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Locus Poll Best All-time Novel Results
1975, novels
1987, sf novels
1987, fantasy novels

The 1998 Locus Poll & Survey ballot, available with the February 1998 issue, includes categories for Best All-time SF Novel and Best All-time Fantasy Novel. (You can get the issue by subscribing or ordering now.) These three pages show the best all-time novel results from 1975 and 1987.

1) Dune, Frank Herbert (1965)
2) Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke (1953)
3) The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
4) Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein (1961)
5) A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr (1959)
6) The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov (1953)
7) The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester (1956)
8) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein (1966)
9) More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon (1953)
10) Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny (1967)
11) Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner (1968)
12) Ringworld, Larry Niven (1970)
13) The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)
14) The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester (1953)
15) The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (1955)
16) Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement (1954)
17*) The City and the Stars, Arthur C. Clarke (1956)
17*) To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer (1971)
19) Dying Inside, Robert Silverberg (1972)
20*) Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke (1973)
20*) The Time Machine, H. G. Wells (1895)
22*) The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick (1962)
22*) Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein (1959)
24*) The Space Merchants, Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth (1953)
24*) The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells (1898)
24*) The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury (1950)
27) Cities in Flight, James Blish (1962)
28*) A Case of Conscience, James Blish (1958)
28*) 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke (1968)
30*) Time Enough for Love, Robert A. Heinlein (1973)
30*) The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov (1953)
30*) Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon (1937)
30*) Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon (1930)
34*) The Dragon in the Sea, Frank Herbert (1956)
34*) Davy, Edgar Pangborn (1964)
36*) The Door Into Summer, Robert A. Heinlein (1957)
36*) Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany (1966)
36*) A Mirror for Observers, Edgar Pangborn (1954)
36*) The Witches of Karres, James H. Schmitz (1966)
36*) Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes (1966)
41*) 1984, George Orwell (1949)
41*) Rite of Passage, Alexei Panshin (1968)

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