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Book AwardsAstounding/Analog Science Fiction and Fact 1956 All-Time Poll

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  • Astounding/Analog Science Fiction and Fact 1956 All-Time Poll

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Works (26)

TitlesOrder
Adventures in Time and Space by Raymond J. Healy1
City by Clifford D. Simak2
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury3
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon3
Slan by A. E. Van Vogt5
The Man Who Sold the Moon [short fiction] by Robert A. Heinlein6
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester7
The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology by Jr. John W. Campbell8
1984 by George Orwell — not in English Common Knowledge9
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke9
The World of Null-A by A. E. Van Vogt9
The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov12
To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon by Olaf Stapledon13
Who Goes There? [novella] by John W. Campbell Jr13
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley15
Seven Famous Novels of H. G. Wells: Time Machine / Island of Dr. Moreau / Invisible Man / War of the Worlds / First Men in the Moon / Food of the Gods / In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells16
The Green Hills of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein17
The Humanoids by Jack Williamson18
Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement18
Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp20
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov21
The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke22
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury22
The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl22
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury25
Prelude to Space by Arthur C. Clarke25

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