| Author | Number of Quotations |
| Poul Anderson | 194 |
| Robert A. Heinlein | 193 |
| Isaac Asimov | 143 |
| Edward E. Smith | 123 |
| Larry Niven | 108 |
| Robert Silverberg | 98 |
| David Brin | 95 |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 92 |
| John W. Campbell, Jr. | 88 |
| Jack Williamson | 87 |
| James Blish | 75 |
| Anne McCaffrey | 70 |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley | 68 |
| Murray Leinster | 65 |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | 62 |
| John Varley | 58 |
| Jerry Pournelle | 58 |
| Edmond Hamilton | 55 |
| Alan Dean Foster | 55 |
| George O. Smith | 54 |
| Andre Norton | 52 |
| A. E. van Vogt | 51 |
| Frederik Pohl | 46 |
| Norman Spinrad | 46 |
| Charles Stross | 45 |
| Dick Eney | 44 |
| Theodore Sturgeon | 44 |
| Vernor Vinge | 44 |
| Greg Bear | 43 |
| David Weber | 43 |