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