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	219	12	27	2
2.		Poul Anderson	166	19	26	4
3.		Isaac Asimov	161	7	12	5
4.		Frederik Pohl	121	7	18	6
5.		Michael Moorcock	108	9	12	6
6.		George R. R. Martin	101	9	22	4
7.		Stephen King	100	37	53	12
8.		C. J. Cherryh	95	20	27	4
9.		Ursula K. Le Guin	95	21	36	14
10.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
11.		Michael Swanwick	93	8	18	1
12.		Gene Wolfe	91	23	51	9
13.		Stephen Baxter	89	13	22	4
14.		Nancy Kress	86	7	14	1
15.		Brian W. Aldiss	84	5	10	4
16.		Gregory Benford	83	8	12	3
17.		Roger Zelazny	80	13	16	3
18.		Orson Scott Card	79	14	29	10
19.		Philip K. Dick	67	9	14	3
20.		Terry Pratchett	67	21	27	8
21.		Elizabeth Bear	66	10	11	1
22.		Charles de Lint	64	11	19	1
23.		Alastair Reynolds	62	16	20	2
24.		Jane Yolen	62	7	11	3
25.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
26.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
27.		Neil Gaiman	58	8	26	12
28.		Robert A. Heinlein	57	10	19	5
29.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
30.		Arthur C. Clarke	56	4	12	7
31.		Paul J. McAuley	56	15	21	3
32.		Lavie Tidhar	56	7	14	2
33.		Ian McDonald	55	18	35	6
34.		Bruce Sterling	54	7	18	2
35.		Adrian Tchaikovsky	52	12	15	5
36.		Connie Willis	52	8	24	10
37.		Joe Haldeman	51	7	15	8
38.		Charles Stross	51	17	32	3
39.		Catherynne M. Valente	50	8	16	5
40.		F. Paul Wilson	49	12	12	2
41.		Adam Roberts	47	10	16	2
42.		Brandon Sanderson	47	10	11	2
43.		Lois McMaster Bujold	46	15	34	10
44.		Ramsey Campbell	46	18	19	7
45.		Jerry Pournelle	46	6	10	1
46.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
47.		Cory Doctorow	45	12	20	5
48.		Jeff VanderMeer	44	9	18	2
49.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	41	3	11	2
50.		Jack McDevitt	41	15	20	3
51.		Sean Williams	41	18	19	4
52.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
53.		Peter S. Beagle	40	6	10	3
54.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
55.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
56.		Clive Barker	37	11	14	0
57.		Tim Powers	36	11	29	8
58.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
59.		Yoon Ha Lee	35	4	12	2
60.		Garth Nix	34	13	19	4
61.		John Scalzi	34	10	18	4
62.		Elizabeth Hand	33	11	16	3
63.		Ken MacLeod	33	15	38	5
64.		Dan Simmons	33	15	31	13
65.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
66.		Robert J. Sawyer	31	22	41	11
67.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
68.		Jonathan Carroll	30	8	14	1
69.		Julie E. Czerneda	30	12	13	4
70.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
71.		Peter Straub	30	12	19	7
72.		T. Kingfisher	30	9	15	5
73.		Charlie Jane Anders	29	6	11	6
74.		Mary Robinette Kowal	29	6	14	3
75.		Maureen F. McHugh	29	6	10	2
76.		James Morrow	29	7	19	2
77.		Nnedi Okorafor	29	7	16	2
78.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
79.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
80.		Geoff Ryman	28	10	18	6
81.		N. K. Jemisin	27	8	29	8
82.		Martha Wells	27	5	11	5
83.		Michael Flynn	26	9	10	3
84.		Christopher Priest	26	10	19	7
85.		Stephen R. Donaldson	25	6	11	1
86.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
87.		Jo Walton	24	11	22	8
88.		Juliet Marillier	23	12	13	4
89.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
90.		Paolo Bacigalupi	22	7	13	5
91.		John Crowley	22	6	15	3
92.		Nalo Hopkinson	22	6	15	3
93.		L. Neil Smith	22	12	12	3
94.		M. John Harrison	21	7	17	3
95.		Kameron Hurley	21	5	14	1
96.		Naomi Novik	21	5	14	7
97.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
98.		Mary Gentle	19	5	11	1
99.		Daryl Gregory	19	6	11	0
100.		Stephen Graham Jones	19	4	16	6
101.		Neal Stephenson	19	8	28	8
102.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
103.		Iain M. Banks	18	9	14	2
104.		Jay Kristoff	18	11	14	6
105.		Joe Abercrombie	17	8	14	1
106.		Ann Leckie	17	6	24	9
107.		China Miéville	17	9	42	16
108.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	17	6	20	3
109.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
110.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
111.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
112.		Amie Kaufman	15	9	10	3
113.		Guy Gavriel Kay	15	14	31	3
114.		Robert Jackson Bennett	14	7	10	2
115.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
116.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
117.		Nicola Griffith	13	4	11	2
118.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
119.		Paul Tremblay	13	5	11	4
120.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
121.		Rebecca Roanhorse	11	5	10	1
122.		Fonda Lee	10	6	11	4
123.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
124.		Tade Thompson	10	6	13	3
125.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
126.		Alix E. Harrow	8	3	11	1
127.		Becky Chambers	7	5	12	1
128.		Susanna Clarke	5	3	15	5
129.		Catriona Ward	5	5	11	4