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.		Stephen King	97	36	52	12
2.		Gene Wolfe	88	23	51	9
3.		Robert J. Sawyer	30	22	41	11
4.		Ursula K. Le Guin	95	21	36	14
5.		Terry Pratchett	67	21	27	8
6.		C. J. Cherryh	93	20	27	4
7.		Poul Anderson	166	19	26	4
8.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
9.		Ramsey Campbell	45	18	19	7
10.		Ian McDonald	54	18	35	6
11.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
12.		Sean Williams	41	18	19	4
13.		Charles Stross	50	17	32	3
14.		Lois McMaster Bujold	44	15	34	10
15.		Ken MacLeod	31	15	38	5
16.		Jack McDevitt	40	15	20	3
17.		Alastair Reynolds	60	15	19	2
18.		Dan Simmons	31	15	31	13
19.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
20.		Orson Scott Card	76	14	29	10
21.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
22.		Paul J. McAuley	54	14	20	3
23.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
24.		Stephen Baxter	88	13	22	4
25.		Guy Gavriel Kay	15	13	30	3
26.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
27.		Roger Zelazny	79	13	16	3
28.		Julie E. Czerneda	29	12	13	4
29.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
30.		Garth Nix	31	12	17	4
31.		Juliet Marillier	23	12	13	4
32.		Robert Silverberg	217	12	27	2
33.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
34.		Peter Straub	30	12	19	7
35.		F. Paul Wilson	46	12	12	2
36.		Clive Barker	36	11	14	0
37.		Charles de Lint	64	11	19	1
38.		Cory Doctorow	40	11	19	5
39.		Jay Kristoff	16	11	14	6
40.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
41.		Jo Walton	25	11	22	8
42.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
43.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
44.		Adrian Tchaikovsky	45	10	12	4
45.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
46.		Elizabeth Hand	32	10	15	3
47.		Robert A. Heinlein	54	10	19	5
48.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
49.		Tim Powers	34	10	28	8
50.		Adam Roberts	43	10	16	2
51.		Brandon Sanderson	42	10	11	2
52.		Elizabeth Bear	63	10	11	1
53.		Iain M. Banks	18	9	14	2
54.		Philip K. Dick	64	9	14	3
55.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
56.		Amie Kaufman	15	9	10	3
57.		George R. R. Martin	101	9	22	4
58.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
59.		Michael Moorcock	108	9	12	6
60.		Christopher Priest	24	9	18	7
61.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
62.		Jeff VanderMeer	41	9	18	2
63.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
64.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
65.		Joe Abercrombie	17	8	14	1
66.		Gregory Benford	83	8	12	3
67.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
68.		Jonathan Carroll	28	8	14	1
69.		Neil Gaiman	57	8	26	12
70.		John Scalzi	32	8	14	3
71.		Neal Stephenson	19	8	28	8
72.		Michael Swanwick	89	8	18	1
73.		Catherynne M. Valente	47	8	16	5
74.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
75.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
76.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
77.		Robert Jackson Bennett	13	7	10	2
78.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
79.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
80.		Joe Haldeman	51	7	15	8
81.		M. John Harrison	20	7	17	3
82.		N. K. Jemisin	27	7	28	8
83.		Nancy Kress	86	7	14	1
84.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
85.		James Morrow	28	7	19	2
86.		Nnedi Okorafor	24	7	16	2
87.		Isaac Asimov	152	7	12	5
88.		Frederik Pohl	119	7	18	6
89.		Bruce Sterling	52	7	18	2
90.		Connie Willis	52	7	23	10
91.		Jane Yolen	62	7	11	3
92.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
93.		Peter S. Beagle	36	6	10	3
94.		John Crowley	22	6	15	3
95.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
96.		Daryl Gregory	19	6	11	0
97.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
98.		Fonda Lee	9	6	11	4
99.		Maureen F. McHugh	28	6	10	2
100.		Jerry Pournelle	43	6	10	1
101.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
102.		Tade Thompson	10	6	13	3
103.		Lavie Tidhar	45	6	13	2
104.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
105.		Brian W. Aldiss	83	5	10	4
106.		Mary Gentle	19	5	11	1
107.		Kameron Hurley	21	5	14	1
108.		Mary Robinette Kowal	29	5	12	3
109.		Ann Leckie	15	5	21	9
110.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
111.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
112.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
113.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
114.		Becky Chambers	7	4	11	1
115.		Arthur C. Clarke	56	4	12	7
116.		Yoon Ha Lee	32	4	12	2
117.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	16	4	15	3
118.		Naomi Novik	20	4	13	7
119.		Paul Tremblay	9	4	10	4
120.		Susanna Clarke	4	3	15	5
121.		Stephen Graham Jones	15	3	12	5
122.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	37	3	11	2