| 100% | KPAX | 4 | Gene Brewer's sci-fi novel: Hyph. |
| 41% | ATONERS | 7 | Contrite race in Nancy Kress’s sci-fi novel “Steal Across the Sky” |
| 41% | ALIENSHIP | 9 | Rama is one, in Arthur C. Clarke's sci-fi novel "Rendezvous With Rama" |
| 40% | DUNE | 4 | Sci-fi novel with giant sandworms |
| 39% | TREK | 4 | Shorthand for Gene Roddenberry's sci-fi franchise |
| 39% | DUNE | 4 | Frank Herbert sci-fi novel |
| 39% | TEKWAR | 6 | William Shatner sci-fi novel |
| 39% | LOGANS | 6 | "___ Run" (classic sci-fi novel) |
| 39% | IRAE | 4 | "Deus ___" (1976 sci-fi novel) |
| 39% | SHERI | 5 | Sci-fi novelist ___ S. Tepper |
| 39% | SHERI | 5 | Sci-fi writer ___ S. Tepper |
| 39% | SHERI | 5 | Sci-fi author __ S. Tepper |
| 38% | ARK | 3 | Stephen Baxter's 2009 hard sci-fi novel |
| 38% | MASTER | 6 | Sci-fi novel by R.A. Lafferty: "Past __" |
| 38% | SNOWCRASH | 9 | Sci-fi novel that coined the word metaverse |
| 38% | EARTHAND | 8 | Sci-fi novel, A House Between __ the Moon |
| 38% | SOLARIS | 7 | Classic Stanislaw Lem sci-fi novel |
| 38% | ONE | 3 | "Ready Player ___" (2011 sci-fi novel) |
| 38% | ENDERSGAME | 10 | Orson Scott Card sci-fi novel |
| 38% | THEPOWER | 8 | 2016 Naomi Alderman sci-fi novel |
| 38% | HELM | 4 | 1998 Stephen Gould sci-fi novel |
| 38% | EMPATH | 6 | Feeler in a sci-fi novel |
| 38% | CORE | 4 | 1993 Paul Preuss sci-fi novel |
| 38% | ASIMOV | 6 | Big name in sci-fi novels |
| 38% | TERRA | 5 | Earth, in some sci-fi novels |
| 37% | DUNE | 4 | Sci-fi novel made into a 1984 cult film |
| 37% | DUNE | 4 | Sci-fi novel set on the planet of Arrakis |
| 37% | DUNE | 4 | Sci-fi novel adapted into a hit 2021 film |
| 37% | TEK | 3 | Drug in a sci-fi novel series |
| 37% | ANDROMEDA | 9 | Gene Roddenberry-inspired sci-fi series |