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Most-Reviewed Titles of 1956

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Count Reviews Title Type Authors
1 34 The Stars My Destination NOVEL Alfred Bester
2 24 Double Star NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
3 20 The City and the Stars NOVEL Arthur C. Clarke
4 20 Under Pressure NOVEL Frank Herbert
5 20 The Death of Grass NOVEL John Christopher
6 20 In Search of Wonder NONFICTION Damon Knight
7 16 Time for the Stars NOVEL Robert A. Heinlein
8 16 The Shrinking Man NOVEL Richard Matheson
9 16 Nerves NOVEL Lester del Rey
10 12 The World Jones Made NOVEL Philip K. Dick
11 11 They Shall Have Stars NOVEL James Blish
12 11 Reach for Tomorrow COLLECTION Arthur C. Clarke
13 11 Sometime, Never ANTHOLOGY William Golding and Mervyn Peake and John Wyndham
14 10 The Power NOVEL Frank M. Robinson
15 10 The Winds of Time NOVEL Chad Oliver
16 10 To Live Forever NOVEL Jack Vance
17 10 Tomorrow's World NOVEL Evan Hunter
18 10 Strangers in the Universe COLLECTION Clifford D. Simak
19 10 Police Your Planet NOVEL Lester del Rey
20 9 Star Ways NOVEL Poul Anderson
21 9 The Pawns of Null-A NOVEL A. E. van Vogt
22 9 Alternating Currents COLLECTION Frederik Pohl
23 9 Aniara COLLECTION Harry Martinson
24 8 Highways in Hiding NOVEL George O. Smith
25 8 The Man Who Japed NOVEL Philip K. Dick
26 8 Three to Conquer NOVEL Eric Frank Russell
27 8 No Man Friday NOVEL Rex Gordon
28 8 S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy ANTHOLOGY Judith Merril
29 8 The Human Angle COLLECTION William Tenn
30 7 Plague Ship NOVEL Andre Norton
31 7 Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury NOVEL Isaac Asimov
32 7 The Exploration of Mars NONFICTION Wernher von Braun and Willy Ley
33 7 Forbidden Planet NOVEL Philip MacDonald
34 6 Escapement NOVEL Charles Eric Maine
35 6 High Vacuum NOVEL Charles Eric Maine
36 6 The Best Science-Fiction Stories and Novels: 1956 ANTHOLOGY T. E. Dikty
37 6 The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories ANTHOLOGY Ray Bradbury
38 6 Tales of Gooseflesh and Laughter COLLECTION John Wyndham
39 6 Jules Verne, Master of Science Fiction COLLECTION Jules Verne
40 6 The Complete Book of Space Travel NONFICTION Albro T. Gaul
41 6 The Secret People NOVEL Raymond F. Jones
42 5 Interplanetary Hunter NOVEL Arthur K. Barnes
43 5 Space Police ANTHOLOGY Andre Norton
44 5 Colonial Survey NOVEL Murray Leinster
45 5 The Search for Bridey Murphy NONFICTION Morey Bernstein
46 5 A Scientific Report on "The Search for Bridey Murphy" NONFICTION Milton V. Kline
47 5 Exploring Mars NONFICTION Roy A. Gallant
48 5 They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers NONFICTION Gray Barker
49 5 The Twenty-Seventh Day NOVEL John Mantley
50 5 The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects NONFICTION Edward J. Ruppelt
51 4 Undersea Fleet NOVEL Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
52 4 Planet of No Return SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
53 4 The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fifth Series ANTHOLOGY Anthony Boucher
54 4 Two Rubles to Times Square NOVEL Guy Richards
55 4 Islands of Space NOVEL John W. Campbell, Jr.
56 4 Satellite! NONFICTION William Beller and Erik Bergaust
57 4 Kommt ein Mädchen geflogen NOVEL Henry Winterfeld
58 4 The Mars Monopoly NOVEL Jerry Sohl
59 4 Forbidden Area NOVEL Pat Frank
60 3 The Crossroads of Time NOVEL Andre Norton
61 3 Alien from Arcturus NOVEL Gordon R. Dickson
62 3 Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint NOVEL Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams
63 3 Contraband Rocket NOVEL G. Harry Stine
64 3 Heller als tausend Sonnen: Das Schicksal der Atomforscher NONFICTION Robert Jungk
65 3 Edgar Rice Burroughs Biblio: Materials toward a Bibliography of the Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs NONFICTION Bradford M. Day
66 3 The End of the World ANTHOLOGY Donald A. Wollheim
67 3 Flying Saucers and Common Sense NONFICTION Waveney Girvan
68 3 The Unknown, Is It Nearer? NONFICTION Eric J. Dingwall and John Langdon-Davies
69 3 You Do Take It with You NONFICTION R. DeWitt Miller
70 3 Mission to the Moon NOVEL Lester del Rey
71 3 Electrons, Waves and Messages NONFICTION John R. Pierce
72 3 Inside the Atom NONFICTION Isaac Asimov
73 3 Mysteries of Ancient South America NONFICTION Harold T. Wilkins
74 3 Flying Saucers: An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14 NONFICTION Leon Davidson
75 3 One Against the Moon NOVEL Donald A. Wollheim
76 3 Consider Her Ways SHORTFICTION John Wyndham
77 3 The Man Who Lived Forever NOVEL Anna Hunger and R. DeWitt Miller
78 3 The Golden Kazoo NOVEL John G. Schneider
79 3 The UFO Annual NONFICTION M. K. Jessup
80 3 There is Life on Mars NONFICTION The Earl Nelson
81 3 Les soleils verts NOVEL Henry Ward
82 3 The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine OMNIBUS H. G. Wells
83 2 Till We Have Faces NOVEL C. S. Lewis
84 2 The Ranger Boys in Space NOVEL Hal Clement
85 2 Agent of the Unknown NOVEL Margaret St. Clair
86 2 The Green Queen NOVEL Margaret St. Clair
87 2 Mankind on the Run NOVEL Gordon R. Dickson
88 2 The Long Night NOVEL Martin Caidin
89 2 Starboy NOVEL Carl L. Biemiller
90 2 No Refuge NOVEL John Boland
91 2 Fear Is the Same NOVEL John Dickson Carr
92 2 The Lost Planet NOVEL Paul Dallas
93 2 Overlords from Space NOVEL Joseph E. Kelleam
94 2 The Ugglians NOVEL L. M. Fallaw
95 2 Escape to Venus NOVEL S. Makepeace Lott
96 2 Pursuit Through Time NOVEL John Burke
97 2 The Seeds of Time COLLECTION John Wyndham
98 2 Forgotten Mysteries NONFICTION R. DeWitt Miller
99 2 Zip-Zip and His Flying Saucer NOVEL John M. Schealer
100 2 UFO and the Bible NONFICTION M. K. Jessup
101 2 The Curve of the Snowflake NOVEL W. Grey Walter
102 2 Spooks Deluxe NONFICTION Danton Walker
103 2 A Gun for Dinosaur SHORTFICTION L. Sprague de Camp
104 2 Between the Planets NONFICTION Fletcher G. Watson
105 2 Shadow Over the Earth NOVEL Philip Wilding
106 2 The Shoddy Lands SHORTFICTION C. S. Lewis
107 2 The "Lomokome" Papers SHORTFICTION Herman Wouk
108 2
Retour à "0"?Retour a "0"
NOVEL Stefan Wul
109 2 NONFICTION
110 2 La foudre anti-D NOVEL Jean-Gaston Vandel
111 2 The Red Wagon SHORTFICTION Jane Roberts
112 2 The Great Captains NOVEL Henry Treece
113 2 The Coast of Coral NONFICTION Arthur C. Clarke
114 2 Le 9 de pique NOVEL John Amila
115 2 The Man Who Lived Forever / The Mars Monopoly OMNIBUS Anna Hunger and R. DeWitt Miller and Jerry Sohl
116 2 Heaven and Hell NONFICTION Aldous Huxley
117 2 The Inexplicable Sky NONFICTION Arthur Constance
118 2 Und es ward Licht: Roman der Weltallforschung NONFICTION Rudolf Thiel
119 2
Le troisième bocal?Le troisieme bocal
NOVEL Jean-Gaston Vandel
120 2 The Far Traveller NOVEL Cyril Henry Coles and Adelaide F. O. Manning
121 1 The Last Battle NOVEL C. S. Lewis
122 1 Tarnished Utopia NOVEL Malcolm Jameson
123 1 Im Banne des roten Planeten NOVEL Hans K. Kaiser
124 1 Portes sur l'inconnu NOVEL Marc Agapit
125 1 The Man Who Japed / The Space-Born OMNIBUS Philip K. Dick and E. C. Tubb
126 1 Towards the Hereafter NONFICTION Reginald M. Lester
127 1 Martin Magnus on Mars NOVEL William F. Temple
128 1 The World Jones Made / Agent of the Unknown OMNIBUS Philip K. Dick and Margaret St. Clair
129 1 Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet NOVEL Eleanor Cameron
130 1 The Golden Archer: A Satirical Novel of 1975 NOVEL Gregory Mason
131 1 Fiabe italiane COLLECTION Italo Calvino
132 1 Moon Magic NOVEL Dion Fortune
133 1 Knight's Castle NOVEL Edward Eager
134 1 Sinister Madonna NOVEL Sax Rohmer
135 1 The Shield Ring NOVEL Rosemary Sutcliff
136 1 The Robot Rocket NOVEL Carey Rockwell
137 1 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? NOVEL George Axelrod
138 1 And the Waters Prevailed NOVEL D. Moreau Barringer
139 1 Doubting Thomas NOVEL Winston Brebner
140 1 Into the Tenth Millennium NOVEL Paul Capon
141 1 The Red Planet NOVEL Charles Chilton
142 1 World of Mists NOVEL Patrick Moore
143 1 Atom Curtain NOVEL Nick Boddie Williams
144 1 Un saint au néon COLLECTION Jean-Louis Curtis
145 1 Best SF Two ANTHOLOGY Edmund Crispin
146 1 Nous avons tous peur NOVEL B. R. Bruss
147 1 Time Transfer and Other Stories COLLECTION Arthur Sellings
148 1 New World Writing: Ninth Selection ANTHOLOGY Nelson Algren
149 1 Kipling: A Selection of His Stories and Poems COLLECTION Rudyard Kipling
150 1 Seven Stars for Catfish Bend NOVEL Ben Lucien Burman
151 1 The Best American Short Stories 1956 ANTHOLOGY Martha Foley
152 1 Gumption Island: A Fantasy of Coexistence NOVEL Felix Morley
153 1 Count Luna OMNIBUS Alexander Lernet-Holenia
154 1 Further Fables for Our Time COLLECTION James Thurber
155 1 Great Scenes from Great Novels ANTHOLOGY Robert Terrall
156 1 Shane Leslie's Ghost Book NONFICTION Shane Leslie
157 1 Past Finding Out NONFICTION G. R. Balleine
158 1 The Man Who Came Early SHORTFICTION Poul Anderson
159 1 Digging the Weans SHORTFICTION Robert Nathan
160 1 The Genesis of Nam: A New Earth with Its Own Blue Heaven NOVEL Charles Goodrich
161 1 Second Satellite NOVEL R. S. Richardson
162 1 On se bat sur la Lune NOVEL Émile Debard and Jeanne Fage-Antonelli
163 1 Molesworth's Guide to the Atommic Age NOVEL Ronald Searle and Geoffrey Willans
164 1 Prima Belladonna SHORTFICTION J. G. Ballard
165 1 First Lesson SHORTFICTION Mildred Clingerman
166 1 Mr. Sakrison's Halt SHORTFICTION Mildred Clingerman
167 1 The Little Witch of Elm Street SHORTFICTION Mildred Clingerman
168 1 The Ascent of Rum Doodle NOVEL W. E. Bowman
169 1 Wednesday's Child SHORTFICTION William Tenn
170 1 Electronics: The Science of Electrons in Action NONFICTION A. W. Keen
171 1 The Key to Interplanetary Space Travel NONFICTION Bradford Chambers
172 1 1999 Our Hopeful Future NONFICTION Victor Cohn
173 1 Still Digging NONFICTION Sir Mortimer Wheeler
174 1 The Stars by Clock and Fist NONFICTION Henry M. Neely
175 1 The Vengeful Sea NONFICTION Edward Rowe Snow
176 1 Atomic Quest NONFICTION Arthur Holly Compton
177 1 Clouds, Rings and Crocodiles NONFICTION H. Percy Wilkins
178 1 Worlds Without End NONFICTION Isabel Barclay
179 1 Beyond Doubt NONFICTION Mary LeBeau
180 1 The Rape of the Mind NONFICTION Joost A. M. Merloo, M.D.
181 1 How to Make and Use a Telescope NONFICTION Patrick Moore and H. Percy Wilkins
182 1 Exploring the Deep NONFICTION Helen Raitt
183 1 Risk and Gambling: The Study of Subjective Probability NONFICTION John Cohen and Mark Hansel
184 1 Understanding Science NONFICTION William H. Crouse
185 1 The Lost Pyramid NONFICTION M. Zakaria Goneim
186 1 Great Adventures in Science NONFICTION Samuel Rapport and Helen Wright (1914-1997)
187 1 Clock Without Hands NONFICTION Ronald Edwin
188 1 Send for Johnny Danger NOVEL M. E. Patchett
189 1 The Mountains of Pharaoh NONFICTION Leonard Cottrell
190 1 A Scientific Sampler NONFICTION Howard F. Hamacher and Alan A. Smith and Raymond Stevens
191 1 Altitude moins X NOVEL
F. Richard-Bessière?F. Richard-Bessiere
192 1 Planet of No Return / Star Guard OMNIBUS Poul Anderson and Andre Norton
193 1 The Crossroads of Time / Mankind on the Run OMNIBUS Gordon R. Dickson and Andre Norton
194 1 H.P. Lovecraft: The Books ESSAY Lin Carter
195 1 Verdammt für alle Zeiten NOVEL K. H. Scheer
196 1 Uns riefen die Sterne NOVEL Hans Kneifel
197 1 The Cosmic Charge Account SHORTFICTION C. M. Kornbluth
198 1 Backward, O Time SHORTFICTION Damon Knight
199 1 A Likely Story SHORTFICTION Damon Knight
200 1 Stawdust SHORTFICTION Margaret St. Clair
201 1 Final Clearance SHORTFICTION Rachel Maddux
202 1 Icarus Montgolfier Wright SHORTFICTION Ray Bradbury
203 1 Put Them All Together, They Spell Monster SHORTFICTION Ray Russell
204 1 No Man Pursueth SHORTFICTION Ward Moore
205 1 The Anything Box SHORTFICTION Zenna Henderson
206 1 Gimmicks Three SHORTFICTION Isaac Asimov
207 1 The Fields of Force NONFICTION Winifred Duncan
208 1 The Wonderful Cat of Cobbie Bean SHORTFICTION Barbee Oliver Carleton
209 1 On the Hills and Everywhere SHORTFICTION Manly Wade Wellman
210 1 Old Devlins Was A-Waiting SHORTFICTION Manly Wade Wellman
211 1 The Dark Music SHORTFICTION Charles Beaumont
212 1 Terror in the Night SHORTFICTION Robert Bloch
213 1 All on a Golden Afternoon SHORTFICTION Robert Bloch
214 1 Gnomebody SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
215 1 Rain, Rain, Go Away SHORTFICTION Harlan Ellison
216 1 Try This for Psis SHORTFICTION Robert Bloch
217 1 I Kiss Your Shadow SHORTFICTION Robert Bloch
218 1 Les visiteurs de l'an 2.000 NOVEL Jacques-Henri Juillet
219 1 NONFICTION and
220 1 Mathematics Magic and Mystery NONFICTION Martin Gardner
221 1 White Goddess SHORTFICTION Margaret St. Clair
222 1 Contraband Rocket / The Forgotten Planet OMNIBUS Murray Leinster and G. Harry Stine
223 1 Impact with the Devil SHORTFICTION Theodore R. Cogswell
224 1
Nos ancêtres de l'avenir?Nos ancetres de l'avenir
NOVEL Jimmy Guieu
225 1 Feu dans le ciel NOVEL
F. Richard-Bessière?F. Richard-Bessiere
226 1 Objectif Soleil NOVEL
F. Richard-Bessière?F. Richard-Bessiere
227 1
Les monstres du néant?Les monstres du neant
NOVEL Jimmy Guieu
228 1 Attaque sub-terrestre NOVEL
Max-André Rayjean?Max-Andre Rayjean
229 1
Prisonniers du passé?Prisonniers du passe
NOVEL Jimmy Guieu
230 1 Pincher Martin NOVEL William Golding
231 1 A Parable of Love SHORTFICTION Robert M. Coates
232 1 Threesie SHORTFICTION Theodore R. Cogswell
233 1 The Damnedest Thing SHORTFICTION Garson Kanin
234 1 Woman's Work SHORTFICTION
Garen Drussaï?Garen Drussai
235 1 Visit to a Small Planet SHORTFICTION Gore Vidal
236 1
Les êtres de feu?Les etres de feu
NOVEL Jimmy Guieu
237 1
Route du néant?Route du neant
NOVEL
F. Richard-Bessière?F. Richard-Bessiere
238 1 Substance "Arka" NOVEL B. R. Bruss
239 1 The Portobello Road SHORTFICTION Muriel Spark
240 1 Title Fight SHORTFICTION William Campbell Gault
241 1 Predictions: Pictorial Predictions from the Past NONFICTION John Durant
242 1 Psychical Research NONFICTION R. C. Johnson
243 1 Successful Hypnotism NONFICTION J. Brandon
244 1
Par-delà le mur du sommeil?Par-dela le mur du sommeil
OMNIBUS H. P. Lovecraft
245 1 Poor Little Saturday SHORTFICTION Madeleine L'Engle
246 1 Time Trammel SHORTFICTION Miriam Allen deFord
247 1 Flying Pan SHORTFICTION Robert F. Young
248 1 Moonshine SHORTFICTION Ruth M. Goldsmith
249 1 Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot (F&SF, May 1956) SHORTFICTION Reginald Bretnor
250 1 The Piece Thing SHORTFICTION Carol Emshwiller
251 1 The Listening Child COLLECTION Rosemary Timperley
252 1 Ghost Stories COLLECTION Walter de la Mare
253 1 Second Chance SHORTFICTION Jack Finney
254 1 Time Transfer SHORTFICTION Arthur Sellings
255 1 Traumerei SHORTFICTION Charles Beaumont
256 1 The Mystery Writer's Handbook NONFICTION Herbert Brean
257 1 The Coming of the Space Ships NONFICTION Gavin Gibbons
258 1 The Fabulous Future NONFICTION uncredited
259 1 The Guinness Book of Superlatives NONFICTION uncredited
260 1 McGillicuddy McGotham NOVEL Leonard Wibberley
261 1 From the Tablets of Sumer NONFICTION Samuel Noah Kramer
262 1 She Only Goes Out at Night ... SHORTFICTION William Tenn
263 1 Le septième ciel NOVEL Jacques-Henri Juillet
264 1 The Ka of Gifford Hillary NOVEL Dennis Wheatley
265 1 Survival in the Sky NONFICTION Charles Coombs
266 1 August Derleth: Thirty Years of Writing, 1926-1956 NONFICTION August Derleth
267 1 The Earth Beneath Us NONFICTION H. H. Swinnerton
268 1 The Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz SHORTFICTION L. Frank Baum and uncredited
269 1 Argle's Mist NOVEL Margot Pardoe
270 1
Et le temps s'arrêtera...?Et le temps s'arretera...
NOVEL
Grégoire Brainin?Gregoire Brainin
and Henri Keller
271 1 La parole perdue NOVEL
Albert Crémieux?Albert Cremieux
and
Jean Crémieux?Jean Cremieux
272 1 Les voyants NOVEL Christian Russell
273 1 Les voix de l'univers NOVEL Jean-Gaston Vandel
274 1
Rideau magnétique?Rideau magnetique
NOVEL B. R. Bruss
275 1 La sortie est au fond de l'espace NOVEL Jacques Sternberg
276 1
Maléfices?Malefices
NOVEL B. R. Bruss
277 1 Die Zeit ist gegen uns NOVEL Clark Darlton
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