Highest Ranked Non-Fiction published in 1979

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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	100	The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: An Illustrated A to Z	NONFICTION	Peter Nicholls
2	92	The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction	NONFICTION	Ursula K. Le Guin
3	80	Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials	NONFICTION	Wayne Barlowe and Ian Summers
4	70	In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954	NONFICTION	Isaac Asimov
5	60	The Flight of Dragons	NONFICTION	Peter Dickinson
6	58	Wonderworks	NONFICTION	Frank Kelly Freas and Polly Freas and Michael Whelan
7	53	Giger's Alien: Film Design, 20th Century Fox	NONFICTION	H. R. Giger
8	50	Civilisation et divagations : mort, fantasmes, science-fiction	NONFICTION	Louis-Vincent Thomas
9	35	The Book of Fairies	NONFICTION	Beatrice Phillpotts
10	30	A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction	NONFICTION	Michael Franklin and Martin Last and Beth Meacham and Baird Searles
11	30	Alien Landscapes	NONFICTION	Malcolm Edwards and Robert Holdstock
12	29	Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors: A Bibliography of First Printings of Their Fiction and Selected Nonfiction	NONFICTION	L. W. Currey
13	28	The World of Science Fiction: 1926-1976: The History of a Subculture	NONFICTION	Lester del Rey
14	27	The 80s: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade, 1980-1989	NONFICTION	Christopher Cerf and Peter Elbling and Tony Hendra
15	26	Giants	NONFICTION	David Larkin and Sarah Teale
16	25	Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist, 1700-1974, with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II	NONFICTION	Robert Reginald
17	24	The Art of the Brothers Hildebrandt	NONFICTION	Greg Hildebrandt and Tim Hildebrandt and Ian Summers
18	24	Fantasy Literature	NONFICTION	Robert H. Boyer and Marshall B. Tymn and Kenneth J. Zahorski
19	21	More Fantasy by Fabian: The Art of Stephen E. Fabian	NONFICTION	Gerry de la Ree and Stephen Fabian
20	19	The Literature of Fantasy: A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography of Modern Fantasy Fiction	NONFICTION	Roger C. Schlobin

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