1987 The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volumes I-V COLLECTION Philip K. Dick
92 30 1986 Howard Who? COLLECTION Howard Waldrop
93 30 1985 Limits COLLECTION Larry Niven
94 30 1984 Tamastara, or The Indian Nights COLLECTION Tanith Lee
95 30 1983 The Sentinel COLLECTION Arthur C. Clarke
96 30 1981 Sunfall COLLECTION C. J. Cherryh
97 30 1980 The Last Defender of Camelot COLLECTION Roger Zelazny
98 29 1989 The Folk of the Fringe COLLECTION Orson Scott Card
99 29 1988 Other Americas COLLECTION Norman Spinrad
100 29 1987 And the Gods Laughed COLLECTION Fredric Brown
101 29 1986 Visible Light COLLECTION C. J. Cherryh
102 29 1985 Nightflyers COLLECTION George R. R. Martin
103 29 1984 Extra(ordinary) People COLLECTION Joanna Russ
104 29 1983 The Wind from a Burning Woman COLLECTION Greg Bear
105 29 1981 Particle Theory COLLECTION Edward Bryant
106 29 1980 The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories COLLECTION Gene Wolfe
107 28 1989 Borders of Infinity COLLECTION Lois McMaster Bujold
108 28 1989 Endangered Species COLLECTION Gene Wolfe
109 28 1988 John the Balladeer COLLECTION Manly Wade Wellman
110 28 1986 Tuf Voyaging COLLECTION George R. R. Martin
111 28 1984 One Winter in Eden COLLECTION Michael Bishop
112 28 1983 The Zanzibar Cat COLLECTION Joanna Russ
113 28 1982 Dilvish, the Damned COLLECTION Roger Zelazny
114 28 1981 Lord Darcy Investigates COLLECTION Randall Garrett
115 27 1988 Empire Dreams COLLECTION Ian McDonald
116 27 1987 Portraits of His Children COLLECTION George R. R. Martin
117 27 1986 The River of Time COLLECTION David Brin
118 27 1983 Hoka! COLLECTION Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson
119 27 1982 Blooded on Arachne COLLECTION Michael Bishop
120 27 1981 Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions COLLECTION James Tiptree, Jr.
121 27 1980 The Stories of Ray Bradbury COLLECTION Ray Bradbury
122 26 1989 Frost and Fire COLLECTION Roger Zelazny
123 26 1987 Cardography COLLECTION Orson Scott Card
124 26 1986 Callahan's Secret COLLECTION Spider Robinson
125 26 1985 The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales COLLECTION Tanith Lee
126 26 1983 The 57th Franz Kafka COLLECTION Rudy Rucker
127 26 1982 The Complete Robot COLLECTION Isaac Asimov
128 26 1981 Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories COLLECTION Orson Scott Card
129 26 1980 Expanded Universe: The New Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein COLLECTION Robert A. Heinlein
130 25 1989 Escape from Kathmandu COLLECTION Kim Stanley Robinson
131 25 1987 Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences COLLECTION Ursula K. Le Guin
132 25 1986 Robot Dreams COLLECTION Isaac Asimov
133 25 1985 Slow Birds and Other Stories COLLECTION Ian Watson
134 25 1984 Rhialto the Marvellous COLLECTION Jack Vance
135 25 1983 The Saint-Germain Chronicles COLLECTION Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
136 25 1983 Midas World COLLECTION Frederik Pohl
137 25 1981 Paratime COLLECTION H. Beam Piper
138 25 1980 Antinomy COLLECTION Spider Robinson
139 24 1988 Memories of the Space Age COLLECTION J. G. Ballard
140 24 1985 Dealing in Futures COLLECTION Joe Haldeman
141 24 1984 Utopia Hunters COLLECTION S. P. Somtow
142 24 1982 The Best of Randall Garrett COLLECTION Randall Garrett
143 24 1980 Fundamental Disch COLLECTION Thomas M. Disch
144 23 1989 Heatseeker COLLECTION John Shirley
145 23 1988 The Day the Martians Came COLLECTION Frederik Pohl
146 23 1986 The Planet on the Table COLLECTION Kim Stanley Robinson
147 23 1985 I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon COLLECTION Philip K. Dick
148 23 1984 Is That What People Do? COLLECTION Robert Sheckley
149 23 1983 The Worlds of H. Beam Piper COLLECTION H. Beam Piper
150 23 1982 The Man Who Had No Idea COLLECTION Thomas M. Disch
151 23 1981 Listen, Listen COLLECTION Kate Wilhelm
152 23 1980 Out There Where the Big Ships Go COLLECTION Richard Cowper
153 22 1987 True Names ... and Other Dangers COLLECTION Vernor Vinge
154 22 1986 In Alien Flesh COLLECTION Gregory Benford
155 22 1985 Anthonology COLLECTION Piers Anthony
156 22 1984 Red Dreams COLLECTION Dennis Etchison
157 22 1983 Sector General COLLECTION James White
158 22 1982 Avram Davidson: Collected Fantasies COLLECTION Avram Davidson
159 22 1981 Distant Stars COLLECTION Samuel R. Delany
160 22 1980 The Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr. COLLECTION Walter M. Miller, Jr.
161 21 1988 Dance Band on the Titanic COLLECTION Jack L. Chalker
162 21 1987 A Touch of Sturgeon COLLECTION Theodore Sturgeon
163 21 1986 The Starry Rift COLLECTION James Tiptree, Jr.
164 21 1985 Byte Beautiful: Eight Science Fiction Stories COLLECTION James Tiptree, Jr.
165 21 1983 The Winds of Change and Other Stories COLLECTION Isaac Asimov
166 21 1982 Best of Beaumont COLLECTION Charles Beaumont
167 21 1981 Winners COLLECTION Poul Anderson
168 21 1980 Lost Dorsai COLLECTION Gordon R. Dickson
169 20 1989 Children of the Wind COLLECTION Kate Wilhelm
170 20 1988 The Best of John Brunner COLLECTION John Brunner
171 20 1987 The Bridge of Lost Desire COLLECTION Samuel R. Delany
172 20 1986 Close Encounters with the Deity COLLECTION Michael Bishop
173 20 1985 Phoenix in the Ashes COLLECTION Joan D. Vinge
174 20 1982 Myths of the Near Future COLLECTION J. G. Ballard
175 20 1981 The Best of John Sladek COLLECTION John Sladek
176 19 1989 The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov! COLLECTION Isaac Asimov
177 19 1988 Threats ... and Other Promises COLLECTION Vernor Vinge
178 19 1987 The Best of Pamela Sargent COLLECTION Pamela Sargent
179 19 1985 Flight from Nevèrÿon COLLECTION Samuel R. Delany
180 19 1984 Seasons in Flight COLLECTION Brian W. Aldiss
181 19 1984 Ringing Changes COLLECTION R. A. Lafferty
182 19 1981 Father to the Stars COLLECTION Philip José Farmer
183 19 1980 The Golden Man COLLECTION Philip K. Dick
184 18 1989 Wizards' Worlds COLLECTION Andre Norton
185 18 1988 The Book of the Damned COLLECTION Tanith Lee
186 18 1987 Nerilka's Story & The Coelura COLLECTION Anne McCaffrey
187 18 1986 Cascade Point and Other Stories COLLECTION Timothy Zahn
188 18 1985 The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley COLLECTION Marion Zimmer Bradley
189 18 1982 Golden Gate and Other Stories COLLECTION R. A. Lafferty
190 18 1982 Erasmus Magister COLLECTION Charles Sheffield
191 18 1981 Hidden Variables COLLECTION Charles Sheffield
192 18 1980 Lore of the Witch World COLLECTION Andre Norton
193 17 1988 Minds, Machines and Evolution COLLECTION James P. Hogan
194 17 1987 Getting Home COLLECTION F. M. Busby
195 17 1984 Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick COLLECTION Philip K. Dick
196 17 1983 Fire from the Wine Dark Sea COLLECTION S. P. Somtow
197 17 1982 Maurai & Kith COLLECTION Poul Anderson
198 17 1981 Far from Home COLLECTION Walter Tevis
199 17 1980 Wave Rider COLLECTION Hilbert Schenck
200 16 1989 The Old Funny Stuff COLLECTION George Alec Effinger
201 16 1987 Evil Water and Other Stories COLLECTION Ian Watson
202 16 1987 Final Reckonings COLLECTION Robert Bloch
203 16 1984 The Lunatics of Terra COLLECTION John Sladek
204 16 1982 The Worlds of George O. COLLECTION George O. Smith
205 16 1981 A Life in the Day of ... and Other Short Stories COLLECTION Frank M. Robinson
206 16 1980 The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady COLLECTION Barry N. Malzberg
207 15 1989 Women As Demons COLLECTION Tanith Lee
208 15 1986 Beyond the Safe Zone COLLECTION Robert Silverberg
209 15 1985 Beastmarks COLLECTION A. A. Attanasio
210 15 1984 Signs & Portents COLLECTION Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
211 15 1982 Soldier Boy COLLECTION Michael Shaara
212 15 1981 Time Travelers Strictly Cash COLLECTION Spider Robinson
213 15 1980 Manifest Destiny COLLECTION Barry B. Longyear
214 14 1988 The Hidden Side of the Moon COLLECTION Joanna Russ
215 14 1987 Chance and Other Gestures of the Hand of Fate COLLECTION Nancy Springer
216 14 1986 Retief in the Ruins COLLECTION Keith Laumer
217 14 1985 Eye COLLECTION Frank Herbert
218 14 1984 The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party COLLECTION Robert Silverberg
219 14 1981 Federation COLLECTION H. Beam Piper
220 14 1980 The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton COLLECTION Mark Clifton
221 13 1989 Salvage Rites and Other Stories COLLECTION Ian Watson
222 13 1989 Antique Dust COLLECTION Robert Westall
223 13 1988 Time Bomb and Zahndry Others COLLECTION Timothy Zahn
224 13 1985 The Book of Ian Watson COLLECTION Ian Watson
225 13 1984 Watchers at the Strait Gate COLLECTION Russell Kirk
226 13 1981 A Glow of Candles and Other Stories COLLECTION Charles L. Grant
227 12 1988 A Rendezvous in Averoigne COLLECTION Clark Ashton Smith
228 12 1986 Kaeti & Company COLLECTION Keith Roberts
229 12 1985 Trinity and Other Stories COLLECTION Nancy Kress
230 12 1984 The Opium General and Other Stories COLLECTION Michael Moorcock
231 9 1988 Best SF Stories of Brian W. Aldiss COLLECTION Brian W. Aldiss
232 8 1988 The Wine-Dark Sea COLLECTION Robert Aickman
233 1 1982 New America COLLECTION Poul Anderson
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