| Author | Number of Quotations |
| Robert A. Heinlein | 189 |
| Poul Anderson | 184 |
| Isaac Asimov | 137 |
| Edward E. Smith | 120 |
| Larry Niven | 105 |
| David Brin | 90 |
| Robert Silverberg | 90 |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 88 |
| John W. Campbell, Jr. | 87 |
| Jack Williamson | 86 |
| James Blish | 71 |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | 67 |
| Anne McCaffrey | 66 |
| Murray Leinster | 63 |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | 61 |
| Jerry Pournelle | 58 |
| John Varley | 56 |
| George O. Smith | 54 |
| Alan Dean Foster | 53 |
| Edmond Hamilton | 50 |
| Andre Norton | 49 |
| Theodore Sturgeon | 44 |
| A. E. van Vogt | 44 |
| Dick Eney | 44 |
| Charles Stross | 44 |
| Vernor Vinge | 43 |
| Frederik Pohl | 42 |
| David Weber | 42 |
| Greg Bear | 42 |
| Norman Spinrad | 42 |