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	15	7	13	1
2.		Brian W. Aldiss	82	5	10	4
3.		Poul Anderson	150	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	83	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	54	8	15	3
15.		David Brin	31	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	71	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	17	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	34	10	18	5
29.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
30.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
31.		Neil Gaiman	55	8	26	12
32.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
33.		William Gibson	25	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	17	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	24	6	22	6
43.		Gwyneth Jones	34	12	19	3
44.		Graham Joyce	16	14	20	7
45.		Guy Gavriel Kay	14	12	28	3
46.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	34	3	11	2
47.		Stephen King	92	29	40	10
48.		Nancy Kress	81	7	14	1
49.		Jay Kristoff	11	7	10	5
50.		Ursula K. Le Guin	91	21	36	14
51.		Ann Leckie	14	4	19	9
52.		Yoon Ha Lee	29	3	10	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	51	17	33	6
59.		Maureen F. McHugh	27	6	10	2
60.		Patricia A. McKillip	29	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	27	9	10	2
66.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
67.		Naomi Novik	17	3	12	7
68.		Nnedi Okorafor	19	6	14	2
69.		Isaac Asimov	139	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	65	21	27	8
74.		Christopher Priest	21	9	18	7
75.		Alastair Reynolds	56	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	36	10	11	2
81.		Robert J. Sawyer	28	21	40	11
82.		John Scalzi	28	7	13	3
83.		Juliet Marillier	20	11	12	4
84.		Robert Silverberg	210	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	50	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	35	6	14	2
98.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
99.		Vernor Vinge	20	6	20	7
100.		Jo Walton	24	9	20	7
101.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
102.		Peter Watts	18	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	58	7	11	3
110.		Roger Zelazny	77	13	16	3