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Highest Ranked Novel Authors of the 1980s

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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 Author
1 1771 Gene Wolfe
2 1096 Orson Scott Card
3 898 William Gibson
4 828 David Brin
5 730 C. J. Cherryh
6 725 Dan Simmons
7 719 Stephen King
8 660 Tim Powers
9 564 Brian W. Aldiss
10 506 Stephen R. Donaldson
11 500
荒俣宏?あらまたひろし
Hiroshi Aramata
12 494 Larry Niven
13 459 Gregory Benford
14 440 R. A. MacAvoy
15 431 Greg Bear
16 414 John Crowley
17 389 Isaac Asimov
18 389 Michael Bishop
19 359 Lois McMaster Bujold
20 351 Robert A. Heinlein
21 336 Peter Straub
22 330 Ramsey Campbell
23 329 Anne McCaffrey
24 311 Kim Stanley Robinson
25 311 Geoff Ryman
26 300 Marion Zimmer Bradley
27 299 Bruce Sterling
28 298 Piers Anthony
29 295 Frederik Pohl
30 295 Jonathan Carroll
31 280 Joan D. Vinge
32 279 Jack Vance
33 278 Robert R. McCammon
34 275 Robert Charles Wilson
35 275 Thomas R. P. Mielke
36 275 George Turner
37 274 George Alec Effinger
38 267 Julian May
39 264 L. Neil Smith
40 264 Russell Hoban
41 261 Lucius Shepard
42 255 Roger Zelazny
43 255 John Sladek
44 255 Herbert W. Franke
45 254 Margaret Atwood
46 252 Donald Kingsbury
47 249 Charles de Lint
48 247 Tanith Lee
49 240 Damien Broderick
50 240 Jerry Pournelle
51 237 James P. Blaylock
52 237 Robert Holdstock
53 233 Poul Anderson
54 227 Mike Resnick
55 224 Robert Silverberg
56 220 Christopher Priest
57 216 George R. R. Martin
58 215 K. W. Jeter
59 212 Philip K. Dick
60 207 Clive Barker
61 204 Octavia E. Butler
62 200
小松左京?Komatsu Sakyou
Komatsu Sakyō
こまつさきょう
Komatsu Sakyo
63 196 Iain M. Banks
64 196 Guy Gavriel Kay
65 195 David Eddings
66 193 Nancy A. Collins
67 191 Vernor Vinge
68 190 Wynne Whiteford
69 190 Keith Taylor
70 189 Pat Murphy
71 188 John Varley
72 186 Robin McKinley
73 181 F. Paul Wilson
74 181 Jane Yolen
75 177 Robert L. Forward
76 175 Barbara Hambly
77 174 Arthur C. Clarke
78 171 Keith Roberts
79 170
Joël Houssin?Joel Houssin
80 167 Terry Pratchett
81 165 Sheri S. Tepper
82 165 Emma Bull
83 165 David R. Palmer
84 160 S. P. Somtow
85 156 Barry Hughart
86 155 Victor Kelleher
87 155 David J. Lake
88 155 Thomas Ziegler
89 154 Lewis Shiner
90 154 Charles L. Grant
91 150 Gordon R. Dickson
92 150 Daniel Keyes
93 149 Robert Stallman
94 148 Lisa Goldstein
95 140 Michael G. Coney
96 140 Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
97 140 Pierre Pelot
98 139 A. A. Attanasio
99 139 M. John Harrison
100 137 Rudy Rucker
101 135 Margaret Mahy
102 135 James P. Hogan
103 135 Katherine Kurtz
104 135 Jean-Pierre Andrevon
105 135 Serge Brussolo
106 134 Anne Rice
107 128 Bob Shaw
108 128 Norman Spinrad
109 125 Michael P. Kube-McDowell
110 124 Diana L. Paxson
111 121 Timothy Zahn
112 120 Antoine Volodine
113 120 John Kessel
114 120
Élisabeth Vonarburg?Elisabeth Vonarburg
115 119 Ursula K. Le Guin
116 119 P. C. Hodgell
117 118 T. E. D. Klein
118 117 Dean R. Koontz
119 117 Melinda M. Snodgrass
120 113 Connie Willis
121 112 Rebecca Ore
122 112 Thomas Harris
123 112 Raymond E. Feist
124 111 John Calvin Batchelor
125 111 Brian Stableford
126 111 Joan Slonczewski
127 110 Thomas T. Thomas
128 109 Parke Godwin
129 106 G. Harry Stine
130 105 A. Bertram Chandler
131 105 Crawford Kilian
132 105 Michael Weisser
133 105 Suzy McKee Charnas
134 103 Michael Moorcock
135 103 Jerry Yulsman
136 102 Howard Waldrop
137 101 Dave Gibbons
138 101 Victor Koman
139 101 Alan Moore
140 101 G.-J. Arnaud
141 100
川又千秋?かわまたちあき
Kawamata Chiaki
142 100 Wolfgang Jeschke
143 100
山田正紀?やまだまさき
Yamada Masaki
144 100 Gudrun Pausewang
145 100
神林長平?Chōhei Kanbayashi
Chohei Kambayashi
Chouhei Kambayashi
Chōhei Kambayashi
Chouhei Kanbayashi
Chohei Kanbayashi
かんばやしちょうへい
146 100
井上ひさし?Hisashi Inoue
147 100
半村良?Ryō Hanmura
Ryo Hanmura
はんむらりょう
148 100
夢枕獏?ゆめまくらばく
Yumemakura Baku
149 99 Richard Paul Russo
150 97 Walter Tevis
151 97 Walter Jon Williams
152 95 Nancy Springer
153 94 Joe Haldeman
154 94 Ian McDonald
155 94 Joe R. Lansdale
156 89 Ken Grimwood
157 87 Clifford D. Simak
158 86 Spider Robinson
159 86 Tad Williams
160 85 Christian Grenier
161 85 Barrington J. Bayley
162 85 Maria J. Pfannholz
163 85 Eileen Kernaghan
164 85 Phyllis Gotlieb
165 85
Joëlle Wintrebert?Joelle Wintrebert
166 85 Nancy Farmer
167 85 Peter Carey
168 84 Christopher Hinz
169 84 Tanya Huff
170 83 Kate Wilhelm
171 83 John M. Ford
172 82 Jack McDevitt
173 81 Michaela Roessner
174 81 James Morrow
175 81 Robin Hobb
176 80 Diana Wynne Jones
177 80 Hilbert Schenck
178 79 Elizabeth Moon
179 77 Peter S. Beagle
180 76 Brad Linaweaver
181 75 James Tiptree, Jr.
182 75 Barry N. Malzberg
183 74 Paul J. McAuley
184 73 Sheila Finch
185 72 Frank Herbert
186 72 Barry B. Longyear
187 72 Kay Nolte Smith
188 71 Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
189 70 Esther Rochon
190 70 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
191 70 Pat Cadigan
192 70 David Wingrove
193 70 J. G. Ballard
194 70 Francis Berthelot
195 70
Christian Léourier?Christian Leourier
196 70 Russell Blackford
197 70 Richard Laymon
198 70 Reinmar Cunis
199 70 Horst Pukallus
200 69 Roger MacBride Allen
201 69 C. S. Friedman
202 69 Patricia A. McKillip
203 68 Glen Cook
204 68 Steven Barnes
205 68 Carl Sagan
206 66 Nancy Kress
207 65 Philip José Farmer
208 65 Patricia Geary
209 65 Marjorie B. Kellogg
210 64 Dave Duncan
211 64 Katherine Dunn
212 63 Leo Frankowski
213 63 Gillian Bradshaw
214 63 Kara Dalkey
215 63 Allen Steele
216 62 Dean Wesley Smith
217 62 Melanie Rawn
218 62 Richard Grant
219 62 Mercedes Lackey
220 62 Marc Stiegler
221 61 Charles Sheffield
222 61 David Zindell
223 61 Doris Egan
224 60 Michael Armstrong
225 59 John G. Cramer
226 59 Paul Hazel
227 59 Melissa Scott
228 58 Douglas Adams
229 58 Suzette Haden Elgin
230 58 Robert R. Chase
231 58 Ellen Kushner
232 58 Terry Brooks
233 57 Kevin J. Anderson
234 57 Joseph H. Delaney
235 56 John Michael Curlovich
236 56 Michael Swanwick
237 56 Geary Gravel
238 56 Matt Ruff
239 56 Rosemary Kirstein
240 56 Dean Ing
241 55 Alfred Bester
242 55 Samuel R. Delany
243 55 Michael McCollum
244 55 Avram Davidson
245 55 Teresa Edgerton
246 54 R. A. Lafferty
247 53 Mary Stanton
248 52 Patricia Wrightson
249 50 Predrag Raos
250 50 Branko Belan
251 50 Carol Kendall
252 50 Frank Wittchow
253 50 Kelley Wilde
254 50 Joy Chant
255 50
Patrick Süskind?Patrick Sueskind
256 50 Claus-Peter Lieckfeld
257 50 Pierre Billon
258 50 Michel Jeury
259 50
André Ruellan?Andre Ruellan
260 50 Roland C. Wagner
261 50
Thérèse Roche?Therese Roche
262 50 Christopher Rowley
263 50 J. Neil Schulman
264 50 Jacques Brossard
265 50 Roger Leloup
266 50 Liliane Korb
267 50 Robert Westall
268 50 Fritz Schmoll
269 50 Charles Montpetit
270 50
堀晃?ほりあきら
Hori Akira
271 50
Victor Milán?Victor Milan
272 50 Rachel Pollack
273 50
かんべむさし?Kanbe Musashi
274 50 Michel Grimaud
275 50 Susan Price
276 50 Edward Whittemore
277 50 Dean McLaughlin
278 50
Norbert Stöbe?Norbert Stoebe
279 50 Josepha Sherman
280 50
大原まり子?Ōhara Mariko
おおはらまりこ
Ohara Mariko
Oohara Mariko
281 50
酒見賢一?さけみけんいち
Sakemi Ken'ichi
282 50 Lisa W. Cantrell
283 50
高千穂遙?たかちほはるか
Takachiho Haruka
284 50 Friedrich Scholz
285 50
Зиновий Юрьев?Zinovy Yur'ev
Zinoviy Yur'ev
286 50 Jean-Pierre Hubert
287 50 Richard Hey
288 50 Carl Amery
289 49 Angela Carter
290 49 Judith Tarr
291 48 Andre Norton
292 48 Elizabeth A. Lynn
293 47 Terry Bisson
294 47 Andrew Weiner
295 47 Storm Constantine
296 46 Mary Gentle
297 45 Marc Laidlaw
298 45 Delia Sherman
299 45 Susan Shwartz
300 44 David J. Skal
301 44 Fred Saberhagen
302 43 Jack Dann
303 42 Paul Preuss
304 42 Richard Bowker
305 40 Michael Talbot
306 38 Lyndon Hardy
307 38 Marta Randall
308 38 Dave Wolverton
309 36 S. M. Stirling
310 36 Simon Hawke
311 36 Doris Lessing
312 36 Josephine Saxton
313 36 Paul O. Williams
314 35 Robert Cormier
315 35 Guy Bouchard
316 35 Douglas Clegg
317 35 Meredith Ann Pierce
318 35
Karl-Heinz Prieß?Karl-Heinz Priess
319 35 Robert Bloch
320 35 Jacques Mondoloni
321 35 Jean-Pierre April
322 35 Lisa Tuttle
323 35 Jean Paiva
324 35 Tony Richards
325 35 Allen Lee Harris
326 35 Kem Nunn
327 35 Scott Russell Sanders
328 35 Thomas Tessier
329 35 Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
330 35 Kirk Mitchell
331 35 Ray Garton
332 35 James Luceno
333 35 Ronald M. Hahn
334 35 Jean-François Comte
335 35 Russell M. Griffin
336 35 Uwe Anton
337 35 Janny Wurts
338 35 Werner Zillig
339 35 Rainer Erler
340 35 John Maddox Roberts
341 35 Charles R. Saunders
342 35 Pierre Stolze
343 35 André Costa
344 35 Phillip Mann
345 35 Pauline Gedge
346 35 Christian Poslaniec
347 35 René Escudié
348 35
René Dzagoyan?Rene Dzagoyan
349 35 Sharon Devlin
350 35 J. M. Coetzee
351 35 Erika Holzer
352 35 Yoji Kondo
353 35 Steve Rasnic Tem
354 35 Jacques Attali
355 35 Jean Hougron
356 35 Rory Barnes
357 35 Ann Maxwell
358 35 Emmanuel Jouanne
359 35 Philippe Cousin
360 35 Georg Zauner
361 35 Judy Grahn
362 35 Bernard Lenteric
363 35 Gillian Rubinstein
364 35 Madeleine L'Engle
365 35 Matthias Horx
366 35 William K. Eakins
367 35 Geoff Mains
368 35
山口泉?やまぐちいずみ
Yamaguchi Izumi
369 35 Harald Pusch
370 35 Rolf W. Liersch
371 35 Doug Naylor
372 35
Denis Côté?Denis Cote
373 35 David Ireland
374 35 Randolph Stow
375 35 Kurt von Trojan
376 35 David Foster
377 35 Patrick Urth
378 35 Uschi Zietsch
379 35 Frank Miller
380 35 Mark Helprin
381 35 Sandy Bayer
382 35 Lauren Wright Douglas
383 35 Nancy Tyler Glenn
384 35 Lee Lynch
385 35 Alfred Tilp
386 35 Klaus Janson
387 35 John C. McLoughlin
388 35 Dan Henderson
389 35 John Willett
390 35 Don Sakers
391 35 Pierre Gripari
392 35 Carolyn F. Logan
393 35 Carol Emshwiller
394 35 Garry Kilworth
395 35 Chet Williamson
396 35 Malte Heim
397 35 Hans Bemmann
398 35 Lynn Varley
399 35 Danielle Martinigol
400 35 Jacques Lazure
401 35 Jane Langton
402 35 Christopher Stasheff
403 35 Janusz A. Zajdel
404 35
Stanisław Lem?Stanislaw Lem
405 35 Morgan Llywelyn
406 35 John Gribbin
407 35 Leigh Kennedy
408 35 John L. Byrne
409 35 Michael Ende
410 35
Аркадий Стругацкий?Arkady Strugatsky
411 35 Rex Miller
412 35 J. Michael Straczynski
413 35 Michail Krausnick
414 35 Stefan Heym
415 35 Tom Elliott
416 35 Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
417 35
Борис Стругацкий?Boris Strugatsky
418 35 David Chippers
419 35 Virginia Hamilton
420 35 Janet Taylor Lisle
421 35 Rob Grant
422 35
Christian Mähr?Christian Maehr
423 35 Andreas Brandhorst
424 35 Jack Wodhams
425 35 William E. Cochrane
426 35 David Alexander Smith
427 35 D. M. Thomas
428 35 Monica Furlong
429 35 H. Warner Munn
430 35
村上春樹?Haruki Murakami
431 35 Johanna Braun
432 35
Günter Braun?Guenter Braun
433 34 Esther M. Friesner
434 31 Katharine Kerr
435 30 David Bischoff
436 30 Thomas F. Monteleone
437 30 Warren Norwood
438 30 Richard Kadrey
439 30 John Shirley
440 29 Justin Leiber
441 29 David Gerrold
442 29 Bradley Denton
443 29 Ted Reynolds
444 29 Theodore Sturgeon
445 28 Daniel Keys Moran
446 28 Sandra Miesel
447 28 Loren J. MacGregor
448 28 Michael Kandel
449 28 Karl Hansen
450 28 Robert Wilfred Franson
451 28 Jordi Sierra i Fabra
452 28 Bruce McAllister
453 28 John DeChancie
454 27 John Brunner
455 27 L. Ron Hubbard
456 27 David Langford
457 27 Anne Moroz
458 27 Pamela Sargent
459 27 Will Shetterly
460 26 Terry A. Adams
461 26 Harry Harrison
462 26 Alexis A. Gilliland
463 26 Bruce T. Holmes
464 26 M. Coleman Easton
465 26 Gentry Lee
466 25 Salman Rushdie
467 25 Rory Harper
468 25 Sharon Webb
469 25 Tom Deitz
470 25 Kenneth C. Flint
471 24 Jim Aikin
472 24 Thomas M. Disch
473 24 Jerry Earl Brown
474 24 Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
475 24 Gloria Dank
476 23 Paul Park
477 23 Robert Reed
478 23 Stephen Leigh
479 23
Emmanuel Carrère?Emmanuel Carrere
480 23 Richard A. Lupoff
481 23 Lee Killough
482 23 Clare Bell
483 23 H. F. Saint
484 23 Patrick McGrath
485 23 William Sanders
486 22 Ian Watson
487 22 John Skipp
488 22 Craig Spector
489 22 Vonda N. McIntyre
490 22 Glenn Harcourt
491 22 Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
492 22 Joe Clifford Faust
493 22 Jeanne Larsen
494 22 Jack Butler
495 22 Paul Cook
496 22 Lou Goble
497 22 Carter Scholz
498 21 Richard Bowes
499 21 Mike McQuay
500 21 Alasdair Gray
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