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.		Stephen King	102	38	54	12
2.		Robert J. Sawyer	32	23	42	11
3.		Gene Wolfe	91	23	51	9
4.		C. J. Cherryh	95	21	28	4
5.		Ursula K. Le Guin	97	21	36	14
6.		Terry Pratchett	67	21	27	8
7.		Poul Anderson	167	19	26	4
8.		Ian McDonald	56	19	36	6
9.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
10.		Ramsey Campbell	46	18	19	7
11.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
12.		Sean Williams	41	18	19	4
13.		Charles Stross	52	17	32	3
14.		Alastair Reynolds	64	16	20	2
15.		Lois McMaster Bujold	48	15	34	10
16.		Adrian Tchaikovsky	60	15	23	5
17.		Guy Gavriel Kay	16	15	32	3
18.		Ken MacLeod	34	15	38	5
19.		Paul J. McAuley	57	15	21	3
20.		Jack McDevitt	41	15	20	3
21.		Dan Simmons	33	15	31	13
22.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
23.		Orson Scott Card	80	14	29	10
24.		Cory Doctorow	47	14	22	5
25.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
26.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
27.		Stephen Baxter	91	13	22	4
28.		Julie E. Czerneda	31	13	14	4
29.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
30.		Garth Nix	38	13	19	4
31.		Roger Zelazny	80	13	16	3
32.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
33.		Juliet Marillier	23	12	13	4
34.		Robert Silverberg	219	12	27	2
35.		L. Neil Smith	22	12	12	3
36.		Peter Straub	30	12	19	7
37.		F. Paul Wilson	49	12	12	2
38.		Clive Barker	37	11	14	0
39.		Charles de Lint	65	11	19	1
40.		Elizabeth Hand	33	11	16	3
41.		Jay Kristoff	19	11	14	6
42.		Tim Powers	37	11	29	8
43.		John Scalzi	39	11	19	4
44.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
45.		T. Kingfisher	35	11	19	6
46.		Jo Walton	24	11	22	8
47.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
48.		Elizabeth Bear	69	11	12	1
49.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
50.		Michael Flynn	26	10	11	4
51.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
52.		Robert A. Heinlein	59	10	19	5
53.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
54.		Christopher Priest	26	10	19	7
55.		Adam Roberts	50	10	16	2
56.		Geoff Ryman	28	10	18	6
57.		Brandon Sanderson	50	10	11	2
58.		Jeff VanderMeer	45	10	19	2
59.		Joe Abercrombie	18	9	15	1
60.		Iain M. Banks	18	9	14	2
61.		Robert Jackson Bennett	16	9	15	4
62.		Philip K. Dick	67	9	14	3
63.		Amie Kaufman	16	9	10	3
64.		George R. R. Martin	101	9	22	4
65.		China Miéville	17	9	42	16
66.		Michael Moorcock	109	9	12	6
67.		Catherynne M. Valente	50	9	17	5
68.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
69.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
70.		Gregory Benford	84	8	12	3
71.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
72.		Jonathan Carroll	30	8	14	1
73.		Neil Gaiman	58	8	26	12
74.		Tanya Huff	39	8	10	1
75.		N. K. Jemisin	27	8	29	8
76.		Nnedi Okorafor	33	8	19	2
77.		Neal Stephenson	20	8	28	8
78.		Michael Swanwick	95	8	18	1
79.		Connie Willis	52	8	24	10
80.		Charlie Jane Anders	31	7	12	6
81.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
82.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
83.		Paolo Bacigalupi	22	7	13	5
84.		Peter S. Beagle	40	7	11	3
85.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
86.		Daryl Gregory	21	7	13	0
87.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
88.		Joe Haldeman	51	7	15	8
89.		M. John Harrison	22	7	17	3
90.		Nalo Hopkinson	22	7	16	3
91.		Stephen Graham Jones	23	7	21	6
92.		Nancy Kress	87	7	14	1
93.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
94.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	19	7	23	3
95.		James Morrow	29	7	19	2
96.		Isaac Asimov	170	7	12	5
97.		Frederik Pohl	121	7	18	6
98.		Bruce Sterling	54	7	18	2
99.		Lavie Tidhar	59	7	14	2
100.		Jane Yolen	62	7	11	3
101.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
102.		John Crowley	22	6	15	3
103.		Stephen R. Donaldson	25	6	11	1
104.		Joe Hill	18	6	11	2
105.		Mary Robinette Kowal	31	6	14	3
106.		Ann Leckie	18	6	24	9
107.		Yoon Ha Lee	37	6	15	3
108.		Fonda Lee	12	6	11	4
109.		Maureen F. McHugh	30	6	10	2
110.		Jerry Pournelle	46	6	10	1
111.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
112.		Tade Thompson	11	6	13	3
113.		Paul Tremblay	14	6	13	4
114.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
115.		Martha Wells	33	6	12	5
116.		Brian W. Aldiss	84	5	10	4
117.		Becky Chambers	8	5	12	1
118.		Mary Gentle	19	5	11	1
119.		Kameron Hurley	21	5	14	1
120.		Naomi Novik	22	5	14	7
121.		Rebecca Roanhorse	11	5	10	1
122.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
123.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
124.		Catriona Ward	6	5	11	4
125.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
126.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
127.		Arthur C. Clarke	56	4	12	7
128.		Nicola Griffith	13	4	11	2
129.		Alix E. Harrow	12	4	13	1
130.		Susanna Clarke	5	3	15	5
131.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	44	3	11	2