| Author | Number of Quotations |
| Robert A. Heinlein | 184 |
| Poul Anderson | 175 |
| Isaac Asimov | 129 |
| Edward E. Smith | 111 |
| Larry Niven | 95 |
| Robert Silverberg | 86 |
| David Brin | 85 |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 85 |
| John W. Campbell, Jr. | 83 |
| Jack Williamson | 83 |
| James Blish | 70 |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | 67 |
| Anne McCaffrey | 62 |
| Murray Leinster | 61 |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | 60 |
| John Varley | 55 |
| Jerry Pournelle | 54 |
| George O. Smith | 54 |
| Alan Dean Foster | 51 |
| Andre Norton | 46 |
| Edmond Hamilton | 46 |
| Theodore Sturgeon | 44 |
| Dick Eney | 43 |
| A. E. van Vogt | 43 |
| Vernor Vinge | 43 |
| Greg Bear | 42 |
| Norman Spinrad | 41 |
| David Weber | 41 |
| Charles Stross | 39 |
| Frederik Pohl | 38 |