This take on the data had a startling surprise. The author with the most stories, Robert Reed, had no stories on the final list. This was true of many authors. Using an arbitrary cutoff seems unfair at times, but lowering the cutoff to 4, which would have put Reed on the final list, would have made the total list 443 stories long. We’re already worried that few visitors to the site will even scroll through the 275 titles.

See the Citations Bibliography to review the sources of the citations.

[60] Robert Reed
[54] Robert Silverberg
[52] Isaac Asimov
[52] Michael Swanwick
[50] Nancy Kress
[46] Fritz Leiber
[40] Poul Anderson
[39] Gregory Benford
[36] Brian W. Aldiss
[36] Theodore Sturgeon
[36] Gene Wolfe
[35] Ursula K. Le Guin
[34] James Patrick Kelly
[33] Stephen Baxter
[33] Harlan Ellison
[33] Frederik Pohl
[32] Henry Kuttner
[31] C. L. Moore
[30] Mike Resnick
[30] Alastair Reynolds
[29] Greg Egan
[28] Michael Bishop
[28] Ray Bradbury
[28] Bruce Sterling
[27] Arthur C. Clarke
[27] Howard Waldrop
[27] Connie Willis
[26] Robert A. Heinlein
[26] Robert Sheckley
[26] James Tiptree, Jr.
[25] Pat Cadigan
[25] Philip K. Dick
[25] C. M. Kornbluth
[25] Paul McAuley
[24] R. A. Lafferty
[24] Ian McDonald
[24] Lucius Shepard
[24] Kate Wilhelm
[23] John Kessel
[23] Clifford D. Simak
[23] Roger Zelazny
[22] Terry Bisson
[21] Aliette de Bodard
[21] Joe Haldeman
[21] George R. R. Martin
[21] Larry Niven
[20] J. G. Ballard
[20] Fredric Brown
[20] Avram Davidson
[20] Gordon R. Dickson
[20] Murray Leinster
[20] Ian R. MacLeod
[20] A. E. van Vogt
[20] John Varley
[19] James Blish
[19] Thomas M. Disch
[19] Kim Stanley Robinson
[18] Alfred Bester
[18] Damon Knight
[18] Walter Jon Williams
[17] Cory Doctorow
[17] Geoffrey A. Landis
[17] Brian Stableford
[17] William Tenn
[16] Eleanor Arnason
[16] Jack Dann
[16] L. Sprague de Camp
[16] Gardner Dozois
[16] Karen Joy Fowler
[16] Neil Gaiman
[16] Ken Liu
[16] Eric Frank Russell
[16] Jack Vance
[16] Jack Williamson
[15] Gwyneth Jones
[15] Kelly Link
[15] Walter M. Miller, Jr.
[15] Geoff Ryman
[15] Norman Spinrad
[15] Charles Stross
[15] Ian Watson
[14] Leigh Brackett
[14] Carol Emshwiller
[14] Philip José Farmer
[14] Michael F. Flynn
[14] Tanith Lee
[14] Barry N. Malzberg
[14] Maureen F. McHugh
[14] Cordwainer Smith
[13] Kage Baker
[13] Elizabeth Bear
[13] Algis Budrys
[13] Michael A. Burstein
[13] Ted Chiang
[13] Jay Lake
[13] Yoon Ha Lee
[13] Katherine MacLean
[13] Lester del Rey
[13] Mack Reynolds
[13] Kristine Kathryn Rusch
[13] Allen M. Steele
[13] Lavie Tidhar
[12] David Brin
[12] John Brunner
[12] Paul Di Filippo
[12] Rich Larson
[12] Harry Turtledove
[12] Genevieve Valentine
[11] Paolo Bacigalupi
[11] Anthony Boucher
[11] John W. Campbell, Jr.
[11] Orson Scott Card
[11] George Alec Effinger
[11] Jeffrey Ford
[11] Kij Johnson
[11] Ellen Klages
[11] H. P. Lovecraft
[11] Pat Murphy
[11] Mary Rosenblum
[11] Joanna Russ
[11] Catherynne M. Valente
[11] Vernor Vinge
[10] Peter S. Beagle
[10] Edward Bryant
[10] Samuel R. Delany
[10] Andy Duncan
[10] Theodora Goss
[10] Edmond Hamilton
[10] Zenna Henderson
[10] Margo Lanagan
[10] Ken MacLeod
[10] Vonda N. McIntyre
[10] Benjamin Rosenbaum
[10] Rachel Swirsky
[10] Lisa Tuttle
[10] Peter Watts
[10] H. G. Wells
[ 9] Neal Barrett, Jr.
[ 9] Greg Bear
[ 9] Adam-Troy Castro
[ 9] Lisa Goldstein
[ 9] Alexander Jablokov
[ 9] John D. MacDonald
[ 9] Bruce McAllister
[ 9] Jack McDevitt
[ 9] James Morrow
[ 9] Keith Roberts
[ 9] Vandana Singh
[ 9] Robert Charles Wilson
[ 8] Charlie Jane Anders
[ 8] Christopher Anvil
[ 8] John Barnes
[ 8] William Gibson
[ 8] Harry Harrison
[ 8] Caitlín R. Kiernan
[ 8] Ted Kosmatka
[ 8] Keith Laumer
[ 8] Seanan McGuire
[ 8] Michael Moorcock
[ 8] K. J. Parker
[ 8] Edgar Allan Poe
[ 8] Kit Reed
[ 8] Mary Rickert
[ 8] William Sanders
[ 8] Karl Schroeder
[ 8] John C. Wright
[ 7] Daniel Abraham
[ 7] Chris Beckett
[ 7] Ben Bova
[ 7] Richard Bowes
[ 7] David R. Bunch
[ 7] Suzy McKee Charnas
[ 7] Hal Clement
[ 7] Mark Clifton
[ 7] Michael G. Coney
[ 7] C. S. E. Cooney
[ 7] David Gerrold
[ 7] Carolyn Ives Gilman
[ 7] H. L. Gold
[ 7] Daryl Gregory
[ 7] James E. Gunn
[ 7] Charles L. Harness
[ 7] Mary Robinette Kowal
[ 7] Stanislaw Lem
[ 7] Jonathan Lethem
[ 7] Richard Matheson
[ 7] Sean McMullen
[ 7] P. Schuyler Miller
[ 7] Sam J. Miller
[ 7] Susan Palwick
[ 7] Steven Popkes
[ 7] Christopher Priest
[ 7] Tom Purdom
[ 7] Adam Roberts
[ 7] Frank M. Robinson
[ 7] Fred Saberhagen
[ 7] James H. Schmitz
[ 7] Carter Scholz
[ 7] Charles Sheffield
[ 7] Lewis Shiner
[ 7] Dan Simmons
[ 7] Steven Utley
[ 7] James Van Pelt
[ 7] Richard Wilson
[ 6] Robert Abernathy
[ 6] Neal Asher
[ 6] William Barton
[ 6] Marion Zimmer Bradley
[ 6] Reginald Bretnor
[ 6] Damien Broderick
[ 6] Tobias S. Buckell
[ 6] Richard Cowper
[ 6] Tony Daniel
[ 6] Phyllis Eisenstein
[ 6] Gordon Eklund
[ 6] Gregory Feeley
[ 6] Esther M. Friesner
[ 6] Randall Garrett
[ 6] Kathleen Ann Goonan
[ 6] Dominic Green
[ 6] Eileen Gunn
[ 6] Frank Herbert
[ 6] Nina Kiriki Hoffman
[ 6] Stephen King
[ 6] Richard McKenna
[ 6] Judith Moffett
[ 6] David Moles
[ 6] Ward Moore
[ 6] Chad Oliver
[ 6] Edgar Pangborn
[ 6] Sarah Pinsker
[ 6] Hannu Rajaniemi
[ 6] Rudy Rucker
[ 6] Sofia Samatar
[ 6] Hilbert Schenck
[ 6] S. P. Somtow
[ 6] Martha Soukup
[ 6] Theodore L. Thomas
[ 6] Carrie Vaughn
[ 6] Liz Williams
[ 6] Robert F. Young
[ 6] E. Lily Yu
[ 5] Nina Allan
[ 5] Catherine Asaro
[ 5] Madeline Ashby
[ 5] Dale Bailey
[ 5] Tony Ballantyne
[ 5] Ambrose Bierce
[ 5] Holly Black
[ 5] Jorge Luis Borges
[ 5] Lois McMaster Bujold
[ 5] Karl Bunker
[ 5] Octavia E. Butler
[ 5] A. Bertram Chandler
[ 5] C. J. Cherryh
[ 5] Margaret St. Clair
[ 5] Brenda Cooper
[ 5] Paul Cornell
[ 5] Charles Coleman Finlay
[ 5] Jack Finney
[ 5] John M. Ford
[ 5] Ron Goulart
[ 5] Charles L. Grant
[ 5] Elizabeth Hand
[ 5] Nalo Hopkinson
[ 5] Norman Kagan
[ 5] David H. Keller
[ 5] Gerald Kersh
[ 5] Alice Sola Kim
[ 5] Kathe Koja
[ 5] Matthew Kressel
[ 5] Naomi Kritzer
[ 5] David Langford
[ 5] David D. Levine
[ 5] Paul Levinson
[ 5] Will McIntosh
[ 5] Linda Nagata
[ 5] Ruth Nestvold
[ 5] Josef Nesvadba
[ 5] Kris Neville
[ 5] Alan E. Nourse
[ 5] Nnedi Okorafor
[ 5] Suzanne Palmer
[ 5] Paul Park
[ 5] Peter Phillips
[ 5] H. Beam Piper
[ 5] Arthur Porges
[ 5] R. Garcia y Robertson
[ 5] Spider Robinson
[ 5] Kelly Robson
[ 5] Ross Rocklynne
[ 5] Bruce Holland Rogers
[ 5] Robert J. Sawyer
[ 5] Lawrence M. Schoen
[ 5] Thomas N. Scortia
[ 5] Bob Shaw
[ 5] Susan Shwartz
[ 5] William F. Temple
[ 5] E. C. Tubb
[ 5] Joan D. Vinge
[ 5] Stanley G. Weinbaum
[ 5] James White
[ 5] Donald A. Wollheim
[ 5] John Wyndham
[ 5] Jane Yolen