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	98	37	53	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	66	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	46	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.		Alastair Reynolds	61	16	20	2
15.		Lois McMaster Bujold	44	15	34	10
16.		Ken MacLeod	32	15	38	5
17.		Paul J. McAuley	54	15	21	3
18.		Jack McDevitt	40	15	20	3
19.		Dan Simmons	31	15	31	13
20.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
21.		Orson Scott Card	76	14	29	10
22.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
23.		Guy Gavriel Kay	15	14	31	3
24.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
25.		Stephen Baxter	88	13	22	4
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	32	12	17	4
31.		Juliet Marillier	23	12	13	4
32.		Robert Silverberg	218	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.		Adrian Tchaikovsky	45	11	13	5
38.		Charles de Lint	64	11	19	1
39.		Cory Doctorow	42	11	19	5
40.		Jay Kristoff	16	11	14	6
41.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
42.		Jo Walton	25	11	22	8
43.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
44.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
45.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
46.		Elizabeth Hand	32	10	15	3
47.		Robert A. Heinlein	55	10	19	5
48.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
49.		Tim Powers	36	10	28	8
50.		Adam Roberts	43	10	16	2
51.		Brandon Sanderson	44	10	11	2
52.		Elizabeth Bear	63	10	11	1
53.		Iain M. Banks	18	9	14	2
54.		Philip K. Dick	65	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.		John Scalzi	34	9	16	4
63.		Jeff VanderMeer	41	9	18	2
64.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
65.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
66.		Joe Abercrombie	17	8	14	1
67.		Gregory Benford	83	8	12	3
68.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
69.		Jonathan Carroll	28	8	14	1
70.		Neil Gaiman	57	8	26	12
71.		N. K. Jemisin	27	8	29	8
72.		Neal Stephenson	19	8	28	8
73.		Michael Swanwick	89	8	18	1
74.		Catherynne M. Valente	47	8	16	5
75.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
76.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
77.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
78.		Robert Jackson Bennett	14	7	10	2
79.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
80.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
81.		Joe Haldeman	51	7	15	8
82.		M. John Harrison	21	7	17	3
83.		Nancy Kress	86	7	14	1
84.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
85.		James Morrow	29	7	19	2
86.		Nnedi Okorafor	27	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.		Lavie Tidhar	46	7	14	2
91.		T. Kingfisher	25	7	12	3
92.		Connie Willis	52	7	23	10
93.		Jane Yolen	62	7	11	3
94.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
95.		Peter S. Beagle	37	6	10	3
96.		John Crowley	22	6	15	3
97.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
98.		Daryl Gregory	19	6	11	0
99.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
100.		Mary Robinette Kowal	29	6	14	3
101.		Fonda Lee	9	6	11	4
102.		Maureen F. McHugh	28	6	10	2
103.		Jerry Pournelle	43	6	10	1
104.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
105.		Tade Thompson	10	6	13	3
106.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
107.		Brian W. Aldiss	84	5	10	4
108.		Charlie Jane Anders	28	5	10	5
109.		Mary Gentle	19	5	11	1
110.		Kameron Hurley	21	5	14	1
111.		Ann Leckie	16	5	21	9
112.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	17	5	18	3
113.		Naomi Novik	20	5	14	7
114.		Rebecca Roanhorse	10	5	10	1
115.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
116.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
117.		Paul Tremblay	10	5	11	4
118.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
119.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
120.		Becky Chambers	7	4	11	1
121.		Arthur C. Clarke	56	4	12	7
122.		Nicola Griffith	12	4	11	2
123.		Yoon Ha Lee	33	4	12	2
124.		Susanna Clarke	4	3	15	5
125.		Stephen Graham Jones	15	3	12	5
126.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	38	3	11	2