Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Authors

Worlds Without End has an author page for every author in our database where you'll find their books, a brief biography, links to web sites and blogs, images and videos etc. That's over 3,200 authors to choose from!

Check out the Author Awards and the Top SF/F/H Authors list below or use the search at the top of the page to find your favorite authors. We even have a special page where you can find all our women authors in one place. Don't forget to check out our Featured Author and the Author Videos page where we have hundreds of interviews, readings and lectures for you to enjoy.

Author Awards

Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

Top SF/F/H Authors

Below is a list of the top SF/F/H authors in the WWEnd database who have received at least 10 nominations across all the awards we cover.

#	AUTHOR		NOVELS IN WWEND		AWARD
#	AUTHOR		TOTAL	NOMINATED	NOMS	WINS
1.		Joe Abercrombie	17	8	14	1
2.		Brian W. Aldiss	84	5	10	4
3.		Charlie Jane Anders	28	5	10	5
4.		Poul Anderson	166	19	26	4
5.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
6.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
7.		Paolo Bacigalupi	22	7	13	5
8.		Iain M. Banks	18	9	14	2
9.		Clive Barker	37	11	14	0
10.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
11.		Stephen Baxter	88	13	22	4
12.		Peter S. Beagle	40	6	10	3
13.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
14.		Gregory Benford	83	8	12	3
15.		Robert Jackson Bennett	14	7	10	2
16.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
17.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
18.		Lois McMaster Bujold	45	15	34	10
19.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
20.		Ramsey Campbell	46	18	19	7
21.		Orson Scott Card	76	14	29	10
22.		Jonathan Carroll	30	8	14	1
23.		Becky Chambers	7	4	11	1
24.		C. J. Cherryh	94	20	27	4
25.		Arthur C. Clarke	56	4	12	7
26.		Susanna Clarke	4	3	15	5
27.		John Crowley	22	6	15	3
28.		Adrian Tchaikovsky	49	11	13	5
29.		Julie E. Czerneda	30	12	13	4
30.		Charles de Lint	64	11	19	1
31.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
32.		Philip K. Dick	67	9	14	3
33.		Cory Doctorow	44	11	19	5
34.		Stephen R. Donaldson	25	6	11	1
35.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
36.		Neil Gaiman	57	8	26	12
37.		Mary Gentle	19	5	11	1
38.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
39.		Daryl Gregory	19	6	11	0
40.		Nicola Griffith	13	4	11	2
41.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
42.		Joe Haldeman	51	7	15	8
43.		Elizabeth Hand	33	10	15	3
44.		M. John Harrison	21	7	17	3
45.		Robert A. Heinlein	57	10	19	5
46.		Nalo Hopkinson	20	6	15	3
47.		Kameron Hurley	21	5	14	1
48.		N. K. Jemisin	27	8	29	8
49.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
50.		Stephen Graham Jones	18	4	13	5
51.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
52.		Amie Kaufman	15	9	10	3
53.		Guy Gavriel Kay	15	14	31	3
54.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	39	3	11	2
55.		Stephen King	99	37	53	12
56.		Mary Robinette Kowal	29	6	14	3
57.		Nancy Kress	86	7	14	1
58.		Jay Kristoff	18	11	14	6
59.		Ursula K. Le Guin	95	21	36	14
60.		Ann Leckie	17	6	23	9
61.		Yoon Ha Lee	34	4	12	2
62.		Fonda Lee	10	6	11	4
63.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
64.		Ken MacLeod	32	15	38	5
65.		George R. R. Martin	101	9	22	4
66.		Paul J. McAuley	56	15	21	3
67.		Jack McDevitt	41	15	20	3
68.		Ian McDonald	54	18	35	6
69.		Maureen F. McHugh	29	6	10	2
70.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
71.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
72.		Michael Moorcock	108	9	12	6
73.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	17	5	18	3
74.		James Morrow	29	7	19	2
75.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
76.		Garth Nix	34	13	18	4
77.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
78.		Naomi Novik	20	5	14	7
79.		Nnedi Okorafor	28	7	16	2
80.		Isaac Asimov	158	7	12	5
81.		Frederik Pohl	119	7	18	6
82.		Jerry Pournelle	46	6	10	1
83.		Tim Powers	36	10	28	8
84.		Terry Pratchett	67	21	27	8
85.		Christopher Priest	26	10	19	7
86.		Alastair Reynolds	62	16	20	2
87.		Rebecca Roanhorse	11	5	10	1
88.		Adam Roberts	43	10	16	2
89.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
90.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
91.		Geoff Ryman	28	10	18	6
92.		Brandon Sanderson	46	10	11	2
93.		Robert J. Sawyer	31	22	41	11
94.		John Scalzi	34	10	17	4
95.		Juliet Marillier	23	12	13	4
96.		Robert Silverberg	218	12	27	2
97.		Dan Simmons	32	15	31	13
98.		L. Neil Smith	22	12	12	3
99.		Neal Stephenson	19	8	28	8
100.		Bruce Sterling	52	7	18	2
101.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
102.		Peter Straub	30	12	19	7
103.		Charles Stross	50	17	32	3
104.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
105.		Michael Swanwick	91	8	18	1
106.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
107.		Tade Thompson	10	6	13	3
108.		Lavie Tidhar	56	7	14	2
109.		Paul Tremblay	13	5	11	4
110.		Catherynne M. Valente	49	8	16	5
111.		Jeff VanderMeer	43	9	18	2
112.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
113.		T. Kingfisher	27	7	12	4
114.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
115.		Jo Walton	25	11	22	8
116.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
117.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
118.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
119.		Sean Williams	41	18	19	4
120.		Connie Willis	52	7	23	10
121.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
122.		F. Paul Wilson	46	12	12	2
123.		Elizabeth Bear	66	10	11	1
124.		Gene Wolfe	89	23	51	9
125.		Jane Yolen	62	7	11	3
126.		Roger Zelazny	80	13	16	3