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	169	12	27	2
2.		Poul Anderson	140	19	26	4
3.		Frederik Pohl	112	7	18	6
4.		Isaac Asimov	109	6	11	5
5.		Michael Moorcock	101	9	12	6
6.		Larry Niven	87	13	23	5
7.		George R. R. Martin	86	9	22	4
8.		Stephen King	80	28	39	10
9.		Ursula K. Le Guin	78	21	36	14
10.		Roger Zelazny	74	13	16	3
11.		C. J. Cherryh	72	19	26	3
12.		Gene Wolfe	70	22	50	9
13.		Brian W. Aldiss	69	5	10	4
14.		Orson Scott Card	66	13	28	10
15.		Terry Pratchett	65	21	27	8
16.		Michael Swanwick	61	7	17	1
17.		Gregory Benford	60	8	12	3
18.		Philip K. Dick	60	9	14	3
19.		Stephen Baxter	58	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.		Kim Stanley Robinson	51	16	46	10
24.		Arthur C. Clarke	50	4	12	7
25.		Jane Yolen	47	6	10	3
26.		Michael Bishop	46	8	15	3
27.		Connie Willis	46	7	23	10
28.		Neil Gaiman	44	8	26	12
29.		Greg Bear	43	14	31	2
30.		F. Paul Wilson	41	12	12	2
31.		Samuel R. Delany	40	7	12	2
32.		Joe Haldeman	40	7	15	8
33.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
34.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
35.		Bruce Sterling	37	7	18	2
36.		Charles Stross	37	16	31	3
37.		Sean Williams	37	17	18	4
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.		Catherynne M. Valente	31	7	13	5
46.		Paul J. McAuley	30	12	18	3
47.		Jeff VanderMeer	30	5	11	2
48.		Alastair Reynolds	28	12	15	1
49.		David Brin	27	10	24	7
50.		Patricia A. McKillip	27	18	26	6
51.		Robert J. Sawyer	27	20	39	10
52.		Peter Straub	27	12	18	7
53.		Dan Simmons	26	14	27	9
54.		Elizabeth Hand	25	9	13	3
55.		Robert Charles Wilson	25	14	31	5
56.		James Morrow	24	7	19	2
57.		John Scalzi	24	6	11	2
58.		Gwyneth Jones	23	12	19	3
59.		Tim Powers	23	10	27	7
60.		Eleanor Arnason	22	7	10	2
61.		Peter S. Beagle	22	6	10	3
62.		Maureen F. McHugh	22	6	10	2
63.		Scott Westerfeld	22	8	11	1
64.		Jonathan Carroll	21	8	14	1
65.		Cory Doctorow	21	9	17	5
66.		Stephen R. Donaldson	21	6	11	1
67.		Michael Flynn	21	9	10	3
68.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	21	3	11	2
69.		Julie E. Czerneda	20	10	11	3
70.		Ken MacLeod	20	14	37	5
71.		Jo Walton	20	9	20	7
72.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
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.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
84.		Neal Stephenson	16	8	28	8
85.		Nalo Hopkinson	15	6	15	3
86.		Vernor Vinge	15	6	20	7
87.		Margaret Atwood	14	6	10	2
88.		Paolo Bacigalupi	14	6	12	5
89.		John Crowley	14	5	12	2
90.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
91.		Nnedi Okorafor	14	5	13	1
92.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
93.		M. John Harrison	13	6	16	3
94.		Guy Gavriel Kay	13	12	27	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	11	4	10	0
100.		Tricia Sullivan	9	5	10	1
101.		Ann Leckie	8	3	16	9
102.		Sean Stewart	7	6	12	3