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