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	88	21	36	14
3.		Neil Gaiman	48	8	26	12
4.		Robert J. Sawyer	27	21	40	11
5.		Lois McMaster Bujold	37	15	34	10
6.		Orson Scott Card	70	13	28	10
7.		Stephen King	88	29	40	10
8.		Kim Stanley Robinson	56	17	49	10
9.		Connie Willis	50	7	23	10
10.		Ann Leckie	10	4	19	9
11.		Dan Simmons	30	14	27	9
12.		Gene Wolfe	76	22	50	9
13.		Joe Haldeman	46	7	15	8
14.		Terry Pratchett	65	21	27	8
15.		Neal Stephenson	16	8	28	8
16.		David Brin	29	10	24	7
17.		Ramsey Campbell	41	17	18	7
18.		Arthur C. Clarke	52	4	12	7
19.		Graham Joyce	16	14	20	7
20.		Patricia A. McKillip	27	18	26	7
21.		Tim Powers	26	10	27	7
22.		Christopher Priest	21	9	18	7
23.		Peter Straub	30	12	18	7
24.		Vernor Vinge	19	6	20	7
25.		Jo Walton	23	9	20	7
26.		Ian McDonald	50	16	31	6
27.		Michael Moorcock	104	9	12	6
28.		Frederik Pohl	117	7	18	6
29.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
30.		Paolo Bacigalupi	19	7	13	5
31.		Cory Doctorow	23	10	18	5
32.		William Gibson	25	9	33	5
33.		Robert A. Heinlein	52	10	19	5
34.		N. K. Jemisin	22	6	22	5
35.		Ken MacLeod	27	15	38	5
36.		Larry Niven	88	13	23	5
37.		Isaac Asimov	112	7	12	5
38.		Catherynne M. Valente	43	7	13	5
39.		Robert Charles Wilson	27	14	31	5
40.		Brian W. Aldiss	78	5	10	4
41.		Poul Anderson	148	19	26	4
42.		Stephen Baxter	72	13	22	4
43.		George R. R. Martin	95	9	22	4
44.		Juliet Marillier	19	11	12	4
45.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
46.		Peter S. Beagle	26	6	10	3
47.		Gregory Benford	67	8	12	3
48.		Michael Bishop	53	8	15	3
49.		C. J. Cherryh	83	19	26	3
50.		John Crowley	17	6	15	3
51.		Julie E. Czerneda	20	11	12	3
52.		Philip K. Dick	61	9	14	3
53.		Michael Flynn	23	9	10	3
54.		Elizabeth Hand	28	9	13	3
55.		M. John Harrison	16	6	16	3
56.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
57.		Gwyneth Jones	31	12	19	3
58.		Guy Gavriel Kay	13	12	28	3
59.		Paul J. McAuley	48	13	19	3
60.		Jack McDevitt	34	15	20	3
61.		John Scalzi	25	7	13	3
62.		L. Neil Smith	18	12	12	3
63.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
64.		Charles Stross	41	17	32	3
65.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
66.		Jane Yolen	53	6	10	3
67.		Roger Zelazny	76	13	16	3
68.		Eleanor Arnason	29	7	10	2
69.		Margaret Atwood	14	6	10	2
70.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
71.		Greg Bear	56	14	31	2
72.		Samuel R. Delany	42	7	12	2
73.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
74.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	27	3	11	2
75.		Maureen F. McHugh	24	6	10	2
76.		James Morrow	25	7	19	2
77.		Garth Nix	25	9	10	2
78.		Nnedi Okorafor	18	6	14	2
79.		Alastair Reynolds	49	12	16	2
80.		Adam Roberts	32	8	14	2
81.		Brandon Sanderson	35	10	11	2
82.		Robert Silverberg	204	12	27	2
83.		Bruce Sterling	44	7	18	2
84.		Jeff VanderMeer	34	6	14	2
85.		John Varley	36	9	17	2
86.		F. Paul Wilson	43	12	12	2
87.		Joe Abercrombie	13	7	13	1
88.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
89.		Jonathan Carroll	24	8	14	1
90.		Charles de Lint	58	11	19	1
91.		Stephen R. Donaldson	23	6	11	1
92.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
93.		Kameron Hurley	14	3	10	1
94.		Nancy Kress	73	6	13	1
95.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
96.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
97.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
98.		Michael Swanwick	77	7	17	1
99.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
100.		Scott Westerfeld	23	8	11	1
101.		John Barnes	38	6	11	0
102.		Daryl Gregory	13	5	10	0
103.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
104.		Justina Robson	14	5	11	0
105.		Peter Watts	14	4	10	0