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Highest Ranked Short Fiction 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 1317 Harlan Ellison
2 893 George R. R. Martin
3 861 John Varley
4 707 James Tiptree, Jr.
5 685 Fritz Leiber
6 667 Ursula K. Le Guin
7 663 Gene Wolfe
8 657 Michael Bishop
9 618 Larry Niven
10 601 Orson Scott Card
11 545 Robert Silverberg
12 526 Poul Anderson
13 510 Frederik Pohl
14 498 R. A. Lafferty
15 452 Gregory Benford
16 436 Joan D. Vinge
17 353 Vonda N. McIntyre
18 346 Edward Bryant
19 340 Richard Cowper
20 312 Gardner Dozois
21 272 Kate Wilhelm
22 272 Joanna Russ
23 269 Spider Robinson
24 269 Charles L. Grant
25 268 Roger Zelazny
26 255 Ramsey Campbell
27 244 Jack Dann
28 234 Joe Haldeman
29 230 Clifford D. Simak
30 223 Lisa Tuttle
31 215 Christopher Priest
32 207 Theodore Sturgeon
33 205 Karl Edward Wagner
34 200
筒井康隆?Tsutsui Yasutaka
つつい やすたか
35 198 Avram Davidson
36 197 Richard A. Lupoff
37 187 Gordon Eklund
38 185 Barry B. Longyear
39 181 Isaac Asimov
40 179 Tom Reamy
41 171 Jack Vance
42 170 Arthur C. Clarke
43 155 Howard Waldrop
44 150
小松左京?Komatsu Sakyou
Komatsu Sakyō
こまつさきょう
Komatsu Sakyo
45 150 Jeanne Robinson
46 149 Ted Reynolds
47 147 C. J. Cherryh
48 140 Daniel Walther
49 138 Thomas M. Disch
50 137 Donald Kingsbury
51 136 Hilbert Schenck
52 127 Gordon R. Dickson
53 127 William Rotsler
54 122 Tanith Lee
55 120 Philippa C. Maddern
56 119 Algis Budrys
57 116 Barry N. Malzberg
58 116 Keith Laumer
59 113 P. J. Plauger
60 107 Michael Moorcock
61 106 C. M. Kornbluth
62 105 A. Bertram Chandler
63 105 Christine Renard
64 105 Thomas F. Monteleone
65 105 Jean-Pierre Andrevon
66 100 Edgar Pangborn
67 100 Ben Bova
68 93 Brian W. Aldiss
69 93 Norman Spinrad
70 91 Alfred Bester
71 91 William E. Cochrane
72 91 Craig Strete
73 87 Philip José Farmer
74 85
Gérard Klein?Gerard Klein
75 83 Dean Ing
76 82 Steven Barnes
77 81 Samuel R. Delany
78 80 Peter Cuijpers
79 75 John Brunner
80 72 Jerry Pournelle
81 72 Robert Aickman
82 70 Cherry Wilder
83 70 Cordwainer Smith
84 70 Philip K. Dick
85 70 Genevieve Linebarger
86 70 T. E. D. Klein
87 70 Adrian Cole
88 70 Jack Wodhams
89 67 Robert Thurston
90 67 Randall Garrett
91 63 James Blish
92 63 George Alec Effinger
93 61 Steven Utley
94 60 Michael Shea
95 58 Richard Wilson
96 58 Carter Scholz
97 58 Nicholas Fisk
98 57 Michael McCollum
99 57 Dean R. Koontz
100 56 Robert Sheckley
101 55 Keith Roberts
102 55 Stephen Tall
103 54 Charles Sheffield
104 53 Bill Pronzini
105 52 Harry Harrison
106 51 Lee Harding
107 51 Connie Willis
108 50 J. G. Ballard
109 50 Tais Teng
110 50 Mordecai Richler
111 50 Pat Cadigan
112 50 Elizabeth A. Lynn
113 50 Francis Payne
114 50 John Foyster
115 50
梶尾真治?Shinji Kajio
かじおしんじ
116 50 Pamela Sargent
117 50
Yves Frémion?Yves Fremion
118 50 F. Paul Wilson
119 50
荒巻義雄?あらまきよしお
Yoshio Aramaki
120 50 Katherine MacLean
121 50 Pierre Giuliani
122 50 Robert E. Howard
123 50 Phyllis Gotlieb
124 50 Serge Brussolo
125 50 Dominique Douay
126 50 Philip Goy
127 50
山田正紀?やまだまさき
Yamada Masaki
128 50 Russell Kirk
129 49 Terry Carr
130 47 Stephen King
131 41 Arsen Darnay
132 39 Ian Watson
133 39 Fred Saberhagen
134 36 Damon Knight
135 36 Stanley Schmidt
136 35 Robert Bowden
137 35 Michael Wilding
138 35 Kenneth Cook
139 35 William K. Carlson
140 35 David Langford
141 35 Ben Schumacher
142 35 David Bischoff
143 35 Grant Carrington
144 35 David Gerrold
145 35 Daniel Martinange
146 35 John Jakes
147 35 Phyllis Eisenstein
148 35 George Clayton Johnson
149 35 Charles de Lint
150 35 Stephen Goldin
151 35 David Rome
152 35 Gerald Murnane
153 35 David Drake
154 35 William Steig
155 35 Manly Wade Wellman
156 35 Eleanor Arnason
157 35 Sterling E. Lanier
158 35 William F. Nolan
159 35 Brian Lumley
160 35
Joëlle Wintrebert?Joelle Wintrebert
161 35 George W. Barlow
162 35 Pierre Marlson
163 35
René Durand?Rene Durand
164 35 George Zebrowski
165 35
André Ruellan?Andre Ruellan
166 35
Christian Léourier?Christian Leourier
167 35 Bruce Barnes
168 35 Kevin McKay
169 35 John C. Tibbetts
170 35 Dennis Etchison
171 35 Jerzy Kosinski
172 35 James Sallis
173 35 Joeseph Hammond
174 35 Michael Reaves
175 35 Gerald Jonas
176 35 Dennis R. Bailey
177 35 Jake Saunders
178 35
Stanisław Lem?Stanislaw Lem
179 35 Susan C. Petrey
180 35 Henry-Luc Planchat
181 35 Peter Schattschneider
182 35 Stephen R. Donaldson
183 35 Jorge Luis Borges
184 31 James White
185 30 Richard Matheson
186 30 Jayge Carr
187 30 Sam Nicholson
188 29 Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
189 28 Marc Laidlaw
190 28 Ian Stewart
191 28 Kathinka Lannoy
192 28 William Tenn
193 27 William Walling
194 27 Woody Allen
195 26 Charles L. Harness
196 25 Robert Asprin
197 25 James P. Girard
198 23 Andrew J. Offutt
199 22 Anthony Boucher
200 22 Mark J. McGarry
201 21 A. E. van Vogt
202 21 Ray Bradbury
203 21 Walter Tevis
204 21 James P. Hogan
205 21 F. M. Busby
206 21 Robert F. Young
207 21 Alan Brennert
208 21 Gary Jennings
209 20 Greg Bear
210 20 L. Sprague de Camp
211 20 David Lewis
212 20 Suzy McKee Charnas
213 20 Terry Melen
214 19 Richard Snead
215 17 Thomas Burnett Swann
216 17 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
217 16 Joseph F. Pumilia
218 14 Don Picard
219 13 Alan Ryan
220 12 Stephen Leigh
221 12 Cynthia Morgan
222 12 Marta Randall
223 12 Eric Norden
224 1 Jean-Pierre Hubert
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