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 ![]() ![]() |
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1. | ![]() |
Brian W. Aldiss | 83 | 5 | 10 | 4 |
2. | ![]() |
Eleanor Arnason | 30 | 7 | 10 | 2 |
3. | ![]() |
Peter S. Beagle | 36 | 6 | 10 | 3 |
4. | ![]() |
Robert Jackson Bennett | 12 | 7 | 10 | 2 |
5. | ![]() |
James P. Blaylock | 30 | 6 | 10 | 1 |
6. | ![]() |
Emma Bull | 14 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
7. | ![]() |
Thomas M. Disch | 27 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
8. | ![]() |
Michael Flynn | 25 | 9 | 10 | 3 |
9. | ![]() |
Daryl Gregory | 18 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
10. | ![]() |
Mary Robinette Kowal | 25 | 4 | 10 | 3 |
11. | ![]() |
Maureen F. McHugh | 28 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
12. | ![]() |
Glenda Larke | 12 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
13. | ![]() |
Jerry Pournelle | 40 | 6 | 10 | 1 |
14. | ![]() |
Tricia Sullivan | 10 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
15. | ![]() |
Elizabeth Bear | 61 | 9 | 10 | 1 |
16. | ![]() |
John Barnes | 40 | 6 | 11 | 0 |
17. | ![]() |
Stephen R. Donaldson | 24 | 6 | 11 | 1 |
18. | ![]() |
Mary Gentle | 18 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
19. | ![]() |
Jon Courtenay Grimwood | 14 | 7 | 11 | 2 |
20. | ![]() |
Tanya Huff | 35 | 9 | 11 | 1 |
21. | ![]() |
Caitlín R. Kiernan | 37 | 3 | 11 | 2 |
22. | ![]() |
R. A. MacAvoy | 13 | 7 | 11 | 1 |
23. | ![]() |
Robert R. McCammon | 26 | 6 | 11 | 4 |
24. | ![]() |
Anne Rice | 26 | 9 | 11 | 1 |
25. | ![]() |
Justina Robson | 16 | 5 | 11 | 0 |
26. | ![]() |
Brandon Sanderson | 38 | 10 | 11 | 2 |
27. | ![]() |
Lavie Tidhar | 41 | 4 | 11 | 2 |
28. | ![]() |
Sara Douglass | 20 | 11 | 11 | 3 |
29. | ![]() |
Peter Watts | 19 | 5 | 11 | 0 |
30. | ![]() |
Jane Yolen | 59 | 7 | 11 | 3 |
31. | ![]() |
Margaret Atwood | 15 | 7 | 12 | 2 |
32. | ![]() |
Gregory Benford | 81 | 8 | 12 | 3 |
33. | ![]() |
Arthur C. Clarke | 52 | 4 | 12 | 7 |
34. | ![]() |
Samuel R. Delany | 45 | 7 | 12 | 2 |
35. | ![]() |
Jay Kristoff | 11 | 9 | 12 | 6 |
36. | ![]() |
Yoon Ha Lee | 30 | 4 | 12 | 2 |
37. | ![]() |
Michael Moorcock | 107 | 9 | 12 | 6 |
38. | ![]() |
Garth Nix | 29 | 10 | 12 | 3 |
39. | ![]() |
Naomi Novik | 19 | 3 | 12 | 7 |
40. | ![]() |
Isaac Asimov | 143 | 7 | 12 | 5 |
41. | ![]() |
L. Neil Smith | 21 | 12 | 12 | 3 |
42. | ![]() |
Sean Stewart | 9 | 6 | 12 | 3 |
43. | ![]() |
Scott Westerfeld | 24 | 9 | 12 | 1 |
44. | ![]() |
F. Paul Wilson | 45 | 12 | 12 | 2 |
45. | ![]() |
Joe Abercrombie | 16 | 7 | 13 | 1 |
46. | ![]() |
Paolo Bacigalupi | 21 | 7 | 13 | 5 |
47. | ![]() |
Julie E. Czerneda | 25 | 12 | 13 | 4 |
48. | ![]() |
Tanith Lee | 92 | 12 | 13 | 1 |
49. | ![]() |
John Scalzi | 29 | 7 | 13 | 3 |
50. | ![]() |
Juliet Marillier | 22 | 12 | 13 | 4 |
51. | ![]() |
Iain M. Banks | 17 | 9 | 14 | 2 |
52. | ![]() |
Clive Barker | 30 | 11 | 14 | 0 |
53. | ![]() |
Philip K. Dick | 63 | 9 | 14 | 3 |
54. | ![]() |
Kameron Hurley | 20 | 5 | 14 | 1 |
55. | ![]() |
Nancy Kress | 84 | 7 | 14 | 1 |
56. | ![]() |
Nnedi Okorafor | 22 | 6 | 14 | 2 |
57. | ![]() |
Adam Roberts | 39 | 8 | 14 | 2 |
58. | ![]() |
Michael Bishop | 56 | 8 | 15 | 3 |
59. | ![]() |
Jonathan Carroll | 27 | 8 | 15 | 1 |
60. | ![]() |
John Crowley | 21 | 6 | 15 | 3 |
61. | ![]() |
Joe Haldeman | 48 | 7 | 15 | 8 |
62. | ![]() |
Elizabeth Hand | 29 | 10 | 15 | 3 |
63. | ![]() |
Nalo Hopkinson | 19 | 6 | 15 | 3 |
64. | ![]() |
Jeff VanderMeer | 38 | 7 | 15 | 2 |
65. | ![]() |
M. John Harrison | 20 | 6 | 16 | 3 |
66. | ![]() |
Catherynne M. Valente | 45 | 8 | 16 | 5 |
67. | ![]() |
Roger Zelazny | 77 | 13 | 16 | 3 |
68. | ![]() |
Geoff Ryman | 26 | 9 | 17 | 6 |
69. | ![]() |
Sheri S. Tepper | 40 | 11 | 17 | 1 |
70. | ![]() |
John Varley | 38 | 9 | 17 | 2 |
71. | ![]() |
Cory Doctorow | 40 | 10 | 18 | 5 |
72. | ![]() |
Frederik Pohl | 118 | 7 | 18 | 6 |
73. | ![]() |
Christopher Priest | 22 | 9 | 18 | 7 |
74. | ![]() |
Alastair Reynolds | 57 | 14 | 18 | 2 |
75. | ![]() |
Bruce Sterling | 51 | 7 | 18 | 2 |
76. | ![]() |
Michael Swanwick | 88 | 8 | 18 | 1 |
77. | ![]() |
Sean Williams | 40 | 17 | 18 | 4 |
78. | ![]() |
Charles de Lint | 61 | 11 | 19 | 1 |
79. | ![]() |
Robert A. Heinlein | 54 | 10 | 19 | 5 |
80. | ![]() |
Gwyneth Jones | 35 | 12 | 19 | 3 |
81. | ![]() |
Paul J. McAuley | 53 | 13 | 19 | 3 |
82. | ![]() |
James Morrow | 28 | 7 | 19 | 2 |
83. | ![]() |
Jack McDevitt | 39 | 15 | 20 | 3 |
84. | ![]() |
Vernor Vinge | 23 | 6 | 20 | 7 |
85. | ![]() |
Ramsey Campbell | 44 | 19 | 21 | 7 |
86. | ![]() |
Ann Leckie | 14 | 5 | 21 | 9 |
87. | ![]() |
Peter Straub | 30 | 14 | 21 | 7 |
88. | ![]() |
Jo Walton | 25 | 10 | 21 | 7 |
89. | ![]() |
Stephen Baxter | 85 | 13 | 22 | 4 |
90. | ![]() |
N. K. Jemisin | 26 | 6 | 22 | 6 |
91. | ![]() |
Graham Joyce | 16 | 14 | 22 | 7 |
92. | ![]() |
George R. R. Martin | 99 | 9 | 22 | 4 |
93. | ![]() |
Larry Niven | 92 | 13 | 23 | 5 |
94. | ![]() |
Connie Willis | 51 | 7 | 23 | 10 |
95. | ![]() |
David Brin | 32 | 10 | 24 | 7 |
96. | ![]() |
Poul Anderson | 153 | 19 | 26 | 4 |
97. | ![]() |
Neil Gaiman | 56 | 8 | 26 | 12 |
98. | ![]() |
Patricia A. McKillip | 30 | 18 | 26 | 7 |
99. | ![]() |
C. J. Cherryh | 93 | 20 | 27 | 4 |
100. | ![]() |
Terry Pratchett | 66 | 21 | 27 | 8 |
101. | ![]() |
Robert Silverberg | 212 | 12 | 27 | 2 |
102. | ![]() |
Tim Powers | 30 | 10 | 28 | 8 |
103. | ![]() |
Neal Stephenson | 18 | 8 | 28 | 8 |
104. | ![]() |
Orson Scott Card | 74 | 15 | 30 | 10 |
105. | ![]() |
Guy Gavriel Kay | 14 | 13 | 30 | 3 |
106. | ![]() |
Greg Bear | 58 | 14 | 31 | 2 |
107. | ![]() |
Dan Simmons | 31 | 15 | 31 | 13 |
108. | ![]() |
Robert Charles Wilson | 29 | 14 | 31 | 5 |
109. | ![]() |
Charles Stross | 45 | 17 | 32 | 3 |
110. | ![]() |
William Gibson | 25 | 9 | 33 | 5 |
111. | ![]() |
Lois McMaster Bujold | 42 | 15 | 34 | 10 |
112. | ![]() |
Ian McDonald | 52 | 18 | 35 | 6 |
113. | ![]() |
Ursula K. Le Guin | 94 | 21 | 36 | 14 |
114. | ![]() |
Ken MacLeod | 30 | 15 | 38 | 5 |
115. | ![]() |
Robert J. Sawyer | 29 | 21 | 40 | 11 |
116. | ![]() |
China Miéville | 16 | 9 | 42 | 16 |
117. | ![]() |
Kim Stanley Robinson | 59 | 18 | 50 | 10 |
118. | ![]() |
Gene Wolfe | 88 | 22 | 50 | 9 |
119. | ![]() |
Stephen King | 93 | 35 | 53 | 12 |