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Highest Ranked Non-Fiction published in 2009

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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
1 121 Cheek by Jowl NONFICTION Ursula K. Le Guin
2 114 The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms NONFICTION Helen Merrick
3 100
日本SF精神史 幕末・明治から戦後まで?Nihon SF Seishinshi: Bakumatsu-Meiji kara Sengo made
にほんSFせいしんし ばくまつ・めいじからせんごまで
NONFICTION
長山靖生?ながやまやすお
Nagayama Yasuo
4 87 Canary Fever: Reviews NONFICTION John Clute
5 78 This Is Me, Jack Vance! (or, More Properly, This Is "I") NONFICTION Jack Vance
6 70 Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity Through the Renaissance NONFICTION Leslie A. Sconduto
7 70 Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion NONFICTION Douglas Charles Kane
8 57 Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King NONFICTION George Beahm
9 56 Hope-in-the-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees NONFICTION Michael Swanwick
10 55 The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction NONFICTION Farah Mendlesohn
11 50 W de Watchmen NONFICTION
Rafael Marín?Rafael Marin
12 50 L'encyclopédie de la fantasy NONFICTION Jacques Baudou
13 50 Échos de Cimmerie: hommage à Robert Ervin Howard, 1906-1936 NONFICTION Fabrice Tortey
14 50 Vampire God: The Allure of the Undead in Western Culture NONFICTION Mary Y. Hallab
15 50 Writers Workshop of Horror NONFICTION Michael Knost
16 36 A Short History of Fantasy NONFICTION Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn
17 36 Spectrum 16: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art NONFICTION Arnie Fenner and Cathy Fenner
18 35 Sexe ! : le trouble du héros NONFICTION Alexandre Mare
19 35 Les nombreuses vies de Cthulhu NONFICTION Patrick Marcel
20 35 Out of my Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman NONFICTION Don W. King
21 35 Stephen King: The Non-Fiction NONFICTION Justin Brooks and Rocky Wood
22 35 The Fantastic Horizon: Essays and Reviews NONFICTION Darrell Schweitzer
23 35 J. G. Ballard: El tiempo desolado NONFICTION Pablo Capanna
24 35 C. S. Lewis on the Final Frontier: Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy NONFICTION Sanford Schwartz
25 35 Fairy Tales: A New History NONFICTION Ruth B. Bottigheimer
26 31 C. M. Kornbluth: The Life and Works of a Science Fiction Visionary NONFICTION Mark Rich
27 30 Powers: Secret Histories: A Bibliography NONFICTION John Berlyne
28 30 Conversations with Octavia Butler NONFICTION Conseula Francis
29 30 Ensayos sobre ciencia ficción y literatura fantástica: Actas del Primer Congreso Internacional de literatura fantástica y ciencia ficción (1, 2008, Madrid) NONFICTION Teresa López Pellisa and Fernando Ángel Moreno
30 30 Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess NONFICTION Charles Vess
31 29 Cuando cantan las espadas: La fantasía heroica de Robert E. Howard NONFICTION Javier Martín Lalanda
32 28 On Joanna Russ NONFICTION Farah Mendlesohn
33 27 Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons NONFICTION Gahan Wilson
34 25 From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul NONFICTION Stephen D. Korshak and Frank R. Paul
35 24 Starcombing NONFICTION David Langford
36 20 The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction NONFICTION Mark Bould and Andrew M. Butler and Adam Roberts and Sherryl Vint
37 19 Imagination/Space: Essays and Talks on Fiction, Feminism, Technology, and Politics NONFICTION Gwyneth Jones
38 17 Sci-Fi Art: A Graphic History NONFICTION Stephen Holland
39 16 Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist NONFICTION James Gurney
40 15 Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary NONFICTION Jane Frank
41 13 Imaginaire II: Magic Realism 2010 NONFICTION Claus Brusen
42 1 Romancing the Vampire: From Past to Present NONFICTION David J. Skal
43 1 Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st-Century Writer NONFICTION Jeff VanderMeer
44 1 Other Spaces, Other Times: A Life Spent in the Future NONFICTION Robert Silverberg
45 1 Greasing the Pan: The "Best" of Paul T. Riddell NONFICTION Paul T. Riddell
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