| 100% | CLARKE | 6 | Arthur C —, author of science fiction novels The Sands of Mars and Prelude to Space |
| 48% | DICK | 4 | Philip K —, author of science fiction novels The Man in the High Castle and The Game-Players of Titan |
| 46% | MARS | 4 | "The Sands of ___" (Arthur C. Clarke's first science fiction novel) |
| 43% | ALDISS | 6 | Brian —, author of science fiction novels Super-State and Moreau's Other Island |
| 40% | DOYLE | 5 | Arthur Conan —, author of the novels Beyond the City and The White Company |
| 40% | SNOW | 4 | C P —, author of the novels Homecomings and Time of Hope |
| 40% | DOOMEDPLANET | 12 | The —, tenth and final volume of science fiction novel series Mission Earth by L Ron Hubbard |
| 39% | DOYLE | 5 | Arthur Conan —, author of novels Beyond the City and The White Company |
| 39% | FORESTER | 8 | C S —, author of novels The Commodore and Lord Hornblower |
| 39% | STUART | 6 | Author of novels Flesh House and Close to the Bone |
| 39% | KOESTLER | 8 | Arthur —, author of novels The Call-Girls and Darkness at Noon |
| 38% | LOOS | 4 | Anita —, author of the novels No Mother to Guide Her and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| 38% | HAILEY | 6 | Arthur —, Bedfordshire-born author of novels In High Places and The Moneychangers |
| 38% | DISCH | 5 | Thomas M —, author of 1965 science fiction novel The Genocides |
| 38% | EGAN | 4 | Greg ___, author of the 1994 science fiction novel "Permutation City" |
| 38% | WOOLF | 5 | Virginia —, author of novels Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse |
| 38% | LAHR | 4 | John —, author of novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot |
| 38% | BAINBRIDGE | 10 | Beryl —, late author of novels According to Queeney and The Dressmaker |
| 38% | LAHR | 4 | John —, author of the novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot |
| 38% | POLIDORI | 8 | John —, physician to Lord Byron and author of the novel The Vampyre |
| 37% | SOUVESTRE | 9 | Emile —, author of 1846 science fiction novel The World As It Will Be |
| 37% | RENDELL | 7 | Ruth —, author of the novels The Veiled One and Talking to Strange Men |
| 37% | JAMES | 5 | P D —, author of the novels Original Sin and A Mind to Murder |
| 36% | ARTHURCCLARKE | 13 | "2001: A Space Odyssey" novelist who was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1997 (3 wds.) |
| 36% | WILLIAM | 7 | ___ Faulkner, author of "The Sound and the Fury" who once wrote the entire outline to a novel on his office walls |
| 35% | RAYBRADBURY | 11 | "S Is for Space" short-story writer who was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1999 (2 wds.) |
| 35% | MOON | 4 | Destination in Arthur C. Clarke's novel "Prelude to Space" |
| 35% | ACKROYD | 7 | Peter —, author of novels Chatterton and The Lambs of London |
| 35% | THOMASMANN | 10 | Author of novels Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain |