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.		Susanna Clarke	4	3	15	5
2.		Becky Chambers	7	4	11	1
3.		Fonda Lee	9	6	11	4
4.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
5.		Rebecca Roanhorse	10	5	10	1
6.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
7.		Tade Thompson	10	6	13	3
8.		Paul Tremblay	10	5	11	4
9.		Nicola Griffith	12	4	11	2
10.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
11.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
12.		Robert Jackson Bennett	14	7	10	2
13.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
14.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
15.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
16.		Stephen Graham Jones	15	3	12	5
17.		Amie Kaufman	15	9	10	3
18.		Guy Gavriel Kay	15	14	31	3
19.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
20.		Jay Kristoff	16	11	14	6
21.		Ann Leckie	16	5	21	9
22.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
23.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
24.		Joe Abercrombie	17	8	14	1
25.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	17	5	18	3
26.		Iain M. Banks	18	9	14	2
27.		Mary Gentle	19	5	11	1
28.		Daryl Gregory	19	6	11	0
29.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
30.		Neal Stephenson	19	8	28	8
31.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
32.		Naomi Novik	20	5	14	7
33.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
34.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
35.		M. John Harrison	21	7	17	3
36.		Kameron Hurley	21	5	14	1
37.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
38.		John Crowley	22	6	15	3
39.		Juliet Marillier	23	12	13	4
40.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
41.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
42.		Christopher Priest	24	9	18	7
43.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
44.		T. Kingfisher	25	7	12	3
45.		Jo Walton	25	11	22	8
46.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
47.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
48.		N. K. Jemisin	27	8	29	8
49.		Nnedi Okorafor	27	7	16	2
50.		Charlie Jane Anders	28	5	10	5
51.		Jonathan Carroll	28	8	14	1
52.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
53.		Maureen F. McHugh	28	6	10	2
54.		Julie E. Czerneda	29	12	13	4
55.		Mary Robinette Kowal	29	6	14	3
56.		James Morrow	29	7	19	2
57.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
58.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
59.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
60.		Robert J. Sawyer	30	22	41	11
61.		Peter Straub	30	12	19	7
62.		Dan Simmons	31	15	31	13
63.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
64.		Elizabeth Hand	32	10	15	3
65.		Ken MacLeod	32	15	38	5
66.		Garth Nix	32	12	17	4
67.		Yoon Ha Lee	33	4	12	2
68.		John Scalzi	34	9	16	4
69.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
70.		Clive Barker	36	11	14	0
71.		Tim Powers	36	10	28	8
72.		Peter S. Beagle	37	6	10	3
73.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	38	3	11	2
74.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
75.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
76.		Jack McDevitt	40	15	20	3
77.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
78.		Jeff VanderMeer	41	9	18	2
79.		Sean Williams	41	18	19	4
80.		Cory Doctorow	42	11	19	5
81.		Jerry Pournelle	43	6	10	1
82.		Adam Roberts	43	10	16	2
83.		Lois McMaster Bujold	44	15	34	10
84.		Brandon Sanderson	44	10	11	2
85.		Adrian Tchaikovsky	45	11	13	5
86.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
87.		Ramsey Campbell	46	18	19	7
88.		Lavie Tidhar	46	7	14	2
89.		F. Paul Wilson	46	12	12	2
90.		Catherynne M. Valente	47	8	16	5
91.		Charles Stross	50	17	32	3
92.		Joe Haldeman	51	7	15	8
93.		Bruce Sterling	52	7	18	2
94.		Connie Willis	52	7	23	10
95.		Paul J. McAuley	54	15	21	3
96.		Ian McDonald	54	18	35	6
97.		Robert A. Heinlein	55	10	19	5
98.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
99.		Arthur C. Clarke	56	4	12	7
100.		Neil Gaiman	57	8	26	12
101.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
102.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
103.		Alastair Reynolds	61	16	20	2
104.		Jane Yolen	62	7	11	3
105.		Elizabeth Bear	63	10	11	1
106.		Charles de Lint	64	11	19	1
107.		Philip K. Dick	65	9	14	3
108.		Terry Pratchett	66	21	27	8
109.		Orson Scott Card	76	14	29	10
110.		Roger Zelazny	79	13	16	3
111.		Gregory Benford	83	8	12	3
112.		Brian W. Aldiss	84	5	10	4
113.		Nancy Kress	86	7	14	1
114.		Stephen Baxter	88	13	22	4
115.		Gene Wolfe	88	23	51	9
116.		Michael Swanwick	89	8	18	1
117.		C. J. Cherryh	93	20	27	4
118.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
119.		Ursula K. Le Guin	95	21	36	14
120.		Stephen King	98	37	53	12
121.		George R. R. Martin	101	9	22	4
122.		Michael Moorcock	108	9	12	6
123.		Frederik Pohl	119	7	18	6
124.		Isaac Asimov	152	7	12	5
125.		Poul Anderson	166	19	26	4
126.		Robert Silverberg	218	12	27	2