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Highest Ranked Collection Authors of the 1980s

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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
1 419 Harlan Ellison
2 272 Tanith Lee
3 205 J. R. R. Tolkien
4 192 Gene Wolfe
5 184 Roger Zelazny
6 172 Jane Yolen
7 171 James Tiptree, Jr.
8 160 Frederik Pohl
9 149 Stephen King
10 142 Dennis Etchison
11 134 George R. R. Martin
12 133 Michael Shea
13 131 Charles Beaumont
14 129 Spider Robinson
15 125 Ursula K. Le Guin
16 121 Richard Matheson
17 121 Charles Sheffield
18 115 Fritz Leiber
19 105 George Clayton Johnson
20 100 John Varley
21 100 Lucius Shepard
22 98 Charles L. Grant
23 94 Greg Bear
24 92 Joe R. Lansdale
25 91 Isaac Asimov
26 89 Philip K. Dick
27 88 Karl Edward Wagner
28 87 Robert R. McCammon
29 86 Robert Bloch
30 85 Pat Cadigan
31 85 Ramsey Campbell
32 84 Michael Blumlein
33 84 Ray Bradbury
34 82 Clark Ashton Smith
35 81 Orson Scott Card
36 76 Stephen R. Donaldson
37 75 Michael Bishop
38 71 Joanna Russ
39 70 Francine Pelletier
40 70 Esther Rochon
41 70 M. John Harrison
42 67 Ian Watson
43 66 Poul Anderson
44 64 Robert Silverberg
45 62 H. Beam Piper
46 61 Samuel R. Delany
47 59 Elizabeth A. Lynn
48 59 John Crowley
49 59 Karen Joy Fowler
50 59 C. J. Cherryh
51 56 Parke Godwin
52 52 Randall Garrett
53 50 Christopher Tolkien
54 50
神林長平?Chōhei Kanbayashi
Chohei Kambayashi
Chouhei Kambayashi
Chōhei Kambayashi
Chouhei Kanbayashi
Chohei Kanbayashi
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55 50 Charles Dobzynski
56 50 Barry B. Longyear
57 50 Jeffrey N. McMahan
58 50 Serge Brussolo
59 50
Виктор Колупаев?Viktor Kolupaev
60 50 Robertson Davies
61 48 Gordon R. Dickson
62 48 Kim Stanley Robinson
63 47 Thomas M. Disch
64 46 Patrick McGrath
65 45 Pamela Zoline
66 44 J. G. Ballard
67 43 Kate Wilhelm
68 41 Vernor Vinge
69 41 S. P. Somtow
70 40 Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
71 37 R. A. Lafferty
72 36 John Sladek
73 36 Andre Norton
74 35
Stanley Péan?Stanley Pean
75 35 William Gibson
76 35
Кир Булычев?Kir Bulychev
77 35 Connie Willis
78 35 Joseph Payne Brennan
79 35 Virginia Hamilton
80 35 Angela Carter
81 35 Thom Nickels
82 35 Bill Brittain
83 35 Gerald Murnane
84 35 F. Paul Wilson
85 35 Garry Kilworth
86 35 Bruce Sterling
87 35 Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
88 35 Robin McKinley
89 35 Candas Jane Dorsey
90 35 Paul Fleischman
91 35 Jacques Sternberg
92 35 John Farris
93 31 Timothy Zahn
94 30 Arthur C. Clarke
95 30 Larry Niven
96 30 Howard Waldrop
97 29 Fredric Brown
98 29 Edward Bryant
99 29 Norman Spinrad
100 28 Lois McMaster Bujold
101 28 Brian W. Aldiss
102 28 Manly Wade Wellman
103 27 David Brin
104 27 Ian McDonald
105 26 Robert A. Heinlein
106 26 Rudy Rucker
107 25 Jack Vance
108 24 Joe Haldeman
109 23 Robert Sheckley
110 23 Richard Cowper
111 23 John Shirley
112 22 Piers Anthony
113 22 Walter M. Miller, Jr.
114 22 Gregory Benford
115 22 James White
116 22 Avram Davidson
117 21 Theodore Sturgeon
118 21 Jack L. Chalker
119 20 John Brunner
120 20 Joan D. Vinge
121 19 Philip José Farmer
122 19 Pamela Sargent
123 18 Anne McCaffrey
124 18 Marion Zimmer Bradley
125 17 Hilbert Schenck
126 17 Walter Tevis
127 17 James P. Hogan
128 17 F. M. Busby
129 16 Barry N. Malzberg
130 16 George Alec Effinger
131 16 Frank M. Robinson
132 16 George O. Smith
133 15 A. A. Attanasio
134 15 Michael Shaara
135 14 Frank Herbert
136 14 Keith Laumer
137 14 Mark Clifton
138 14 Nancy Springer
139 13 Robert Westall
140 13 Russell Kirk
141 12 Nancy Kress
142 12 Keith Roberts
143 12 Michael Moorcock
144 8 Robert Aickman
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