1 Candace Bushnell John Crowley Dale Furutani Rex Stout Jo Walton 2 Elizabeth Berg Jamie Ann Denton Krista Janssen Karen Leabo = Kara Lennox Brian Lumley Jerry Sohl = Nathan Butler = Roberta Jean Mountjoy = Sean Mei Sullivan Laura J. Underwood 3 Doug Beason = J. Douglas Beason Morgan Llywelyn 4 Amy J. Fetzer Anne George Jane Aiken Hodge Jennifer Sturman Ian Wallace 5 Jane Archer James Lee Burke Stella Cameron = ˝Jane Worth Abbott = ˝Alicia Brandon Lynn Collum JoAnn DeLazzari Joan Didion Kathryn Falk Terris McMahan Grimes Virginia Henley Lynn Kerstan Kate Moore Walt Richmond Karen Young 6 C.J. Hollenbach (cover model) William P. McGivern = P.F. Costello = Bill Peters = Gerald Vance 7 Terri Blackstock = Tracy Hughes = Terri Herrington Leigh Brackett Willa Cather Rosey Dow Kerry Newcomb = ˝Shana Carrol = ˝Peter Gentry = James Reno = ˝Christina Savage Rosemary Rogers 8 Laura Hayden = Laura Kenner Jane Ireland 9 Chet Cunningham = Cathy Cunningham = Dirk Fletcher = Lionel Derrick Mackenzie Drew Eleanor Howard = Norah Parker Kristine Rolofson Bertrice Small 10 Nina Beaumont Jon Hansen George MacDonald Eloise Jarvis McGraw Mary Norton 11 Leslie Esdaile = L.A. Banks Sherrilyn Kenyon = Kinley MacGregor Catherine Lanigan = Joan Wilder Diana Palmer = Diana Blayne = Katy Currie = Susan Kyle Fred Patten Rachel Cosgrove Payes = E.L. Arch = Rachel R. Cosgrove = Joanne Kaye Susan Elizabeth Phillips = ˝Justine Cole Ralph Roberts Kenneth Royce = Oliver Jacks 12 Ginjer Buchanan Melissa Gray Susan Ellen Gross = Sue Gross = Sue Ellen Cole = Susanna Collins = Susana deLyonne Ruth Ryan Langan Patrick O'Brian Don Pendleton = Dan Britain = Stephan Gregory Karen Sandler 13 Marilynn Byerly Genell Dellin = Gena Dalton Anita Gordon = Kathleen Kirkwood Tim Green R.A. MacAvoy Ross Macdonald Tamora Pierce 14 John Baxter Diana Byrd Shawna Delacorte Shirley Jackson Jan McDaniel 15 Edward Llewelyn John Sladek Betty Smith 16 Jane Austen Connie Brockway Arthur C. Clarke Philip K. Dick = Richard Phillips Peter Dickinson Debra Dier Randall Garrett = Darrel T. Langart = Jonathan Blake MacKenzie = Seaton McKettrig = ˝Mark Phillips Kate Hathaway 17 Rob Ashton (cover model) Jack L. Chalker Penelope Fitzgerald Anne Golon = ˝Sergeanne Golon Lori Handeland Bev Walton-Porter 18 Alfred Bester = John Lennox Jack C. Haldeman  II Sterling E. Lanier Michael Moorcock Nancy Morse Saki = Hector Hugh Munro 19 Eve Bunting Anne Caldwell = Jean Anne Caldwell Sharron McClellan 20 Edwin Abbott Abbott Kelly Harte Nalo Hopkinson Gina Wilkins = Gina Ferris = Gina Ferris Wilkins 21 Rosalyn Alsobrook = Jalynn Friends = ˝Gina Delaney John Harvey Susan Krinard Sean McMullen James Sallis Karen Rose Smith = Kari Sutherland = Karen Hughes (1) 22 Victoria Alexander Chris Bunch P.D. Cacek Charles deLint Shannon Leigh Marlene Suson 23 Beverly Barton Doug Cochrane (cover model) Pierre Fortin (cover artist) Gerard Readett 24 Mary Higgins Clark Fritz Leiber Dan Morgan Moyra Tarling 25 Allen Adler Janet Bieber = ˝Janet Joyce = ˝Jenna Lee Joyce Joe Gores Rod Serling Stewart Thomas 26 Steve Allen Renee Bernard Sarah Bird = Tory Cates R.E. Derouin 27 Tami Cowden Patricia Gaffney Deborah Matthews Nina Pykare = Ann Coombs = Nina Coombs = Nan Pemberton = Nina Porter = Nora Powers = Natalie Pryor = Regina Towers Jane Toombs = Olivia Sumner = Diana Stuart = Jane Anderson George Zebrowski 28 W. William Winokur 29 Charles L. Harness Brian A. Hopkins Katy Munger 30 Paul Bowles Susan Johnson #2 Jane Langton S.P. Somtow = Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul 31 Ellen Datlow Anna Fallon Boni Heck Bob Shaw Susan Shwartz Connie Willis