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