Highest Ranked Non-Fiction published in 1981

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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	220	Stephen King's Danse Macabre	NONFICTION	Stephen King
2	65	The Art of Leo & Diane Dillon	NONFICTION	Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon and Byron Preiss
3	63	Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction, Second Edition	NONFICTION	Neil Barron
4	58	After Man	NONFICTION	Dougal Dixon
5	58	The Grand Tour	NONFICTION	William K. Hartmann and Ron Miller
6	49	Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien	NONFICTION	J. R. R. Tolkien
7	27	PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography	NONFICTION	Steven Owen Godersky and Daniel J. H. Levack
8	26	The Science Fiction Reference Book	NONFICTION	Marshall B. Tymn
9	25	The Tanelorn Archives: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Works of Michael Moorcock 1949-1979	NONFICTION	Richard Bilyeu
10	24	Creating Short Fiction	NONFICTION	Damon Knight
11	23	Virgil Finlay Remembered: The Seventh Book of Virgil Finlay	NONFICTION	Gerry de la Ree and Virgil Finlay
12	22	Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers	NONFICTION	Curtis C. Smith
13	21	Earthwatch	NONFICTION	Charles Sheffield
14	20	Horror Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide	NONFICTION	Marshall B. Tymn
15	19	Fantastic Lives: Autobiographical Essays by Notable Science Fiction Writers	NONFICTION	Martin H. Greenberg
16	18	Twentieth-Century American Science Fiction Writers	NONFICTION	David Cowart and Thomas L. Wymer
17	17	H. P. Lovecraft and Lovecraft Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography	NONFICTION	S. T. Joshi
18	16	Index to the Science Fiction Magazines: 1980	NONFICTION	Jerry Boyajian and Kenneth R. Johnson
19	15	The Dinosaurs	NONFICTION	William Service and William Stout
20	13	A Reference Guide to American Science Fiction Films	NONFICTION	Forrest J. Ackerman and A. W. Strickland
21	12	Index to the Science Fiction Magazines: 1979	NONFICTION	Jerry Boyajian and Kenneth R. Johnson

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