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	213	12	27	2
2.		Poul Anderson	153	19	26	4
3.		Isaac Asimov	143	7	12	5
4.		Frederik Pohl	118	7	18	6
5.		Michael Moorcock	107	9	12	6
6.		George R. R. Martin	99	9	22	4
7.		Ursula K. Le Guin	94	21	36	14
8.		C. J. Cherryh	93	20	27	4
9.		Stephen King	93	35	53	12
10.		Tanith Lee	92	12	13	1
11.		Larry Niven	92	13	23	5
12.		Michael Swanwick	88	8	18	1
13.		Gene Wolfe	88	22	50	9
14.		Stephen Baxter	85	13	22	4
15.		Nancy Kress	84	7	14	1
16.		Brian W. Aldiss	83	5	10	4
17.		Gregory Benford	81	8	12	3
18.		Roger Zelazny	77	13	16	3
19.		Orson Scott Card	74	15	30	10
20.		Terry Pratchett	66	21	27	8
21.		Philip K. Dick	63	9	14	3
22.		Elizabeth Bear	62	9	10	1
23.		Charles de Lint	61	11	19	1
24.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	51	10
25.		Jane Yolen	59	7	11	3
26.		Greg Bear	58	14	31	2
27.		Alastair Reynolds	57	15	19	2
28.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
29.		Neil Gaiman	56	8	26	12
30.		Robert A. Heinlein	54	10	19	5
31.		Paul J. McAuley	53	13	19	3
32.		Arthur C. Clarke	52	4	12	7
33.		Ian McDonald	52	18	35	6
34.		Bruce Sterling	51	7	18	2
35.		Connie Willis	51	7	23	10
36.		Joe Haldeman	48	7	15	8
37.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
38.		Charles Stross	45	17	32	3
39.		Catherynne M. Valente	45	8	16	5
40.		F. Paul Wilson	45	12	12	2
41.		Ramsey Campbell	44	19	21	7
42.		Lois McMaster Bujold	42	15	34	10
43.		Lavie Tidhar	41	4	11	2
44.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
45.		Cory Doctorow	40	10	18	5
46.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
47.		Adam Roberts	40	8	14	2
48.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
49.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
50.		Jack McDevitt	39	15	20	3
51.		Jeff VanderMeer	39	7	15	2
52.		Brandon Sanderson	38	10	11	2
53.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
54.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	37	3	11	2
55.		Peter S. Beagle	36	6	10	3
56.		Tanya Huff	35	9	11	1
57.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
58.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
59.		Dan Simmons	31	15	31	13
60.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
61.		Clive Barker	30	11	14	0
62.		James P. Blaylock	30	6	10	1
63.		Yoon Ha Lee	30	4	12	2
64.		Ken MacLeod	30	15	38	5
65.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
66.		Tim Powers	30	10	28	8
67.		Peter Straub	30	14	21	7
68.		Elizabeth Hand	29	10	15	3
69.		Garth Nix	29	10	12	3
70.		Robert J. Sawyer	29	21	40	11
71.		John Scalzi	29	7	13	3
72.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
73.		Maureen F. McHugh	28	6	10	2
74.		James Morrow	28	7	19	2
75.		Jonathan Carroll	27	8	15	1
76.		Thomas M. Disch	27	5	10	1
77.		N. K. Jemisin	26	7	23	6
78.		Robert R. McCammon	26	6	11	4
79.		Anne Rice	26	9	11	1
80.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
81.		Julie E. Czerneda	25	12	13	4
82.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
83.		William Gibson	25	9	33	5
84.		Mary Robinette Kowal	25	4	10	3
85.		Jo Walton	25	10	21	7
86.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
87.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
88.		Christopher Priest	23	9	18	7
89.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
90.		Nnedi Okorafor	22	6	14	2
91.		Juliet Marillier	22	12	13	4
92.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
93.		John Crowley	21	6	15	3
94.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
95.		M. John Harrison	20	7	17	3
96.		Kameron Hurley	20	5	14	1
97.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
98.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
99.		Naomi Novik	19	3	12	7
100.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
101.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
102.		Daryl Gregory	18	5	10	0
103.		Neal Stephenson	18	8	28	8
104.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
105.		Joe Abercrombie	16	7	13	1
106.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
107.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
108.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
109.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
110.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
111.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
112.		Guy Gavriel Kay	14	13	30	3
113.		Ann Leckie	14	5	21	9
114.		Jay Kristoff	13	9	12	6
115.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
116.		Robert Jackson Bennett	12	7	10	2
117.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
118.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
119.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3