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	206	12	27	2
2.		Poul Anderson	150	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	97	9	22	4
7.		Stephen King	90	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	78	7	17	1
13.		Gene Wolfe	77	22	50	9
14.		Nancy Kress	76	6	13	1
15.		Roger Zelazny	76	13	16	3
16.		Stephen Baxter	74	13	22	4
17.		Orson Scott Card	70	13	28	10
18.		Gregory Benford	69	8	12	3
19.		Terry Pratchett	65	21	27	8
20.		Philip K. Dick	61	9	14	3
21.		Charles de Lint	60	11	19	1
22.		Greg Bear	57	14	31	2
23.		Kim Stanley Robinson	57	17	49	10
24.		Jane Yolen	54	6	10	3
25.		Michael Bishop	53	8	15	3
26.		Neil Gaiman	53	8	26	12
27.		Arthur C. Clarke	52	4	12	7
28.		Robert A. Heinlein	52	10	19	5
29.		Alastair Reynolds	51	12	16	2
30.		Paul J. McAuley	50	13	19	3
31.		Ian McDonald	50	16	31	6
32.		Connie Willis	50	7	23	10
33.		Joe Haldeman	47	7	15	8
34.		Bruce Sterling	47	7	18	2
35.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
36.		Catherynne M. Valente	44	7	13	5
37.		Charles Stross	43	17	32	3
38.		F. Paul Wilson	43	12	12	2
39.		Ramsey Campbell	42	17	18	7
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	39	6	11	0
44.		Lois McMaster Bujold	38	15	34	10
45.		Jack McDevitt	37	15	20	3
46.		John Varley	37	9	17	2
47.		Brandon Sanderson	36	10	11	2
48.		Adam Roberts	35	8	14	2
49.		Jeff VanderMeer	34	6	14	2
50.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	32	3	11	2
51.		Peter S. Beagle	31	6	10	3
52.		Gwyneth Jones	31	12	19	3
53.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
54.		Dan Simmons	30	14	27	9
55.		Peter Straub	30	12	18	7
56.		David Brin	29	10	24	7
57.		Elizabeth Hand	28	9	13	3
58.		Robert Charles Wilson	28	14	31	5
59.		Ken MacLeod	27	15	38	5
60.		Patricia A. McKillip	27	18	26	7
61.		Garth Nix	27	9	10	2
62.		Robert J. Sawyer	27	21	40	11
63.		Cory Doctorow	26	10	18	5
64.		Maureen F. McHugh	26	6	10	2
65.		Tim Powers	26	10	27	7
66.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
67.		John Scalzi	26	7	13	3
68.		Jonathan Carroll	25	8	14	1
69.		William Gibson	25	9	33	5
70.		James Morrow	25	7	19	2
71.		N. K. Jemisin	24	6	22	6
72.		Scott Westerfeld	24	8	11	1
73.		Stephen R. Donaldson	23	6	11	1
74.		Michael Flynn	23	9	10	3
75.		Jo Walton	23	9	20	7
76.		Julie E. Czerneda	21	11	12	3
77.		Christopher Priest	21	9	18	7
78.		Paolo Bacigalupi	20	7	13	5
79.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
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.		Daryl Gregory	17	5	10	0
89.		M. John Harrison	17	6	16	3
90.		Peter Watts	17	4	10	0
91.		Kameron Hurley	16	3	10	1
92.		Graham Joyce	16	14	20	7
93.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
94.		Neal Stephenson	16	8	28	8
95.		Joe Abercrombie	14	7	13	1
96.		Margaret Atwood	14	6	10	2
97.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
98.		Justina Robson	14	5	11	0
99.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
100.		Guy Gavriel Kay	13	12	28	3
101.		Ann Leckie	13	4	19	9
102.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
103.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
104.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
105.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3