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	14	3	10	1
2.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	27	3	11	2
3.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
4.		Arthur C. Clarke	52	4	12	7
5.		Ann Leckie	10	4	19	9
6.		Peter Watts	14	4	10	0
7.		Brian W. Aldiss	78	5	10	4
8.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
9.		Justina Robson	13	5	11	0
10.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
11.		Margaret Atwood	14	6	10	2
12.		John Barnes	38	6	11	0
13.		Peter S. Beagle	26	6	10	3
14.		John Crowley	17	6	14	2
15.		Stephen R. Donaldson	23	6	11	1
16.		M. John Harrison	16	6	16	3
17.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
18.		N. K. Jemisin	21	6	22	4
19.		Nancy Kress	73	6	13	1
20.		Maureen F. McHugh	24	6	10	2
21.		Nnedi Okorafor	18	6	14	1
22.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
23.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
24.		Jeff VanderMeer	34	6	14	2
25.		Vernor Vinge	19	6	20	7
26.		Jane Yolen	52	6	10	3
27.		Joe Abercrombie	13	7	13	1
28.		Eleanor Arnason	29	7	10	2
29.		Paolo Bacigalupi	19	7	13	5
30.		Samuel R. Delany	42	7	12	2
31.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
32.		Joe Haldeman	46	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	117	7	18	6
37.		John Scalzi	25	7	13	2
38.		Bruce Sterling	44	7	18	2
39.		Michael Swanwick	77	7	17	1
40.		Catherynne M. Valente	42	7	13	5
41.		Connie Willis	49	7	23	10
42.		Gregory Benford	67	8	12	3
43.		Michael Bishop	52	8	15	3
44.		Jonathan Carroll	23	8	14	1
45.		Neil Gaiman	48	8	26	12
46.		Adam Roberts	30	8	14	2
47.		Neal Stephenson	16	8	28	8
48.		Scott Westerfeld	23	8	11	1
49.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
50.		Philip K. Dick	61	9	14	3
51.		Michael Flynn	23	9	10	3
52.		William Gibson	25	9	33	5
53.		Elizabeth Hand	28	9	13	3
54.		George R. R. Martin	94	9	22	4
55.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
56.		Michael Moorcock	104	9	12	6
57.		Garth Nix	25	9	10	2
58.		Christopher Priest	20	9	18	7
59.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
60.		John Varley	36	9	17	2
61.		Jo Walton	23	9	20	7
62.		David Brin	29	10	24	7
63.		Cory Doctorow	23	10	18	5
64.		Robert A. Heinlein	52	10	19	5
65.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
66.		Tim Powers	26	10	27	7
67.		Brandon Sanderson	34	10	11	2
68.		Julie E. Czerneda	20	11	12	3
69.		Charles de Lint	57	11	19	1
70.		Juliet Marillier	19	11	12	4
71.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
72.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
73.		Gwyneth Jones	31	12	19	3
74.		Guy Gavriel Kay	13	12	28	3
75.		Alastair Reynolds	49	12	16	2
76.		Robert Silverberg	204	12	27	2
77.		L. Neil Smith	18	12	12	3
78.		Peter Straub	30	12	18	7
79.		F. Paul Wilson	42	12	12	2
80.		Stephen Baxter	72	13	22	4
81.		Orson Scott Card	70	13	28	10
82.		Paul J. McAuley	48	13	19	3
83.		Larry Niven	88	13	23	5
84.		Roger Zelazny	75	13	16	3
85.		Greg Bear	56	14	31	2
86.		Graham Joyce	16	14	20	7
87.		Dan Simmons	30	14	27	9
88.		Robert Charles Wilson	27	14	31	5
89.		Lois McMaster Bujold	37	15	34	10
90.		Ken MacLeod	27	15	38	5
91.		Jack McDevitt	34	15	20	3
92.		Ian McDonald	49	16	31	6
93.		Ramsey Campbell	41	17	18	7
94.		Kim Stanley Robinson	55	17	49	10
95.		Charles Stross	41	17	32	3
96.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
97.		Patricia A. McKillip	27	18	26	7
98.		Poul Anderson	146	19	26	4
99.		C. J. Cherryh	83	19	26	3
100.		Ursula K. Le Guin	88	21	36	14
101.		Terry Pratchett	65	21	27	8
102.		Robert J. Sawyer	27	21	40	11
103.		Gene Wolfe	76	22	50	9
104.		Stephen King	88	29	40	10