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	18	8	14	1
2.		Brian W. Aldiss	84	5	10	4
3.		Charlie Jane Anders	31	6	11	6
4.		Poul Anderson	166	19	26	4
5.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
6.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
7.		Paolo Bacigalupi	22	7	13	5
8.		Iain M. Banks	18	9	14	2
9.		Clive Barker	37	11	14	0
10.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
11.		Stephen Baxter	90	13	22	4
12.		Peter S. Beagle	40	7	11	3
13.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
14.		Gregory Benford	84	8	12	3
15.		Robert Jackson Bennett	15	8	12	2
16.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
17.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
18.		Lois McMaster Bujold	46	15	34	10
19.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
20.		Ramsey Campbell	46	18	19	7
21.		Orson Scott Card	80	14	29	10
22.		Jonathan Carroll	30	8	14	1
23.		Becky Chambers	7	5	12	1
24.		C. J. Cherryh	95	21	28	4
25.		Arthur C. Clarke	56	4	12	7
26.		Susanna Clarke	5	3	15	5
27.		John Crowley	22	6	15	3
28.		Adrian Tchaikovsky	55	14	21	5
29.		Julie E. Czerneda	30	12	13	4
30.		Charles de Lint	64	11	19	1
31.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
32.		Philip K. Dick	67	9	14	3
33.		Cory Doctorow	47	13	21	5
34.		Stephen R. Donaldson	25	6	11	1
35.		Michael Flynn	26	10	11	3
36.		Neil Gaiman	58	8	26	12
37.		Mary Gentle	19	5	11	1
38.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
39.		Daryl Gregory	21	6	11	0
40.		Nicola Griffith	13	4	11	2
41.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
42.		Joe Haldeman	51	7	15	8
43.		Elizabeth Hand	33	11	16	3
44.		M. John Harrison	21	7	17	3
45.		Alix E. Harrow	11	3	11	1
46.		Robert A. Heinlein	59	10	19	5
47.		Nalo Hopkinson	22	7	16	3
48.		Kameron Hurley	21	5	14	1
49.		N. K. Jemisin	27	8	29	8
50.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
51.		Stephen Graham Jones	22	6	18	6
52.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
53.		Amie Kaufman	15	9	10	3
54.		Guy Gavriel Kay	16	14	31	3
55.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	41	3	11	2
56.		Stephen King	102	37	53	12
57.		Mary Robinette Kowal	31	6	14	3
58.		Nancy Kress	87	7	14	1
59.		Jay Kristoff	18	11	14	6
60.		Ursula K. Le Guin	97	21	36	14
61.		Ann Leckie	17	6	24	9
62.		Yoon Ha Lee	36	5	14	3
63.		Fonda Lee	11	6	11	4
64.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
65.		Ken MacLeod	34	15	38	5
66.		George R. R. Martin	101	9	22	4
67.		Paul J. McAuley	56	15	21	3
68.		Jack McDevitt	41	15	20	3
69.		Ian McDonald	55	19	36	6
70.		Maureen F. McHugh	30	6	10	2
71.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
72.		China Miéville	17	9	42	16
73.		Michael Moorcock	108	9	12	6
74.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	18	6	20	3
75.		James Morrow	29	7	19	2
76.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
77.		Garth Nix	38	13	19	4
78.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
79.		Naomi Novik	21	5	14	7
80.		Nnedi Okorafor	31	7	16	2
81.		Isaac Asimov	161	7	12	5
82.		Frederik Pohl	121	7	18	6
83.		Jerry Pournelle	46	6	10	1
84.		Tim Powers	36	11	29	8
85.		Terry Pratchett	67	21	27	8
86.		Christopher Priest	26	10	19	7
87.		Alastair Reynolds	62	16	20	2
88.		Rebecca Roanhorse	11	5	10	1
89.		Adam Roberts	47	10	16	2
90.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
91.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
92.		Geoff Ryman	28	10	18	6
93.		Brandon Sanderson	47	10	11	2
94.		Robert J. Sawyer	31	22	41	11
95.		John Scalzi	37	10	18	4
96.		Juliet Marillier	23	12	13	4
97.		Robert Silverberg	219	12	27	2
98.		Dan Simmons	33	15	31	13
99.		L. Neil Smith	22	12	12	3
100.		Neal Stephenson	20	8	28	8
101.		Bruce Sterling	54	7	18	2
102.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
103.		Peter Straub	30	12	19	7
104.		Charles Stross	51	17	32	3
105.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
106.		Michael Swanwick	95	8	18	1
107.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
108.		Tade Thompson	11	6	13	3
109.		Lavie Tidhar	58	7	14	2
110.		Paul Tremblay	14	6	13	4
111.		Catherynne M. Valente	50	9	17	5
112.		Jeff VanderMeer	44	10	19	2
113.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
114.		T. Kingfisher	33	10	18	6
115.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
116.		Jo Walton	24	11	22	8
117.		Catriona Ward	5	5	11	4
118.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
119.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
120.		Martha Wells	31	5	11	5
121.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
122.		Sean Williams	41	18	19	4
123.		Connie Willis	52	8	24	10
124.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
125.		F. Paul Wilson	49	12	12	2
126.		Elizabeth Bear	68	10	11	1
127.		Gene Wolfe	91	23	51	9
128.		Jane Yolen	62	7	11	3
129.		Roger Zelazny	80	13	16	3