| Author | Number of Quotations |
| Robert A. Heinlein | 189 |
| Poul Anderson | 182 |
| Isaac Asimov | 136 |
| Edward E. Smith | 119 |
| Larry Niven | 103 |
| David Brin | 90 |
| Robert Silverberg | 88 |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 88 |
| John W. Campbell, Jr. | 86 |
| Jack Williamson | 86 |
| James Blish | 71 |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | 67 |
| Anne McCaffrey | 66 |
| Murray Leinster | 62 |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | 61 |
| Jerry Pournelle | 55 |
| John Varley | 55 |
| George O. Smith | 54 |
| Alan Dean Foster | 53 |
| Edmond Hamilton | 50 |
| Andre Norton | 48 |
| Theodore Sturgeon | 44 |
| A. E. van Vogt | 44 |
| Dick Eney | 44 |
| Vernor Vinge | 43 |
| Charles Stross | 43 |
| David Weber | 42 |
| Norman Spinrad | 42 |
| Greg Bear | 42 |
| Frederik Pohl | 41 |