Highest Ranked Novel Authors of the 1970s

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Note: Some recent awards are yet to be integrated into the database. Only title-based awards are used for ranking purposes.
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	Author
1	830	Larry Niven
2	826	Robert Silverberg
3	690	Poul Anderson
4	617	Ursula K. Le Guin
5	601	Michael Moorcock
6	548	Frederik Pohl
7	540	Arthur C. Clarke
8	525	Roger Zelazny
9	427	Stephen King
10	419	Anne McCaffrey
11	360	Kate Wilhelm
12	346	Patricia A. McKillip
13	332	Joe Haldeman
14	314	Jerry Pournelle
15	292	Robert A. Heinlein
16	278	Gordon R. Dickson
17	273	Vonda N. McIntyre
18	247	Thomas M. Disch
19	241	C. J. Cherryh
20	236	Katherine Kurtz
21	235	John Varley
22	228	David Gerrold
23	226	Tanith Lee
24	223	Philip K. Dick
25	217	Ian Watson
26	207	Joanna Russ
27	201	Isaac Asimov
28	193	Christopher Priest
29	188	Piers Anthony
30	186	Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer
31	185	A. Bertram Chandler
32	184	Thomas Burnett Swann
33	176	Elizabeth A. Lynn
34	176	Susan Cooper
35	174	Barry N. Malzberg
36	168	Marion Zimmer Bradley
37	164	Samuel R. Delany
38	156	Tom Reamy
39	156	Norman Spinrad
40	155	Fritz Leiber
41	154	Richard Cowper
42	150	John Brunner
43	150	Richard Adams
44	149	Alfred Bester
45	149	Wilson Tucker
46	135	Edward Whittemore
47	133	Evangeline Walton
48	132	Jack Vance
49	129	J. G. Ballard
50	128	Spider Robinson
51	128	Jeanne Robinson
52	125	James P. Hogan
53	125	Mary Stewart
54	122	Phyllis Eisenstein
55	121	Michael Bishop
56	121	Борис Стругацкий^?Boris Strugatsky
57	121	Аркадий Стругацкий^?Arkady Strugatsky
58	120	Pierre Pelot
59	120	David J. Lake
60	115	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
61	112	Suzy McKee Charnas
62	108	Joy Chant
63	106	Frank Herbert
64	105	Lee Harding
65	105	Charles L. Grant
66	102	Gregory Benford
67	102	D. G. Compton
68	100	F. Paul Wilson
69	100	筒井康隆^?Tsutsui Yasutaka つついやすたか
70	100	Philippe Curval
71	100	小松左京^?Komatsu Sakyou Komatsu Sakyō こまつさきょう Komatsu Sakyo
72	100	Barrington J. Bayley
73	99	T. J. Bass
74	97	Richard A. Lupoff
75	96	Bob Shaw
76	94	John Crowley
77	88	Peter Dickinson
78	88	John Boyd
79	85	Jack Finney
80	80	R. A. Lafferty
81	78	George Alec Effinger
82	76	Cordwainer Smith
83	74	Ben Bova
84	70	Gene Wolfe
85	70	H. Warner Munn
86	70	Zilpha Keatley Snyder
87	60	T. H. White
88	59	George R. R. Martin
89	58	Gardner Dozois
90	56	Thomas Pynchon
91	55	Joan D. Vinge
92	52	Terry Carr
93	52	Marta Randall
94	51	Leon Garfield
95	51	Tim Powers
96	51	Hal Clement
97	51	Ruth Beebe Hill
98	50	L. Sprague de Camp
99	50	Richard Matheson
100	50	Robert Ingpen
101	50	Cherry Wilder
102	50	かんべむさし^?Kanbe Musashi
103	50	広瀬正^?ひろせただし Hirose Tadashi
104	50	Michel Jeury
105	50	山田正紀^?やまだまさき Yamada Masaki
106	50	Edward Blishen
107	50	Robert Sobel
108	50	Douglas Adams
109	50	Jane Louise Curry
110	50	Michael G. Coney
111	50	半村良^?Ryō Hanmura Ryo Hanmura はんむらりょう
112	50	Ira Levin
113	50	Katherine Paterson
114	50	Kingsley Amis
115	50	Yves Rémy^?Yves Remy
116	50	Ada Rémy
117	50	Scott Baker
118	50	Mollie Hunter
119	50	Jean-Paul Raemdonck
120	50	Daniel Walther
121	50	Mary Jo Stephens
122	50	J. Neil Schulman
123	50	Philip Goy
124	50	George Turner
125	50	眉村卓^?まゆむらたく Mayumura Taku
126	50	William Kotzwinkle
127	50	堀晃^?ほりあきら Hori Akira
128	50	Robert C. O'Brien
129	50	Penelope Lively
130	50	Robert Merle
131	48	Algis Budrys
132	48	Andrew J. Offutt
133	47	Clifford D. Simak
134	47	Katherine MacLean
135	44	Gore Vidal
136	35	Pierre Giuliani
137	35	Rob Swigart
138	35	Maurice Mourier
139	35	Michael Shea
140	35	Robert Anton Wilson
141	35	John Gardner
142	35	Pierre Christin
143	35	Joan North
144	35	Anne Rice
145	35	Rafaël Pividal^?Rafael Pividal
146	35	Sanders Anne Laubenthal
147	35	Brian W. Aldiss
148	35	Zoe Fairbairns
149	35	Ramsey Campbell
150	35	Nancy Bond
151	35	Isidore Haiblum
152	35	Karl Edward Wagner
153	35	Lloyd Alexander
154	35	Colin Free
155	35	Charles Sheffield
156	35	Charles Dobzynski
157	35	David Rome
158	35	Jean-Jacques Walter
159	35	Keith Antill
160	35	E. L. Doctorow
161	35	Henrik Stangerup
162	35	Patricia Wrightson
163	35	Italo Calvino
164	35	Jean-Pierre Andrevon
165	35	Dominique Douay
166	35	Les Daniels
167	35	André Ruellan^?Andre Ruellan
168	35	Brian Daley
169	35	Sylvia Louise Engdahl
170	35	Pierre Stolze
171	35	Marge Piercy
172	35	Nancy Springer
173	35	Jack Wodhams
174	35	Jean-Pierre Hubert
175	35	Elizabeth Marie Pope
176	35	Robert Bloch
177	35	Arthur Byron Cover
178	35	Dahlov Ipcar
179	35	Landry Merillac
180	35	Stephen R. Donaldson
181	31	Harry Harrison
182	30	Bob Buckley
183	28	Terry Brooks
184	26	M. A. Foster
185	24	James White
186	24	Byron Preiss
187	24	Michael Reaves
188	23	Edmund Cooper
189	22	James Tiptree, Jr.
190	22	Gordon Eklund
191	22	Dean R. Koontz
192	22	Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
193	22	Edgar Pangborn
194	21	Andre Norton
195	20	Octavia E. Butler
196	20	Suzette Haden Elgin
197	20	Howard Chaykin
198	19	Lynn Abbey
199	19	Sterling E. Lanier
200	18	Diane Duane
201	18	Len Deighton
202	18	Tim Hildebrandt
203	18	Greg Hildebrandt
204	18	Jerry Nichols
205	17	Ray Nelson
206	17	Ron Goulart
207	16	Stephen Robinett
208	15	Doris Piserchia
209	15	Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
210	15	Jack L. Chalker
211	14	Pamela Sargent
212	13	Orson Scott Card
213	13	Michael Ende
214	12	Cecelia Holland
215	11	Alan Dean Foster
216	10	Parke Godwin
217	10	Marvin Kaye
218	9	Angélica Gorodischer
219	2	Helen Cresswell
220	2	Diana Wynne Jones
221	1	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
222	1	Edward E. Smith
223	1	E. Everett Evans
224	1	Edward Abbey
225	1	O. T. Nelson
226	1	Angela Carter
227	1	M. J. Engh
228	1	Paddy Chayefsky
229	1	D. R. Bensen
230	1	Robert Westall
231	1	Mack Reynolds
232	1	Rosemary Sutcliff

Highest Ranked Novel Authors of the 1970s

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