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.		Robert Silverberg	159	12	27	2
2.		Poul Anderson	134	19	26	4
3.		Frederik Pohl	108	7	18	6
4.		Isaac Asimov	106	6	11	5
5.		Michael Moorcock	98	9	12	6
6.		George R. R. Martin	86	9	22	4
7.		Larry Niven	85	13	23	5
8.		Ursula K. Le Guin	78	21	36	14
9.		Stephen King	76	28	39	10
10.		Roger Zelazny	74	13	16	3
11.		C. J. Cherryh	72	19	26	3
12.		Gene Wolfe	68	22	50	9
13.		Brian W. Aldiss	66	5	10	4
14.		Orson Scott Card	66	13	28	10
15.		Terry Pratchett	65	21	27	8
16.		Gregory Benford	59	8	12	3
17.		Michael Swanwick	58	7	17	1
18.		Philip K. Dick	57	9	14	3
19.		Nancy Kress	57	6	13	1
20.		Stephen Baxter	56	13	21	4
21.		Robert A. Heinlein	51	10	19	5
22.		Arthur C. Clarke	50	4	12	7
23.		Kim Stanley Robinson	50	16	46	10
24.		Charles de Lint	46	11	19	1
25.		Connie Willis	46	7	23	10
26.		Jane Yolen	46	6	10	3
27.		Michael Bishop	44	8	15	3
28.		Greg Bear	43	14	31	2
29.		Neil Gaiman	40	8	26	12
30.		Joe Haldeman	40	7	15	8
31.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
32.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
33.		F. Paul Wilson	40	12	12	2
34.		Samuel R. Delany	39	7	12	2
35.		Charles Stross	37	16	31	3
36.		Sean Williams	37	17	18	4
37.		Bruce Sterling	36	7	18	2
38.		Lois McMaster Bujold	35	15	34	10
39.		Ramsey Campbell	35	16	17	7
40.		John Varley	35	9	17	2
41.		John Barnes	34	6	11	0
42.		Ian McDonald	33	15	30	6
43.		Jack McDevitt	32	15	20	3
44.		Brandon Sanderson	31	9	10	2
45.		Jeff VanderMeer	30	5	11	2
46.		Catherynne M. Valente	29	7	13	5
47.		Paul J. McAuley	28	11	17	3
48.		Alastair Reynolds	28	12	14	1
49.		Patricia A. McKillip	27	17	25	6
50.		Robert J. Sawyer	27	20	39	10
51.		Peter Straub	26	12	18	7
52.		David Brin	25	10	24	7
53.		Elizabeth Hand	24	9	13	3
54.		James Morrow	24	7	19	2
55.		Robert Charles Wilson	24	14	31	5
56.		Gwyneth Jones	23	12	19	3
57.		Scott Westerfeld	22	8	11	1
58.		Michael Flynn	21	9	10	3
59.		Maureen F. McHugh	21	6	10	2
60.		John Scalzi	21	6	11	2
61.		Dan Simmons	21	14	27	9
62.		Eleanor Arnason	20	7	10	2
63.		Peter S. Beagle	20	6	10	3
64.		Cory Doctorow	20	9	17	5
65.		Stephen R. Donaldson	20	6	11	1
66.		Ken MacLeod	20	14	37	5
67.		Jo Walton	20	9	19	7
68.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
69.		Jonathan Carroll	19	8	14	1
70.		Julie E. Czerneda	19	10	11	3
71.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	19	3	11	2
72.		Tim Powers	19	10	27	7
73.		Adam Roberts	19	8	14	2
74.		Juliet Marillier	19	11	12	4
75.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
76.		William Gibson	18	9	33	5
77.		Geoff Ryman	18	9	17	6
78.		L. Neil Smith	18	12	12	3
79.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
80.		Christopher Priest	17	9	18	7
81.		N. K. Jemisin	16	5	18	2
82.		Graham Joyce	16	14	20	7
83.		Neal Stephenson	16	8	28	8
84.		China Miéville	15	9	42	16
85.		Vernor Vinge	15	6	20	7
86.		Margaret Atwood	14	6	10	2
87.		Paolo Bacigalupi	14	6	12	5
88.		John Crowley	14	5	12	2
89.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
90.		Nalo Hopkinson	14	6	15	3
91.		Nnedi Okorafor	14	5	13	1
92.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
93.		Guy Gavriel Kay	13	12	27	3
94.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
95.		Justina Robson	13	5	11	0
96.		Joe Abercrombie	12	7	13	1
97.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
98.		M. John Harrison	11	6	16	3
99.		Peter Watts	11	4	10	0
100.		Ann Leckie	8	3	16	9
101.		Sean Stewart	7	6	12	3