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  SF Novel Votes
1) To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis (Bantam Spectra) 23
2) Darwinia, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor) 10
3) Children of God, Mary Doria Russell (Villard) 9
4) Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman (Ace [1997]) 7
*) The Golden Globe, John Varley (Ace) 7
6) Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen) 6
7) The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell (Villard [1996]) 5
8) Inversions, Iain M. Banks (Orbit) 4
*) Girl in Landscape, Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday Anchor) 4

  Fantasy Novel Votes
1) A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin (Voyager; Bantam Spectra) 21
2) Mockingbird, Sean Stewart (Ace) 8
3) Stardust, Neil Gaiman (DC/Vertigo; Avon) 7
4) Sailing to Sarantium, Guy Gavriel Kay (Earthlight; HarperPrism) 6
5) A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan (Tor) 4
*) A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin [1996] 4

  Horror Novel Votes
1) Bag of Bones, Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton; Scribner) 14
2) The Tooth Fairy, Graham Joyce (Signet UK 1996; Tor) 4
*) Silk, Caitlin R. Kiernan (Roc) 4

  Nongenre Novel Votes
1) Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy (Putnam) 6
2) The Blue Place, Nicola Griffith (Avon) 4
*) A Man in Full, Tom Wolfe (Farrar Straus & Giroux) 4

  Nonfiction Book Votes
1) The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, Thomas M. Disch (Free Press) 10
2) Rocket Boys, Homer H. Hickham, Jr. (Delacorte) 4

  All-Time SF Writer Votes
1) Robert A. Heinlein 24
2) Isaac Asimov 14
3) Gene Wolfe 9
4*) Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Zelazny 7
6*) Philip K. Dick; Frank Herbert; Dan Simmons 6
9*) Ray Bradbury; David Brin; Orson Scott Card 5
12*) Poul Anderson; C.J. Cherryh; William Gibson; Robert Silverberg; Cordwainer Smith; Theodore Sturgeon 4

  All-Time Fantasy Writer Votes
1) J.R.R. Tolkien 45
2) Roger Zelazny 9
3) Fritz Leiber 7
4) Ursula K. Le Guin 5
5*) David Eddings, Neil Gaiman, Robert Jordan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Stephen King, Mercedes Lackey, Patricia A. McKillip, Tim Powers 4

  Current SF or Fantasy Writer Votes
1) Dan Simmons 11
2) Connie Willis 8
3*) Lois McMaster Bujold, Kim Stanley Robinson 7
5*) David Brin, Greg Egan, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe 5
11*) Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, C.J. Cherryh, Guy Gavriel Kay, David Weber 4

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