E-mail Locus

Eligibility Year: 1988

FICTION

1) "The Giving Plague", David Brin (#23 Spring 1988)

1) "The Time-Lapsed Man", Eric Brown (#24 Summer 1988)

2) "The Giving Plague", David Brin (#23 Spring 1988)

2) "The Time-Lapsed Man", Eric Brown (#24 Summer 1988)

3) "Big Trouble Upstairs", Eric Brown (#26 Nov/Dec 1988)

3) "The Only One", David S. Garnett (#22 Winter 1987/1988)

4) "Dark Night in Toyland", Bob Shaw (#26 Nov/Dec 1988)

4) "Krash-Bangg Joe and the Pineal-Zen Equation", Eric Brown (#21 Autumn 1987)

5*) "The Growth of the House of Usher", Brian Stableford (#24 Summer 1988)

5) "Scatter My Ashes", Greg Egan (#23 Spring 1988)

5*) "Stop Evolution in its Tracks", John Sladek (#26 Nov/Dec 1988)

7) "Our Lady of Springtime", Peter T. Garratt (#25 Sep/Oct 1988)

8) "Blit", David Langford (#25 Sep/Oct 1988)

9*) "Artefacts", Christopher Evans (#23 Spring 1988)

9*) "Lux in Tenebris", Phillip Mann (#24 Summer 1988)

9*) "Scatter My Ashes", Greg Egan (#23 Spring 1988)

ALL-TIME BEST SF AUTHOR

1) Philip K. Dick

2) Arthur C. Clarke

3) J. G. Ballard

4) Isaac Asimov

5) Robert A. Heinlein

6) Brian Aldiss

7) Frank Herbert

8) Larry Niven

9) Robert Silverberg

10) Ursula K. Le Guin

11) Gene Wolfe

12*) Harlan Ellison

12*) Michael Moorcock

14*) Ray Bradbury

14*) Harry Harrison

14*) Bob Shaw

17*) David Brin

17*) H. G. Wells

19) William Gibson

20*) C. J. Cherryh

20*) Roger Zelazny

22*) Douglas Adams

22*) Stephen R. Donaldson

24) Samuel R. Delany

25*) Alfred Bester

25*) Christopher Priest

25*) Keith Roberts

28*) John Brunner

28*) Alan Dean Foster

28*) Terry Pratchett

28*) Jack Vance

32) Richard Cowper

33) Clifford D. Simak

34*) Joanna Russ

34*) Kurt Vonnegut

36*) Robert Sheckley

36*) J. R. R. Tolkien

38*) Michael Coney

38*) John Crowley

38*) James Tiptree, Jr.

41*) Fredric Brown

41*) Orson Scott Card

41*) Ian Watson

44*) Barrington Bayley

44*) Joe Haldeman

44*) Charles L. Harness

44*) Lucius Shepard

44*) Cordwainer Smith