| Author | Number of Quotations |
| Poul Anderson | 196 |
| Robert A. Heinlein | 184 |
| Isaac Asimov | 143 |
| Edward E. Smith | 131 |
| Larry Niven | 110 |
| Robert Silverberg | 102 |
| Jack Williamson | 94 |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 93 |
| John W. Campbell, Jr. | 91 |
| David Brin | 88 |
| James Blish | 75 |
| Anne McCaffrey | 73 |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | 69 |
| Edmond Hamilton | 67 |
| Murray Leinster | 63 |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | 59 |
| George O. Smith | 56 |
| John Varley | 55 |
| Jerry Pournelle | 55 |
| A. E. van Vogt | 54 |
| Frederik Pohl | 52 |
| Alan Dean Foster | 51 |
| Charles Stross | 48 |
| Norman Spinrad | 48 |
| Andre Norton | 48 |
| Vernor Vinge | 44 |
| David Weber | 44 |
| Theodore Sturgeon | 44 |
| Dick Eney | 42 |
| Greg Bear | 41 |