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.		Sean Stewart	7	6	12	3
2.		Ann Leckie	9	3	16	9
3.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
4.		Peter Watts	11	4	10	0
5.		Joe Abercrombie	12	7	13	1
6.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
7.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
8.		Guy Gavriel Kay	13	12	27	3
9.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
10.		Justina Robson	13	5	11	0
11.		Margaret Atwood	14	6	10	2
12.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
13.		M. John Harrison	14	6	16	3
14.		Paolo Bacigalupi	15	6	12	5
15.		Nnedi Okorafor	15	5	13	1
16.		Vernor Vinge	15	6	20	7
17.		Nalo Hopkinson	16	6	15	3
18.		Graham Joyce	16	14	20	7
19.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
20.		Neal Stephenson	16	8	28	8
21.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
22.		John Crowley	17	5	12	2
23.		N. K. Jemisin	17	5	19	3
24.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
25.		William Gibson	18	9	33	5
26.		Geoff Ryman	18	9	17	6
27.		L. Neil Smith	18	12	12	3
28.		Juliet Marillier	19	11	12	4
29.		Julie E. Czerneda	20	10	11	3
30.		Christopher Priest	20	9	18	7
31.		Jo Walton	20	9	20	7
32.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
33.		Cory Doctorow	21	9	17	5
34.		Michael Flynn	21	9	10	3
35.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	21	3	11	2
36.		Ken MacLeod	21	14	37	5
37.		Eleanor Arnason	22	7	10	2
38.		Jonathan Carroll	22	8	14	1
39.		Stephen R. Donaldson	22	6	11	1
40.		Maureen F. McHugh	22	6	10	2
41.		Scott Westerfeld	22	8	11	1
42.		Peter S. Beagle	23	6	10	3
43.		Gwyneth Jones	23	12	19	3
44.		Tim Powers	23	10	27	7
45.		James Morrow	24	7	19	2
46.		John Scalzi	24	6	11	2
47.		Robert Charles Wilson	25	14	31	5
48.		Elizabeth Hand	26	9	13	3
49.		Adam Roberts	26	8	14	2
50.		Dan Simmons	26	14	27	9
51.		David Brin	27	10	24	7
52.		Patricia A. McKillip	27	18	26	7
53.		Robert J. Sawyer	27	20	39	10
54.		Alastair Reynolds	28	12	15	2
55.		Peter Straub	28	12	18	7
56.		Paul J. McAuley	31	12	18	3
57.		Jeff VanderMeer	31	5	11	2
58.		Jack McDevitt	32	15	20	3
59.		Brandon Sanderson	33	9	10	2
60.		John Barnes	34	6	11	0
61.		Ian McDonald	34	15	30	6
62.		Catherynne M. Valente	34	7	13	5
63.		Lois McMaster Bujold	35	15	34	10
64.		John Varley	35	9	17	2
65.		Ramsey Campbell	37	17	18	7
66.		Charles Stross	37	16	31	3
67.		Sean Williams	37	17	18	4
68.		Bruce Sterling	38	7	18	2
69.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
70.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
71.		Joe Haldeman	41	7	15	8
72.		F. Paul Wilson	41	12	12	2
73.		Samuel R. Delany	42	7	12	2
74.		Greg Bear	43	14	31	2
75.		Neil Gaiman	44	8	26	12
76.		Michael Bishop	46	8	15	3
77.		Connie Willis	47	7	23	10
78.		Jane Yolen	48	6	10	3
79.		Arthur C. Clarke	50	4	12	7
80.		Kim Stanley Robinson	51	16	46	10
81.		Robert A. Heinlein	52	10	19	5
82.		Charles de Lint	54	11	19	1
83.		Nancy Kress	57	6	13	1
84.		Stephen Baxter	59	13	22	4
85.		Gregory Benford	60	8	12	3
86.		Philip K. Dick	60	9	14	3
87.		Michael Swanwick	63	7	17	1
88.		Terry Pratchett	65	21	27	8
89.		Orson Scott Card	69	13	28	10
90.		Gene Wolfe	70	22	50	9
91.		C. J. Cherryh	73	19	26	3
92.		Roger Zelazny	74	13	16	3
93.		Brian W. Aldiss	76	5	10	4
94.		Ursula K. Le Guin	80	21	36	14
95.		Stephen King	81	28	39	10
96.		George R. R. Martin	86	9	22	4
97.		Larry Niven	87	13	23	5
98.		Michael Moorcock	101	9	12	6
99.		Isaac Asimov	112	6	11	5
100.		Frederik Pohl	112	7	18	6
101.		Poul Anderson	141	19	26	4
102.		Robert Silverberg	185	12	27	2