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.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	22	3	11	2
2.		Ann Leckie	9	3	16	9
3.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
4.		Arthur C. Clarke	51	4	12	7
5.		Peter Watts	12	4	10	0
6.		Brian W. Aldiss	76	5	10	4
7.		John Crowley	17	5	12	2
8.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
9.		N. K. Jemisin	18	5	19	3
10.		Nnedi Okorafor	16	5	13	1
11.		Justina Robson	13	5	11	0
12.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
13.		Jeff VanderMeer	31	5	11	2
14.		Margaret Atwood	14	6	10	2
15.		Paolo Bacigalupi	15	6	12	5
16.		John Barnes	34	6	11	0
17.		Peter S. Beagle	24	6	10	3
18.		Stephen R. Donaldson	23	6	11	1
19.		M. John Harrison	14	6	16	3
20.		Nalo Hopkinson	16	6	15	3
21.		Nancy Kress	57	6	13	1
22.		Maureen F. McHugh	22	6	10	2
23.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
24.		John Scalzi	24	6	11	2
25.		Sean Stewart	7	6	12	3
26.		Vernor Vinge	15	6	20	7
27.		Jane Yolen	52	6	10	3
28.		Joe Abercrombie	12	7	13	1
29.		Eleanor Arnason	22	7	10	2
30.		Samuel R. Delany	42	7	12	2
31.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
32.		Joe Haldeman	41	7	15	8
33.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
34.		James Morrow	24	7	19	2
35.		Isaac Asimov	112	7	12	5
36.		Frederik Pohl	112	7	18	6
37.		Bruce Sterling	39	7	18	2
38.		Michael Swanwick	63	7	17	1
39.		Catherynne M. Valente	37	7	13	5
40.		Connie Willis	48	7	23	10
41.		Gregory Benford	60	8	12	3
42.		Michael Bishop	47	8	15	3
43.		Jonathan Carroll	22	8	14	1
44.		Neil Gaiman	44	8	26	12
45.		Adam Roberts	26	8	14	2
46.		Neal Stephenson	16	8	28	8
47.		Scott Westerfeld	22	8	11	1
48.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
49.		Philip K. Dick	60	9	14	3
50.		Cory Doctorow	22	9	17	5
51.		Michael Flynn	21	9	10	3
52.		William Gibson	18	9	33	5
53.		Elizabeth Hand	26	9	13	3
54.		George R. R. Martin	87	9	22	4
55.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
56.		Michael Moorcock	101	9	12	6
57.		Christopher Priest	20	9	18	7
58.		Geoff Ryman	18	9	17	6
59.		Brandon Sanderson	34	9	10	2
60.		John Varley	35	9	17	2
61.		Jo Walton	20	9	20	7
62.		David Brin	28	10	24	7
63.		Julie E. Czerneda	20	10	11	3
64.		Robert A. Heinlein	52	10	19	5
65.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
66.		Tim Powers	23	10	27	7
67.		Charles de Lint	54	11	19	1
68.		Juliet Marillier	19	11	12	4
69.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
70.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
71.		Gwyneth Jones	23	12	19	3
72.		Guy Gavriel Kay	13	12	28	3
73.		Paul J. McAuley	32	12	18	3
74.		Alastair Reynolds	29	12	15	2
75.		Robert Silverberg	186	12	27	2
76.		L. Neil Smith	18	12	12	3
77.		Peter Straub	28	12	18	7
78.		F. Paul Wilson	41	12	12	2
79.		Stephen Baxter	59	13	22	4
80.		Orson Scott Card	69	13	28	10
81.		Larry Niven	87	13	23	5
82.		Roger Zelazny	74	13	16	3
83.		Greg Bear	43	14	31	2
84.		Graham Joyce	16	14	20	7
85.		Ken MacLeod	21	14	37	5
86.		Dan Simmons	26	14	27	9
87.		Robert Charles Wilson	25	14	31	5
88.		Lois McMaster Bujold	36	15	34	10
89.		Jack McDevitt	32	15	20	3
90.		Ian McDonald	34	15	30	6
91.		Kim Stanley Robinson	51	16	46	10
92.		Charles Stross	38	16	31	3
93.		Ramsey Campbell	37	17	18	7
94.		Sean Williams	38	17	18	4
95.		Patricia A. McKillip	27	18	26	7
96.		Poul Anderson	142	19	26	4
97.		C. J. Cherryh	75	19	26	3
98.		Ursula K. Le Guin	80	21	36	14
99.		Terry Pratchett	65	21	27	8
100.		Robert J. Sawyer	27	21	40	11
101.		Gene Wolfe	70	22	50	9
102.		Stephen King	81	28	39	10