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CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA

SEE ALSO IN OTHER CATEGORIES (not included in this list):
- BEST SPACE-THEMED SF NOVELLAS
- BEST TIME-THEMED SF NOVELLAS
- BEST APOCALYPTIC NOVELLAS

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FIRST PLACE Best SF Novella (1920-1960)

Arthur C. Clarke "Against the Fall of Night"

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SECOND PLACE Best SF Novella (1920-1960)

James Blish "Surface Tension"
Kenneth Bulmer "Strange Highway"
John W. Campbell "Who Goes There?"
Clifford Simak "How-2"
Jack Williamson "Breakdown"; "Wolves Of Darkness"

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THIRD PLACE Best SF Novella (1920-1960)

Poul Anderson "Flight To Forever"
Ray Bradbury "The Fireman"
Arthur J. Burks "Black Harvest Of Moraine"
Arthur Clarke "The Lion of Comarre"
Phillip K. Dick "The Variable Man"
George Allan England "The Thing From -- Outside"
H. B. Fyfe "The Thinking Machine"
Philip M. Fisher "Fungus Isle"
Edmond Hamilton "Horror out of Carthage"
Raymond F. Jones "Rider in the Sky"
Murray Leinster "The Mad Planet"; "Nightmare Planet"; "The Red Dust"
Frank Belknap Long "The Horror from the Hills"
H. P. Lovecraft "The Colour Out Of Space"
Eric Frank Russell "...And Then There Were None"
Nat Schachner "Crystallized Thought"; "The Ultimate Metal"
Robert Sheckley "The Minimum Man"
Clifford Simak "The Big Front Yard"; "The Creator"
"The Golden Bugs"; "Huddling Place"; "Lulu"; "No Life Of Their Own"
"So Bright The Vision"; "Worlds Without End"

Theodore Sturgeon "To Here And The Easel"
Jack Vance "The Houses of Iszm"; "The Moon Moth"
Donald Wandrei "Something From Above"
Robert Moore Williams "Survivors From 9,000 BC"
Jack Williamson "The Dark Destroyer"; "The Equalizer", "With Folded Hands"
Cornell Woolrich "Jane Brown's Body"

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FOURTH PLACE Best SF Novella (1920-1960)

Robert Abernathy "The Ultimate Peril"
Robert A. Lowndes "DHACTWHU! - Remember?"
Poul Anderson "The Big Rain";"Holmgang" ("Out Of The Iron Womb")
"Lord Of A Thousand Suns"; "Quixote And The Windmill"

J. G. Ballard "The Sound-Sweep"
Ray Bradbury "The Concrete Mixer"
Fredric Brown "Come and Go Mad"
Arthur Clarke "The Road To The Sea"
L. Taylor Hansen "Lords Of The Underworld"
Edmond Hamilton "Babylon in the Sky"; "The Monster-God of Mamurth"
"Pardon My Iron Nerves"; "Valley of Invisible Men"

Raymond F. Jones "Divided We Fall"
Damon Knight "Cabin Boy"; "Natural State"; "Rule Golden"
Murray Leinster "Fugitive from Space"
"The Grandfather's War"; "Things Pass By"

Milton Lesser "Forty Days Has September"
H. P. Lovecraft "In The Walls Of Eryx"; "The Shadow Out Of Time"
Walter Miller Jr. "Dark Benediction"
Frederick Pohl "The Day the Icicle Works Closed"
Robert Sheckley "The Humours" ("Join Now"); "Meeting Of The Minds"
Clifford Simak "All The Traps Of Earth"; "The Thing In The Stone"
"The Call From Beyond"; "Desertion"; "Rim Of The Deep"
"Night of the Puudly" ("Good-night, Mr. James")
"Dusty Zebra"; "First He Died"; "Operation Stinky"

Margaret St. Clair "Change the Sky"
Theodore Sturgeon "The Golden Helix"; "The Waves Of Synergy"
"The World Well Lost"

Jack Vance "Guyal Of Sphere"; "Ullward's Retreat"
Donald Wandrei "Finality Unlimited"
James White "The Conspirators"
Jack Williamson "And Searching Mind"; "Counter Kill"; "Hindsight"
"The Iron God"

John Wyndham "Consider Her Ways"
Arthur Leo Zagat "The Faceless Men"


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Best Space SF Novel
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BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELLA:
Best SF Novella 1920-1960 (general themes)
Best SF Novella 1961-now (general themes)
Best Space SF Novella 1920-1960
Best Space SF Novella 1961-now
Best Time SF Novella
Best Apocalyptic SF Novella

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Best SF Story 1961-now (general themes)
Best Space SF Story 1920-1960
Best Space SF Story 1961-now
Best Time SF Story
Best Apocalyptic SF Story

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BEST FANTASY COLLECTION

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BEST FANTASY NOVELLA

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Best Fantasy Story 1961-now

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