Behind every great author is a team of editors, printers, cover artists, marketing and distribution specialists... all the unsung heroes of the publishing industry. Below is a list of the Top SF/F/H Publishers, the large and the small, who have made it possible for us to enjoy all those Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror award-winning authors.
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Top SF/F/H Publishers
Below is a list of the top SF/F/H publishers in the WWEnd database that have received at least 10 nominations across the 16 awards we cover.
# | PUBLISHER | AUTHORS | NOVELS | NOMS | WINS |
1. | Tor | 708 | 2834 | 699 | 131 |
2. | Gollancz | 361 | 1241 | 494 | 138 |
3. | Orbit | 308 | 1214 | 331 | 55 |
4. | Ace Books | 553 | 2202 | 293 | 56 |
5. | Bantam Spectra | 205 | 565 | 187 | 40 |
6. | Del Rey | 179 | 507 | 138 | 34 |
7. | William Morrow & Co. | 116 | 227 | 124 | 34 |
8. | HarperCollins/Voyager | 180 | 461 | 110 | 19 |
9. | Doubleday | 282 | 735 | 101 | 17 |
10. | DAW Books | 265 | 1486 | 95 | 14 |
11. | HarperCollins | 136 | 272 | 91 | 22 |
12. | Baen | 305 | 1209 | 85 | 19 |
13. | Ballantine Books | 198 | 504 | 78 | 17 |
14. | Roc | 186 | 648 | 75 | 10 |
15. | Del Rey / Ballantine | 212 | 872 | 73 | 12 |
16. | St. Martin's Press | 160 | 304 | 71 | 19 |
17. | Alfred A. Knopf | 92 | 214 | 68 | 14 |
18. | Bantam UK | 74 | 178 | 67 | 13 |
19. | Tor.com Publishing | 402 | 814 | 63 | 10 |
20. | Saga Press | 82 | 153 | 61 | 10 |
21. | Hodder & Stoughton | 101 | 287 | 58 | 11 |
22. | Self-Published | 182 | 348 | 56 | 6 |
23. | Orion Books | 97 | 157 | 56 | 9 |
24. | HarperCollins UK | 65 | 147 | 52 | 11 |
25. | Open Road Integrated Media | 97 | 377 | 51 | 8 |
26. | Eos | 51 | 109 | 49 | 9 |
27. | Pyr | 94 | 263 | 48 | 10 |
28. | G. P. Putnam's Sons | 116 | 250 | 47 | 9 |
29. | Solaris | 138 | 324 | 47 | 5 |
30. | Penguin Books | 237 | 335 | 45 | 5 |
31. | Little, Brown and Company | 102 | 200 | 43 | 4 |
32. | Small Beer Press | 53 | 101 | 42 | 12 |
33. | Bloomsbury Publishing | 60 | 122 | 42 | 12 |
34. | Timescape Books | 64 | 89 | 42 | 10 |
35. | HarperCollins Australia | 30 | 82 | 42 | 12 |
36. | Titan Books | 192 | 430 | 40 | 11 |
37. | Macmillan UK | 43 | 101 | 40 | 12 |
38. | HarperPrism | 60 | 93 | 39 | 11 |
39. | Avon | 196 | 375 | 39 | 10 |
40. | Headline Publishing Group | 49 | 146 | 39 | 19 |
41. | Allen & Unwin | 29 | 75 | 38 | 9 |
42. | Angry Robot Books | 119 | 277 | 37 | 9 |
43. | Scribner | 55 | 113 | 37 | 5 |
44. | Pocket Books | 313 | 957 | 37 | 9 |
45. | Random House | 137 | 206 | 37 | 10 |
46. | Simon & Schuster | 134 | 197 | 36 | 10 |
47. | Science Fiction Book Club | 82 | 120 | 34 | 7 |
48. | Bantam Dell Publishing Group | 51 | 131 | 34 | 5 |
49. | Pan Macmillan | 46 | 108 | 33 | 8 |
50. | Macmillan Publishing | 48 | 86 | 33 | 4 |
51. | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | 148 | 277 | 32 | 8 |
52. | Aqueduct Press | 83 | 136 | 32 | 4 |
53. | Berkley Publishing Group | 107 | 201 | 31 | 7 |
54. | Galaxy Science Fiction | 68 | 110 | 31 | 16 |
55. | Warner Aspect | 73 | 134 | 31 | 5 |
56. | Night Shade Books | 123 | 299 | 29 | 5 |
57. | Harper & Row | 63 | 118 | 29 | 9 |
58. | Jo Fletcher Books | 41 | 122 | 28 | 2 |
59. | PS Publishing | 81 | 163 | 27 | 5 |
60. | Faber and Faber | 54 | 140 | 27 | 5 |
61. | Jonathan Cape | 50 | 118 | 26 | 6 |
62. | Atheneum | 39 | 85 | 26 | 5 |
63. | Asimov's Science Fiction | 219 | 681 | 25 | 4 |
64. | Berkley/Putnam | 43 | 68 | 25 | 3 |
65. | Signet | 102 | 250 | 25 | 5 |
66. | Tachyon Publications | 86 | 152 | 25 | 4 |
67. | Millennium | 29 | 47 | 24 | 5 |
68. | Arbor House | 37 | 57 | 24 | 4 |
69. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 73 | 133 | 24 | 4 |
70. | Houghton Mifflin | 64 | 125 | 23 | 7 |
71. | Carroll & Graf | 51 | 106 | 22 | 4 |
72. | Subterranean Press | 144 | 385 | 22 | 3 |
73. | Gregg Press | 67 | 99 | 22 | 4 |
74. | Viking Press | 32 | 60 | 20 | 5 |
75. | New English Library | 80 | 174 | 20 | 8 |
76. | Doubleday Foundation | 26 | 45 | 20 | 6 |
77. | Grafton | 70 | 139 | 20 | 3 |
78. | St. Martin's Griffin | 45 | 141 | 19 | 6 |
79. | Scholastic | 58 | 143 | 18 | 1 |
80. | Earthlight UK | 25 | 43 | 18 | 1 |
81. | Henry Holt and Company | 40 | 68 | 17 | 1 |
82. | Warner Books | 78 | 174 | 17 | 3 |
83. | NewCon Press | 52 | 90 | 16 | 0 |
84. | Redhook | 14 | 33 | 16 | 3 |
85. | Crown Publishers | 47 | 73 | 16 | 2 |
86. | Delacorte Press | 72 | 149 | 15 | 0 |
87. | Doubleday UK | 28 | 75 | 15 | 3 |
88. | Forge | 37 | 78 | 15 | 1 |
89. | Legend | 39 | 73 | 15 | 4 |
90. | Harcourt, Inc. | 20 | 61 | 15 | 3 |
91. | Simon & Schuster UK | 42 | 82 | 15 | 2 |
92. | Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 277 | 524 | 14 | 1 |
93. | Head of Zeus | 24 | 76 | 14 | 3 |
94. | Easton Press | 48 | 66 | 14 | 3 |
95. | Viking Canada | 3 | 14 | 14 | 2 |
96. | HarperTorch | 6 | 44 | 14 | 4 |
97. | Sidgwick & Jackson | 40 | 73 | 14 | 3 |
98. | Chatto & Windus | 23 | 42 | 14 | 2 |
99. | Orb Books | 31 | 50 | 14 | 4 |
100. | Leisure Books | 46 | 125 | 13 | 1 |
101. | Penguin Australia | 11 | 20 | 13 | 2 |
102. | Greenwillow Press | 16 | 69 | 13 | 0 |
103. | Corvus | 10 | 25 | 13 | 2 |
104. | ChiZine Publications | 43 | 60 | 13 | 2 |
105. | HarperCollins/Eos | 46 | 87 | 13 | 0 |
106. | Harcourt, Brace & World | 23 | 52 | 13 | 3 |
107. | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | 26 | 56 | 12 | 8 |
108. | Spectra | 17 | 27 | 12 | 5 |
109. | Phantasia Press | 15 | 24 | 12 | 2 |
110. | Picador | 41 | 54 | 12 | 2 |
111. | Unsung Stories | 7 | 9 | 12 | 0 |
112. | EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing | 13 | 30 | 12 | 2 |
113. | Candlewick Press | 22 | 36 | 12 | 2 |
114. | Walker Books | 28 | 54 | 12 | 2 |
115. | Vintage | 86 | 134 | 11 | 2 |
116. | MCD | 13 | 16 | 11 | 2 |
117. | e-reads | 11 | 51 | 11 | 1 |
118. | Mulholland Books | 12 | 21 | 11 | 3 |
119. | Arthur A. Levine Books | 11 | 20 | 11 | 1 |
120. | Tor Teen | 23 | 57 | 11 | 2 |
121. | Amulet Books | 18 | 30 | 11 | 1 |
122. | Prime Books | 74 | 184 | 11 | 0 |
123. | Holt, Rinehart & Winston | 31 | 51 | 11 | 2 |
124. | Grove Press | 33 | 42 | 11 | 5 |
125. | Dutton | 61 | 114 | 11 | 6 |
126. | Avon Eos | 28 | 42 | 10 | 2 |
127. | Original French publication | 83 | 148 | 10 | 2 |
128. | 47North | 67 | 183 | 10 | 1 |
129. | Erewhon Books | 12 | 13 | 10 | 1 |
130. | Berkley Books | 105 | 197 | 10 | 2 |
131. | Viking UK | 19 | 26 | 10 | 2 |
132. | Arrow | 63 | 126 | 10 | 2 |
133. | Canongate Books Ltd. | 32 | 45 | 10 | 2 |