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	216	12	27	2
2.		Poul Anderson	165	19	26	4
3.		Isaac Asimov	144	7	12	5
4.		Frederik Pohl	118	7	18	6
5.		Michael Moorcock	107	9	12	6
6.		George R. R. Martin	101	9	22	4
7.		Stephen King	97	36	52	12
8.		Ursula K. Le Guin	94	21	36	14
9.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
10.		C. J. Cherryh	93	20	27	4
11.		Michael Swanwick	89	8	18	1
12.		Stephen Baxter	88	13	22	4
13.		Gene Wolfe	88	23	51	9
14.		Nancy Kress	85	7	14	1
15.		Brian W. Aldiss	83	5	10	4
16.		Gregory Benford	82	8	12	3
17.		Roger Zelazny	79	13	16	3
18.		Orson Scott Card	75	14	29	10
19.		Terry Pratchett	66	21	27	8
20.		Charles de Lint	63	11	19	1
21.		Philip K. Dick	63	9	14	3
22.		Elizabeth Bear	63	10	11	1
23.		Jane Yolen	61	7	11	3
24.		Alastair Reynolds	60	15	19	2
25.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
26.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
27.		Neil Gaiman	57	8	26	12
28.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
29.		Robert A. Heinlein	54	10	19	5
30.		Paul J. McAuley	54	14	20	3
31.		Arthur C. Clarke	53	4	12	7
32.		Ian McDonald	52	18	35	6
33.		Bruce Sterling	52	7	18	2
34.		Connie Willis	51	7	23	10
35.		Charles Stross	49	17	32	3
36.		Joe Haldeman	48	7	15	8
37.		Catherynne M. Valente	46	8	16	5
38.		F. Paul Wilson	46	12	12	2
39.		Ramsey Campbell	45	18	19	7
40.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
41.		Lois McMaster Bujold	44	15	34	10
42.		Jerry Pournelle	43	6	10	1
43.		Adam Roberts	43	9	15	2
44.		Lavie Tidhar	43	6	13	2
45.		Adrian Tchaikovsky	41	8	10	4
46.		Brandon Sanderson	41	10	11	2
47.		Jeff VanderMeer	41	9	17	2
48.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
49.		Cory Doctorow	40	11	19	5
50.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
51.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
52.		Jack McDevitt	39	15	20	3
53.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
54.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	37	3	11	2
55.		Clive Barker	36	11	14	0
56.		Peter S. Beagle	36	6	10	3
57.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
58.		Tim Powers	34	10	28	8
59.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
60.		Elizabeth Hand	31	10	15	3
61.		Yoon Ha Lee	31	4	12	2
62.		Ken MacLeod	31	15	38	5
63.		Dan Simmons	31	15	31	13
64.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
65.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
66.		Garth Nix	30	12	17	4
67.		John Scalzi	30	8	14	3
68.		Peter Straub	30	12	19	7
69.		Julie E. Czerneda	29	12	13	4
70.		Mary Robinette Kowal	29	5	12	3
71.		Robert J. Sawyer	29	22	41	11
72.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
73.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
74.		Maureen F. McHugh	28	6	10	2
75.		James Morrow	28	7	19	2
76.		Jonathan Carroll	27	8	14	1
77.		N. K. Jemisin	27	7	28	8
78.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
79.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
80.		Jo Walton	25	11	22	8
81.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
82.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
83.		Nnedi Okorafor	24	7	16	2
84.		Christopher Priest	23	9	18	7
85.		Juliet Marillier	23	12	13	4
86.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
87.		John Crowley	22	6	15	3
88.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
89.		Kameron Hurley	21	5	14	1
90.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
91.		M. John Harrison	20	7	17	3
92.		Naomi Novik	20	4	13	7
93.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
94.		Daryl Gregory	19	6	11	0
95.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
96.		Neal Stephenson	19	8	28	8
97.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
98.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
99.		Joe Abercrombie	17	8	14	1
100.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
101.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
102.		Jay Kristoff	16	11	14	6
103.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
104.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
105.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
106.		Stephen Graham Jones	15	3	11	4
107.		Amie Kaufman	15	9	10	3
108.		Guy Gavriel Kay	15	13	30	3
109.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	15	4	15	3
110.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
111.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
112.		Ann Leckie	14	5	21	9
113.		Robert Jackson Bennett	13	7	10	2
114.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
115.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
116.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
117.		Tade Thompson	10	5	12	3
118.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
119.		Paul Tremblay	9	4	10	4
120.		Fonda Lee	8	6	11	3
121.		Becky Chambers	7	4	10	0
122.		Susanna Clarke	4	3	15	5