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.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
2.		Ursula K. Le Guin	94	21	36	14
3.		Dan Simmons	31	15	31	13
4.		Neil Gaiman	56	8	26	12
5.		Stephen King	96	35	53	12
6.		Robert J. Sawyer	29	22	41	11
7.		Lois McMaster Bujold	44	15	34	10
8.		Orson Scott Card	74	15	30	10
9.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
10.		Connie Willis	51	7	23	10
11.		Ann Leckie	14	5	21	9
12.		Gene Wolfe	88	23	51	9
13.		Joe Haldeman	48	7	15	8
14.		N. K. Jemisin	26	7	28	8
15.		Tim Powers	34	10	28	8
16.		Terry Pratchett	66	21	27	8
17.		Neal Stephenson	19	8	28	8
18.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
19.		Ramsey Campbell	44	19	21	7
20.		Arthur C. Clarke	53	4	12	7
21.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
22.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
23.		Naomi Novik	19	3	12	7
24.		Christopher Priest	23	9	18	7
25.		Peter Straub	30	14	21	7
26.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
27.		Jo Walton	25	10	21	7
28.		Jay Kristoff	16	10	13	6
29.		Ian McDonald	52	18	35	6
30.		Michael Moorcock	107	9	12	6
31.		Frederik Pohl	118	7	18	6
32.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
33.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
34.		Susanna Clarke	4	3	14	5
35.		Cory Doctorow	40	11	19	5
36.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
37.		Robert A. Heinlein	54	10	19	5
38.		Ken MacLeod	31	15	38	5
39.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
40.		Isaac Asimov	144	7	12	5
41.		Catherynne M. Valente	46	8	16	5
42.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
43.		Brian W. Aldiss	83	5	10	4
44.		Poul Anderson	165	19	26	4
45.		Stephen Baxter	87	13	22	4
46.		C. J. Cherryh	93	20	27	4
47.		Julie E. Czerneda	28	12	13	4
48.		George R. R. Martin	99	9	22	4
49.		Robert R. McCammon	26	6	11	4
50.		Garth Nix	29	11	15	4
51.		Juliet Marillier	23	12	13	4
52.		Paul Tremblay	8	4	10	4
53.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
54.		Peter S. Beagle	36	6	10	3
55.		Gregory Benford	82	8	12	3
56.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
57.		John Crowley	21	6	15	3
58.		Philip K. Dick	63	9	14	3
59.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
60.		Elizabeth Hand	30	10	15	3
61.		M. John Harrison	20	7	17	3
62.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
63.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
64.		Guy Gavriel Kay	15	13	30	3
65.		Mary Robinette Kowal	28	5	12	3
66.		Paul J. McAuley	53	14	20	3
67.		Jack McDevitt	39	15	20	3
68.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	14	4	15	3
69.		John Scalzi	30	8	14	3
70.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
71.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
72.		Charles Stross	49	17	32	3
73.		Tade Thompson	10	5	11	3
74.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
75.		Jane Yolen	61	7	11	3
76.		Roger Zelazny	77	13	16	3
77.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
78.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
79.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
80.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
81.		Robert Jackson Bennett	13	7	10	2
82.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
83.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
84.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	37	3	11	2
85.		Yoon Ha Lee	30	4	12	2
86.		Maureen F. McHugh	28	6	10	2
87.		James Morrow	28	7	19	2
88.		Nnedi Okorafor	24	6	15	2
89.		Alastair Reynolds	59	15	19	2
90.		Adam Roberts	42	8	14	2
91.		Brandon Sanderson	40	10	11	2
92.		Robert Silverberg	213	12	27	2
93.		Bruce Sterling	52	7	18	2
94.		Lavie Tidhar	43	6	13	2
95.		Jeff VanderMeer	39	8	16	2
96.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
97.		F. Paul Wilson	46	12	12	2
98.		Joe Abercrombie	17	8	14	1
99.		James P. Blaylock	30	6	10	1
100.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
101.		Jonathan Carroll	27	8	15	1
102.		Charles de Lint	62	11	19	1
103.		Thomas M. Disch	27	5	10	1
104.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
105.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
106.		Tanya Huff	35	9	11	1
107.		Kameron Hurley	20	5	14	1
108.		Nancy Kress	85	7	14	1
109.		Tanith Lee	92	12	13	1
110.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
111.		Anne Rice	26	9	11	1
112.		Jerry Pournelle	42	6	10	1
113.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
114.		Michael Swanwick	89	8	18	1
115.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
116.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
117.		Elizabeth Bear	63	10	11	1
118.		Clive Barker	30	11	14	0
119.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
120.		Daryl Gregory	19	5	10	0
121.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
122.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
123.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0