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.		Joe Abercrombie	16	7	13	1
2.		Brian W. Aldiss	83	5	10	4
3.		Poul Anderson	153	19	26	4
4.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
5.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
6.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
7.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
8.		Clive Barker	30	11	14	0
9.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
10.		Stephen Baxter	85	13	22	4
11.		Peter S. Beagle	36	6	10	3
12.		Greg Bear	58	14	31	2
13.		Gregory Benford	81	8	12	3
14.		Robert Jackson Bennett	12	7	10	2
15.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
16.		James P. Blaylock	30	6	10	1
17.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
18.		Lois McMaster Bujold	42	15	34	10
19.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
20.		Ramsey Campbell	44	19	21	7
21.		Orson Scott Card	74	15	30	10
22.		Jonathan Carroll	27	8	15	1
23.		C. J. Cherryh	93	20	27	4
24.		Arthur C. Clarke	52	4	12	7
25.		Susanna Clarke	4	3	11	4
26.		John Crowley	21	6	15	3
27.		Julie E. Czerneda	25	12	13	4
28.		Charles de Lint	61	11	19	1
29.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
30.		Philip K. Dick	63	9	14	3
31.		Thomas M. Disch	27	5	10	1
32.		Cory Doctorow	40	10	18	5
33.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
34.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
35.		Neil Gaiman	56	8	26	12
36.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
37.		William Gibson	25	9	33	5
38.		Daryl Gregory	18	5	10	0
39.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
40.		Joe Haldeman	48	7	15	8
41.		Elizabeth Hand	29	10	15	3
42.		M. John Harrison	20	7	17	3
43.		Robert A. Heinlein	54	10	19	5
44.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
45.		Tanya Huff	35	9	11	1
46.		Kameron Hurley	20	5	14	1
47.		N. K. Jemisin	26	7	25	7
48.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
49.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
50.		Guy Gavriel Kay	14	13	30	3
51.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	37	3	11	2
52.		Stephen King	93	35	53	12
53.		Mary Robinette Kowal	25	5	11	3
54.		Nancy Kress	85	7	14	1
55.		Jay Kristoff	15	10	13	6
56.		Ursula K. Le Guin	94	21	36	14
57.		Ann Leckie	14	5	21	9
58.		Yoon Ha Lee	30	4	12	2
59.		Tanith Lee	92	12	13	1
60.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
61.		Ken MacLeod	30	15	38	5
62.		George R. R. Martin	99	9	22	4
63.		Paul J. McAuley	53	13	19	3
64.		Robert R. McCammon	26	6	11	4
65.		Jack McDevitt	39	15	20	3
66.		Ian McDonald	52	18	35	6
67.		Maureen F. McHugh	28	6	10	2
68.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
69.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
70.		Michael Moorcock	107	9	12	6
71.		James Morrow	28	7	19	2
72.		Larry Niven	92	13	23	5
73.		Garth Nix	29	11	13	3
74.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
75.		Naomi Novik	19	3	12	7
76.		Anne Rice	26	9	11	1
77.		Nnedi Okorafor	22	6	14	2
78.		Isaac Asimov	144	7	12	5
79.		Frederik Pohl	118	7	18	6
80.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
81.		Tim Powers	30	10	28	8
82.		Terry Pratchett	66	21	27	8
83.		Christopher Priest	23	9	18	7
84.		Alastair Reynolds	58	15	19	2
85.		Adam Roberts	40	8	14	2
86.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	51	10
87.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
88.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
89.		Brandon Sanderson	39	10	11	2
90.		Robert J. Sawyer	29	21	40	11
91.		John Scalzi	29	7	13	3
92.		Juliet Marillier	22	12	13	4
93.		Robert Silverberg	213	12	27	2
94.		Dan Simmons	31	15	31	13
95.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
96.		Neal Stephenson	18	8	28	8
97.		Bruce Sterling	51	7	18	2
98.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
99.		Peter Straub	30	14	21	7
100.		Charles Stross	45	17	32	3
101.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
102.		Michael Swanwick	88	8	18	1
103.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
104.		Lavie Tidhar	42	4	11	2
105.		Catherynne M. Valente	45	8	16	5
106.		Jeff VanderMeer	39	7	15	2
107.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
108.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
109.		Jo Walton	25	10	21	7
110.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
111.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
112.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
113.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
114.		Connie Willis	51	7	23	10
115.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
116.		F. Paul Wilson	45	12	12	2
117.		Elizabeth Bear	62	9	10	1
118.		Gene Wolfe	88	22	50	9
119.		Jane Yolen	59	7	11	3
120.		Roger Zelazny	77	13	16	3