: Some recent awards are yet to be integrated into the database.
: 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 |
100 |
1979 |
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: An Illustrated A to Z |
NONFICTION |
Peter Nicholls
|
| 2 |
100 |
1975 |
Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction |
NONFICTION |
James E. Gunn
|
| 3 |
92 |
1979 |
The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction |
NONFICTION |
Ursula K. Le Guin
|
| 4 |
80 |
1979 |
Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials |
NONFICTION |
Wayne Barlowe and Ian Summers
|
| 5 |
76 |
1978 |
The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends |
NONFICTION |
Humphrey Carpenter
|
| 6 |
70 |
1979 |
In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954 |
NONFICTION |
Isaac Asimov
|
| 7 |
64 |
1975 |
Lovecraft: A Biography |
NONFICTION |
L. Sprague de Camp
|
| 8 |
60 |
1979 |
The Flight of Dragons |
NONFICTION |
Peter Dickinson
|
| 9 |
60 |
1975 |
Lovecraft at Last |
NONFICTION |
Willis Conover and H. P. Lovecraft
|
| 10 |
58 |
1979 |
Wonderworks |
NONFICTION |
Frank Kelly Freas and Polly Freas and Michael Whelan
|
| 11 |
57 |
1977 |
H. R. Giger's Necronomicon |
NONFICTION |
H. R. Giger
|
| 12 |
53 |
1979 |
Giger's Alien: Film Design, 20th Century Fox |
NONFICTION |
H. R. Giger
|
| 13 |
51 |
1975 |
A History of the Hugo, Nebula, and International Fantasy Awards |
NONFICTION |
Howard DeVore and Donald Franson
|
| 14 |
50 |
1979 |
Civilisation et divagations : mort, fantasmes, science-fiction |
NONFICTION |
Louis-Vincent Thomas
|
| 15 |
50 |
1978 |
The Way the Future Was: A Memoir |
NONFICTION |
Frederik Pohl
|
| 16 |
50 |
1978 |
L'art hyperréaliste fantastique de Wojtek Siudmak |
NONFICTION |
Wojtek Siudmak
|
| 17 |
50 |
1978 |
Tomorrow and Beyond: Masterpieces of Science Fiction Art |
NONFICTION |
Ian Summers
|
| 18 |
50 |
1976 |
A Wealth of Fable: An Informal History of Science Fiction Fandom in the 1950s |
NONFICTION |
Harry Warner, Jr.
|
| 19 |
50 |
1976 |
A Pictorial History of Science Fiction |
NONFICTION |
David A. Kyle
|
| 20 |
50 |
1975 |
Charles W. S. Williams: A Checklist |
NONFICTION |
Lois Glenn
|
| 21 |
50 |
1974 |
C. S. Lewis: A Biography |
NONFICTION |
Walter Hooper and Roger Lancelyn Green
|
| 22 |
50 |
1973 |
Billion Year Spree |
NONFICTION |
Brian W. Aldiss
|
| 23 |
50 |
1973 |
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christian |
NONFICTION |
Kathryn Lindskoog
|
| 24 |
50 |
1972 |
Master of Middle-Earth |
NONFICTION |
Paul H. Kocher
|
| 25 |
50 |
1972 |
Encyclopédie de l'utopie des voyages extraordinaires et de la science fiction |
NONFICTION |
Pierre Versins
|
| 26 |
50 |
1970 |
Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist |
NONFICTION |
Richard C. West
|
| 27 |
35 |
1979 |
The Book of Fairies |
NONFICTION |
Beatrice Phillpotts
|
| 28 |
35 |
1978 |
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1968, Volume 2: Who's Who, M-Z |
NONFICTION |
Donald H. Tuck
|
| 29 |
35 |
1978 |
Faeries |
NONFICTION |
Brian Froud and David Larkin and Alan Lee
|
| 30 |
35 |
1975 |
Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside |
NONFICTION |
Frank Belknap Long
|
| 31 |
35 |
1975 |
Science Fiction Art |
NONFICTION |
Brian W. Aldiss
|
| 32 |
35 |
1975 |
In Search of Frankenstein |
NONFICTION |
Radu Florescu
|
| 33 |
30 |
1979 |
A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction |
NONFICTION |
Michael Franklin and Martin Last and Beth Meacham and Baird Searles
|
| 34 |
30 |
1979 |
Alien Landscapes |
NONFICTION |
Malcolm Edwards and Robert Holdstock
|
| 35 |
30 |
1978 |
Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections |
NONFICTION |
William G. Contento
|
| 36 |
30 |
1975 |
The Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta |
NONFICTION |
Frank Frazetta
|
| 37 |
29 |
1979 |
Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography of First Printings of Their Fiction and Selected Nonfiction |
NONFICTION |
L. W. Currey
|
| 38 |
29 |
1978 |
The Science Fiction and Heroic Fantasy Author Index |
NONFICTION |
Stuart W. Wells, III
|
| 39 |
29 |
1978 |
The Fantastic Art of Boris Vallejo |
NONFICTION |
Boris Vallejo
|
| 40 |
28 |
1979 |
The World of Science Fiction: 1926-1976: The History of a Subculture |
NONFICTION |
Lester del Rey
|
| 41 |
28 |
1978 |
Fantasms: A Bibliography of the Literature of Jack Vance |
NONFICTION |
Daniel J. H. Levack and Tim Underwood
|
| 42 |
28 |
1975 |
Hell's Cartographers: Some Personal Histories of Science Fiction Writers |
NONFICTION |
Brian W. Aldiss and Harry Harrison
|
| 43 |
27 |
1979 |
The 80s: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade, 1980-1989 |
NONFICTION |
Christopher Cerf and Peter Elbling and Tony Hendra
|
| 44 |
27 |
1978 |
21st Century Foss |
NONFICTION |
Chris Foss
|
| 45 |
27 |
1978 |
Alicia Austin's Age of Dreams |
NONFICTION |
Alicia Austin
|
| 46 |
26 |
1979 |
Giants |
NONFICTION |
David Larkin and Sarah Teale
|
| 47 |
26 |
1978 |
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |
NONFICTION |
Robert Holdstock
|
| 48 |
26 |
1978 |
The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth: From the Hobbit to the Silmarillion |
NONFICTION |
Robert Foster (author)
|
| 49 |
26 |
1975 |
Fantastic Science-Fiction Art, 1926-1954 |
NONFICTION |
Lester del Rey
|
| 50 |
25 |
1979 |
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist, 1700-1974, with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II |
NONFICTION |
Robert Reginald
|
| 51 |
25 |
1978 |
The International Science Fiction Yearbook 1979 |
NONFICTION |
Colin Lester
|
| 52 |
24 |
1979 |
Fantasy Literature |
NONFICTION |
Robert H. Boyer and Marshall B. Tymn and Kenneth J. Zahorski
|
| 53 |
24 |
1979 |
The Art of the Brothers Hildebrandt |
NONFICTION |
Greg Hildebrandt and Tim Hildebrandt and Ian Summers
|
| 54 |
24 |
1978 |
The Hills of Faraway: A Guide to Fantasy |
NONFICTION |
Diana Waggoner
|
| 55 |
24 |
1978 |
Fantasy by Fabian: The Art of Stephen E. Fabian |
NONFICTION |
Gerry de la Ree and Stephen Fabian
|
| 56 |
24 |
1975 |
Philip K. Dick: Electric Shepherd |
NONFICTION |
Bruce Gillespie
|
| 57 |
23 |
1978 |
The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch — Angouleme |
NONFICTION |
Samuel R. Delany
|
| 58 |
23 |
1978 |
Frank Frazetta, Book Three |
NONFICTION |
Betty Ballantine and Frank Frazetta
|
| 59 |
23 |
1975 |
Structural Fabulation: An Essay on Fiction of the Future |
NONFICTION |
Robert Scholes
|
| 60 |
22 |
1978 |
Speaking of Science Fiction |
NONFICTION |
Paul Walker
|
| 61 |
22 |
1978 |
The Second Book of Virgil Finlay |
NONFICTION |
Gerry de la Ree and Virgil Finlay
|
| 62 |
22 |
1975 |
The Science Fiction Book |
NONFICTION |
Franz Rottensteiner
|
| 63 |
21 |
1979 |
More Fantasy by Fabian: The Art of Stephen E. Fabian |
NONFICTION |
Gerry de la Ree and Stephen Fabian
|
| 64 |
21 |
1977 |
The Flights of Icarus |
NONFICTION |
Martyn Dean and Roger Dean and Donald Lehmkuhl
|
| 65 |
21 |
1975 |
SFBRI: Science Fiction Book Review Index, Volume 5, 1974 |
NONFICTION |
Hal W. Hall
|
| 66 |
20 |
1978 |
Beauty and the Beast: A Collection of Heroic Fantasy Illustrations |
NONFICTION |
Chris Achilleos
|
| 67 |
19 |
1979 |
The Literature of Fantasy: A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography of Modern Fantasy Fiction |
NONFICTION |
Roger C. Schlobin
|
