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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
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 | |||
TOTAL  |
NOMINATED |
NOMS |
WINS |
|||
| 1. |  |
Joe Abercrombie | 15 | 7 | 13 | 1 |
| 2. |  |
Brian W. Aldiss | 82 | 5 | 10 | 4 |
| 3. |  |
Poul Anderson | 153 | 19 | 26 | 4 |
| 4. |  |
Eleanor Arnason | 30 | 7 | 10 | 2 |
| 5. |  |
Margaret Atwood | 15 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
| 6. |  |
Paolo Bacigalupi | 21 | 7 | 13 | 5 |
| 7. |  |
Iain M. Banks | 17 | 9 | 14 | 2 |
| 8. |  |
John Barnes | 40 | 6 | 11 | 0 |
| 9. |  |
Stephen Baxter | 84 | 13 | 22 | 4 |
| 10. |  |
Peter S. Beagle | 34 | 6 | 10 | 3 |
| 11. |  |
Greg Bear | 58 | 14 | 31 | 2 |
| 12. |  |
Gregory Benford | 80 | 8 | 12 | 3 |
| 13. |  |
Robert Jackson Bennett | 11 | 7 | 10 | 2 |
| 14. |  |
Michael Bishop | 56 | 8 | 15 | 3 |
| 15. |  |
David Brin | 32 | 10 | 24 | 7 |
| 16. |  |
Lois McMaster Bujold | 40 | 15 | 34 | 10 |
| 17. |  |
Emma Bull | 13 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 18. |  |
Ramsey Campbell | 43 | 18 | 19 | 7 |
| 19. |  |
Orson Scott Card | 74 | 13 | 28 | 10 |
| 20. |  |
Jonathan Carroll | 27 | 8 | 14 | 1 |
| 21. |  |
C. J. Cherryh | 91 | 19 | 26 | 3 |
| 22. |  |
Arthur C. Clarke | 52 | 4 | 12 | 7 |
| 23. |  |
John Crowley | 18 | 6 | 15 | 3 |
| 24. |  |
Julie E. Czerneda | 22 | 11 | 12 | 3 |
| 25. |  |
Charles de Lint | 61 | 11 | 19 | 1 |
| 26. |  |
Samuel R. Delany | 45 | 7 | 12 | 2 |
| 27. |  |
Philip K. Dick | 62 | 9 | 14 | 3 |
| 28. |  |
Cory Doctorow | 38 | 10 | 18 | 5 |
| 29. |  |
Stephen R. Donaldson | 24 | 6 | 11 | 1 |
| 30. |  |
Michael Flynn | 25 | 9 | 10 | 3 |
| 31. |  |
Neil Gaiman | 56 | 8 | 26 | 12 |
| 32. |  |
Mary Gentle | 18 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
| 33. |  |
William Gibson | 23 | 9 | 33 | 5 |
| 34. |  |
Daryl Gregory | 17 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| 35. |  |
Jon Courtenay Grimwood | 14 | 7 | 11 | 2 |
| 36. |  |
Joe Haldeman | 48 | 7 | 15 | 8 |
| 37. |  |
Elizabeth Hand | 28 | 9 | 13 | 3 |
| 38. |  |
M. John Harrison | 19 | 6 | 16 | 3 |
| 39. |  |
Robert A. Heinlein | 53 | 10 | 19 | 5 |
| 40. |  |
Nalo Hopkinson | 19 | 6 | 15 | 3 |
| 41. |  |
Kameron Hurley | 20 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| 42. |  |
N. K. Jemisin | 26 | 6 | 22 | 6 |
| 43. |  |
Gwyneth Jones | 35 | 12 | 19 | 3 |
| 44. |  |
Graham Joyce | 16 | 14 | 20 | 7 |
| 45. |  |
Guy Gavriel Kay | 14 | 12 | 28 | 3 |
| 46. |  |
Caitlín R. Kiernan | 36 | 3 | 11 | 2 |
| 47. |  |
Stephen King | 92 | 29 | 40 | 10 |
| 48. |  |
Nancy Kress | 82 | 7 | 14 | 1 |
| 49. |  |
Jay Kristoff | 11 | 7 | 10 | 5 |
| 50. |  |
Ursula K. Le Guin | 93 | 21 | 36 | 14 |
| 51. |  |
Ann Leckie | 14 | 4 | 19 | 9 |
| 52. |  |
Yoon Ha Lee | 30 | 4 | 11 | 1 |
| 53. |  |
R. A. MacAvoy | 13 | 7 | 11 | 1 |
| 54. |  |
Ken MacLeod | 29 | 15 | 38 | 5 |
| 55. |  |
George R. R. Martin | 98 | 9 | 22 | 4 |
| 56. |  |
Paul J. McAuley | 52 | 13 | 19 | 3 |
| 57. |  |
Jack McDevitt | 39 | 15 | 20 | 3 |
| 58. |  |
Ian McDonald | 52 | 17 | 33 | 6 |
| 59. |  |
Maureen F. McHugh | 28 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
| 60. |  |
Patricia A. McKillip | 30 | 18 | 26 | 7 |
| 61. |  |
China Miéville | 16 | 9 | 42 | 16 |
| 62. |  |
Michael Moorcock | 107 | 9 | 12 | 6 |
| 63. |  |
James Morrow | 27 | 7 | 19 | 2 |
| 64. |  |
Larry Niven | 91 | 13 | 23 | 5 |
| 65. |  |
Garth Nix | 28 | 9 | 10 | 2 |
| 66. |  |
Glenda Larke | 12 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| 67. |  |
Naomi Novik | 17 | 3 | 12 | 7 |
| 68. |  |
Nnedi Okorafor | 20 | 6 | 14 | 2 |
| 69. |  |
Isaac Asimov | 141 | 7 | 12 | 5 |
| 70. |  |
Frederik Pohl | 118 | 7 | 18 | 6 |
| 71. |  |
Jerry Pournelle | 40 | 6 | 10 | 1 |
| 72. |  |
Tim Powers | 27 | 10 | 27 | 7 |
| 73. |  |
Terry Pratchett | 66 | 21 | 27 | 8 |
| 74. |  |
Christopher Priest | 21 | 9 | 18 | 7 |
| 75. |  |
Alastair Reynolds | 57 | 13 | 17 | 2 |
| 76. |  |
Adam Roberts | 37 | 8 | 14 | 2 |
| 77. |  |
Kim Stanley Robinson | 58 | 18 | 50 | 10 |
| 78. |  |
Justina Robson | 15 | 5 | 11 | 0 |
| 79. |  |
Geoff Ryman | 26 | 9 | 17 | 6 |
| 80. |  |
Brandon Sanderson | 37 | 10 | 11 | 2 |
| 81. |  |
Robert J. Sawyer | 29 | 21 | 40 | 11 |
| 82. |  |
John Scalzi | 28 | 7 | 13 | 3 |
| 83. |  |
Juliet Marillier | 20 | 11 | 12 | 4 |
| 84. |  |
Robert Silverberg | 212 | 12 | 27 | 2 |
| 85. |  |
Dan Simmons | 31 | 14 | 27 | 9 |
| 86. |  |
L. Neil Smith | 21 | 12 | 12 | 3 |
| 87. |  |
Neal Stephenson | 18 | 8 | 28 | 8 |
| 88. |  |
Bruce Sterling | 51 | 7 | 18 | 2 |
| 89. |  |
Sean Stewart | 9 | 6 | 12 | 3 |
| 90. |  |
Peter Straub | 30 | 12 | 18 | 7 |
| 91. |  |
Charles Stross | 44 | 17 | 32 | 3 |
| 92. |  |
Tricia Sullivan | 10 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
| 93. |  |
Michael Swanwick | 87 | 7 | 17 | 1 |
| 94. |  |
Sheri S. Tepper | 40 | 11 | 17 | 1 |
| 95. |  |
Lavie Tidhar | 39 | 4 | 11 | 2 |
| 96. |  |
Catherynne M. Valente | 44 | 8 | 16 | 5 |
| 97. |  |
Jeff VanderMeer | 36 | 6 | 14 | 2 |
| 98. |  |
John Varley | 38 | 9 | 17 | 2 |
| 99. |  |
Vernor Vinge | 20 | 6 | 20 | 7 |
| 100. |  |
Jo Walton | 25 | 9 | 20 | 7 |
| 101. |  |
Sara Douglass | 20 | 11 | 11 | 3 |
| 102. |  |
Peter Watts | 19 | 5 | 11 | 0 |
| 103. |  |
Scott Westerfeld | 24 | 9 | 12 | 1 |
| 104. |  |
Sean Williams | 40 | 17 | 18 | 4 |
| 105. |  |
Connie Willis | 50 | 7 | 23 | 10 |
| 106. |  |
Robert Charles Wilson | 29 | 14 | 31 | 5 |
| 107. |  |
F. Paul Wilson | 43 | 12 | 12 | 2 |
| 108. |  |
Gene Wolfe | 86 | 22 | 50 | 9 |
| 109. |  |
Jane Yolen | 59 | 7 | 11 | 3 |
| 110. |  |
Roger Zelazny | 77 | 13 | 16 | 3 |
