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