Highest Ranked Non-Fiction published in 1990

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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	130	The Weird Tale	NONFICTION	S. T. Joshi
2	115	How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy	NONFICTION	Orson Scott Card
3	91	Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage and Screen	NONFICTION	David J. Skal
4	86	Grumbles from the Grave	NONFICTION	Robert A. Heinlein
5	70	The Pattern in the Web: The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams	NONFICTION	Roma A. King, Jr.
6	70	A Purgatorial Flame: Seven British Writers in the Second World War	NONFICTION	Sebastian D. G. Knowles
7	65	Science Fiction in the Real World	NONFICTION	Norman Spinrad
8	58	C. S. Lewis: A Biography	NONFICTION	A. N. Wilson
9	56	Bury My Heart at W. H. Smith's	NONFICTION	Brian W. Aldiss
10	50	SFハンドブック?SF Handobukku Esu Efu Handobukku	NONFICTION	早川書房編集部?はやかわしょぼうへんしゅうぶ Hayakawa Shobō Henshūbu Hayakawa Shobou Henshuubu
11	50	Enciklopedija naučne fantastike 1 A - LJ?Enciklopedija nauchne fantastike 1 A - LJ Enciklopedija naucne fantastike 1 A - LJ	NONFICTION	Zoran Živković?Zoran Zivkovic
12	50	Dark Dreamers: Conversations with the Masters of Horror	NONFICTION	Stanley Wiater
13	50	L'Année 1989 du Polar, de la S. F., du Fantastique et de l'Espionnage	NONFICTION	Jean-Claude Alizet
14	50	Le prisonnier: chef-d'œuvre télévisionnaire?Le prisonnier: chef-d'oeuvre televisionnaire	NONFICTION	Alain Carrazé and Hélène Oswald
15	35	Vampires Among Us	NONFICTION	Rosemary Ellen Guiley
16	35	Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide	NONFICTION	Neil Barron
17	35	Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive-In	NONFICTION	Joe Bob Briggs
18	35	Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the A.D. 2358 Voyage to Darwin IV	NONFICTION	Wayne Barlowe
19	31	The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction	NONFICTION	David Pringle
20	30	Science Fiction Writers of America Handbook	NONFICTION	Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith
21	26	Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1989	NONFICTION	Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento
22	24	Mark Harrison's Dreamlands	NONFICTION	Mark Harrison and Lisa Tuttle
23	23	The Connecticut Yankee in the Twentieth Century: Travel to the Past in Science Fiction	NONFICTION	Bud Foote
24	23	The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana	NONFICTION	J. Neil Schulman
25	21	Don't Tell the Grown-Ups	NONFICTION	Alison Lurie
26	20	Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction: The Formative Period (1926-1970)	NONFICTION	Thomas D. Clareson
27	19	Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror: 1984	NONFICTION	Charles N. Brown and William G. Contento

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