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setyear('1971 Locus Poll')

setcategory("novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Ringworld", author = "Larry Niven", publisher = "Ballantine" }
additem { rank = '2t', title = "Tower of Glass", author = "Robert Silverberg", publisher = "_Galaxy_ Apr,May,Jun 70; Scribners" }
additem { rank = '2t', title = "The Year of the Quiet Sun", author = "Wilson Tucker", publisher = "Ace" }
additem {rank="4", title="And Chaos Died", author="Joanna Russ", publisher="Ace"}
additem { rank = '5t', title = "Downward to the Earth", author = "Robert Silverberg", publisher = "_Galaxy_ Nov,Dec 69, Feb,Mar 70; SF Book Club" }
additem { rank = '5t', title = "Fourth Mansions", author = "R. A. Lafferty", publisher = "Ace" }
additem {rank="7", title="Tau Zero", author="Poul Anderson", publisher="Doubleday"}
additem { rank = '8', title = "Tactics of Mistake", author = "Gordon R. Dickson", publisher = "_Analog_ Oct,Nov,Dec 70, Jan 71" }
additem {rank="9", title="I Will Fear No Evil", author="Robert A. Heinlein", publisher="_Galaxy_ Jul,Aug/Sep,Oct/Nov,Dec 70; Putnam"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Star Light", author = "Hal Clement", publisher = "_Analog_ Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep 70" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Beastchild", author = "Dean R. Koontz", publisher = "Lancer" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Deryni Rising", author = "Katherine Kurtz", publisher = "Ballantine" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Chronocules", author = "D. G. Compton", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Steel Crocodile", author = "D. G. Compton", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Nine Princes in Amber", author = "Roger Zelazny", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "After Things Fell Apart", author = "Ron Goulart", publisher = "Ace" }

setyear('1972 Locus Poll')

setcategory("novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Lathe of Heaven", author = "Ursula K. Le Guin", publisher = "_Amazing_ Mar,May 71; Scribners" }
additem {rank="2", title="To Your Scattered Bodies Go", author="Philip Jose Farmer", publisher="Putnam"}
additem {rank="3", title="A Time of Changes", author="Robert Silverberg", publisher="_Galaxy_ Mar,Apr,May/Jun 71; SF Book Club; Signet"}
additem {rank="4", title="Jack of Shadows", author="Roger Zelazny", publisher="_F&SF_ Jul,Aug 71; Walker"}
additem {rank="5", title="Dragonquest", author="Anne McCaffrey", publisher="Ballantine"}
additem {rank="6", title="The World Inside", author="Robert Silverberg", publisher="Doubleday"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Devil Is Dead", author="R. A. Lafferty", publisher="Avon"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Fabulous Riverboat", author="Philip Jose Farmer", publisher="Putnam"}
additem {rank="9", title="Son of Man", author="Robert Silverberg", publisher="Ballantine"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Second Trip", author = "Robert Silverberg", publisher = "_Amazing_ Jul,Sep 71" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The World Menders", author = "Lloyd Biggle Jr.", publisher = "_Analog_ Feb,Mar,Apr 71; Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Byworlder", author = "Poul Anderson", publisher = "Signet" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Furthest", author = "Suzette Haden Elgin", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Arrive at Easterwine", author = "R. A. Lafferty", publisher = "Scribners" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Forest of Forever", author = "Thomas Burnett Swann", publisher = "Ace" }

setyear('1973 Locus Poll')

setcategory("novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Gods Themselves", author = "Isaac Asimov", publisher = "_Galaxy_ Mar/Apr 72, _If_ Mar/Apr 72, _Galaxy_ May/Jun 72; Doubleday" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Book of Skulls", author="Robert Silverberg", publisher="Scribners"}
additem {rank="3", title="Dying Inside", author="Robert Silverberg", publisher="_Galaxy_ Jul/Aug,Sep/Oct 72; Scribners"}
additem {rank="4", title="When Harlie Was One", author="David Gerrold", publisher="SF Book Club; Ballantine"}
additem {rank="5", title="A Choice of Gods", author="Clifford D. Simak", publisher="Putnam"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Sheep Look Up", author="John Brunner", publisher="Harper"}
additem {rank="7", title="There Will Be Time", author="Poul Anderson", publisher="SF Book Club; Signet"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Listeners", author="James Gunn", publisher="Scribners"}
additem {rank="9", title="The Guns of Avalon", author="Roger Zelazny", publisher="Doubleday"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Iron Dream", author = "Norman Spinrad", publisher = "Avon" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", author = "Gene Wolfe", publisher = "Scribners" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "What Entropy Means to Me", author = "George Alec Effinger", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Pritcher Mass", author = "Gordon R. Dickson", publisher = "_Analog_ Aug,Sep,Oct 72; Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Brave  & Free Men", author = "Jack Vance", publisher = "_F&SF_ Jul,Aug 72" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Deryni Checkmate", author = "Katherine Kurtz", publisher = "Ballantine" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Beyond Apollo", author = "Barry N. Malzberg", publisher = "Random" }
additem { rank = '17t', title = "Other Days, Other Eyes", author = "Bob Shaw", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '17t' , title ='Tunnel Through the Deeps', author = "Harry Harrison", publisher = "_Analog_ Apr,May,Jun 72; Putnam" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Yesterday's Children", author = "David Gerrold", publisher = "Dell" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "The Castle Keeps", author = "Andrew J. Offutt", publisher = "Berkley" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Beyond the Resurrection", author = "Gordon Eklund", publisher = "Doubleday" }

setyear('1974 Locus Poll')

setcategory("novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Rendezvous with Rama", author = "Arthur C. Clarke", publisher = "_Galaxy_ Sep,Oct 73; Harcourt" }
additem {rank="2", title="Time Enough for Love", author="Robert A. Heinlein", publisher="Putnam"}
additem {rank="3", title="The People of the Wind", author="Poul Anderson", publisher="Signet"}
additem {rank="4", title="Protector", author="Larry Niven", publisher="Ballantine"}
additem {rank="5", title="The Man Who Folded Himself", author="David Gerrold", publisher="Random"}
additem {rank="6", title="Trullion: Alastor 2262", author="Jack Vance", publisher="_Amazing_; Ballantine"}
additem { rank = '7', title = "The Far Call", author = "Gordon R. Dickson", publisher = "_Analog_ Aug,Sep,Oct 73" }
additem {rank="8", title="To Die In Italbar", author="Roger Zelazny", publisher="Doubleday"}
additem {rank="9", title="Today We Choose Faces", author="Roger Zelazny", publisher="Signet"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Cloud Walker", author = "Edmond Cooper", publisher = "Ballantine" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Relatives", author = "George Alec Effinger", publisher = "Harper & Row" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Gravity's Rainbow", author = "Thomas Pynchon", publisher = "Viking" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Herovit's World", author = "Barry N. Malzberg", publisher = "Random" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Hiero's Journey", author = "Sterling Lanier", publisher = "Chilton" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Doomsday Gene", author = "John Boyd", publisher = "_Galaxy_ May/Jun,Jul/Aug 73; Weybright & Talley" }

setyear('1975 Locus Poll')

setcategory("novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Dispossessed", author = "Ursula K. Le Guin", publisher = "Harper & Row" }
additem { rank = '2', title = "The Mote in God's Eye", author = "Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle", publisher = "Simon & Schuster" }
additem {rank="3", title="Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said", author="Philip K. Dick", publisher="Doubleday"}
additem {rank="4", title="The Godwhale", author="T. J. Bass", publisher="Ballantine"}
additem {rank="5", title="The Unsleeping Eye", author="D. G. Compton", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Inverted World", author="Christopher Priest", publisher="_Galaxy_ Dec 73, Jan,Feb,Mar 74; Harper & Row"}
additem {rank="7", title="Fire Time", author="Poul Anderson", publisher="Doubleday"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Forever War", author="Joe Haldeman", publisher="St. Martin's"}
additem {rank="9", title="The Dream Millennium", author="James White", publisher="Ballantine"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Twilight of Briareus", author = "Richard Cowper", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Company of Glory", author = "Edgar Pangborn", publisher = "_Galaxy_ Aug,Sep,Oct 74; Pyramid" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Domains of Koryphon", author = "Jack Vance", publisher = "_Amazing_ Aug,Oct 74; Bobbs Merrill" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld", author = "Patricia A. McKillip", publisher = "Atheneum" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "How Are the Mighty Fallen", author = "Thomas Burnett Swann", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Total Eclipse", author = "John Brunner", publisher = "_Amazing_ Apr,Jun 74; Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "The Destruction of the Temple", author = "Barry N. Malzberg", publisher = "Pocket" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Star Gate", author = "Tak Hallus", publisher = "_Analog_ Jun,Jul,Aug 74" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Star Rider", author = "Doris Piserchia", publisher = "Bantam" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "A Midsummer Tempest", author = "Poul Anderson", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Prince of Annwn", author = "Evangeline Walton", publisher = "Ballantine" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Walk to the End of the World", author = "Suzy McKee Charnas", publisher = "Ballantine" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Icerigger", author = "Alan Dean Foster", publisher = "Ballantine" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows", author = "Poul Anderson", publisher = "_If_ Sep/Oct,Dec 74" }

setcategory("all time novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Dune", author = "Frank Herbert" }
additem { rank = '2', title = "Childhood's End", author = "Arthur C. Clarke" }
additem { rank = '3', title = "The Left Hand of Darkness", author = "Ursula K. Le Guin" }
additem { rank = '4', title = "Stranger in a Strange Land", author = "Robert A. Heinlein" }
additem { rank = '5', title = "A Canticle for Leibowitz", author = "Walter M. Miller Jr." }
additem { rank = '6', title = "The Foundation Trilogy", author = "Isaac Asimov" }
additem { rank = '7', title = "The Stars My Destination", author = "Alfred Bester" }
additem { rank = '8', title = "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress", author = "Robert A. Heinlein" }
additem { rank = '9', title = "More Than Human", author = "Theodore Sturgeon" }
additem { rank = '10', title = "Lord of Light", author = "Roger Zelazny" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Stand on Zanzibar", author = "John Brunner" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Ringworld", author = "Larry Niven" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Dispossessed", author = "Ursula K. Le Guin" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Demolished Man", author = "Alfred Bester" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Lord of the Rings", author = "J. R. R. Tolkien" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Mission of Gravity", author = "Hal Clement" }
additem { rank = '17t', title = "The City and the Stars", author = "Arthur C. Clarke" }
additem { rank = '17t', title = "To Your Scattered Bodies Go", author = "Philip Jose Farmer" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Dying Inside", author = "Robert Silverberg" }
additem { rank = '20t', title = "Rendezvous with Rama", author = "Arthur C. Clarke" }
additem { rank = '20t', title = "The Time Machine", author = "H. G. Wells" }
additem { rank = '22t', title = "The Man in the High Castle", author = "Philip K. Dick" }
additem { rank = '22t', title = "Starship Troopers", author = "Robert A. Heinlein" }
additem { rank = '24t', title = "The Martian Chronicles", author = "Ray Bradbury" }
additem { rank = '24t', title = "The Space Merchants", author = "Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth" }
additem { rank = '24t', title = "The War of the Worlds", author = "H. G. Wells" }
additem { rank = '27', title = "Cities in Flight", author = "James Blish" }
additem { rank = '28t', title = "2001: A Space Odyssey", author = "Arthur C. Clarke" }
additem { rank = '28t', title = "A Case of Conscience", author = "James Blish" }
additem { rank = '30t', title = "The Caves of Steel", author = "Isaac Asimov" }
additem { rank = '30t', title = "Last and First Men", author = "Olaf Stapledon" }
additem { rank = '30t', title = "Star Maker", author = "Olaf Stapledon" }
additem { rank = '30t', title = "Time Enough for Love", author = "Robert A. Heinlein" }
additem { rank = '34t', title = "Davy", author = "Edgar Pangborn" }
additem { rank = '34t', title = "The Dragon in the Sea", author = "Frank Herbert" }
additem { rank = '36t', title = "Babel-17", author = "Samuel R. Delany" }
additem { rank = '36t', title = "The Door Into Summer", author = "Robert A. Heinlein" }
additem { rank = '36t', title = "Flowers for Algernon", author = "Daniel Keyes" }
additem { rank = '36t', title = "A Mirror for Observers", author = "Edgar Pangborn" }
additem { rank = '36t', title = "The Witches of Karres", author = "James H. Schmitz" }
additem { rank = '41t', title = "1984", author = "George Orwell" }
additem { rank = '41t', title = "Rite of Passage", author = "Alexei Panshin" }

setyear('1976 Locus Poll')


setcategory("novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Forever War", author = "Joe Haldeman", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Shockwave Rider", author="John Brunner", publisher="Harper & Row"}
additem {rank="3", title="The Computer Connection", author="Alfred Bester", publisher="_Analog_ Nov,Dec 74, Jan 75; Berkley", othertitle = '[serialized as "The Indian Giver"]' }
additem {rank="4", title="The Stochastic Man", author="Robert Silverberg", publisher="_F&SF_ Apr,May,Jun 75; Harper & Row"}
additem {rank="5", title="Dhalgren", author="Samuel R. Delany", publisher="Bantam"}
additem {rank="6", title="Imperial Earth", author="Arthur C. Clarke", publisher="Gollancz; Harcourt"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Heritage of Hastur", author="Marion Zimmer Bradley", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="8", title="Doorways in the Sand", author="Roger Zelazny", publisher="_Analog_ Jun,Jul,Aug 75; Harper & Row"}
additem {rank="9", title="Norstrilia", author="Cordwainer Smith", publisher="Ballantine"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Female Man", author = "Joanna Russ", publisher = "Bantam" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Sign of the Unicorn", author = "Roger Zelazny", publisher = "_Galaxy_ Jan,Feb,Mar 75; Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Inferno", author = "Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle", publisher = "_Galaxy_ Aug,Sep,Oct 75" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Showboat World", author = "Jack Vance", publisher = "Pyramid" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire", author = "Michael Bishop", publisher = "Ballantine" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Exile Waiting", author = "Vonda N. McIntyre", publisher = "Fawcett" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Blake's Progress", author = "Ray Nelson", publisher = "Laser" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Warriors of Dawn", author = "M. A. Foster", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Lifeboat", author = "Gordon R. Dickson & Harry Harrison", publisher = "_Analog_ Feb,Mar,Apr 75; Harper & Row" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Illuminatus!", author = "Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson", publisher = "Dell" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "The Birthgrave", author = "Tanith Lee", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Missing Man", author = "Katherine MacLean", publisher = "Putnam" }

setyear('1977 Locus Poll')

setcategory("novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang", author = "Kate Wilhelm", publisher = "Harper & Row" }
additem {rank="2", title="Mindbridge", author="Joe Haldeman", publisher="St. Martin's"}
additem {rank="3", title="Man Plus", author="Frederik Pohl", publisher="_F&SF_ Apr,May,Jun 76; Random"}
additem {rank="4", title="Children of Dune", author="Frank Herbert", publisher="_Analog_ Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr 76; Berkley/Putnam"}
additem {rank="5", title="A World Out of Time", author="Larry Niven", publisher="Holt"}
additem {rank="6", title="Shadrach in the Furnace", author="Robert Silverberg", publisher="_Analog_ Aug,Sep,Oct 76; Bobbs-Merrill"}
additem {rank="7", title="Imperial Earth", author="Arthur C. Clarke", publisher="Harcourt"}
additem {rank="8", title="Millennium", author="Ben Bova", publisher="Random"}
additem {rank="9", title="The Hand of Oberon", author="Roger Zelazny", publisher="_Galaxy_ May,Jul,Sep 76; Doubleday"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Brothers of Earth", author = "C. J. Cherryh", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Shattered Chain", author = "Marion Zimmer Bradley", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Maske: Thaery", author = "Jack Vance", publisher = "Berkley/Putnam" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Michaelmas", author = "Algis Budrys", publisher = "_F&SF_ Aug,Sep 76" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Triton", author = "Samuel R. Delany", publisher = "Bantam" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Clewiston Test", author = "Kate Wilhelm", publisher = "Farrar" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Dragonsong", author = "Anne McCaffrey", publisher = "Atheneum" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Inferno", author = "Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle", publisher = "Pocket" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "The Dragon and the George", author = "Gordon R. Dickson", publisher = "Ballantine" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Cloned Lives", author = "Pamela Sargent", publisher = "Fawcett" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "The End of All Songs", author = "Michael Moorcock", publisher = "Harper & Row" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Floating Worlds", author = "Cecelia Holland", publisher = "Knopf" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Time of the Fourth Horseman", author = "Chelsea Quinn Yarbro", publisher = "Doubleday" }

setyear('1978 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Gateway", author = "Frederik Pohl", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem {rank="2", title="In the Ocean of Night", author="Gregory Benford", publisher="Dial"}
additem {rank="3", title="The Ophiuchi Hotline", author="John Varley", publisher="Dial"}
additem {rank="4", title="Time Storm", author="Gordon R. Dickson", publisher="St. Martin's"}
additem {rank="5", title="Michaelmas", author="Algis Budrys", publisher="Berkley/Putnam"}
additem {rank="6", title="A Scanner Darkly", author="Philip K. Dick", publisher="Doubleday"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Dosadi Experiment", author="Frank Herbert", publisher="Berkley/Putnam"}
additem { rank = '8', title = "Lucifer's Hammer", author = "Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle", publisher = "Playboy" }
additem {rank="9", title="Dragonsinger", author="Anne McCaffrey", publisher="Atheneum"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Dying of the Light", author = "George R. R. Martin", publisher = "Simon & Schuster" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Forbidden Tower", author = "Marion Zimmer Bradley", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Hunter of Worlds", author = "C. J. Cherryh", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Mirkheim", author = "Poul Anderson", publisher = "Berkley/Putnam" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Dark Design", author = "Philip Jose Farmer", publisher = "Berkley/Putnam" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "A Heritage of Stars", author = "Clifford D. Simak", publisher = "Berkley/Putnam" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Cirque", author = "Terry Carr", publisher = "Bobbs-Merrill" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Moonstar Odyssey", author = "David Gerrold", publisher = "Signet" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Midnight at the Well of Stars", author = "Jack L. Chalker", publisher = "Ballantine/Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Inherit the Stars", author = "James P. Hogan", publisher = "Ballantine/Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "All My Sins Remembered", author = "Joe Haldeman", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "The Martian Inca", author = "Ian Watson", publisher = "Gollancz; Scribers" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "A Little Knowledge", author = "Michael Bishop", publisher = "Berkley/Putnam" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "If the Stars Are Gods", author = "Gregory Benford & Gordon Eklund", publisher = "Berkley/Putnam" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Silmarillion", author = "J. R. R. Tolkien", publisher = "Houghton Mifflin" }
additem {rank="2", title="Our Lady of Darkness", author="Fritz Leiber", publisher="Berkley/Putnam"}
additem {rank="3", title="The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever", author="Stephen R. Donaldson", publisher="Holt"}
additem {rank="4", title="The Shining", author="Stephen King", publisher="Doubleday"}
additem {rank="5", title="The Sword of Shannara", author="Terry Brooks", publisher="Random"}
additem {rank="6", title="Sword of the Demon", author="Richard A. Lupoff", publisher="Harper & Row"}
additem {rank="7", title="Heir of Sea and Fire", author="Patricia A. McKillip", publisher="Atheneum"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Book of Merlyn", author="T. H. White", publisher="Texas Press"}
additem {rank="9", title="A Spell for Chameleon", author="Piers Anthony", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Grey Mane of Morning", author = "Joy Chant", publisher = "Allen & Unwin" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Cry Silver Bells", author = "Thomas Burnett Swann", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Trey of Swords", author = "Andre Norton", publisher = "G&D" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Queens Walk in the Dusk", author = "Thomas Burnett Swann", publisher = "Heritage" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Silver on the Tree", author = "Susan Cooper", publisher = "Atheneum" }

setyear('1979 Locus Poll')

setcategory("novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Dreamsnake", author = "Vonda N. McIntyre", publisher = "Houghton Mifflin" }
additem {rank="2", title="Blind Voices", author="Tom Reamy", publisher="Berkley/Putnam"}
additem {rank="3", title="The White Dragon", author="Anne McCaffrey", publisher="Ballantine/Del Rey"}
additem {rank="4", title="The Faded Sun: Kesrith", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="5", title="Colony", author="Ben Bova", publisher="Pocket"}
additem {rank="6", title="Stormqueen!", author="Marion Zimmer Bradley", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Far Call", author="Gordon R. Dickson", publisher="Dial"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Avatar", author="Poul Anderson", publisher="Berkley/Putnam"}
additem {rank="9", title="The Courts of Chaos", author="Roger Zelazny", publisher="Doubleday"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Strangers", author = "Gardner Dozois", publisher = "Berkley/Putnam" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Stars In Shroud", author = "Gregory Benford", publisher = "Berkley/Putnam" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Up the Walls of the World", author = "James Tiptree Jr.", publisher = "Berkley/Putnam" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Outcasts of Heaven Belt", author = "Joan D. Vinge", publisher = "Signet" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Sight of Proteus", author = "Charles Sheffield", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Stand", author = "Stephen King", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Journey", author = "Marta Randall", publisher = "Pocket" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Gloriana", author = "Michael Moorcock", publisher = "Allison & Busby" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Saint Camber", author = "Katherine Kurtz", publisher = "Ballantine/Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "The Faded Sun: Shon'jir", author = "C. J. Cherryh", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Stardance II", author = "Spider & Jeanne Robinson", publisher = "_Analog_ Sep,Oct,Nov 78" }
additem { rank = '21t', title = "The Eye of the Heron", author = "Ursula K. Le Guin", publisher = "in _Millennial Women_" }
additem { rank = '21t', title = "Hotel Transylvania", author = "Chelsea Quinn Yarbro", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Masters of Solitude", author = "Marvin Kaye & Parke Godwin", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "A Different Light", author = "Elizabeth A. Lynn", publisher = "Berkley" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "Kalki", author = "Gore Vidal", publisher = "Random" }

setyear('1980 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Titan", author = "John Varley", publisher = "Berkley/Putnam" }
additem {rank="2", title="Jem", author="Frederik Pohl", publisher="St. Martin's"}
additem {rank="3", title="The Fountains of Paradise", author="Arthur C. Clarke", publisher="Harcourt"}
additem { rank = '4', title = "Stardance", author = "Spider & Jeanne Robinson", publisher = "Dial" }
additem {rank="5", title="On Wings of Song", author="Thomas M. Disch", publisher="St. Martin's"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Faded Sun: Kutath", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Road to Corlay", author="Richard Cowper", publisher="Pocket"}
additem {rank="8", title="Dragondrums", author="Anne McCaffrey", publisher="Atheneum"}
additem {rank="9", title="Engine Summer", author="John Crowley", publisher="Doubleday"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Face", author = "Jack Vance", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Juniper Time", author = "Kate Wilhelm", publisher = "Harper & Row" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Transfigurations", author = "Michael Bishop", publisher = "Berkley/Putnam" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Roadmarks", author = "Roger Zelazny", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Kinsman", author = "Ben Bova", publisher = "Dial" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "SS-GB", author = "Len Deighton", publisher = "Knopf" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Catacomb Years", author = "Michael Bishop", publisher = "Berkley/Putnam" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Web Between the Worlds", author = "Charles Sheffield", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Mayflies", author = "Kevin O'Donnell Jr.", publisher = "Berkley" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "The Unlimited Dream Company", author = "J. G. Ballard", publisher = "Holt" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "A Planet Called Treason", author = "Orson Scott Card", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "A World Between", author = "Norman Spinrad", publisher = "Pocket" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "The Two Faces of Tomorrow", author = "James P. Hogan", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "The Day of the Klesh", author = "M. A. Foster", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "The Ringworld Engineers", author = "Larry Niven", publisher = "Phantasia" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "Janissaries", author = "Jerry Pournelle", publisher = "Ace" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Harpist in the Wind", author = "Patricia A. McKillip", publisher = "Atheneum" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Dead Zone", author="Stephen King", publisher="Viking"}
additem {rank="3", title="Tales of Neveryon", author="Samuel R. Delany", publisher="Bantam"}
additem {rank="4", title="Castle Roogna", author="Piers Anthony", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="5", title="The Merman's Children", author="Poul Anderson", publisher="Berkley/Putnam"}
additem {rank="6", title="Fires of Azeroth", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="7", title="Watchtower", author="Elizabeth A. Lynn", publisher="Berkley/Putnam"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Last Enchantment", author="Mary Stewart", publisher="Morrow"}
additem {rank="9", title="Malafrena", author="Ursula K. Le Guin", publisher="Putnam"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Death's Master", author = "Tanith Lee", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Palace", author = "Chelsea Quinn Yarbro", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Dancers of Arun", author = "Elizabeth A. Lynn", publisher = "Berkley/Putnam" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Kindred", author = "Octavia E. Butler", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Daughter of the Bright Moon", author = "Lynn Abbey", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Door Into Fire", author = "Diane Duane", publisher = "Dell" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Sorcerer's Son", author = "Phyllis Eisenstein", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Drawing of the Dark", author = "Tim Powers", publisher = "Del Rey" }

setyear('1981 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Snow Queen", author = "Joan D. Vinge", publisher = "Dial" }
additem {rank="2", title="Beyond the Blue Event Horizon", author="Frederik Pohl", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="3", title="The Ringworld Engineers", author="Larry Niven", publisher="Phantasia; Holt"}
additem {rank="4", title="Wizard", author="John Varley", publisher="Berkley/Putnam"}
additem {rank="5", title="Timescape", author="Gregory Benford", publisher="Simon & Schuster"}
additem {rank="6", title="Mockingbird", author="Walter Tevis", publisher="Doubleday"}
additem {rank="7", title="Serpent's Reach", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="8", title="Firestarter", author="Stephen King", publisher="Phantasia; Viking"}
additem {rank="9", title="The Number of the Beast", author="Robert A. Heinlein", publisher="Fawcett"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Magic Labyrinth", author = "Philip Jose Farmer", publisher = "Berkley/Putnam" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Two to Conquer", author = "Marion Zimmer Bradley", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Wild Seed", author = "Octavia E. Butler", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Golem 100", author = "Alfred Bester", publisher = "Simon & Schuster" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Dragon's Egg", author = "Robert L. Forward", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Dangerous Games", author = "Marta Randall", publisher = "Pocket" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Songs from the Stars", author = "Norman Spinrad", publisher = "Simon & Schuster" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Songmaster", author = "Orson Scott Card", publisher = "Dial" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Eyes of Fire", author = "Michael Bishop", publisher = "Pocket" }
additem { rank = '19t', title = "The Gardens of Delight", author = "Ian Watson", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '19t', title = "Molly Zero", author = "Keith Roberts", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Thrice Upon a Time", author = "James P. Hogan", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Waves", author = "M. A. Foster", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "First Channel", author = "Jean Lorrah & Jacqueline Lichtenberg", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "City Come A'Walking", author = "John Shirley", publisher = "Dell" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Lord Valentine's Castle", author = "Robert Silverberg", publisher = "Harper & Row" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Shadow of the Torturer", author="Gene Wolfe", publisher="Simon & Schuster"}
additem {rank="3", title="The Wounded Land", author="Stephen R. Donaldson", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="4", title="Changeling", author="Roger Zelazny", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="5", title="The Northern Girl", author="Elizabeth A. Lynn", publisher="Berkley/Putnam"}
additem {rank="6", title="Split Infinity", author="Piers Anthony", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Beginning Place", author="Ursula K. Le Guin", publisher="Harper & Row"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Vampire Tapestry", author="Suzy McKee Charnas", publisher="Simon & Schuster"}
additem {rank="9", title="Shadowland", author="Peter Straub", publisher="Coward, McCann & Geoghegan"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Mist", author = "Stephen King", publisher = "in _Dark Forces_, Viking"}
additem { rank = '11', title = "Ariosto", author = "Chelsea Quinn Yarbro", publisher = "Pocket" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Kill the Dead", author = "Tanith Lee", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Thorn", author = "Fred Saberhagen", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Sabella", author = "Tanith Lee", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "After Dark", author = "Manly Wade Wellman", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "A Storm of Wings", author = "M. John Harrison", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Orphan", author = "Robert Stallman", publisher = "Pocket" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Duncton Wood", author = "William Horwood", publisher = "McGraw-Hill" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "All Darkness Met", author = "Glen Cook", publisher = "Berkley" }
additem { rank = '20t', title = "Firelord", author = "Parke Godwin", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '20t', title = "Necropolis", author = "Basil Copper", publisher = "Arkham House" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Master of the Five Magics", author = "Lyndon Hardy", publisher = "Del Rey" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Dragon's Egg", author = "Robert L. Forward", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Orphan", author="Robert Stallman", publisher="Pocket"}
additem {rank="3", title="Sundiver", author="David Brin", publisher="Bantam"}
additem {rank="4", title="Beyond Rejection", author="Justin Leiber", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="5", title="The Gates of Heaven", author="Paul Preuss", publisher="Bantam"}
additem {rank="6", title="Master of the Five Magics", author="Lyndon Hardy", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="7", title="Hawk of May", author="Gillian Bradshaw", publisher="Simon & Schuster"}
additem {rank="8", title="Still Forms on Foxfield", author="Joan Slonczewski", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="9", title="Yearwood", author="Paul Hazel", publisher="Atlantic/Little, Brown"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Scavengers", author = "David J. Skal", publisher = "Pocket" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Web of Angels", author = "John M. Ford", publisher = "Pocket" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "White Light", author = "Rudy Rucker", publisher = "Pocket" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Man in the Darksuit", author = "Dennis R. Caro", publisher = "Pocket" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "One On Me", author = "Tim Huntley", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "A Lost Tale", author = "Dale Estey", publisher = "St. Martin's" }

setyear('1982 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Many-Colored Land", author = "Julian May", publisher = "Houghton Mifflin" }
additem { rank = '2', title = "Windhaven", author = "George R. R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem {rank="3", title="Downbelow Station", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="DAW"}
additem { rank = '4', title = "Dream Park", author = "Larry Niven & Steven Barnes", publisher = "Phantasia; Ace" }
additem {rank="5", title="Project Pope", author="Clifford D. Simak", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="6", title="God Emperor of Dune", author="Frank Herbert", publisher="Putnam"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Cool War", author="Frederik Pohl", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="8", title="Sharra's Exile", author="Marion Zimmer Bradley", publisher="DAW"}
additem { rank = '9', title = "Oath of Fealty", author = "Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle", publisher = "Phantasia; Timescape" }
additem { rank = '10', title = "Riddley Walker", author = "Russell Hoban", publisher = "Summit" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Divine Invasion", author = "Philip K. Dick", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Book of Dreams", author = "Jack Vance", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Sardonyx Net", author = "Elizabeth A. Lynn", publisher = "Putnam" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "King David's Spaceship", author = "Jerry Pournelle", publisher = "Simon & Schuster" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Worlds", author = "Joe Haldeman", publisher = "Viking" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "At the Eye of the Ocean", author = "Hilbert Schenck", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Radix", author = "A. A. Attanasio", publisher = "Morrow" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "The Unreasoning Mask", author = "Philip Jose Farmer", publisher = "Putnam" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Voyagers", author = "Ben Bova", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Dream Dancer", author = "Janet Morris", publisher = "Putnam" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "The Pride of Chanur", author = "C. J. Cherryh", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "The Dreamers", author = "James Gunn", publisher = "Simon & Schuster" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Twelve Fair Kingdoms", author = "Suzette Haden Elgin", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "Giants' Star", author = "James P. Hogan", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "The Affirmation", author = "Christopher Priest", publisher = "Scribners" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "Deathhunter", author = "Ian Watson", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '27', title = "Valis", author = "Philip K. Dick", publisher = "Bantam" }
additem { rank = '28', title = "Lilith", author = "Jack L. Chalker", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '29', title = "Systemic Shock", author = "Dean Ing", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '30t', title = "In the Hands of Glory", author = "Phyllis Eisenstein", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '30t', title = "Wave Without a Shore", author = "C. J. Cherryh", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Claw of the Conciliator", author = "Gene Wolfe", publisher = "Simon & Schuster" }
additem {rank="2", title="Little, Big", author="John Crowley", publisher="Bantam"}
additem {rank="3", title="The Changing Land", author="Roger Zelazny", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="4", title="The War Hound and the World's Pain", author="Michael Moorcock", publisher="Timescape"}
additem {rank="5", title="The Captive", author="Robert Stallman", publisher="Timescape"}
additem {rank="6", title="Camber the Heretic", author="Katherine Kurtz", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Keep", author="F. Paul Wilson", publisher="Morrow"}
additem {rank="8", title="Horn Crown", author="Andre Norton", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="9", title="A Sense of Shadow", author="Kate Wilhelm", publisher="Houghton Mifflin"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Lycanthia", author = "Tanith Lee", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Path of the Eclispe", author = "Chelsea Quinn Yarbro", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Delusion's Master", author = "Tanith Lee", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Peregrine: Secundus", author = "Avram Davidson", publisher = "Berkley" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Kingdom of Summer", author = "Gillian Bradshaw", publisher = "Simon & Schuster" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Esbae: A Winter's Tale", author = "Linda Haldeman", publisher = "Avon" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Journey Behind the Wind", author = "Patricia Wrightson", publisher = "Atheneum" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Sable Moon", author = "Nancy Springer", publisher = "Pocket" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Madwand", author = "Roger Zelazny", publisher = "Phantasia; Ace" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Gryphon in Glory", author = "Andre Norton", publisher = "Atheneum" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Too Long a Sacrifice", author = "Mildred Downey Broxon", publisher = "Dell" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Cujo", author = "Stephen King", publisher = "Viking" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Blue Adept", author = "Piers Anthony", publisher = "Del Rey" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Starship, Haiku", author = "Somtow Sucharitkul", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem {rank="2", title="At the Eye of the Ocean", author="Hilbert Schenck", publisher="Timescape"}
additem {rank="3", title="Radix", author="A. A. Attanasio", publisher="Morrow"}
additem {rank="4", title="The Breaking of Northwall", author="Paul O. Williams", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="5", title="War Games", author="Karl Hansen", publisher="Playboy"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Prince of Morning Bells", author="Nancy Kress", publisher="Timescape"}
additem {rank="7", title="Revolution from Rosinante", author="Alexis Gilliland", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="8", title="A Storm Upon Ulster", author="Kenneth Flint", publisher="Bantam"}
additem {rank="9", title="Under the City of Angels", author="Jerry Earl Brown", publisher="Bantam"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Slow Fall to Dawn", author = "Stephen Leigh", publisher = "Bantam" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Tintagel", author = "Paul H. Cook", publisher = "Berkley" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Lanark", author = "Alasdair Gray", publisher = "Harper" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Pilgrimage", author = "Drew Mendelson", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Daystar and Shadow", author = "James B. Johnson", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '15t', title = "The Former King", author = "Adam Corby", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '15t', title = "The Tularemia Gambit", author = "Steve Perry", publisher = "Fawcett" }

setyear('1983 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Foundation's Edge", author = "Isaac Asimov", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem {rank="2", title="2010: Odyssey Two", author="Arthur C. Clarke", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="3", title="Friday", author="Robert A. Heinlein", publisher="Holt"}
additem {rank="4", title="The Pride of Chanur", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="5", title="Courtship Rite", author="Donald Kingsbury", publisher="Timescape"}
additem {rank="6", title="Helliconia Spring", author="Brian W. Aldiss", publisher="Atheneum"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Crystal Singer", author="Anne McCaffrey", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="8", title="Starburst", author="Frederik Pohl", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="9", title="Merchanter's Luck", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="DAW"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Life, the Universe and Everything", author = "Douglas Adams", publisher = "Harmony" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Golden Torc", author = "Julian May", publisher = "Houghton Mifflin" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Hawkmistress!", author = "Marion Zimmer Bradley", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Roderick", author = "John Sladek", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "No Enemy But Time", author = "Michael Bishop", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Eye of Cat", author = "Roger Zelazny", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "The Descent of Anansi", author = "Larry Niven & Steven Barnes", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Mindkiller", author = "Spider Robinson", publisher = "Holt" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "A Rose for Armageddon", author = "Hilbert Schenck", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "The White Plague", author = "Frank Herbert", publisher = "Putnam" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Coils", author = "Roger Zelazny & Fred Saberhagen", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Wintermind", author = "Marvin Kaye & Parke Godwin", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Birthright: The Book of Man", author = "Mike Resnick", PUBLISHER = "NAL" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Aurelia", author = "R. A. Lafferty", publisher = "Starblaze" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "Light on the Sound", author = "Somtow Sucharitkul", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "Nor Crystal Tears", author = "Alan Dean Foster", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "The Fall of the Shell", author = "Paul Williams", publisher = "Del Rey" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Sword of the Lictor", author = "Gene Wolfe", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Citadel of the Autarch", author="Gene Wolfe", publisher="Timescape"}
additem {rank="3", title="Fevre Dream", author="George R. R. Martin", publisher="Poseidon"}
additem {rank="4", title="The One Tree", author="Stephen R. Donaldson", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="5", title="The Transmigration of Timothy Archer", author="Philip K. Dick", publisher="Timescape"}
additem {rank="6", title="Ogre, Ogre", author="Piers Anthony", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="7", title="Tempting Fate", author="Chelsea Quinn Yarbro", publisher="St. Martin's"}
additem {rank="8", title="Centaur Aisle", author="Piers Anthony", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="9", title="Juxtaposition", author="Piers Anthony", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Oh, Susannah", author = "Kate Wilhelm", publisher = "Houghton Mifflin" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Pawn of Prophecy", author = "David Eddings", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Elfstones of Shannara", author = "Terry Brooks", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Black Beast", author = "Nancy Springer", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Swordbearer", author = "Glen Cook", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "In Winter's Shadow", author = "Gillian Bradshaw", publisher = "Simon & Schuster" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "In Viriconium", author = "M. John Harrison", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Delicate Dependency", author = "Michael Talbot", publisher = "Avon" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "The Blue Sword", author = "Robin McKinley", publisher = "Greenwillow" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "The Bloodwind", author = "Charles L. Grant", publisher = "Fawcett" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Courtship Rite", author = "Donald Kingsbury", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Red Magician", author="Lisa Goldstein", publisher="Timescape"}
additem {rank="3", title="The Windhover Tapes: An Image of Voices", author="Warren G. Norwood", publisher="Bantam"}
additem {rank="4", title="Lady of Light", author="Diana L. Paxson", publisher="Timescape"}
additem {rank="5", title="Dreamrider", author="Sandra Miesel", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Space Eater", author="Dave Langford", publisher="Arrow"}
additem {rank="7", title="God Stalk", author="P. C. Hodgell", publisher="Atheneum"}
additem {rank="8", title="Earthchild", author="Sharon Webb", publisher="Atheneum"}
additem {rank="9", title="The Delicate Dependency", author="Michael Talbot", publisher="Avon"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Magician", author = "Raymond E. Feist", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Kalevide", author = "Lou Goble", publisher = "Bantam" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Sorcerer's Legacy", author = "Janny Wurts", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "A Greater Infinity", author = "Michael McCollum", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Shadow Hunter", author = "Pat Murphy", publisher = "Popular Library" }

setyear('1984 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Startide Rising", author = "David Brin", publisher = "Bantam" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Robots of Dawn", author="Isaac Asimov", publisher="Doubleday"}
additem {rank="3", title="Millennium", author="John Varley", publisher="Berkley"}
additem {rank="4", title="Helliconia Summer", author="Brian W. Aldiss", publisher="Atheneum"}
additem {rank="5", title="The Void Captain's Tale", author="Norman Spinrad", publisher="Timescape"}
additem {rank="6", title="Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern", author="Anne McCaffrey", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="7", title="Thendara House", author="Marion Zimmer Bradley", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="8", title="Against Infinity", author="Gregory Benford", publisher="Timescape"}
additem {rank="9", title="Orion Shall Rise", author="Poul Anderson", publisher="Timescape"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Nonborn King", author = "Julian May", publisher = "Houghton Mifflin" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Superluminal", author = "Vonda N. McIntyre", publisher = "Houghton Mifflin" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Welcome, Chaos", author = "Kate Wilhelm", publisher = "Houghton Mifflin" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Crucible of Time", author = "John Brunner", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Worlds Apart", author = "Joe Haldeman", publisher = "Viking" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Valentine Pontifex", author = "Robert Silverberg", publisher = "Arbor House" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Gods of Riverworld", author = "Philip Jose Farmer", publisher = "Putnam" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Citadel of the Autarch", author = "Gene Wolfe", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Forty Thousand in Gehenna", author = "C. J. Cherryh", publisher = "Phantasia" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "A Matter for Men", author = "David Gerrold", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica", author = "John Calvin Batchelor", publisher = "Dial" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Wall Around a Star", author = "Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Golden Witchbreed", author = "Mary Gentle", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Broken Symmetries", author = "Paul Preuss", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "Roderick at Random", author = "John Sladek", publisher = "Granada" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "There Is No Darkness", author = "Joe Haldeman & Jack C. Haldeman II", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "Code of the Lifemaker", author = "James P. Hogan", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '27', title = "Tik-Tok", author = "John Sladek", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '28', title = "Transformer", author = "M. A. Foster", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Mists of Avalon", author = "Marion Zimmer Bradley", publisher = "Knopf" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Anubis Gates", author="Tim Powers", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="3", title="The Armageddon Rag", author="George R. R. Martin", publisher="Poseidon"}
additem {rank="4", title="Lyonesse", author="Jack Vance", publisher="Berkley"}
additem {rank="5", title="White Gold Wielder", author="Stephen R. Donaldson", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="6", title="Christine", author="Stephen King", publisher="Viking"}
additem {rank="7", title="Pet Sematary", author="Stephen King", publisher="Doubleday"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Dreamstone", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="9", title="Damiano", author="R. A. MacAvoy", publisher="Bantam"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Neveryona", author = "Samuel R. Delany", publisher = "Bantam" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Dragon on a Pedestal", author = "Piers Anthony", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Hart's Hope", author = "Orson Scott Card", publisher = "Berkley" }
additem { rank = '13t', title = "Cugel's Saga", author = "Jack Vance", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '13t', title = "The Sword of Winter", author = "Marta Randall", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Tea with the Black Dragon", author = "R. A. MacAvoy", publisher = "Bantam" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Magician's Gambit", author = "David Eddings", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Tree of Swords and Jewels", author = "C. J. Cherryh", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "On a Pale Horse", author = "Piers Anthony", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Floating Dragon", author = "Peter Straub", publisher = "Putnam" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "The Neverending Story", author = "Michael Ende", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Anackire", author = "Tanith Lee", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "The Dragon Waiting", author = "John M. Ford", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Sung in Shadow", author = "Tanith Lee", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "'Ware Hawk!", author = "Andre Norton", publisher = "Atheneum"}
additem { rank = '25', title = "The Silent Gondoliers", author = "S. Morgenstern (William Goldman)", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "The Sword Is Forged", author = "Evangeline Walton", publisher = "Timescape" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Tea with the Black Dragon", author = "R. A. MacAvoy", publisher = "Bantam" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Blackcollar", author="Timothy Zahn", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="3", title="A Rumor of Angels", author="M. Bradley Kellogg", publisher="NAL/Signet"}
additem {rank="4", title="King's Blood Four", author="Sheri S. Tepper", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="5", title="Starrigger", author="John DeChancie", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Shadow of the Ship", author="Robert W. Franson", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="7", title="Harpy's Flight", author="Megan Lindholm", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="8", title="Anvil of the Heart", author="Bruce T. Holmes", publisher="Haven"}
additem {rank="9", title="The Forest of App", author="Gloria Rand Dank", publisher="Greenwillow"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Ratha's Creature", author = "Clare Bell", publisher = "Atheneum/Argo" }

setyear('1985 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Integral Trees", author = "Larry Niven", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem {rank="2", title="Demon", author="John Varley", publisher="Berkley/Putnam"}
additem {rank="3", title="Heechee Rendezvous", author="Frederik Pohl", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="4", title="Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand", author="Samuel R. Delany", publisher="Bantam"}
additem {rank="5", title="Chanur's Venture", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="Phantasia; DAW"}
additem {rank="6", title="Across the Sea of Suns", author="Gregory Benford", publisher="Timescape"}
additem {rank="7", title="West of Eden", author="Harry Harrison", publisher="Bantam"}
additem {rank="8", title="Neuromancer", author="William Gibson", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="9", title="The Final Encyclopedia", author="Gordon R. Dickson", publisher="Tor"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "City of Sorcery", author = "Marion Zimmer Bradley", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Icehenge", author = "Kim Stanley Robinson", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Peace War", author = "Vernor Vinge", publisher = "Bluejay" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "World's End", author = "Joan D. Vinge", publisher = "Bluejay" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Clay's Ark", author = "Octavia E. Butler", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Adversary", author = "Julian May", publisher = "Houghton Mifflin" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "The Wild Shore", author = "Kim Stanley Robinson", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Heretics of Dune", author = "Frank Herbert", publisher = "Gollancz; Putnam" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Emergence", author = "David R. Palmer", publisher = "Bantam" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "A Day for Damnation", author = "David Gerrold", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Native Tongue", author = "Suzette Haden Elgin", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Green Eyes", author = "Lucius Shepard", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Free Live Free", author = "Gene Wolfe", publisher = "Mark V. Ziesing" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Star Rebel", author = "F. M. Busby", publisher = "Bantam" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "Dr. Adder", author = "K. W. Jeter", publisher = "Bluejay" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "The Man Who Melted", author = "Jack Dann", publisher = "Bluejay" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "The Glamour", author = "Christopher Priest", publisher = "Jonathan Cape" }
additem { rank = '27', title = "The Practice Effect", author = "David Brin", publisher = "Bantam" }
additem { rank = '28', title = "Steam Bird", author = "Hilbert Schenck", publisher = "_F&SF_ Apr,May 84" }
additem { rank = '29', title = "Them Bones", author = "Howard Waldrop", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '30', title = "Circumpolar!", author = "Richard A. Lupoff", publisher = "Timescape" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Job: A Comedy of Justice", author = "Robert A. Heinlein", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '1', title = "Vampire Junction", author = "S. P. Somtow", publisher = "Donning" }
additem {rank="2", title="Damiano's Lute", author="R. A. MacAvoy", publisher="Bantam"}
additem {rank="3", title="Raphael", author="R. A. MacAvoy", publisher="Bantam"}
additem { rank = '4', title = "The Talisman", author = "Stephen King & Peter Straub", publisher = "Viking" }
additem {rank="5", title="The Infinity Concerto", author="Greg Bear", publisher="Berkley"}
additem {rank="6", title="Gilgamesh the King", author="Robert Silverberg", publisher="Arbor House"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Ladies of Mandrigyn", author="Barbara Hambly", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="8", title="Enchanter's End Game", author="David Eddings", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="9", title="The Businessman", author="Thomas M. Disch", publisher="Harper & Row"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Bearing an Hourglass", author = "Piers Anthony", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn", author = "Piers Anthony", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Castle of Wizardry", author = "David Eddings", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Mythago Wood", author = "Robert Holdstock", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Who Made Stevie Crye?", author = "Michael Bishop", publisher = "Arkham House" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Cards of Grief", author = "Jane Yolen", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Hero and the Crown", author = "Robin McKinley", publisher = "Greenwillow" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Maia", author = "Richard Adams", publisher = "Viking UK; Knopf" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Nights at the Circus", author = "Angela Carter", publisher = "Chatto & Windus; Viking" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Brisingamen", author = "Diana L. Paxson", publisher = "Berkley" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Moonheart", author = "Charles de Lint", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "The Third Book of Swords", author = "Fred Saberhagen", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Fire and Hemlock", author = "Diana Wynne Jones", publisher = "Greenwillow" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "Half a Sky", author = "R. A. Lafferty", publisher = "Corroboree" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "The Ceremonies", author = "T. E. D. Klein", publisher = "Viking" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "The Bishop's Heir", author = "Katherine Kurtz", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '27', title = "The Beggar Queen", author = "Lloyd Alexander", publisher = "Dutton" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Wild Shore", author = "Kim Stanley Robinson", publisher = "Ace" }
additem {rank="2", title="Neuromancer", author="William Gibson", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="3", title="Emergence", author="David R. Palmer", publisher="Bantam"}
additem {rank="4", title="Green Eyes", author="Lucius Shepard", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="5", title="Them Bones", author="Howard Waldrop", publisher="Ace"}
additem { rank = '6', title = "Valentina: Soul in Sapphire", author = "Joseph H. Delaney & Marc Stiegler", publisher = "Baen" }
additem {rank="7", title="The Riddle of the Wren", author="Charles de Lint", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Ceremonies", author="T. E. D. Klein", publisher="Viking"}
additem {rank="9", title="Frontera", author="Lewis Shiner", publisher="Baen"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Procurator", author = "Kirk Mitchell", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Palimpsests", author = "Carter Scholz & Glenn Harcourt", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Alchemists", author = "Geary Gravel", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Game Beyond", author = "Melissa Scott", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Divine Endurance", author = "Gwyneth Jones", publisher = "Allen & Unwin" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Elleander Morning", author = "Jerry Yulsman", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Winter's Daughter", author = "Charles Whitmore", publisher = "Timescape" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Demon-4", author = "David Mace", publisher = "Granada" }

setyear('1986 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Postman", author = "David Brin", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem {rank="2", title="Ender's Game", author="Orson Scott Card", publisher="Tor"}
additem { rank = '3', title = "Footfall", author = "Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem {rank="4", title="Robots and Empire", author="Isaac Asimov", publisher="Doubleday"}
additem {rank="5", title="Helliconia Winter", author="Brian W. Aldiss", publisher="Atheneum"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Cat Who Walks Through Walls", author="Robert A. Heinlein", publisher="Putnam"}
additem {rank="7", title="Dinner at Deviant's Palace", author="Tim Powers", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="8", title="Brightness Falls from the Air", author="James Tiptree Jr.", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="9", title="Cuckoo's Egg", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="Phantasia; DAW"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Always Coming Home", author = "Ursula K. Le Guin", publisher = "Harper & Row" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Blood Music", author = "Greg Bear", publisher = "Arbor House" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Eon", author = "Greg Bear", publisher = "Bluejay" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Proteus Operation", author = "James P. Hogan", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Kif Strike Back", author = "C. J. Cherryh", publisher = "Phantasia; DAW" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Contact", author = "Carl Sagan", publisher = "Simon & Schuster" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Artifact", author = "Gregory Benford", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Memory of Whiteness", author = "Kim Stanley Robinson", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Schismatrix", author = "Bruce Sterling", publisher = "Arbor House" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Between the Strokes of Night", author = "Charles Sheffield", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Chapterhouse: Dune", author = "Frank Herbert", publisher = "Putnam" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Ancient of Days", author = "Michael Bishop", publisher = "Arbor House" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Emprise", author = "Michael P. Kube-McDowell", publisher = "Berkley" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Dayworld", author = "Philip Jose Farmer", publisher = "Putnam" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "Child of Fortune", author = "Norman Spinrad", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "Tom O'Bedlam", author = "Robert Silverberg", publisher = "Donald I. Fine" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "Starquake", author = "Robert L. Forward", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '27', title = "Kiteworld", author = "Keith Roberts", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '28', title = "The Remaking of Sigmund Freud", author = "Barry N. Malzberg", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '29', title = "Five-Twelfths of Heaven", author = "Melissa Scott", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '30', title = "The Darkling Wind", author = "Somtow Sucharitkul", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Trumps of Doom", author = "Roger Zelazny", publisher = "Arbor House" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Book of Kells", author="R. A. MacAvoy", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="3", title="Dragonsbane", author="Barbara Hambly", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="4", title="The Vampire Lestat", author="Anne Rice", publisher="Knopf"}
additem {rank="5", title="Lyonesse: The Green Pearl", author="Jack Vance", publisher="Underwood-Miller; Berkley"}
additem {rank="6", title="The King's Justice", author="Katherine Kurtz", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Summer Tree", author="Guy Gavriel Kay", publisher="Arbor House"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Dream Years", author="Lisa Goldstein", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="9", title="With a Tangled Skein", author="Piers Anthony", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Dark of the Moon", author = "P. C. Hodgell", publisher = "Atheneum" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Silverthorn", author = "Raymond E. Feist", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Mulengro", author = "Charles de Lint", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Lovecraft's Book", author = "Richard A. Lupoff", publisher = "Arkham House" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Brokedown Palace", author = "Steven Brust", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Damnation Game", author = "Clive Barker", publisher = "Weidenfeld & Nicholson" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "The Wishsong of Shannara", author = "Terry Brooks", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Wizard of the Pigeons", author = "Megan Lindholm", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "In Yana, the Touch of Undying", author = "Michael Shea", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "The Last Rainbow", author = "Parke Godwin", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Things Invisible to See", author = "Nancy Willard", publisher = "Knopf" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "The Song of Mavin Manyshaped", author = "Sheri S. Tepper", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Wings of Flame", author = "Nancy Springer", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "The Bronze King", author = "Suzy McKee Charnas", publisher = "Houghton Mifflin" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore", author = "Sheri S. Tepper", publisher = "Ace" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Contact", author = "Carl Sagan", publisher = "Simon & Schuster" }
additem {rank="2", title="Emprise", author="Michael P. Kube-McDowell", publisher="Berkley"}
additem {rank="3", title="In the Drift", author="Michael Swanwick", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="4", title="The Summer Tree", author="Guy Gavriel Kay", publisher="Arbor House"}
additem {rank="5", title="Tailchaser's Song", author="Tad Williams", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="6", title="Cats Have No Lord", author="Will Shetterly", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="7", title="Masters of Glass", author="M. Coleman Easton", publisher="Questar"}
additem {rank="8", title="Saraband of Lost Time", author="Richard Grant", publisher="Avon"}
additem {rank="9", title="Walk the Moon's Road", author="Jim Aikin", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Infinity's Web", author = "Sheila Finch", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Isle of Glass", author = "Judith Tarr", publisher = "Bluejay" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Saturnalia", author = "Grant Callin", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Torch of Honor", author = "Roger MacBride Allen", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Children of the Light", author = "Susan B. Weston", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Warrior Who Carried Life", author = "Geoff Ryman", publisher = "Allen & Unwin" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Song of Kali", author = "Dan Simmons", publisher = "Bluejay" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Secret Country", author = "Pamela Dean", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Skyrider 1: Skirmish", author = "Melisa C. Michaels", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "The Long Forgetting", author = "Edward A. Byers", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "The Sorcery Within", author = "Dave Smeds", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Princess of Flames", author = "Ru Emerson", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Pandora's Genes", author = "Kathryn Lance", publisher = "Questar" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Down Town", author = "Voldi Polikarpus & Tappan King", publisher = "Arbor House" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "Ibis", author = "Linda Steele", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "Staroamer's Fate", author = "Chuck Rothman", publisher = "Questar" }

setyear('1987 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Speaker for the Dead", author = "Orson Scott Card", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '2', title = "Heart of the Comet", author = "Gregory Benford & David Brin", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem {rank="3", title="Count Zero", author="William Gibson", publisher="Arbor House"}
additem {rank="4", title="The Handmaid's Tale", author="Margaret Atwood", publisher="Houghton Mifflin"}
additem {rank="5", title="Foundation and Earth", author="Isaac Asimov", publisher="Doubleday"}
additem {rank="6", title="Chanur's Homecoming", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="Phantasia; DAW"}
additem {rank="7", title="Marooned in Realtime", author="Vernor Vinge", publisher="Bluejay"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Songs of Distant Earth", author="Arthur C. Clarke", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="9", title="The Coming of the Quantum Cats", author="Frederik Pohl", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Santiago", author = "Mike Resnick", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Enigma", author = "Michael P. Kube-McDowell", publisher = "Berkley" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "When Gravity Fails", author = "George Alec Effinger", publisher = "Arbor House" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Lear's Daughters", author = "M. Bradley Kellogg with William Rossow", publisher = "NAL/Signet" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Star of Gypsies", author = "Robert Silverberg", publisher = "Donald I. Fine" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Nerilka's Story", author = "Anne McCaffrey", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "The Warrior's Apprentice", author = "Lois McMaster Bujold", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Moon Goddess and the Son", author = "Donald Kingsbury", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Hardwired", author = "Walter Jon Williams", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "The Architect of Sleep", author = "Stephen R. Boyett", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Venus of Dreams", author = "Pamela Sargent", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "The Nimrod Hunt", author = "Charles Sheffield", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "This Is the Way the World Ends", author = "James Morrow", publisher = "Holt" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "The Hercules Text", author = "Jack McDevitt", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "The Forever Man", author = "Gordon R. Dickson", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "The Ragged Astronauts", author = "Bob Shaw", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "Rebels' Seed", author = "F. M. Busby", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Soldier of the Mist", author = "Gene Wolfe", publisher = "Tor" }
additem {rank="2", title="Blood of Amber", author="Roger Zelazny", publisher="Arbor House"}
additem {rank="3", title="It", author="Stephen King", publisher="Viking"}
additem {rank="4", title="Godbody", author="Theodore Sturgeon", publisher="Donald I. Fine"}
additem {rank="5", title="Twisting the Rope", author="R. A. MacAvoy", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Folk of the Air", author="Peter S. Beagle", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Serpent Mage", author="Greg Bear", publisher="Berkley"}
additem {rank="8", title="Wizard of the Pigeons", author="Megan Lindholm", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="9", title="The Quest for St. Camber", author="Katherine Kurtz", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "A Darkness at Sethanon", author = "Raymond E. Feist", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Mirror of Her Dreams", author = "Stephen R. Donaldson", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Darkest Road", author = "Guy Gavriel Kay", publisher = "Arbor House" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Magic Kingdom For Sale--Sold!", author = "Terry Brooks", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Homunculus", author = "James P. Blaylock", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Wielding a Red Sword", author = "Piers Anthony", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "The Falling Woman", author = "Pat Murphy", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Dragon in the Sword", author = "Michael Moorcock", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Jinian Star-Eye", author = "Sheri S. Tepper", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "New York by Knight", author = "Esther M. Friesner", publisher = "Signet" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "The King of Ys: Roma Mater", author = "Poul & Karen Anderson", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "The Hounds of God", author = "Judith Tarr", publisher = "Bluejay" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "The Unconquered Country", author = "Geoff Ryman", publisher = "Allen & Unwin" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Yarrow", author = "Charles de Lint", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "The Hungry Moon", author = "Ramsey Campbell", publisher = "Macmillan" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "Dragonsbane", author = "Barbara Hambly", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "A Voice for Princess", author = "John Morressy", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '27', title = "Talking Man", author = "Terry Bisson", publisher = "Arbor House" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Hercules Text", author = "Jack McDevitt", publisher = "Ace" }
additem {rank="2", title="Shards of Honor", author="Lois McMaster Bujold", publisher="Baen"}
additem {rank="3", title="A Hidden Place", author="Robert Charles Wilson", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="4", title="Wrack, Roll", author="Bradley Denton", publisher="Questar"}
additem {rank="5", title="The Cross-Time Engineer", author="Leo Frankowski", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="6", title="No Safe Place", author="Anne Moroz", publisher="Questar"}
additem {rank="7", title="Sentience", author="Terry A. Adams", publisher="DAW"}
additem { rank = '8t', title = "The Doomsday Effect", author = "Thomas Wren", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '8t', title = "Windmaster's Bane", author = "Tom Deitz", publisher = "Avon" }
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Game of Fox and Lion", author = "Robert R. Chase", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Fire Sanctuary", author = "Katharine Eliska Kimbriel", publisher = "Questar" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Warchild", author = "Richard Bowes", publisher = "Questar" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Daggerspell", author = "Katharine Kerr", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Curse of Sagamore", author = "Kara Dalkey", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Star Country", author = "Michael Cassutt", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "The Hounds of the Morrigan", author = "Pat O'Shea", publisher = "Holiday House" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Burning Stone", author = "Deborah Turner Harris", publisher = "Tor" }

setcategory("all time sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Dune", author = "Frank Herbert" }
additem { rank = '2', title = "The Left Hand of Darkness", author = "Ursula K. Le Guin" }
additem { rank = '3', title = "Childhood's End", author = "Arthur C. Clarke" }
additem { rank = '4', title = "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", author = "Robert A. Heinlein" }
additem { rank = '5', title = "Stranger in a Strange Land", author = "Robert A. Heinlein" }
additem { rank = '6', title = "The Foundation Trilogy", author = "Isaac Asimov" }
additem { rank = '7', title = "A Canticle for Leibowitz", author = "Walter M. Miller Jr." }
additem { rank = '8', title = "Gateway", author = "Frederik Pohl" }
additem { rank = '9', title = "Ringworld", author = "Larry Niven" }
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Stars My Destination", author = "Alfred Bester" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Lord of Light", author = "Roger Zelazny" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "More Than Human", author = "Theodore Sturgeon" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Mote in God's Eye", author = "Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Man in the High Castle", author = "Philip K. Dick" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Time Machine", author = "H. G. Wells" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Stand on Zanzibar", author = "John Brunner" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Dispossessed", author = "Ursula K. Le Guin" }
additem { rank = '18t', title = "The Demolished Man", author = "Alfred Bester" }
additem { rank = '18t', title = "The Forever War", author = "Joe Haldeman" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "The Martian Chronicles", author = "Ray Bradbury" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Starship Troopers", author = "Robert A. Heinlein" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Dying Inside", author = "Robert Silverberg" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Dhalgren", author = "Samuel R. Delany" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "Time Enough for Love", author = "Robert A. Heinlein" }
additem { rank = '25t', title = "Rendezvous with Rama", author = "Arthur C. Clarke" }
additem { rank = '25t', title = "Way Station", author = "Clifford D. Simak" }
additem { rank = '27', title = "To Your Scattered Bodies Go", author = "Philip Jose Farmer" }
additem { rank = '28', title = "Earth Abides", author = "George R. Stewart" }
additem { rank = '29', title = "The Door Into Summer", author = "Robert A. Heinlein" }
additem { rank = '30', title = "City", author = "Clifford D. Simak" }
additem { rank = '31', title = "The Witches of Karres", author = "James H. Schmitz" }
additem { rank = '32', title = "The City and the Stars", author = "Arthur C. Clarke" }
additem { rank = '33', title = "The Caves of Steel", author = "Isaac Asimov" }
additem { rank = '34', title = "1984", author = "George Orwell" }
additem { rank = '35', title = "Norstrilia", author = "Cordwainer Smith" }
additem { rank = '36', title = "Mission of Gravity", author = "Hal Clement" }
additem { rank = '37', title = "Ubik", author = "Philip K. Dick" }
additem { rank = '38t', title = "2001: A Space Odyssey", author = "Arthur C. Clarke" }
additem { rank = '38t', title = "Timescape", author = "Gregory Benford" }
additem { rank = '40', title = "Fahrenheit 451", author = "Ray Bradbury" }
additem { rank = '41', title = "Downbelow Station", author = "C. J. Cherryh" }
additem { rank = '42', title = "The War of the Worlds", author = "H. G. Wells" }
additem { rank = '43', title = "Last and First Men", author = "Olaf Stapledon" }
additem { rank = '44', title = "Double Star", author = "Robert A. Heinlein" }
additem { rank = '45', title = "Davy", author = "Edgar Pangborn" }
setcategory("all time fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Lord of the Rings", author = "J. R. R. Tolkien" }
additem { rank = '2', title = "The Hobbit", author = "J. R. R. Tolkien" }
additem { rank = '3', title = "A Wizard of Earthsea", author = "Ursula K. Le Guin" }
additem { rank = '4', title = "The Shadow of the Torturer", author = "Gene Wolfe" }
additem { rank = '5', title = "The Last Unicorn", author = "Peter S. Beagle" }
additem { rank = '6', title = "The Once and Future King", author = "T. H. White" }
additem { rank = '7', title = "Nine Princes in Amber", author = "Roger Zelazny" }
additem { rank = '8', title = "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever", author = "Stephen R. Donaldson" }
additem { rank = '9', title = "Dragonflight", author = "Anne McCaffrey" }
additem { rank = '10', title = "Little, Big", author = "John Crowley" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Alice in Wonderland", author = "Lewis Carroll" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Gormenghast Trilogy", author = "Mervyn Peake" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Riddlemaster of Hed", author = "Patricia A. McKillip" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Incompleat Enchanter", author = "Fletcher Pratt & L. Sprague de Camp" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Watership Down", author = "Richard Adams" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "The Dying Earth", author = "Jack Vance" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Glory Road", author = "Robert A. Heinlein" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "A Spell for Chameleon", author = "Piers Anthony" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Dracula", author = "Bram Stoker" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "The Wizard of Oz", author = "L. Frank Baum" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Silverlock", author = "John Myers Myers" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Something Wicked This Way Comes", author = "Ray Bradbury" }
additem { rank = '23t', title = "The Stand", author = "Stephen King" }
additem { rank = '23t', title = "The White Dragon", author = "Anne McCaffrey" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "Lord Valentine's Castle", author = "Robert Silverberg" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "The Chronicles of Narnia", author = "C. S. Lewis" }
additem { rank = '27', title = "The Shining", author = "Stephen King" }
additem { rank = '28', title = "Conjure Wife", author = "Fritz Leiber" }
additem { rank = '29t', title = "Deryni Rising", author = "Katherine Kurtz" }
additem { rank = '29t', title = "The Worm Ouroboros", author = "E. R. Eddison" }
additem { rank = '31', title = "Witch World", author = "Andre Norton" }
additem { rank = '32', title = "Salem's Lot", author = "Stephen King" } 
additem { rank = '33', title = "A Wrinkle in Time", author = "Madeleine L'Engle" }

setyear('1988 Locus Poll')


setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Uplift War", author = "David Brin", publisher = "Phantasia; Bantam Spectra" }
additem {rank="2", title="When Gravity Fails", author="George Alec Effinger", publisher="Arbor House"}
additem {rank="3", title="The Urth of the New Sun", author="Gene Wolfe", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="4", title="The Forge of God", author="Greg Bear", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="5", title="Life During Wartime", author="Lucius Shepard", publisher="Bantam"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Annals of the Heechee", author="Frederik Pohl", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="7", title="Vacuum Flowers", author="Michael Swanwick", publisher="Arbor House"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Smoke Ring", author="Larry Niven", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="9", title="Great Sky River", author="Gregory Benford", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "2061: Odyssey Three", author = "Arthur C. Clarke", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Legacy of Heorot", author = "Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle & Steven Barnes", publisher = "Gollancz; Simon & Schuster" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "To Sail Beyond the Sunset", author = "Robert A. Heinlein", publisher = "Ace/Putnam" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Memories", author = "Mike McQuay", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Fool's Run", author = "Patricia A. McKillip", publisher = "Warner" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Secret Ascension", author = "Michael Bishop", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "The Tommyknockers", author = "Stephen King", publisher = "Putnam" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Dawn", author = "Octavia E. Butler", publisher = "Warner" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Intervention", author = "Julian May", publisher = "Houghton Mifflin" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "After Long Silence", author = "Sheri S. Tepper", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Code Blue  Emergency", author = "James White", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Way of the Pilgrim", author = "Gordon R. Dickson", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Araminta Station", author = "Jack Vance", publisher = "Underwood-Miller; Tor" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Voice of the Whirlwind", author = "Walter Jon Williams", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "The Awakeners", author = "Sheri S. Tepper", publisher = "SF Book Club; Tor in 2 vol's, _Northshore_ and _Southshore_"}
additem { rank = '25', title = "Still River", author = "Hal Clement", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "Dover Beach", author = "Richard Bowker", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '27', title = "Rumors of Spring", author = "Richard Grant", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '28', title = "Liege-Killer", author = "Christopher Hinz", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '29', title = "In Conquest Born", author = "C. S. Friedman", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '30', title = "Little Heroes", author = "Norman Spinrad", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '31', title = "Replay", author = "Ken Grimwood", publisher = "Arbor House" }
additem { rank = '32', title = "Watchmen", author = "Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons", publisher = "Warner" }
additem { rank = '33', title = "A Mask for the General", author = "Lisa Goldstein", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Seventh Son", author = "Orson Scott Card", publisher = "Tor" }
additem {rank="2", title="On Stranger Tides", author="Tim Powers", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="3", title="Sign of Chaos", author="Roger Zelazny", publisher="Arbor House"}
additem {rank="4", title="Weaveworld", author="Clive Barker", publisher="Poseidon/Collins"}
additem {rank="5", title="Lincoln's Dreams", author="Connie Willis", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="6", title="  gypt", author="  John Crowley", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Witches of Wenshar", author="Barbara Hambly", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Grey Horse", author="R. A. MacAvoy", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="9", title="Infernal Devices", author="K. W. Jeter", publisher="St. Martin's"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Guardians of the West", author = "David Eddings", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "A Man Rides Through", author = "Stephen R. Donaldson", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Being a Green Mother", author = "Piers Anthony", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "War for the Oaks", author = "Emma Bull", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Bones of the Moon", author = "Jonathan Carroll", publisher = "Century; Arbor House" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Swan Song", author = "Robert R. McCammon", publisher = "Pocket" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three", author = "Stephen King", publisher = "Grant" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Land of Dreams", author = "James P. Blaylock", publisher = "Arbor House" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Strange Toys", author = "Patricia Geary", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Daughter of the Empire", author = "Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "The Firebrand", author = "Marion Zimmer Bradley", publisher = "Simon & Schuster" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Never the Twain", author = "Kirk Mitchell", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Darkspell", author = "Katharine Kerr", publisher = "Doubleday" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Equal Rites", author = "Terry Pratchett", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "The Falling Woman", author = "Pat Murphy", publisher = "Tor" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "War for the Oaks", author = "Emma Bull", publisher = "Ace" }
additem {rank="2", title="Mindplayers", author="Pat Cadigan", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="3", title="In Conquest Born", author="C. S. Friedman", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="4", title="Liege-Killer", author="Christopher Hinz", publisher="St. Martin's"}
additem {rank="5", title="The Net", author="Loren J. MacGregor", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="6", title="Arrows of the Queen", author="Mercedes Lackey", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="7", title="Becoming Alien", author="Rebecca Ore", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="8", title="After the Zap", author="Michael Armstrong", publisher="Popular Library Questar"}
additem {rank="9", title="Reindeer Moon", author="Elizabeth Marshall Thomas", publisher="Houghton Mifflin"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Swordspoint", author = "Ellen Kushner", publisher = "Allen & Unwin; Arbor House" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", author = "H. F. Saint", publisher = "Atheneum" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Napoleon Disentimed", author = "Hayford Peirce", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "A Death of Honor", author = "Joe Clifford Faust", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The American Book of the Dead", author = "Stephen Billias", publisher = "Popular Library Questar" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Architects of Hyperspace", author = "Thomas R. McDonough", publisher = "Avon" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "The Shadow of His Wings", author = "Bruce Fergusson", publisher = "Arbor House" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Pennterra", author = "Judith Moffett", publisher = "Congdon & Weed" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "The Leeshore", author = "Robert Reed", publisher = "Donald L. Fine" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "A Rose-Red City", author = "Dave Duncan", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "The Movement of Mountains", author = "Michael Blumlein", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Station Gehenna", author = "Andrew Weiner", publisher = "Congdon & Weed" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Soldiers of Paradise", author = "Paul Park", publisher = "Arbor House" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Teot's War", author = "Heather Gladney", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "Soulstring", author = "Midori Snyder", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "Frame of Reference", author = "Jerry Oltion", publisher = "Popular Library Questar" }

setyear('1989 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Cyteen", author = "C. J. Cherryh", publisher = "Warner" }
additem {rank="2", title="Mona Lisa Overdrive", author="William Gibson", publisher="Gollancz; Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="3", title="Islands in the Net", author="Bruce Sterling", publisher="Arbor House"}
additem {rank="4", title="Prelude to Foundation", author="Isaac Asimov", publisher="Doubleday Foundation"}
additem {rank="5", title="The Gold Coast", author="Kim Stanley Robinson", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="6", title="Eternity", author="Greg Bear", publisher="Warner"}
additem {rank="7", title="Dragonsdawn", author="Anne McCaffrey", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="8", title="Deserted Cities of the Heart", author="Lewis Shiner", publisher="Doubleday Foundation"}
additem {rank="9", title="Falling Free", author="Lois McMaster Bujold", publisher="Baen"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Araminta Station", author = "Jack Vance", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Alternaties", author = "Michael P. Kube-McDowell", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Adulthood Rites", author = "Octavia E. Butler", publisher = "Warner" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Catspaw", author = "Joan D. Vinge", publisher = "Warner" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "At Winter's End", author = "Robert Silverberg", publisher = "Warner" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Brothers in Arms", author = "Lois McMaster Bujold", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Ivory", author = "Mike Resnick", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Wetware", author = "Rudy Rucker", publisher = "Avon" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Crazy Time", author = "Kate Wilhelm", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Venus of Shadows", author = "Pamela Sargent", publisher = "Doubleday Foundation" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Orphan of Creation", author = "Roger MacBride Allen", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "The Gate to Women's Country", author = "Sheri S. Tepper", publisher = "Doubleday Foundation" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "The Player of Games", author = "Iain M. Banks", publisher = "Macmillan UK; St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Neon Lotus", author = "Marc Laidlaw", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "Hellspark", author = "Janet Kagan", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "Chronosequence", author = "Hilbert Schenck", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "Children of the Thunder", author = "John Brunner", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '27', title = "Fire on the Mountain", author = "Terry Bisson", publisher = "Arbor House" }
additem { rank = '28', title = "Terraplane", author = "Jack Womack", publisher = "Weidenfeld & Nicholson" }
additem { rank = '29', title = "Starfire", author = "Paul Preuss", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '30', title = "An Alien Light", author = "Nancy Kress", publisher = "Arbor House" }
additem { rank = '31', title = "The Company Man", author = "Joe Clifford Faust", publisher = "Del Rey" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Red Prophet", author = "Orson Scott Card", publisher = "Tor" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Paladin", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="Baen"}
additem {rank="3", title="There Are Doors", author="Gene Wolfe", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="4", title="Unicorn Mountain", author="Michael Bishop", publisher="Arbor House"}
additem {rank="5", title="King of the Murgos", author="David Eddings", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Last Coin", author="James P. Blaylock", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Story of the Stone", author="Barry Hughart", publisher="Doubleday Foundation"}
additem {rank="8", title="Greenmantle", author="Charles de Lint", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="9", title="Lavondyss", author="Robert Holdstock", publisher="Gollancz"}
additem { rank = '10t', title = "The Dragonbone Chair", author = "Tad Williams", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '10t', title = "Wyvern", author = "A. A. Attanasio", publisher = "Ticknor & Fields" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Healer's War", author = "Elizabeth Ann Scarborough", publisher = "Doubleday Foundation" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Druid's Blood", author = "Esther M. Friesner", publisher = "NAL Signet" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The White Serpent", author = "Tanith Lee", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '15t', title = "Sister Light, Sister Dark", author = "Jane Yolen", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '15t', title = "Wyrd Sisters", author = "Terry Pratchett", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Who's Afraid of Beowulf?", author = "Tom Holt", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "The Changeling Sea", author = "Patricia A. McKillip", publisher = "Atheneum" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "The Reindeer People", author = "Megan Lindholm", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Sleeping in Flame", author = "Jonathan Carroll", publisher = "Legend" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "The White Raven", author = "Diana L. Paxson", publisher = "Morrow" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Walkabout Woman", author = "Michaela Roessner", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Silk Roads and Shadows", author = "Susan M. Shwartz", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "The Nightingale", author = "Kara Dalkey", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "Death in the Spirit House", author = "Craig Strete", publisher = "Doubleday Foundation" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Desolation Road", author = "Ian McDonald", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem {rank="2", title="Walkabout Woman", author="Michaela Roessner", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="3", title="Metrophage", author="Richard Kadrey", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="4", title="Sheepfarmer's Daughter", author="Elizabeth Moon", publisher="Baen"}
additem {rank="5", title="The Armageddon Blues", author="Daniel Keys Moran", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="6", title="Dragon Prince", author="Melanie Rawn", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="7", title="Moon of Ice", author="Brad Linaweaver", publisher="Morrow"}
additem {rank="8", title="Neverness", author="David Zindell", publisher="Donald I. Fine"}
additem {rank="9", title="Four Hundred Billion Stars", author="Paul J. McAuley", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Journey to Fusang", author = "William Sanders", publisher = "Popular Library Questar" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Resurrection, Inc.", author = "Kevin J. Anderson", publisher = "NAL Signet" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Fool on the Hill", author = "Matt Ruff", publisher = "Atlantic Monthly" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Demon of Undoing", author = "Andrea I. Alton", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Blind Knight", author = "Gail Van Asten", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West", author = "Mary Stanton", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Molly Dear: The Autobiography of an Android", author = "Stephen Fine", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Dreams of Flesh and Sand", author = "W. T. Quick", publisher = "NAL Signet" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Maiden Flight", author = "Eric Vinicoff", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "The Fairy of Ku-She", author = "M. Lucie Chin", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Inner Eclipse", author = "Richard Paul Russo", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit", author = "Storm Constantine", publisher = "Macdonald" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Tower to the Sky", author = "Phillip C. Jennings", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Through a Brazen Mirror", author = "Delia Sherman", publisher = "Ace" }

setyear('1990 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Hyperion", author = "Dan Simmons", publisher = "Doubleday Foundation" }
additem {rank="2", title="Rimrunners", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="Warner"}
additem {rank="3", title="Grass", author="Sheri S. Tepper", publisher="Doubleday Foundation"}
additem {rank="4", title="Tides of Light", author="Gregory Benford", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="5", title="A Fire in the Sun", author="George Alec Effinger", publisher="Doubleday Foundation"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Boat of a Million Years", author="Poul Anderson", publisher="Tor"}
additem { rank = '7', title = "Rama II", author = "Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee", publisher = "Gollancz; Bantam Spectra" }
additem {rank="8", title="Falcon", author="Emma Bull", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="9", title="Phases of Gravity", author="Dan Simmons", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The City, Not Long After", author = "Pat Murphy", publisher = "Doubleday Foundation" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Imago", author = "Octavia E. Butler", publisher = "Warner" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "A Talent for War", author = "Jack McDevitt", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Good News from Outer Space", author = "John Kessel", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Third Eagle", author = "R. A. MacAvoy", publisher = "Doubleday Foundation" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Buying Time", othertitle = "in UK, The Long Habit of Living", author = "Joe Haldeman", publisher = "Morrow; NEL" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Homegoing", author = "Frederik Pohl", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Being Alien", author = "Rebecca Ore", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Farewell Horizontal", author = "K. W. Jeter", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Out on Blue Six", author = "Ian McDonald", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Orbital Decay", author = "Allen Steele", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "The Child Garden", author = "Geoff Ryman", publisher = "Unwin Hyman" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Sugar Rain", author = "Paul Park", publisher = "Morrow" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Eden", author = "Stanislaw Lem", PUBLISHER = "HBJ" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "Dawn's Uncertain Light", author = "Neal Barrett Jr.", publisher = "NAL Signet" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "Black Milk", author = "Robert Reed", publisher = "Donald I. Fine" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "On My Way to Paradise", author = "Dave Wolverton", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '27', title = "The Renegades of Pern", author = "Anne McCaffrey", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '28', title = "The Queen of Springtime", othertitle ="US title The New Springtime", author = "Robert Silverberg", publisher = "Gollancz; Warner" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Prentice Alvin", author = "Orson Scott Card", publisher = "Tor" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Stress of Her Regard", author="Tim Powers", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="3", title="Soldier of Arete", author="Gene Wolfe", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="4", title="Rusalka", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="5", title="Dream Baby", author="Bruce McAllister", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="6", title="Lyonesse: Madouc", author="Jack Vance", publisher="Underwood-Miller"}
additem {rank="7", title="White Jenna", author="Jane Yolen", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Satanic Verses", author="Salman Rushdie", publisher="Viking UK; Viking"}
additem {rank="9", title="Sorceress of Darshiva", author="David Eddings", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "A Child Across the Sky", author = "Jonathan Carroll", publisher = "Legend" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Tourists", author = "Lisa Goldstein", publisher = "Simon & Schuster" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Fortress of the Pearl", author = "Michael Moorcock", publisher = "Gollancz; Ace" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Stone Giant", author = "James P. Blaylock", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Guards! Guards!", author = "Terry Pratchett", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Snow White and Rose Red", author = "Patricia C. Wrede", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "A Heroine of the World", author = "Tanith Lee", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse", author = "Sheri S. Tepper", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Ars Magica", author = "Judith Tarr", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light", author = "Tanya Huff", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Apocalypse", author = "Nancy Springer", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Queen's Gambit Declined", author = "Melinda Snodgrass", publisher = "Popular Library Questar" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Arthur", author = "Stephen R. Lawhead", publisher = "Crossway" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "The Coachman Rat", author = "David Henry Wilson", publisher = "Robinson; Carrol & Graf" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "Tours of the Black Clock", author = "Steve Erickson", publisher = "Poseidon" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "The Cockroaches of Stay More", author = "Donald Harington", PUBLISHER = "HBJ" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Orbital Decay", author = "Allen Steele", publisher = "Ace" }
additem {rank="2", title="Sunglasses After Dark", author="Nancy A. Collins", publisher="NAL Onyx"}
additem {rank="3", title="On My Way to Paradise", author="Dave Wolverton", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="4", title="The Tides of God", author="Ted Reynolds", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="5", title="Strange Invasion", author="Michael Kandel", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="6", title="Laying the Music to Rest", author="Dean Wesley Smith", publisher="Popular Library Questar"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Gate of Ivory", author="Doris Egan", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="8", title="Petrogypsies", author="Rory Harper", publisher="Baen"}
additem {rank="9", title="Twistor", author="John G. Cramer", publisher="Morrow"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Grotesque", author = "Patrick McGrath", publisher = "Poseidon" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Silk Road", author = "Jeanne Larson", publisher = "Holt" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Steerswoman", author = "Rosemary Kirstein", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Child of Saturn", author = "Teresa Edgerton", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Julian's House", author = "Judith Hawkes", publisher = "Ticknor & Fields" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Mermaid's Song", author = "Alida Van Gores", publisher = "NAL Signet" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "After Sundown", author = "Randall Boyll", publisher = "Charter" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Bad Voltage", author = "Jonathan Littell", publisher = "NAL Signet" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Contrarywise", author = "Zohra Greenhalgh", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Empire's Horizon", author = "John Brizzolara", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }

setyear('1991 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Fall of Hyperion", author = "Dan Simmons", publisher = "Doubleday Foundation" }
additem {rank="2", title="Earth", author="David Brin", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="3", title="Queen of Angels", author="Greg Bear", publisher="Warner"}
additem {rank="4", title="The Vor Game", author="Lois McMaster Bujold", publisher="Baen"}
additem {rank="5", title="Voyage to the Red Planet", author="Terry Bisson", publisher="Morrow"}
additem {rank="6", title="Stranger in a Strange Land", author="  [original uncut edition]  Robert A. Heinlein", publisher="Ace/Putnam"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Quiet Pools", author="Michael P. Kube-McDowell", publisher="Ace"}
additem { rank = '8', title = "The Difference Engine", author = "William Gibson & Bruce Sterling", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem {rank="9", title="Jurassic Park", author="Michael Crichton", publisher="Knopf"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Ring of Charon", author = "Roger MacBride Allen", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Pegasus in Flight", author = "Anne McCaffrey", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Raising the Stones", author = "Sheri S. Tepper", publisher = "Doubleday Foundation" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Pacific Edge", author = "Kim Stanley Robinson", publisher = "Unwin; Tor" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Hemingway Hoax", author = "Joe Haldeman", publisher = "Morrow" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Redshift Rendezvous", author = "John E. Stith", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Summertide", author = "Charles Sheffield", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Polar City Blues", author = "Katharine Kerr", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "The World at the End of Time", author = "Frederik Pohl", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Clarke County, Space", author = "Allen Steele", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "The Hollow Earth", author = "Rudy Rucker", publisher = "Morrow" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "The Rowan", author = "Anne McCaffrey", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "In the Country of the Blind", author = "Michael F. Flynn", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "The Ghost from the Grand Banks", author = "Arthur C. Clarke", publisher = "Gollancz; Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "The Divide", author = "Robert Charles Wilson", publisher = "Doubleday Foundation" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "Agviq", author = "Michael Armstrong", publisher = "Questar" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "Heathern", author = "Jack Womack", publisher = "Tor" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea", author = "Ursula K. Le Guin", publisher = "Atheneum" }
additem { rank = '2', title = "Good Omens", author = "Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman", publisher = "Gollancz; Workman" }
additem {rank="3", title="Tigana", author="Guy Gavriel Kay", publisher="Roc"}
additem {rank="4", title="Only Begotten Daughter", author="James Morrow", publisher="Morrow"}
additem {rank="5", title="Thomas the Rhymer", author="Ellen Kushner", publisher="Morrow"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Eye of the World", author="Robert Jordan", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Blood of Roses", author="Tanith Lee", publisher="Legend"}
additem { rank = '8', title = "Servant of the Empire", author = "Raymond E. Feist & Janny Wurts", publisher = "Doubleday Foundation" }
additem {rank="9", title="Drink Down the Moon", author="Charles de Lint", publisher="Ace"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Rats and Gargoyles", author = "Mary Gentle", publisher = "Bantam UK" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Ghostwood", author = "Charles de Lint", publisher = "Pulphouse" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Moving Pictures", author = "Terry Pratchett", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Dealing with Dragons", author = "Patricia C. Wrede", PUBLISHER = "HBJ" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Time and Chance", author = "Alan Brennert", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "In Between Dragons", author = "Michael Kandel", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Gossamer Axe", author = "Gael Baudino", publisher = "Roc" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Chase the Morning", author = "Michael Scott Rohan", publisher = "Orbit" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Castleview", author = "Gene Wolfe", publisher = "Tor" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "In the Country of the Blind", author = "Michael F. Flynn", publisher = "Baen" }
additem {rank="2", title="Winterlong", author="Elizabeth Hand", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="3", title="Arachne", author="Lisa Mason", publisher="Morrow"}
additem {rank="4", title="Golden Fleece", author="Robert J. Sawyer", publisher="Questar"}
additem {rank="5", title="An Abyss of Light", author="Kathleen M. O'Neal", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="6", title="Black Snow Days", author="Claudia O'Keefe", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="7", title="In the Net of Dreams", author="Wm. Mark Simmons", publisher="Questar"}
additem {rank="8", title="Nightlight", author="Michael Cadnum", publisher="St. Martin's"}
additem {rank="9", title="Cortez on Jupiter", author="Ernest Hogan", publisher="Tor"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Keepers of the Peace", author = "Keith Brooke", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Interior Life", author = "Katherine Blake", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Silver Kiss", author = "Annette Curtis Klause", publisher = "Delacorte" }

setyear('1992 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Barrayar", author = "Lois McMaster Bujold", publisher = "Baen" }
additem {rank="2", title="Xenocide", author="Orson Scott Card", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="3", title="Bone Dance", author="Emma Bull", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="4", title="The Summer Queen", author="Joan D. Vinge", publisher="Warner Questar"}
additem {rank="5", title="All the Weyrs of Pern", author="Anne McCaffrey", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="6", title="Stations of the Tide", author="Michael Swanwick", publisher="Morrow"}
additem {rank="7", title="Heavy Time", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="Warner Questar"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Dark Beyond the Stars", author="Frank M. Robinson", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="9", title="Synners", author="Pat Cadigan", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Brain Child", author = "George Turner", publisher = "Morrow" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Garden of Rama", author = "Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Ecce and Old Earth", author = "Jack Vance", publisher = "Underwood-Miller; Tor" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "A Woman of the Iron People", author = "Eleanor Arnason", publisher = "Morrow" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Russian Spring", author = "Norman Spinrad", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Trinity Paradox", author = "Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Death Qualified: A Mystery of Chaos", author = "Kate Wilhelm", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid", author = "Rebecca Ore", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "The Ragged World", author = "Judith Moffett", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Carve the Sky", author = "Alexander Jablokov", publisher = "Morrow" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "The Difference Engine", author = "William Gibson & Bruce Sterling", publisher = "Gollancz; Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Eternal Light", author = "Paul J. McAuley", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede", author = "Bradley Denton", publisher = "Morrow" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Beauty", author = "Sheri S. Tepper", publisher = "Doubleday Foundation" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Little Country", author="Charles de Lint", publisher="Morrow"}
additem {rank="3", title="Eight Skilled Gentlemen", author="Barry Hughart", publisher="Doubleday Foundation"}
additem {rank="4", title="King of Morning, Queen of Day", author="Ian McDonald", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="5", title="The Rainbow Abyss", author="Barbara Hambly", publisher="Grafton; Del Rey"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Hereafter Gang", author="Neal Barrett Jr.", publisher="Mark V. Ziesing"}
additem {rank="7", title="Witches Abroad", author="Terry Pratchett", publisher="Gollancz"}
additem {rank="8", title="Riverrun", author="S. P. Somtow", publisher="Avon"}
additem {rank="9", title="Outside the Dog Museum", author="Jonathan Carroll", publisher="Macdonald"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "King of the Dead", author = "R. A. MacAvoy", publisher = "Morrow" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Nothing Sacred", author = "Elizabeth Ann Scarborough", publisher = "Doubleday Foundation" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Sorceress and the Cygnet", author = "Patricia A. McKillip", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Revenge of the Rose", author = "Michael Moorcock", publisher = "Grafton; Ace" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Cloven Hooves", author = "Megan Lindholm", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Magic Spectacles", author = "James P. Blaylock", publisher = "Morrigan" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "The End-of-Everything Man", author = "Tom De Haven", publisher = "Doubleday Foundation" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Flying Dutch", author = "Tom Holt", publisher = "Orbit; St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Elsewhere", author = "Will Shetterly", PUBLISHER = "HBJ" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "The White Mists of Power", author = "Kristine Kathryn Rusch", publisher = "Roc" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "The Architecture of Desire", author = "Mary Gentle", publisher = "Bantam UK" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Illusion", author = "Paula Volsky", publisher = "Gollancz; Bantam Spectra" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Cipher", author = "Kathe Koja", publisher = "Dell Abyss" }
additem {rank="2", title="The White Mists of Power", author="Kristine Kathryn Rusch", publisher="Roc"}
additem {rank="3", title="Carve the Sky", author="Alexander Jablokov", publisher="Morrow"}
additem {rank="4", title="Raft", author="Stephen Baxter", publisher="Grafton; Roc"}
additem {rank="5", title="Halo", author="Tom Maddox", publisher="Legend; Tor"}
additem {rank="6", title="Alien Blues", author="Lynn S. Hightower", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Illusionists", author="Faren Miller", publisher="Warner Questar"}
additem {rank="8", title="The Spiral Dance", author="R. Garcia y Robertson", publisher="Morrow"}
additem {rank="9", title="Groundties", author="Jane Fancher", publisher="Warner Questar"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Mojo and the Pickle Jar", author = "Douglas Bell", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Prodigal", author = "Melanie Tem", publisher = "Dell Abyss" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Moonwise", author = "Greer Ilene Gilman", publisher = "Roc" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Initiate Brother", author = "Sean Russell", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Sarah Canary", author = "Karen Joy Fowler", publisher = "Holt" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Shade", author = "Emily Devenport", publisher = "Roc" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Second Star", author = "Dana Stabenow", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Wilderness", author = "Dennis Danvers", publisher = "Poseidon" }

setyear('1993 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Doomsday Book", author = "Connie Willis", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem {rank="2", title="Red Mars", author="Kim Stanley Robinson", publisher="HarperCollins UK; Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="3", title="The Hollow Man", author="Dan Simmons", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="4", title="A Fire Upon the Deep", author="Vernor Vinge", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="5", title="Steel Beach", author="John Varley", publisher="Ace/Putnam"}
additem {rank="6", title="Anvil of Stars", author="Greg Bear", publisher="Legend; Warner Questar"}
additem {rank="7", title="Chanur's Legacy", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="8", title="Mars", author="Ben Bova", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="9", title="The Memory of Earth", author="Orson Scott Card", publisher="Tor"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Snow Crash", author = "Neal Stephenson", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Worlds Enough and Time", author = "Joe Haldeman", publisher = "Morrow" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Crystal Line", author = "Anne McCaffrey", publisher = "Bantam UK; Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Count Geiger's Blues", author = "Michael Bishop", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Hellburner", author = "C. J. Cherryh", publisher = "Warner Questar" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Sideshow", author = "Sheri S. Tepper", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Aristoi", author = "Walter Jon Williams", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Labyrinth of Night", author = "Allen Steele", publisher = "Legend; Ace" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Mining the Oort", author = "Frederik Pohl", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Lord Kelvin's Machine", author = "James P. Blaylock", publisher = "Arkham House" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Hearts, Hands and Voices", author = "Ian McDonald", publisher = "Gollancz; as _The Broken Land_,  Bantam Spectra"}
additem { rank = '21', title = "A Million Open Doors", author = "John Barnes", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Jaran", author = "Kate Elliott", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Glass Houses", author = "Laura J. Mixon", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "China Mountain Zhang", author = "Maureen F. McHugh", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "A Deeper Sea", author = "Alexander Jablokov", publisher = "Morrow AvoNova" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "Alien Earth", author = "Megan Lindholm", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '27', title = "  stival Tide", author = "Elizabeth Hand", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Last Call", author = "Tim Powers", publisher = "Morrow" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Spirit Ring", author="Lois McMaster Bujold", publisher="Baen"}
additem {rank="3", title="Briar Rose", author="Jane Yolen", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="4", title="A Song for Arbonne", author="Guy Gavriel Kay", publisher="Viking Canada; Crown"}
additem {rank="5", title="Was", author="Geoff Ryman", publisher="HarperCollins UK; Knopf"}
additem {rank="6", title="Winds of Change", author="Mercedes Lackey", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Magicians of Night", author="Barbara Hambly", 
   publisher="HarperCollins UK", othertitle="Del Rey: Magicians of the Night" }
additem {rank="8", title="The Shadow Rising", author="Robert Jordan", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="9", title="Domes of Fire", author="David Eddings", publisher="HarperCollins UK; Del Rey"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Small Gods", author = "Terry Pratchett", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Last Refuge", author = "Elizabeth Ann Scarborough", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Cutting Edge", author = "Dave Duncan", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "A Sudden Wild Magic", author = "Diana Wynne Jones", publisher = "Morrow AvoNova" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Gypsy", author = "Steven Brust & Megan Lindholm", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Forest of the Night", author = "S. P. Somtow", publisher = "AvoNova" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Flying in Place", author = "Susan Palwick", publisher = "Tor" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "China Mountain Zhang", author = "Maureen F. McHugh", publisher = "Tor" }
additem {rank="2", title="Jumper", author="Steven Gould", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="3", title="Lost Souls", author="Poppy Z. Brite", publisher="Delacorte Abyss"}
additem {rank="4", title="Flying in Place", author="Susan Palwick", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="5", title="Fatherland", author="Robert Harris", publisher="Hutchinson; Viking"}
additem {rank="6", title="Fire in the Mist", author="Holly Lisle", publisher="Baen"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Mountain Made of Light", author="Edward Meyers", publisher="Roc"}
additem {rank="8", title="Sheltered Lives", author="Charles Oberndorf", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="9", title="The Meri", author="Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff", publisher="Baen"}

setyear('1994 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Green Mars", author = "Kim Stanley Robinson", publisher = "HarperCollins UK; Bantam Spectra" }
additem {rank="2", title="Moving Mars", author="Greg Bear", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="3", title="Beggars in Spain", author="Nancy Kress", publisher="Morrow AvoNova"}
additem {rank="4", title="Virtual Light", author="William Gibson", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="5", title="Glory Season", author="David Brin", publisher="Orbit; Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="6", title="Hard Landing", author="Algis Budrys", publisher="_F&SF_ Nov 92; Warner Questar"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Call of Earth", author="Orson Scott Card", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="8", title="A Plague of Angels", author="Sheri S. Tepper", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="9", title="Harvest of Stars", author="Poul Anderson", publisher="Tor"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Against a Dark Background", author = "Iain M. Banks", publisher = "Orbit; Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Hammer of God", author = "Arthur C. Clarke", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Ring of Swords", author = "Eleanor Arnason", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Powers That Be", author = "Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Broken God", author = "David Zindell", publisher = "HarperCollins UK; Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Growing Up Weightless", author = "John M. Ford", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Brother Termite", author = "Patricia Anthony", publisher = "Harcourt Brace" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Godspeed", author = "Charles Sheffield", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Elvissey", author = "Jack Womack", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Vanishing Point", author = "Michaela Roessner", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Chimera", author = "Mary Rosenblum", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Red Dust", author = "Paul J. McAuley", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "The Gripping Hand", author = "Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle", publisher = "Pocket" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Nightside the Long Sun", author = "Gene Wolfe", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "Timelike Infinity", author = "Stephen Baxter", publisher = "HarperCollins UK" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "Assemblers of Infinity", author = "Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Innkeeper's Song", author = "Peter S. Beagle", publisher = "Roc" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Iron Dragon's Daughter", author="Michael Swanwick", publisher="Millennium; Morrow AvoNova"}
additem {rank="3", title="To Green Angel Tower", author="Tad Williams", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="4", title="The Thread That Binds the Bones", author="Nina Kiriki Hoffman", publisher="AvoNova"}
additem {rank="5", title="Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon", author="Lisa Goldstein", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Fires of Heaven", author="Robert Jordan", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="7", title="Deerskin", author="Robin McKinley", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="8", title="Dog Wizard", author="Barbara Hambly", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="9", title="Lord of the Two Lands", author="Judith Tarr", publisher="Tor"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Hollowing", author = "Robert Holdstock", publisher = "HarperCollins UK" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Faery in Shadow", author = "C. J. Cherryh", publisher = "Legend; SF Book Club" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Porcelain Dove", author = "Delia Sherman", publisher = "Dutton" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Winter of the Wolf", author = "R. A. MacAvoy", publisher = "Headline; as _The Belly of the Wolf_,  Morrow"}
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Far Kingdoms", author = "Allan Cole & Chris Bunch", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Cygnet and the Firebrand", author = "Patricia A. McKillip", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "The Wizard's Apprentice", author = "S. P. Somtow", publisher = "Atheneum" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Bones of the Past", author = "Holly Lisle", publisher = "Baen" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Dragon Star Book III: Skybowl", author = "Melanie Rawn", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "The Robin, the Kestrel", author = "Mercedes Lackey", publisher = "Baen" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Cold Allies", author = "Patricia Anthony", PUBLISHER = "HBJ" }
additem {rank="2", title="Ammonite", author="Nicola Griffith", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="3", title="The Drylands", author="Mary Rosenblum", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem {rank="4", title="CrashCourse", author="Wilhelmina Baird", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="5", title="Virtual Girl", author="Amy Thomson", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="6", title="Mutagenesis", author="Helen Collins", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="7", title="Warpath", author="Tony Daniel", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="8", title="Flying to Valhalla", author="Charles Pellegrino", publisher="Morrow AvoNova"}
additem {rank="9", title="The Rising of the Moon", author="Flynn Connolly", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Passion Play", author = "Sean Stewart", publisher = "Tesseract; Ace" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Devil You Say", author = "Elisa DeCarlo", publisher = "AvoNova" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Element of Fire", author = "Martha Wells", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Forests of the Night", author = "S. Andrew Swann", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Well-Favored Man", author = "Elizabeth Willey", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Afterage", author = "Yvonne Navarro", publisher = "Bantam" }

setyear('1995 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Mirror Dance", author = "Lois McMaster Bujold", publisher = "Baen" }
additem {rank="2", title="Parable of the Sower", author="Octavia E. Butler", publisher="Four Walls Eight Windows"}
additem {rank="3", title="Foreigner", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="4", title="Mother of Storms", author="John Barnes", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="5", title="Beggars and Choosers", author="Nancy Kress", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="6", title="Heavy Weather", author="Bruce Sterling", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="7", title="Worldwar: In the Balance", author="Harry Turtledove", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem { rank = '8', title = "Rama Revealed", author = "Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee", publisher = "Gollancz 1993; Bantam Spectra" }
additem {rank="9", title="Cald  of the Long Sun", author="  Gene Wolfe", publisher="Tor"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Dolphins of Pern", author = "Anne McCaffrey", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "The Engines of God", author = "Jack McDevitt", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Furious Gulf", author = "Gregory Benford", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Stars Are Also Fire", author = "Poul Anderson", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Shadow's End", author = "Sheri S. Tepper", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Summer of Love", author = "Lisa Mason", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Necroville", author = "Ian McDonald", publisher = "Gollancz; as _Terminal Cafe_,  Bantam Spectra"}
additem { rank = '17', title = "Tripoint", author = "C. J. Cherryh", publisher = "Warner Aspect" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "The Voices of Heaven", author = "Frederik Pohl", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Feersum Endjinn", author = "Iain M. Banks", publisher = "Orbit; Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Half the Day is Night", author = "Maureen F. McHugh", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "Ring", author = "Stephen Baxter", publisher = "HarperCollins UK" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "Permutation City", author = "Greg Egan", publisher = "Millennium" }
additem { rank = '23', title = "Genetic Soldier", author = "George Turner", publisher = "Morrow AvoNova" }
additem { rank = '24', title = "Climbing Olympus", author = "Kevin J. Anderson", publisher = "Warner Aspect" }
additem { rank = '25', title = "Random Acts of Senseless Violence", author = "Jack Womack", publisher = "HarperCollins UK 1993; Atlantic Monthly" }
additem { rank = '26', title = "Wildlife", author = "James Patrick Kelly", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '27', title = "End of an Era", author = "Robert J. Sawyer", publisher = "Ace" }
additem { rank = '28', title = "Solis", author = "A. A. Attanasio", publisher = "HarperCollins" }
additem { rank = '29', title = "Pasquale's Angel", author = "Paul J. McAuley", publisher = "Gollancz; Morrow AvoNova" }
additem { rank = '30', title = "Mysterium", author = "Robert Charles Wilson", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '31', title = "The Jericho Iteration", author = "Allen Steele", publisher = "Ace" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Brittle Innings", author = "Michael Bishop", publisher = "Bantam" }
additem {rank="2", title="Towing Jehovah", author="James Morrow", publisher="Harcourt Brace"}
additem {rank="3", title="Lord of Chaos", author="Robert Jordan", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="4", title="Finder", author="Emma Bull", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="5", title="Memory, Dream", author="Charles de Lint", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="6", title="Love, Sleep", author="John Crowley", publisher="Bantam"}
additem {rank="7", title="Five Hundred Years After", author="Steven Brust", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="8", title="Storm Warning", author="Mercedes Lackey", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="9", title="Larque on the Wing", author="Nancy Springer", publisher="Morrow AvoNova"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Summer King, Winter Fool", author = "Lisa Goldstein", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Merlin's Wood", author = "Robert Holdstock", publisher = "HarperCollins UK" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "A College of Magics", author = "Caroline Stevemere", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "The Warrior's Tale", author = "Allan Cole & Chris Bunch", publisher = "Legend; Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Forest House", author = "Marion Zimmer Bradley", publisher = "Michael Joseph 1993; Viking" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Slow Funeral", author = "Rebecca Ore", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Shadow of a Dark Queen", author = "Raymond E. Feist", publisher = "HarperCollins UK; Morrow" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Temporary Agency", author = "Rachel Pollack", publisher = "Orbit; St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Rhinegold", author = "Stephan Grundy", publisher = "Michael Joseph; Bantam" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "The Dubious Hills", author = "Pamela Dean", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Exiles1: The Ruins of Ambral", author = "Melanie Rawn", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Gun, With Occasional Music", author = "Jonathan Lethem", publisher = "Harcourt Brace" }
additem {rank="2", title="Queen City Jazz", author="Kathleen Ann Goonan", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="3", title="Rhinegold", author="Stephan Grundy", publisher="Michael Joseph; Bantam"}
additem {rank="4", title="Witch and Wombat", author="Carolyn Cushman", publisher="Warner Questar"}
additem {rank="5", title="Vurt", author="Jeff Noon", publisher="Ringpull 1993; Crown"}
additem {rank="6", title="Midshipman's Hope", author="David Feintuch", publisher="Warner Aspect"}
additem {rank="7", title="Wizard's First Rule", author="Terry Goodkind", publisher="Millennium; Tor"}
additem {rank="8", title="Aurian", author="Maggie Furey", publisher="Legend; Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="9", title="Love Bite", author="Sherry Gottlieb", publisher="Warner"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "The Woman Between the Worlds", author = "F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre", publisher = "Dell" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls", author = "Jane Lindskold", publisher = "AvoNova" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Becoming Human", author = "Valerie J. Freireich", publisher = "Roc" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Mistwalker", author = "Denise Lopes Heald", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Aggressor Six", author = "Wil McCarthy", publisher = "Roc" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "This Side of Judgment", author = "J. R. Dunn", publisher = "Harcourt Brace" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "The Imperium Game", author = "K. D. Wentworth", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "Changing Fate", author = "Elisabeth Waters", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }

setyear('1996 Locus Poll')

setcategory("sf novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Diamond Age", author = "Neal Stephenson", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem {rank="2", title="Brightness Reef", author="David Brin", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="3", title="Invader", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="DAW"}
additem {rank="4", title="Legacy", author="Greg Bear", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="5", title="The Time Ships", author="Stephen Baxter", publisher="HarperCollins UK; HarperPrism"}
additem {rank="6", title="Sailing Bright Eternity", author="Gregory Benford", publisher="Gollancz; Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="7", title="Chaga", author="Ian McDonald", publisher="Gollancz",
     othertitle = "Bantam Spectra: Evolution's Shore"}
additem {rank="8", title="Metropolitan", author="Walter Jon Williams", publisher="HarperPrism"}
additem {rank="9", title="Worldwar: Tilting the Balance", author="Harry Turtledove", publisher="Del Rey"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "Slow River", author = "Nicola Griffith", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Amnesia Moon", author = "Jonathan Lethem", publisher = "Harcourt Brace" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Kaleidoscope Century", author = "John Barnes", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Fairyland", author = "Paul J. McAuley", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "The Ganymede Club", author = "Charles Sheffield", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "The Killing Star", author = "Charles Pellegrino & George Zebrowski", publisher = "Morrow AvoNova" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "Gaia's Toys", author = "Rebecca Ore", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "The Stone Garden", author = "Mary Rosenblum", publisher = "Del Rey" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "Testament", author = "Valerie J. Freireich", publisher = "Roc" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "The Golden Nineties", author = "Lisa Mason", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '20', title = "Shadow Man", author = "Melissa Scott", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '21', title = "The Terminal Experiment", author = "Robert J. Sawyer", publisher = "HarperPrism" }
additem { rank = '22', title = "An Exaltation of Larks", author = "Robert Reed", publisher = "Tor" }

setcategory("fantasy novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "Alvin Journeyman", author = "Orson Scott Card", publisher = "Tor" }
additem {rank="2", title="Waking the Moon", author="Elizabeth Hand", publisher="HarperCollins UK; HarperPrism"}
additem {rank="3", title="Fortress in the Eye of Time", author="C. J. Cherryh", publisher="HarperPrism"}
additem {rank="4", title="The Lions of Al-Rassan", author="Guy Gavriel Kay", publisher="Viking Canada; HarperPrism"}
additem {rank="5", title="Resurrection Man", author="Sean Stewart", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Silent Strength of Stones", author="Nina Kiriki Hoffman", publisher="AvoNova"}
additem {rank="7", title="The Book of Atrix Wolfe", author="Patricia A. McKillip", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="8", title="Blood", author="Michael Moorcock", publisher="Millennium; Morrow AvoNova"}
additem {rank="9", title="Storm Rising", author="Mercedes Lackey", publisher="DAW"}
additem { rank = '10', title = "City of Bones", author = "Martha Wells", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Crown of Shadows", author = "C. S. Friedman", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "Maskerade", author = "Terry Pratchett", publisher = "Gollancz" }
additem { rank = '13', title = "Zod Wallop", author = "William Browning Spencer", publisher = "St. Martin's" }
additem { rank = '14', title = "Assassin's Apprentice", author = "Robin Hobb", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem { rank = '15', title = "Stone of Tears", author = "Terry Goodkind", publisher = "Millennium; Tor" }
additem { rank = '16', title = "The Tower of Beowulf", author = "Parke Godwin", publisher = "Morrow" }
additem { rank = '17', title = "A Sorcerer and a Gentleman", author = "Elizabeth Willey", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '18', title = "World Without End", author = "Sean Russell", PUBLISHER = "DAW" }
additem { rank = '19', title = "Harp of Winds", author = "Maggie Furey", publisher = "Legend; Bantam Spectra" }

setcategory("first novel")

additem { rank = '1', title = "The Bohr Maker", author = "Linda Nagata", publisher = "Bantam Spectra" }
additem {rank="2", title="The Shape-Changer's Wife", author="Sharon Shinn", publisher="Ace"}
additem {rank="3", title="Lethe", author="Tricia Sullivan", publisher="Gollancz; Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="4", title="Dead Girls", author="Richard Calder", publisher="HarperCollins UK 1992; St. Martin's"}
additem {rank="5", title="Door Number Three", author="Patrick O'Leary", publisher="Tor"}
additem {rank="6", title="The Baker's Boy", author="J. V. Jones", publisher="Warner Aspect"}
additem {rank="7", title="Quasar", author="Jamil Nasir", publisher="Bantam Spectra"}
additem {rank="8", title="Humility Garden", author="Felicity Savage", publisher="Roc"}
additem {rank="9", title="Genellan: Planetfall", author="Scott G. Gier", publisher="Del Rey"}
 
additem { rank = '10', title = "Primary Inversion", author = "Catherine Asaro", publisher = "Tor" }
additem { rank = '11', title = "Legacies", author = "Alison Sinclair", publisher = "Millennium" }
additem { rank = '12', title = "The Printer's Devil", author = "Chico Kidd", publisher = "Baen" }