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.		Kameron Hurley	20	3	10	1
2.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	33	3	11	2
3.		Yoon Ha Lee	29	3	10	1
4.		Naomi Novik	17	3	12	6
5.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
6.		Arthur C. Clarke	52	4	12	7
7.		Ann Leckie	14	4	19	9
8.		Lavie Tidhar	39	4	11	2
9.		Brian W. Aldiss	81	5	10	4
10.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
11.		Daryl Gregory	17	5	10	0
12.		Justina Robson	15	5	11	0
13.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
14.		Peter Watts	18	5	11	0
15.		Margaret Atwood	15	6	10	2
16.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
17.		Peter S. Beagle	33	6	10	3
18.		John Crowley	17	6	15	3
19.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
20.		M. John Harrison	17	6	16	3
21.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
22.		N. K. Jemisin	24	6	22	6
23.		Maureen F. McHugh	27	6	10	2
24.		Nnedi Okorafor	19	6	14	2
25.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
26.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
27.		Jeff VanderMeer	34	6	14	2
28.		Vernor Vinge	20	6	20	7
29.		Joe Abercrombie	15	7	13	1
30.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
31.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
32.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
33.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
34.		Joe Haldeman	48	7	15	8
35.		Nancy Kress	81	7	14	1
36.		Jay Kristoff	10	7	10	5
37.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
38.		James Morrow	27	7	19	2
39.		Isaac Asimov	112	7	12	5
40.		Frederik Pohl	118	7	18	6
41.		John Scalzi	27	7	13	3
42.		Bruce Sterling	50	7	18	2
43.		Michael Swanwick	87	7	17	1
44.		Connie Willis	50	7	23	10
45.		Jane Yolen	58	7	11	3
46.		Gregory Benford	80	8	12	3
47.		Michael Bishop	54	8	15	3
48.		Jonathan Carroll	27	8	14	1
49.		Neil Gaiman	55	8	26	12
50.		Adam Roberts	37	8	14	2
51.		Neal Stephenson	18	8	28	8
52.		Catherynne M. Valente	44	8	16	5
53.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
54.		Philip K. Dick	61	9	14	3
55.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
56.		William Gibson	25	9	33	5
57.		Elizabeth Hand	28	9	13	3
58.		George R. R. Martin	98	9	22	4
59.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
60.		Michael Moorcock	107	9	12	6
61.		Garth Nix	27	9	10	2
62.		Christopher Priest	21	9	18	7
63.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
64.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
65.		Jo Walton	24	9	20	7
66.		Scott Westerfeld	24	9	12	1
67.		David Brin	31	10	24	7
68.		Cory Doctorow	34	10	18	5
69.		Robert A. Heinlein	53	10	19	5
70.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
71.		Tim Powers	27	10	27	7
72.		Brandon Sanderson	36	10	11	2
73.		Julie E. Czerneda	22	11	12	3
74.		Charles de Lint	61	11	19	1
75.		Juliet Marillier	19	11	12	4
76.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
77.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
78.		Gwyneth Jones	34	12	19	3
79.		Guy Gavriel Kay	14	12	28	3
80.		Robert Silverberg	210	12	27	2
81.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
82.		Peter Straub	30	12	18	7
83.		F. Paul Wilson	43	12	12	2
84.		Stephen Baxter	83	13	22	4
85.		Orson Scott Card	71	13	28	10
86.		Paul J. McAuley	52	13	19	3
87.		Larry Niven	91	13	23	5
88.		Alastair Reynolds	56	13	17	2
89.		Roger Zelazny	77	13	16	3
90.		Greg Bear	58	14	31	2
91.		Graham Joyce	16	14	20	7
92.		Dan Simmons	31	14	27	9
93.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
94.		Lois McMaster Bujold	39	15	34	10
95.		Ken MacLeod	29	15	38	5
96.		Jack McDevitt	39	15	20	3
97.		Ramsey Campbell	43	17	18	7
98.		Ian McDonald	51	17	33	6
99.		Charles Stross	44	17	32	3
100.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
101.		Patricia A. McKillip	29	18	26	7
102.		Kim Stanley Robinson	58	18	50	10
103.		Poul Anderson	150	19	26	4
104.		C. J. Cherryh	88	19	26	3
105.		Ursula K. Le Guin	91	21	36	14
106.		Terry Pratchett	65	21	27	8
107.		Robert J. Sawyer	28	21	40	11
108.		Gene Wolfe	86	22	50	9
109.		Stephen King	91	29	40	10