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	165	19	26	4
3.		Isaac Asimov	144	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.		Stephen King	96	35	53	12
8.		Ursula K. Le Guin	94	21	36	14
9.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
10.		C. J. Cherryh	93	20	27	4
11.		Tanith Lee	92	12	13	1
12.		Michael Swanwick	89	8	18	1
13.		Gene Wolfe	88	23	51	9
14.		Stephen Baxter	87	13	22	4
15.		Nancy Kress	85	7	14	1
16.		Brian W. Aldiss	83	5	10	4
17.		Gregory Benford	82	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	63	10	11	1
23.		Charles de Lint	62	11	19	1
24.		Jane Yolen	61	7	11	3
25.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
26.		Alastair Reynolds	59	15	19	2
27.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
28.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
29.		Neil Gaiman	56	8	26	12
30.		Robert A. Heinlein	54	10	19	5
31.		Arthur C. Clarke	53	4	12	7
32.		Paul J. McAuley	53	14	20	3
33.		Ian McDonald	52	18	35	6
34.		Bruce Sterling	52	7	18	2
35.		Connie Willis	51	7	23	10
36.		Charles Stross	49	17	32	3
37.		Joe Haldeman	48	7	15	8
38.		Catherynne M. Valente	46	8	16	5
39.		F. Paul Wilson	46	12	12	2
40.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
41.		Lois McMaster Bujold	44	15	34	10
42.		Ramsey Campbell	44	19	21	7
43.		Lavie Tidhar	43	6	13	2
44.		Jerry Pournelle	42	6	10	1
45.		Adam Roberts	42	8	14	2
46.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
47.		Cory Doctorow	40	11	19	5
48.		Brandon Sanderson	40	10	11	2
49.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
50.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
51.		Jack McDevitt	39	15	20	3
52.		Jeff VanderMeer	39	8	16	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.		Tim Powers	34	10	28	8
59.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
60.		Ken MacLeod	31	15	38	5
61.		Dan Simmons	31	15	31	13
62.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
63.		Clive Barker	30	11	14	0
64.		James P. Blaylock	30	6	10	1
65.		Elizabeth Hand	30	10	15	3
66.		Yoon Ha Lee	30	4	12	2
67.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
68.		John Scalzi	30	8	14	3
69.		Peter Straub	30	14	21	7
70.		Garth Nix	29	11	15	4
71.		Robert J. Sawyer	29	22	41	11
72.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
73.		Julie E. Czerneda	28	12	13	4
74.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
75.		Mary Robinette Kowal	28	5	12	3
76.		Maureen F. McHugh	28	6	10	2
77.		James Morrow	28	7	19	2
78.		Jonathan Carroll	27	8	15	1
79.		Thomas M. Disch	27	5	10	1
80.		N. K. Jemisin	26	7	28	8
81.		Robert R. McCammon	26	6	11	4
82.		Anne Rice	26	9	11	1
83.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
84.		Michael Flynn	25	9	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.		Nnedi Okorafor	24	6	15	2
89.		Christopher Priest	23	9	18	7
90.		Juliet Marillier	23	12	13	4
91.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
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.		Daryl Gregory	19	5	10	0
99.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
100.		Naomi Novik	19	3	12	7
101.		Neal Stephenson	19	8	28	8
102.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
103.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
104.		Joe Abercrombie	17	8	14	1
105.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
106.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
107.		Jay Kristoff	16	10	13	6
108.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
109.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
110.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
111.		Guy Gavriel Kay	15	13	30	3
112.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
113.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
114.		Ann Leckie	14	5	21	9
115.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	14	4	15	3
116.		Robert Jackson Bennett	13	7	10	2
117.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
118.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
119.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
120.		Tade Thompson	10	5	11	3
121.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
122.		Paul Tremblay	8	4	10	4
123.		Susanna Clarke	4	3	14	5