Highest Ranked Short Fiction Authors of the 1960s

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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	409	Harlan Ellison
2	363	Roger Zelazny
3	347	Poul Anderson
4	342	Larry Niven
5	338	Fritz Leiber
6	269	Robert Silverberg
7	238	Jack Vance
8	234	Anne McCaffrey
9	223	Samuel R. Delany
10	157	Brian W. Aldiss
11	142	James H. Schmitz
12	139	Cordwainer Smith
13	137	Gordon R. Dickson
14	120	Thomas M. Disch
15	107	Charles L. Harness
16	105	Norman Kagan
17	102	Keith Laumer
18	87	Philip José Farmer
19	86	Richard Wilson
20	85	Kate Wilhelm
21	83	R. A. Lafferty
22	75	Mack Reynolds
23	74	Avram Davidson
24	73	Theodore Sturgeon
25	71	Isaac Asimov
26	70	H. H. Hollis
27	70	Rick Raphael
28	70	Jack Wodhams
29	66	James Blish
30	65	Terry Carr
31	64	Gregory Benford
32	63	Ursula K. Le Guin
33	52	Richard McKenna
34	51	Michael Moorcock
35	50	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
36	50	Lee Harding
37	50	George Clayton Johnson
38	50	Stanisław Lem?Stanislaw Lem
39	38	Damon Knight
40	37	Dean McLaughlin
41	36	Clifford D. Simak
42	36	A. E. van Vogt
43	36	Richard Olin
44	36	A. Bertram Chandler
45	36	Robert M. Green, Jr.
46	36	Fred Saberhagen
47	36	Hayden Howard
48	36	Frederik Pohl
49	36	Bob Shaw
50	36	William Tenn
51	36	Sonya Dorman
52	36	Norman Spinrad
53	35	Olaf Ruhen
54	35	Donald Barthelme
55	35	James Tiptree, Jr.
56	35	Vernor Vinge
57	35	Robert Taylor
58	35	R. C. FitzPatrick
59	35	C. C. MacApp
60	35	Joseph Green
61	35	Theodore L. Thomas
62	35	J. W. Schutz
63	35	J. G. Ballard
64	35	Jonathan Brand
65	35	Norman L. Knight
66	35	Barry N. Malzberg
67	35	James E. Gunn
68	35	Thomas N. Scortia
69	35	Stephen Cook
70	35	Andre Norton
71	35	Alex Kirs
72	35	Larry McCombs
73	35	Edgar Pangborn
74	35	E. Clayton McCarty
75	35	James Durham
76	35	Robert Sheckley
77	35	Ron Goulart
78	35	M. J. Engh
79	35	Reginald Bretnor
80	35	Lin Carter
81	35	Isaac Bashevis Singer
82	35	John Christopher
83	35	H. L. Gold
84	35	Ted White
85	35	Robert Rohrer
86	32	Robert F. Young
87	31	Piers Anthony
88	30	Edgar Rice Burroughs
89	22	Аркадий Стругацкий?Arkady Strugatsky
90	22	Борис Стругацкий?Boris Strugatsky
91	8	Randall Garrett
92	4	Arthur C. Clarke
93	4	Christopher Anvil
94	3	Thomas Burnett Swann
95	3	Philip K. Dick
96	3	Jack Sharkey
97	3	Murray Leinster
98	2	Frank Herbert
99	2	Raymond F. Jones
100	2	Richard Matheson
101	2	Neal Barrett, Jr.
102	2	Pauline Ashwell
103	2	Harry Fischer
104	1	Alfred Bester
105	1	John Brunner
106	1	Morton Klass
107	1	Alexei Panshin
108	1	Edward W. Ludwig
109	1	J. F. Bone
110	1	Marion Zimmer Bradley
111	1	Gerald W. Page
112	1	Rick Rubin
113	1	Henry Hasse
114	1	Colin Kapp
115	1	Robert Bloch
116	1	Betsy Curtis
117	1	Jody Scott
118	1	Raymond E. Banks
119	1	Manly Banister
120	1	Albert Teichner
121	1	Juanita Coulson
122	1	Ray Bradbury
123	1	Gardner Dozois
124	1	平井呈一?ひらいていいち Hirai Tei'ichi Hirai Teiichi
125	1	David Rome
126	1	Ardrey Marshall
127	1	Daniel F. Galouye
128	1	Carol Emshwiller
129	1	Herbert D. Kastle
130	1	Everett B. Cole
131	1	William Spencer
132	1	C. M. Kornbluth
133	1	Robin Scott Wilson
134	1	Ray Nelson
135	1	C. S. Lewis
136	1	David Ely
137	1	Kenneth Bulmer
138	1	Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
139	1	Vance Aandahl
140	1	В. Шевченко?V. Shevchenko
141	1	Zenna Henderson
142	1	Doris Pitkin Buck
143	1	Hal Clement
144	1	Alice Glaser
145	1	Allan W. Eckert
146	1	John Anthony West
147	1	Virginia Kidd
148	1	Estelle Frye
149	1	Frances Hall
150	1	Gary Jennings
151	1	George H. Smith
152	1	В. Струков?V. Strukov
153	1	Karen Anderson

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