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.		Robert Silverberg	208	12	27	2
2.		Poul Anderson	150	19	26	4
3.		Frederik Pohl	118	7	18	6
4.		Isaac Asimov	112	7	12	5
5.		Michael Moorcock	105	9	12	6
6.		George R. R. Martin	98	9	22	4
7.		Stephen King	91	29	40	10
8.		Ursula K. Le Guin	90	21	36	14
9.		Larry Niven	89	13	23	5
10.		C. J. Cherryh	84	19	26	3
11.		Michael Swanwick	84	7	17	1
12.		Gene Wolfe	83	22	50	9
13.		Brian W. Aldiss	81	5	10	4
14.		Stephen Baxter	81	13	22	4
15.		Nancy Kress	79	6	13	1
16.		Gregory Benford	76	8	12	3
17.		Roger Zelazny	76	13	16	3
18.		Orson Scott Card	70	13	28	10
19.		Terry Pratchett	65	21	27	8
20.		Charles de Lint	61	11	19	1
21.		Philip K. Dick	61	9	14	3
22.		Greg Bear	58	14	31	2
23.		Kim Stanley Robinson	58	17	49	10
24.		Alastair Reynolds	56	12	16	2
25.		Jane Yolen	55	6	10	3
26.		Neil Gaiman	54	8	26	12
27.		Michael Bishop	53	8	15	3
28.		Robert A. Heinlein	53	10	19	5
29.		Arthur C. Clarke	52	4	12	7
30.		Paul J. McAuley	52	13	19	3
31.		Ian McDonald	51	17	32	6
32.		Bruce Sterling	50	7	18	2
33.		Connie Willis	50	7	23	10
34.		Joe Haldeman	48	7	15	8
35.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
36.		Catherynne M. Valente	44	7	13	5
37.		Ramsey Campbell	43	17	18	7
38.		Charles Stross	43	17	32	3
39.		F. Paul Wilson	43	12	12	2
40.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
41.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
42.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
43.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
44.		Jack McDevitt	39	15	20	3
45.		Lois McMaster Bujold	38	15	34	10
46.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
47.		Adam Roberts	36	8	14	2
48.		Brandon Sanderson	36	10	11	2
49.		Jeff VanderMeer	34	6	14	2
50.		Peter S. Beagle	33	6	10	3
51.		Gwyneth Jones	33	12	19	3
52.		Cory Doctorow	32	10	18	5
53.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	32	3	11	2
54.		Dan Simmons	31	14	27	9
55.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
56.		David Brin	30	10	24	7
57.		Peter Straub	30	12	18	7
58.		Ken MacLeod	29	15	38	5
59.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
60.		Elizabeth Hand	28	9	13	3
61.		Patricia A. McKillip	28	18	26	7
62.		Maureen F. McHugh	27	6	10	2
63.		Garth Nix	27	9	10	2
64.		Robert J. Sawyer	27	21	40	11
65.		Tim Powers	26	10	27	7
66.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
67.		John Scalzi	26	7	13	3
68.		Jonathan Carroll	25	8	14	1
69.		James Morrow	25	7	19	2
70.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
71.		Michael Flynn	24	9	10	3
72.		William Gibson	24	9	33	5
73.		N. K. Jemisin	24	6	22	6
74.		Scott Westerfeld	24	8	11	1
75.		Jo Walton	23	9	20	7
76.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
77.		Julie E. Czerneda	21	11	12	3
78.		Christopher Priest	21	9	18	7
79.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
80.		Vernor Vinge	20	6	20	7
81.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
82.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
83.		Nnedi Okorafor	19	6	14	2
84.		Juliet Marillier	19	11	12	4
85.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
86.		Kameron Hurley	18	3	10	1
87.		Peter Watts	18	4	10	0
88.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
89.		John Crowley	17	6	15	3
90.		Daryl Gregory	17	5	10	0
91.		M. John Harrison	17	6	16	3
92.		Neal Stephenson	17	8	28	8
93.		Graham Joyce	16	14	20	7
94.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
95.		Margaret Atwood	15	6	10	2
96.		Justina Robson	15	5	11	0
97.		Joe Abercrombie	14	7	13	1
98.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
99.		Guy Gavriel Kay	14	12	28	3
100.		Ann Leckie	14	4	19	9
101.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
102.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
103.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
104.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
105.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3