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	13	7	13	1
2.		Brian W. Aldiss	78	5	10	4
3.		Poul Anderson	146	19	26	4
4.		Eleanor Arnason	29	7	10	2
5.		Margaret Atwood	14	6	10	2
6.		Paolo Bacigalupi	19	7	13	5
7.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
8.		John Barnes	38	6	11	0
9.		Stephen Baxter	72	13	22	4
10.		Peter S. Beagle	26	6	10	3
11.		Greg Bear	56	14	31	2
12.		Gregory Benford	67	8	12	3
13.		Michael Bishop	52	8	15	3
14.		David Brin	29	10	24	7
15.		Lois McMaster Bujold	37	15	34	10
16.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
17.		Ramsey Campbell	41	17	18	7
18.		Orson Scott Card	70	13	28	10
19.		Jonathan Carroll	23	8	14	1
20.		C. J. Cherryh	83	19	26	3
21.		Arthur C. Clarke	52	4	12	7
22.		John Crowley	17	6	14	2
23.		Julie E. Czerneda	20	11	12	3
24.		Charles de Lint	57	11	19	1
25.		Samuel R. Delany	42	7	12	2
26.		Philip K. Dick	61	9	14	3
27.		Cory Doctorow	23	10	18	5
28.		Stephen R. Donaldson	23	6	11	1
29.		Michael Flynn	23	9	10	3
30.		Neil Gaiman	48	8	26	12
31.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
32.		William Gibson	25	9	33	5
33.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
34.		Joe Haldeman	46	7	15	8
35.		Elizabeth Hand	28	9	13	3
36.		M. John Harrison	16	6	16	3
37.		Robert A. Heinlein	52	10	19	5
38.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
39.		Kameron Hurley	14	3	10	1
40.		N. K. Jemisin	21	6	22	4
41.		Gwyneth Jones	31	12	19	3
42.		Graham Joyce	16	14	20	7
43.		Guy Gavriel Kay	13	12	28	3
44.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	27	3	11	2
45.		Stephen King	88	29	40	10
46.		Nancy Kress	73	6	13	1
47.		Ursula K. Le Guin	88	21	36	14
48.		Ann Leckie	10	4	19	9
49.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
50.		Ken MacLeod	27	15	38	5
51.		George R. R. Martin	94	9	22	4
52.		Paul J. McAuley	48	13	19	3
53.		Jack McDevitt	34	15	20	3
54.		Ian McDonald	49	16	31	6
55.		Maureen F. McHugh	24	6	10	2
56.		Patricia A. McKillip	27	18	26	7
57.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
58.		Michael Moorcock	104	9	12	6
59.		James Morrow	24	7	19	2
60.		Larry Niven	88	13	23	5
61.		Garth Nix	25	9	10	2
62.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
63.		Nnedi Okorafor	18	6	14	1
64.		Isaac Asimov	112	7	12	5
65.		Frederik Pohl	117	7	18	6
66.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
67.		Tim Powers	26	10	27	7
68.		Terry Pratchett	65	21	27	8
69.		Christopher Priest	20	9	18	7
70.		Alastair Reynolds	49	12	16	2
71.		Adam Roberts	30	8	14	2
72.		Kim Stanley Robinson	55	17	49	10
73.		Justina Robson	13	5	11	0
74.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
75.		Brandon Sanderson	34	10	11	2
76.		Robert J. Sawyer	27	21	40	11
77.		John Scalzi	25	7	13	2
78.		Juliet Marillier	19	11	12	4
79.		Robert Silverberg	204	12	27	2
80.		Dan Simmons	30	14	27	9
81.		L. Neil Smith	18	12	12	3
82.		Neal Stephenson	16	8	28	8
83.		Bruce Sterling	44	7	18	2
84.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
85.		Peter Straub	30	12	18	7
86.		Charles Stross	41	17	32	3
87.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
88.		Michael Swanwick	77	7	17	1
89.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
90.		Catherynne M. Valente	42	7	13	5
91.		Jeff VanderMeer	34	6	14	2
92.		John Varley	36	9	17	2
93.		Vernor Vinge	19	6	20	7
94.		Jo Walton	23	9	20	7
95.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
96.		Peter Watts	14	4	10	0
97.		Scott Westerfeld	23	8	11	1
98.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
99.		Connie Willis	49	7	23	10
100.		Robert Charles Wilson	27	14	31	5
101.		F. Paul Wilson	42	12	12	2
102.		Gene Wolfe	76	22	50	9
103.		Jane Yolen	52	6	10	3
104.		Roger Zelazny	75	13	16	3