ISFDB Top 100 Authors (Popular List)

  1 15599 Ursula K. Le Guin 
  2 14220 Robert Silverberg 
  3 14117 Connie Willis 
  4 12496 Mike Resnick 
  5 12014 Michael Swanwick 
  6 10865 Lucius Shepard 
  7 10593 Orson Scott Card 
  8 10432 Kim Stanley Robinson 
  9 9416 Gene Wolfe 
 10 9369 Greg Egan 
 11 9343 George R. R. Martin 
 12 8958 Nancy Kress 
 13 8347 Harlan Ellison 
 14 8250 Robert J. Sawyer 
 15 7992 Stephen Baxter 
 16 7624 Stephen King 
 17 7408 C. J. Cherryh 
 18 7214 Michael Bishop 
 19 6997 Poul Anderson 
 20 6975 Frederik Pohl 
 21 6902 John Varley 
 22 6858 Bruce Sterling 
 23 6633 Dan Simmons 
 24 6504 Isaac Asimov 
 25 6466 Roger Zelazny 
 26 6352 Gregory Benford 
 27 6077 Joe Haldeman 
 28 6037 Terry Bisson 
 29 5926 Anne McCaffrey 
 30 5776 Larry Niven 
 31 5768 James Patrick Kelly 
 32 5696 David Brin 
 33 5596 Robert Reed 
 34 5426 Lois McMaster Bujold 
 35 5412 Greg Bear 
 36 5193 Fritz Leiber 
 37 5156 Howard Waldrop 
 38 5008 Charles de Lint 
 39 4974 Tanith Lee 
 40 4914 Geoffrey A. Landis 
 41 4811 Allen Steele 
 42 4798 Robert A. Heinlein 
 43 4665 James Tiptree, Jr. 
 44 4352 Kate Wilhelm 
 45 4299 Ian R. MacLeod 
 46 4053 Brian Stableford 
 47 4041 William Gibson 
 48 3942 Ramsey Campbell 
 49 3807 Pat Cadigan 
 50 3805 Maureen F. McHugh 
 51 3635 Kristine Kathryn Rusch 
 52 3578 Paul J. McAuley 
 53 3572 Walter Jon Williams 
 54 3560 Arthur C. Clarke 
 55 3524 Tim Powers 
 56 3510 Robert Charles Wilson 
 57 3492 Charles Sheffield 
 58 3489 Christopher Priest 
 59 3467 Terry Dowling 
 60 3342 Jack Vance 
 61 3310 Ian McDonald 
 62 3262 Jack McDevitt 
 63 3259 Jonathan Carroll 
 64 3257 John Crowley 
 65 3251 Michael Moorcock 
 66 3248 Élisabeth Vonarburg 
 67 3041 Eleanor Arnason 
 68 2989 James P. Blaylock 
 69 2962 George Alec Effinger 
 70 2959 Thomas M. Disch 
 71 2933 Harry Turtledove 
 72 2929 Gordon R. Dickson 
 73 2896 Brian W. Aldiss 
 74 2890 Mary Rosenblum 
 75 2887 Geoff Ryman 
 76 2861 John Brunner 
 77 2798 Pat Murphy 
 78 2761 Neil Gaiman 
 79 2753 Ted Chiang 
 80 2735 Ian Watson 
 81 2734 Patricia A. McKillip 
 82 2706 Kage Baker 
 83 2699 Robert Holdstock 
 84 2664 Vernor Vinge 
 85 2659 Sean McMullen 
 86 2658 Guy Gavriel Kay 
 87 2655 John Kessel 
 88 2620 R. Garcia y Robertson 
 89 2596 Clive Barker 
 90 2563 Joan D. Vinge 
 91 2563 Clifford D. Simak 
 92 2534 Vonda N. McIntyre 
 93 2514 Graham Joyce 
 94 2506 Norman Spinrad 
 95 2440 Andy Duncan 
 96 2432 Peter Straub 
 97 2386 James Morrow 
 98 2367 Lisa Goldstein 
 99 2347 Philip K. Dick 
100 2336 Elizabeth Hand