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FIRST PLACE Best "Space SF" Novel

Robert A. Heinlein "Orphans of the Sky"
("Universe" and "Common Sense")

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SECOND PLACE Best "Space SF" Novel

Arthur Clarke "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Jack Chalker "Exiles at the Well of Souls"; "Midnight at the Well of Souls"
"Quest for the Well of Souls"; "Twilight at the Well of Souls"
Alan Dean Foster "Icerigger"
Stanislaw Lem "Solaris"
Larry Niven "Ringworld"
Alastair Reynolds "Pushing Ice"; "Revelation Space"
Sergei Snegov "Lyudi Kak Bogi"; "Koltzo Obratnogo Vremeni"

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THIRD PLACE Best "Space SF" Novel

Roger McBride Allen "The Ring of Charon"; "The Shattered Sphere"
Leigh Brackett "The Big Jump"; "Empire Strikes Back" (script)
"The Galactic Breed" ("The Starmen of Llyrdis")
Perry A. Chapdelain "Swampworld West"
John W. Campbell "The Black Star Passes"; "Invaders from the Infinite"
"Islands of Space"; "The Mightiest Machine"
Jeffrey A. Carver "Panglor"
Arthur Clarke "2010: Odyssey Two"
"A Fall of Moondust"; "Rendezvous with Rama"
Hal Clement "Mission of Gravity"
Alan Dean Foster "Alien"
George Lucas "Star Wars"
Edmond Hamilton "Battle for the Stars"
"The Cosmic Kings"; "Outside the Universe"
Harry Harrison "Deathworld"
Frank Herbert "Dune"
Murray Leinster "Miners in the Sky"
"The Other Side Of Nowhere" ("Spaceman")
Stanislaw Lem "Eden"; "The Invincible"
Larry Niven "Protector"; "Smoke Ring"
Andre Norton "Sargasso of Space"; "Secret of the Lost Race"
Alan E. Nourse "Scavengers in Space"
Frederick Pohl "Gateway"
Robert Reed "Marrow"
Alastair Reynolds "Chasm City"
Bob Shaw "Orbitsville"
Clifford Simak "Cosmic Engineers"
Bruce Sterling "Schismatrix"
E. C. Tubb "Moon Base"
James White "Deadly Litter", "All Judgement Fled"
Askold Yakubowski "Kosmicheski Blustitel"

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FOURTH PLACE Best "Space SF" Novel

Poul Anderson "After Doomsday"; "The Avatar" (exp. from "Joelle")
"The Enemy Stars" ("We Have Fed Our Seas"); "Ensign Flandry"
"Orbit Unlimited"; "Star Ways" ("The Peregrine")
"Tau Zero" ("To Outlive Eternity")
Gregory Benford "Across The Sea Of Stars"; "In the Ocean of Night"
Ben Bova "The Winds Of Altair"
Leigh Brackett "The Nemesis from Terra"
Arthur Clarke "2061: Odyssey Three"
Ivan Efremov "Tumannost Andromedy"
Robert L. Forward "The Flight Of The Dragonfly"
Evgeny Gulyakovski "Dolgi rassvet na Enne"
"Sezon Tumanov"; "Shorokh Priboya"
Edmond Hamilton "The Star of Life"
Peter F. Hamilton "The Reality Dysfunction"
Harry Harrison "Spaceship Medic"
David A. Kyle "The Dragon Lensman"
Murray Leinster "Stopover In Space" ("Checkpoint Lambda")
Larry Niven "A Gift From Earth" ("Slowboat Cargo")
Andre Norton "Postmarked the Stars"
Alan E. Nourse "Raiders From the Rings"
Eric Frank Russell "Next of Kin" ("The Space Willies")
Joan Slonczewski "A Door Into Ocean"
E. E. Doc Smith "First Lensman"; "Triplanetary"
Jack Williamson "The Black Sun"; "The Comeeters"
"The Legion of Space"

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