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	91	21	36	14
3.		Neil Gaiman	55	8	26	12
4.		Robert J. Sawyer	28	21	40	11
5.		Lois McMaster Bujold	40	15	34	10
6.		Orson Scott Card	71	13	28	10
7.		Stephen King	92	29	40	10
8.		Kim Stanley Robinson	58	18	50	10
9.		Connie Willis	50	7	23	10
10.		Ann Leckie	14	4	19	9
11.		Dan Simmons	31	14	27	9
12.		Gene Wolfe	86	22	50	9
13.		Joe Haldeman	48	7	15	8
14.		Terry Pratchett	65	21	27	8
15.		Neal Stephenson	18	8	28	8
16.		David Brin	31	10	24	7
17.		Ramsey Campbell	43	18	19	7
18.		Arthur C. Clarke	52	4	12	7
19.		Graham Joyce	16	14	20	7
20.		Patricia A. McKillip	29	18	26	7
21.		Naomi Novik	17	3	12	7
22.		Tim Powers	27	10	27	7
23.		Christopher Priest	21	9	18	7
24.		Peter Straub	30	12	18	7
25.		Vernor Vinge	20	6	20	7
26.		Jo Walton	24	9	20	7
27.		N. K. Jemisin	24	6	22	6
28.		Ian McDonald	51	17	33	6
29.		Michael Moorcock	107	9	12	6
30.		Frederik Pohl	118	7	18	6
31.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
32.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
33.		Cory Doctorow	38	10	18	5
34.		William Gibson	25	9	33	5
35.		Robert A. Heinlein	53	10	19	5
36.		Jay Kristoff	11	7	10	5
37.		Ken MacLeod	29	15	38	5
38.		Larry Niven	91	13	23	5
39.		Isaac Asimov	139	7	12	5
40.		Catherynne M. Valente	44	8	16	5
41.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
42.		Brian W. Aldiss	82	5	10	4
43.		Poul Anderson	150	19	26	4
44.		Stephen Baxter	83	13	22	4
45.		George R. R. Martin	98	9	22	4
46.		Juliet Marillier	20	11	12	4
47.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
48.		Peter S. Beagle	34	6	10	3
49.		Gregory Benford	80	8	12	3
50.		Michael Bishop	54	8	15	3
51.		C. J. Cherryh	91	19	26	3
52.		John Crowley	17	6	15	3
53.		Julie E. Czerneda	22	11	12	3
54.		Philip K. Dick	62	9	14	3
55.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
56.		Elizabeth Hand	28	9	13	3
57.		M. John Harrison	17	6	16	3
58.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
59.		Gwyneth Jones	34	12	19	3
60.		Guy Gavriel Kay	14	12	28	3
61.		Paul J. McAuley	52	13	19	3
62.		Jack McDevitt	39	15	20	3
63.		John Scalzi	28	7	13	3
64.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
65.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
66.		Charles Stross	44	17	32	3
67.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
68.		Jane Yolen	58	7	11	3
69.		Roger Zelazny	77	13	16	3
70.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
71.		Margaret Atwood	15	6	10	2
72.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
73.		Greg Bear	58	14	31	2
74.		Robert Jackson Bennett	11	7	10	2
75.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
76.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
77.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	35	3	11	2
78.		Maureen F. McHugh	27	6	10	2
79.		James Morrow	27	7	19	2
80.		Garth Nix	28	9	10	2
81.		Nnedi Okorafor	19	6	14	2
82.		Alastair Reynolds	56	13	17	2
83.		Adam Roberts	37	8	14	2
84.		Brandon Sanderson	36	10	11	2
85.		Robert Silverberg	211	12	27	2
86.		Bruce Sterling	50	7	18	2
87.		Lavie Tidhar	39	4	11	2
88.		Jeff VanderMeer	35	6	14	2
89.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
90.		F. Paul Wilson	43	12	12	2
91.		Joe Abercrombie	15	7	13	1
92.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
93.		Jonathan Carroll	27	8	14	1
94.		Charles de Lint	61	11	19	1
95.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
96.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
97.		Kameron Hurley	20	3	10	1
98.		Nancy Kress	81	7	14	1
99.		Yoon Ha Lee	29	3	10	1
100.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
101.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
102.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
103.		Michael Swanwick	87	7	17	1
104.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
105.		Scott Westerfeld	24	9	12	1
106.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
107.		Daryl Gregory	17	5	10	0
108.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
109.		Justina Robson	15	5	11	0
110.		Peter Watts	18	5	11	0