- Award Category: All-Time Best Author Award Category Record # 316
- Award Type: Locus Poll Award
| 1977 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ---- | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 2 | ---- | Isaac Asimov |
| 3 | ---- | Arthur C. Clarke |
| 4 | ---- | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 5 | ---- | Robert Silverberg |
| 6 | ---- | Larry Niven |
| 7 | ---- | Harlan Ellison |
| 8 | ---- | Roger Zelazny |
| 9 | ---- | Fritz Leiber |
| 10 | ---- | Philip K. Dick |
| 11 | ---- | Theodore Sturgeon |
| 12 | ---- | Poul Anderson |
| 13 | ---- | Jack Vance |
| 14 | ---- | Ray Bradbury |
| 15 | ---- | Alfred Bester |
| 16 | ---- | Samuel R. Delany |
| 17 | ---- |
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| 17 | ---- | Cordwainer Smith |
| 19 | ---- | Frank Herbert |
| 20 | ---- | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| 21 | ---- | Gordon R. Dickson |
| 22 | ---- | Clifford D. Simak |
| 22 | ---- | H. G. Wells |
| 24 | ---- | John Brunner |
| 25 | ---- | Frederik Pohl |
| 26 | ---- | Kate Wilhelm |