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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
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 | |||
TOTAL  |
NOMINATED |
NOMS |
WINS |
|||
| 1. |  |
Robert Silverberg | 208 | 12 | 27 | 2 |
| 2. |  |
Poul Anderson | 150 | 19 | 26 | 4 |
| 3. |  |
Frederik Pohl | 118 | 7 | 18 | 6 |
| 4. |  |
Isaac Asimov | 112 | 7 | 12 | 5 |
| 5. |  |
Michael Moorcock | 105 | 9 | 12 | 6 |
| 6. |  |
George R. R. Martin | 98 | 9 | 22 | 4 |
| 7. |  |
Stephen King | 91 | 29 | 40 | 10 |
| 8. |  |
Ursula K. Le Guin | 90 | 21 | 36 | 14 |
| 9. |  |
Larry Niven | 89 | 13 | 23 | 5 |
| 10. |  |
C. J. Cherryh | 84 | 19 | 26 | 3 |
| 11. |  |
Michael Swanwick | 84 | 7 | 17 | 1 |
| 12. |  |
Gene Wolfe | 83 | 22 | 50 | 9 |
| 13. |  |
Brian W. Aldiss | 81 | 5 | 10 | 4 |
| 14. |  |
Stephen Baxter | 81 | 13 | 22 | 4 |
| 15. |  |
Nancy Kress | 79 | 6 | 13 | 1 |
| 16. |  |
Gregory Benford | 77 | 8 | 12 | 3 |
| 17. |  |
Roger Zelazny | 76 | 13 | 16 | 3 |
| 18. |  |
Orson Scott Card | 70 | 13 | 28 | 10 |
| 19. |  |
Terry Pratchett | 65 | 21 | 27 | 8 |
| 20. |  |
Charles de Lint | 61 | 11 | 19 | 1 |
| 21. |  |
Philip K. Dick | 61 | 9 | 14 | 3 |
| 22. |  |
Greg Bear | 58 | 14 | 31 | 2 |
| 23. |  |
Kim Stanley Robinson | 58 | 17 | 49 | 10 |
| 24. |  |
Alastair Reynolds | 56 | 12 | 16 | 2 |
| 25. |  |
Jane Yolen | 55 | 6 | 10 | 3 |
| 26. |  |
Neil Gaiman | 54 | 8 | 26 | 12 |
| 27. |  |
Michael Bishop | 53 | 8 | 15 | 3 |
| 28. |  |
Robert A. Heinlein | 53 | 10 | 19 | 5 |
| 29. |  |
Arthur C. Clarke | 52 | 4 | 12 | 7 |
| 30. |  |
Paul J. McAuley | 52 | 13 | 19 | 3 |
| 31. |  |
Ian McDonald | 51 | 17 | 32 | 6 |
| 32. |  |
Bruce Sterling | 50 | 7 | 18 | 2 |
| 33. |  |
Connie Willis | 50 | 7 | 23 | 10 |
| 34. |  |
Joe Haldeman | 48 | 7 | 15 | 8 |
| 35. |  |
Samuel R. Delany | 45 | 7 | 12 | 2 |
| 36. |  |
Catherynne M. Valente | 44 | 7 | 13 | 5 |
| 37. |  |
Ramsey Campbell | 43 | 17 | 18 | 7 |
| 38. |  |
Charles Stross | 43 | 17 | 32 | 3 |
| 39. |  |
F. Paul Wilson | 43 | 12 | 12 | 2 |
| 40. |  |
John Barnes | 40 | 6 | 11 | 0 |
| 41. |  |
Jerry Pournelle | 40 | 6 | 10 | 1 |
| 42. |  |
Sheri S. Tepper | 40 | 11 | 17 | 1 |
| 43. |  |
Sean Williams | 40 | 17 | 18 | 4 |
| 44. |  |
Jack McDevitt | 39 | 15 | 20 | 3 |
| 45. |  |
Lois McMaster Bujold | 38 | 15 | 34 | 10 |
| 46. |  |
John Varley | 38 | 9 | 17 | 2 |
| 47. |  |
Adam Roberts | 36 | 8 | 14 | 2 |
| 48. |  |
Brandon Sanderson | 36 | 10 | 11 | 2 |
| 49. |  |
Jeff VanderMeer | 34 | 6 | 14 | 2 |
| 50. |  |
Peter S. Beagle | 33 | 6 | 10 | 3 |
| 51. |  |
Cory Doctorow | 33 | 10 | 18 | 5 |
| 52. |  |
Gwyneth Jones | 33 | 12 | 19 | 3 |
| 53. |  |
Caitlín R. Kiernan | 32 | 3 | 11 | 2 |
| 54. |  |
David Brin | 31 | 10 | 24 | 7 |
| 55. |  |
Dan Simmons | 31 | 14 | 27 | 9 |
| 56. |  |
Eleanor Arnason | 30 | 7 | 10 | 2 |
| 57. |  |
Peter Straub | 30 | 12 | 18 | 7 |
| 58. |  |
Ken MacLeod | 29 | 15 | 38 | 5 |
| 59. |  |
Robert Charles Wilson | 29 | 14 | 31 | 5 |
| 60. |  |
Elizabeth Hand | 28 | 9 | 13 | 3 |
| 61. |  |
Patricia A. McKillip | 28 | 18 | 26 | 7 |
| 62. |  |
Robert J. Sawyer | 28 | 21 | 40 | 11 |
| 63. |  |
Maureen F. McHugh | 27 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
| 64. |  |
Garth Nix | 27 | 9 | 10 | 2 |
| 65. |  |
Tim Powers | 26 | 10 | 27 | 7 |
| 66. |  |
Geoff Ryman | 26 | 9 | 17 | 6 |
| 67. |  |
John Scalzi | 26 | 7 | 13 | 3 |
| 68. |  |
Jonathan Carroll | 25 | 8 | 14 | 1 |
| 69. |  |
James Morrow | 25 | 7 | 19 | 2 |
| 70. |  |
Stephen R. Donaldson | 24 | 6 | 11 | 1 |
| 71. |  |
Michael Flynn | 24 | 9 | 10 | 3 |
| 72. |  |
William Gibson | 24 | 9 | 33 | 5 |
| 73. |  |
N. K. Jemisin | 24 | 6 | 22 | 6 |
| 74. |  |
Scott Westerfeld | 24 | 8 | 11 | 1 |
| 75. |  |
Jo Walton | 23 | 9 | 20 | 7 |
| 76. |  |
Paolo Bacigalupi | 21 | 7 | 13 | 5 |
| 77. |  |
Julie E. Czerneda | 21 | 11 | 12 | 3 |
| 78. |  |
Christopher Priest | 21 | 9 | 18 | 7 |
| 79. |  |
L. Neil Smith | 21 | 12 | 12 | 3 |
| 80. |  |
Vernor Vinge | 20 | 6 | 20 | 7 |
| 81. |  |
Sara Douglass | 20 | 11 | 11 | 3 |
| 82. |  |
Nalo Hopkinson | 19 | 6 | 15 | 3 |
| 83. |  |
Nnedi Okorafor | 19 | 6 | 14 | 2 |
| 84. |  |
Juliet Marillier | 19 | 11 | 12 | 4 |
| 85. |  |
Mary Gentle | 18 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
| 86. |  |
Kameron Hurley | 18 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| 87. |  |
Peter Watts | 18 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| 88. |  |
Iain M. Banks | 17 | 9 | 14 | 2 |
| 89. |  |
John Crowley | 17 | 6 | 15 | 3 |
| 90. |  |
Daryl Gregory | 17 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| 91. |  |
M. John Harrison | 17 | 6 | 16 | 3 |
| 92. |  |
Neal Stephenson | 17 | 8 | 28 | 8 |
| 93. |  |
Graham Joyce | 16 | 14 | 20 | 7 |
| 94. |  |
China Miéville | 16 | 9 | 42 | 16 |
| 95. |  |
Margaret Atwood | 15 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
| 96. |  |
Justina Robson | 15 | 5 | 11 | 0 |
| 97. |  |
Joe Abercrombie | 14 | 7 | 13 | 1 |
| 98. |  |
Jon Courtenay Grimwood | 14 | 7 | 11 | 2 |
| 99. |  |
Guy Gavriel Kay | 14 | 12 | 28 | 3 |
| 100. |  |
Ann Leckie | 14 | 4 | 19 | 9 |
| 101. |  |
Emma Bull | 13 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 102. |  |
R. A. MacAvoy | 13 | 7 | 11 | 1 |
| 103. |  |
Glenda Larke | 12 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| 104. |  |
Tricia Sullivan | 10 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
| 105. |  |
Jay Kristoff | 9 | 7 | 10 | 4 |
| 106. |  |
Sean Stewart | 9 | 6 | 12 | 3 |
