Highest Ranked Non-Fiction published in 1996

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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	180	H. P. Lovecraft: A Life	NONFICTION	S. T. Joshi
2	100	The Tough Guide to Fantasyland	NONFICTION	Diana Wynne Jones
3	85	Time & Chance: An Autobiography	NONFICTION	L. Sprague de Camp
4	63	The Faces of Fantasy	NONFICTION	Patti Perret
5	56	St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers	NONFICTION	David Pringle
6	51	Spectrum III: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art	NONFICTION	Arnie Fenner and Cathy Fenner and Jim Loehr
7	50	トンデモ本の逆襲?Tondemo Hon no Gyakushū Tondemo Hon no Gyakushuu Tondemo Hon no Gyakushu トンデモほんのぎゃくしゅう	NONFICTION	と学会?Togakkai
8	35	Le feu aux étoiles	NONFICTION	Thomas Day
9	35	Conan: Guía de la era Hiboria	NONFICTION	Juan Carlos García Herranz and Eugenio Sánchez Arrate
10	35	The Hammer Story	NONFICTION	Alan Barnes and Marcus Hearn
11	35	The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: The Definitive Illustrated Guide	NONFICTION	David Pringle
12	35	Dreams and Wishes: Essays on Writing for Children	NONFICTION	Susan Cooper
13	30	Something in My Eye: Excursions into Fear	NONFICTION	Arnie Fenner and Cathy Fenner and Michael Whelan
14	30	Neurotica: The Darkest Art of J. K. Potter	NONFICTION	J. K. Potter
15	30	The World of Edward Gorey	NONFICTION	Edward Gorey and Clifford Ross and Karen Wilkin
16	29	Outposts: Literatures of Milieux	NONFICTION	Algis Budrys
17	29	The Silence of the Langford	NONFICTION	David Langford
18	28	H. R. Giger's Film Design	NONFICTION	H. R. Giger
19	27	Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany	NONFICTION	James Sallis
20	27	Maxfield Parrish: A Retrospective	NONFICTION	Judy Goffman Cutler and Laurence S. Cutler and Maxfield Parrish
21	26	Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography	NONFICTION	Herbert R. Lottman
22	24	A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft	NONFICTION	S. T. Joshi
23	24	Star Trek: Treinta años de aventura	NONFICTION	Miguel Abadía and Margarida Araya and María Jesús Banús and Teresa Banús and Kevin González and Rubén Ortiz and María Ángeles Villar
24	1	James Blish: Author Mirabilis	NONFICTION	Phil Stephensen-Payne
25	1	The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark	NONFICTION	Carl Sagan
26	1	Aliens and Alien Societies	NONFICTION	Stanley Schmidt
27	1	Inside Star Trek: The Real Story	NONFICTION	Robert H. Justman and Herbert F. Solow

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