| Decades | Novels | Breakdown | |
| (e.g. 1951-60) | Basic | Hon. Men. | |
| 1960s | 86 | 14 | 72 |
| 1950s | 81 | 18 | 63 |
| 1980s | 81 | 6 | 75 |
| 1970s | 80 | 10 | 70 |
| 1940s | 26 | 5 | 21 |
| 1930s | 25 | 6 | 19 |
| 1880s | 17 | 3 | 14 |
| 1910s | 16 | 4 | 12 |
| 1890s | 16 | 3 | 13 |
| 1920s | 16 | 2 | 14 |
| 1900s | 15 | 2 | 13 |
| 1870s | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 1810s | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 1820s | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1830s | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1750s | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1510s | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1620s | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1720s | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1860s | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1630s | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1700s | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1760s | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1850s | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| TOTALS | 483 | 79 | 404 |
| BALL PARK FIGURES | ||||
| Category | Novels | Breakdown | ||
| Basic | Hon. Men. | |||
| P | 9 | 3 | 6 | |
| A | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| B | 29 | 6 | 23 | |
| C | 9 | 0 | 9 | |
| D | 64 | 10 | 54 | |
| E | 261 | 45 | 216 | |
| F | 28 | 4 | 24 | |
| G | 61 | 7 | 54 | |
| H | 19 | 1 | 18 | |
| TOTALS | 483 | 79 | 404 | |
| Authors | Novels | Breakdown | ||
| Basic | Hon. Men. | |||
| Wells, H.G. | 14 | 4 | 10 | |
| Heinlein, Robert A. | 12 | 3 | 9 | |
| Dick, Philip K. | 10 | 2 | 8 | |
| Aldiss, Brian W. | 8 | 3 | 5 | |
| Silverberg, Robert | 8 | 2 | 6 | |
| Clarke, Arthur C. | 7 | 1 | 6 | |
| Brunner, John | 6 | 2 | 4 | |
| Delany, Samuel R. | 6 | 2 | 4 | |
| Vance, Jack | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
| LeGuin, Ursula K. | 5 | 2 | 3 | |
| Anderson, Poul | 5 | 1 | 4 | |
| Asimov, Isaac | 5 | 1 | 4 | |
| Leiber, Fritz | 5 | 1 | 4 | |
| Simak, Clifford D. | 5 | 1 | 4 | |
| Williamson, Jack | 5 | 1 | 4 | |
| Bishop, Michael | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| Stapledon, Olaf | 4 | 2 | 2 | |
| Bear, Greg | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Benford, Gregory | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Burroughs, Edgar Rice | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| London, Jack | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Pohl and Kornbluth | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Sturgeon, Theodore | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Wolfe, Gene | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Wyndham, John | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Ballard, J.G. | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Disch, Thomas M. | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Brin, David | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Budrys, Algis | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Butler, Octavia | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Gibson, William | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Huxley, Aldous | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Lewis, C.S. | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Russ, Joanna | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Tucker, Wilson | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Van Vogt, A.E. | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Cherryh, C.J. | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Crowley, John | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| De Camp, L. Sprague | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Griffith, George | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Lafferty, R.A. | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Moorcock, Michael | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Frederik Pohl | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Priest, Christopher | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Reynolds, Mack | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Robinson, Kim Stanley | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Shiel, M.P. | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Spinrad, Norman | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Stableford, Brian | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Tepper, Sheri S. | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Watson, Ian | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Bester, Alfred | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Bradbury, Ray | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Beresford, J.D. | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Blish, James | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Card, Orson Scott | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Herbert, Frank | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Niven, Larry | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Pangborn, Edgar | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Pynchon, Thomas | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Shelley, Mary | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Smith, E.E. "Doc" | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Twain, Mark | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Zelazny, Roger | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Anthony, Piers | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Brackett, Leigh | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Charnas, Suzy McKee | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Dickson, Gordon R. | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Effinger, George Alec | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Farmer, Philip Jose | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Golding, William | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Hamilton, Edmond | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Harrison, Harry | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Lessing, Doris | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Morrow, James | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Murphy, Pat | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Norton, Andre | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Poltock, Robert | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Powers, Tim | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Russell, Eric Frank | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Serviss, Garrett P. | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Shaw, Bob | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Shepard, Lucius | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Shiner, Lewis | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Sladek, John | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Sterling, Bruce | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Taine, John | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Tevis, Walter | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Tiptree, James, Jr. | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Turner, George | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Varley, John | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Vidal, Gore | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Wright, S. Fowler | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Wylie, Philip | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Bacon, Francis | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Bellamy, Edward | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Campbell, John W., Jr. | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Clement, Hal | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Doyle, A. Conan | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Ellis, Edward S. | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Gernsback, Hugo | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Haldeman, Joe W. | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Lewis, Sinclair | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Miller, Walter M., Jr. | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| More, Thomas | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Orwell, George | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Simmons, Dan | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Smith, Cordwainer | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Stewart, George R. | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Swift, Jonathan | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Abbott, Edwin A | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Adams, Douglas | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Amis, Kingsley | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Anonymous (1828) | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Arlen, Michael | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Astor, John Jacob | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Attanasio, A.A. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Atterley, Joseph | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Atwood, Margaret | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Auel, Jean | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Barrett, Neil, Jr. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Bass, T.J. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Batchelor, John Calvin | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Bell, Neil | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Besant, Walter | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Boyd, John | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Brown, Fredric | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Bulmer, Keith | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Burgess, Anthony | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Burroughs, William S. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Butler, Samuel | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Carr, Terry | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Carter, Angela | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Chandler, A.Bertram | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Chesterton, C.K. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Christopher, John | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Clifton and Riley | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Coblentz, Stanton A. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Cole, Robert William | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Collier, John | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Compton, D.G. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Corelli, Marie | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Cowper, Richard | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Crichton, Michael | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Cromie, Robert | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Cummings, Ray | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Del Rey, Lester | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| DeMille, James | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Dent, Guy | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Donnelly, Ignatius | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| England, George Allan | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Enton, Harry | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Erskine, Thomas | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Fanthorpe, R.L. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Fearn, J. Russell | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Frank, Pat | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Galouye, Dan | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Garis, Howard B. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Gearheart, Sally Miller | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Gibson and Sterling | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Gilman, Charlotte Perkins | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Gloag, John | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Godwin, Francis | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Gordon, Rex | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Goulart, Ron | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Graves, Robert | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Greenland, Colin | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Greg, Percy | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Griffith, Mary | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Haggard, H. Rider | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hamilton, Cicely | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hartley, L.P. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hay, William Delisle | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Heard, Gerald | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hoban, Russell | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hodgson, William Hope | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Howells, William Dean | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hoyle, Fred | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hubbard, L. Ron | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hudson, W.H. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hyams, Edward | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hyne, C.J. Cutcliffe | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Jeffries, Richard | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Jeter, K.W. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Jones, Gwyneth | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Jones, Raymond F. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Karp, David | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Kessel, John | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Keyes, Daniel | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Kingsbury, Donald | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Kornbluth, Cyril M. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Kress, Nancy | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Kube-McDowell, Michael | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Kuttner, Henry | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Lane, Mary E. Bradley | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Lang, Hermann | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Large, E.C. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Laumer, Keith | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Leinster, Murray | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| LeQueux, William | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Levin, Ira | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Lewis, Wyndham | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Lindsay, David | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Lytton, Edward Bulwer- | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| MacColl, Hugh | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| MacDonald, John D. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| MacIntosh, J.T. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Madden, Samuel | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Maguire, John Francis | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Malzberg, Barry | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Manning, Laurence | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Marvell, Andrew | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| McCaffrey, Anne | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| McIntyre, Vonda | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Merril, Judith | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Merritt, A. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mitchell, John A. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mitchison, Naomi | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Moore, Ward | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Morris, William | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Niven and Pournelle | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Odle, E.V. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Panshin, Alexei | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Piercy, Marge | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Piper, H. Beam | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Potter, Robert | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Pournelle, Jerry | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Reamy, Tom | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Roberts, Keith | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Rousseau, Victor | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Rucker, Rudy | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Russen, David | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ryman, Geoff | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Sagan, Carl | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Seaborn, "Capt." Adam | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Sellings, Arthur | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Senarens, Luis P. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Shanks, Edward | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Sheckley, Robert | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Shute, Nevil | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Slonczewski, Joan | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Stockton, Frank R. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Sucharitkul, Somtow | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Swanwick, Michael | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Tubb, E.C. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Vinge, Joan D. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Vinge, Vernor | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Waldrop, Howard | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wallace, Ian | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Waugh, Evelyn | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Weinbaum, Stanley G. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wilhelm, Kate | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Willis, Connie | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wolfe, Bernard | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wu, William F. | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wylie and Balmer | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| TOTALS | 483 | 79 | 404 | |
| Years | Novels | Breakdown | |
| Basic | Hon. Men. | ||
| 1968 | 16 | 2 | 14 |
| 1969 | 12 | 1 | 11 |
| 1984 | 12 | 1 | 11 |
| 1953 | 11 | 4 | 7 |
| 1972 | 11 | 2 | 9 |
| 1988 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| 1958 | 10 | 4 | 6 |
| 1951 | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| 1985 | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| 1954 | 9 | 2 | 7 |
| 1964 | 9 | 2 | 7 |
| 1975 | 9 | 2 | 7 |
| 1956 | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| 1962 | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| 1967 | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| 1978 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 1987 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 1970 | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| 1980 | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| 1955 | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 1973 | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 1986 | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 1979 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 1981 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 1990 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 1965 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| 1952 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 1950 | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 1974 | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 1966 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 1976 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 1949 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 1960 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 1983 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 1957 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 1959 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 1961 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 1971 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 1989 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 1933 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 1912 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 1889 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 1928 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 1982 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 1901 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1963 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1898 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 1930 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 1934 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 1937 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 1938 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 1940 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 1890 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1894 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1906 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1914 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1929 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1939 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1947 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1911 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 1886 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1888 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1895 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1932 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1935 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1945 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1751 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1763 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1871 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1887 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1900 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1904 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1908 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1915 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1920 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1923 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1943 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1944 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1948 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1516 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1627 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1726 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1817 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1837 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1868 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1899 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1905 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1907 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1638 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1703 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1816 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1820 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1826 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1827 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1828 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1836 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1859 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1872 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1876 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1879 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1880 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1881 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1882 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1884 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1885 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1891 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1892 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1893 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1896 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1897 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1909 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1910 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1913 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1917 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1919 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1921 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1924 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1926 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1941 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1942 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| TOTALS | 483 | 79 | 404 |