| 100% | SNOWCRASH | 9 | Sci-fi novel that coined the word metaverse |
| 53% | VARIETY | 7 | Publication that coined the word "sitcom" |
| 46% | GROK | 4 | Word for “understand” coined in a 1961 sci-fi novel |
| 45% | NEAL | 4 | Author Stephenson who coined the word "metaverse" |
| 45% | GEORGEORWELL | 12 | Writer who coined the word "doublethink" in his novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (2 wds.) |
| 43% | HAMMER | 6 | "The ___ of God," 1993 sci-fi novel by Arthur C. Clarke that is set in the year 2109 |
| 43% | SUBMARINES | 10 | Inventions that inspired the sci-fi novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne |
| 42% | EARTHAND | 8 | Sci-fi novel, A House Between __ the Moon |
| 42% | ETERNITY | 8 | "The End of ___," 1955 sci-fi novel by Isaac Asimov that was shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel |
| 41% | SONGS | 5 | "The ___ of Distant Earth," 1986 sci-fi novel by Arthur C. Clarke that is set in the early 3800s |
| 41% | MACHINE | 7 | H.G. Wells sci-fi novel: The Time __ |
| 41% | JEDI | 4 | Sci-fi group that can wield the Force |
| 40% | CARD | 4 | Credit ___, invention that was first mentioned in the sci-fi novel "Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy |
| 40% | NAKEDSUN | 8 | "The ___," 1957 sci-fi novel by Isaac Asimov that was adapted into an episode of the TV series "Out of the Unknown": 2 wds. |
| 40% | WORLDS | 6 | Sci-fi novel by H.G. Wells: The War of the __ |
| 40% | LEGUIN | 6 | Sci-fi author of the Earthsea novels, Ursula K. __ |
| 40% | ISLANDS | 7 | "___ in the Sky," 1952 sci-fi novel by Arthur C. Clarke that is set in the later half of the 21st century |
| 39% | UGLIES | 6 | 2005 Scott Westerfeld sci-fi novel with the sequel "Pretties" |
| 39% | CAPEK | 5 | Writer who coined the word "robot" |
| 39% | HLMENCKEN | 9 | *Writer who coined the word "booboisie" |
| 39% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Writer who coined the word "nerd" |
| 39% | TYCHOBRAHE | 10 | Astronomer who coined the word "nova" |
| 39% | FERMI | 5 | Physicist who coined the word "neutrino" |
| 39% | JUNG | 4 | Psychologist who coined the word "synchronicity" |
| 39% | IDA | 3 | Tin who coined the word "FemTech" |
| 39% | ALOOF | 5 | Alien race that controls the galactic core in the 2008 sci-fi novel "Incandescence" |
| 39% | FRANKENSTEIN | 12 | Sci-fi novel by Mary Shelley that was published on 1st January 1818 |
| 38% | CAPEK | 5 | Karel ___, writer who coined the word "robot" |
| 38% | EHRLICH | 7 | Bacteriologist Paul who coined the word "chemotherapy" |
| 38% | CAPEK | 5 | Czech playwright who coined the word "robot" |