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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 |
|||
| 1. |  |
Brian W. Aldiss | 82 | 5 | 10 | 4 |
| 2. |  |
Eleanor Arnason | 30 | 7 | 10 | 2 |
| 3. |  |
Margaret Atwood | 15 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
| 4. |  |
Peter S. Beagle | 34 | 6 | 10 | 3 |
| 5. |  |
Robert Jackson Bennett | 11 | 7 | 10 | 2 |
| 6. |  |
Emma Bull | 13 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 7. |  |
Michael Flynn | 25 | 9 | 10 | 3 |
| 8. |  |
Daryl Gregory | 17 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| 9. |  |
Kameron Hurley | 20 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| 10. |  |
Jay Kristoff | 11 | 7 | 10 | 5 |
| 11. |  |
Yoon Ha Lee | 29 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| 12. |  |
Maureen F. McHugh | 28 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
| 13. |  |
Garth Nix | 28 | 9 | 10 | 2 |
| 14. |  |
Glenda Larke | 12 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| 15. |  |
Jerry Pournelle | 40 | 6 | 10 | 1 |
| 16. |  |
Tricia Sullivan | 10 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
| 17. |  |
John Barnes | 40 | 6 | 11 | 0 |
| 18. |  |
Stephen R. Donaldson | 24 | 6 | 11 | 1 |
| 19. |  |
Mary Gentle | 18 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
| 20. |  |
Jon Courtenay Grimwood | 14 | 7 | 11 | 2 |
| 21. |  |
Caitlín R. Kiernan | 35 | 3 | 11 | 2 |
| 22. |  |
R. A. MacAvoy | 13 | 7 | 11 | 1 |
| 23. |  |
Justina Robson | 15 | 5 | 11 | 0 |
| 24. |  |
Brandon Sanderson | 36 | 10 | 11 | 2 |
| 25. |  |
Lavie Tidhar | 39 | 4 | 11 | 2 |
| 26. |  |
Sara Douglass | 20 | 11 | 11 | 3 |
| 27. |  |
Peter Watts | 18 | 5 | 11 | 0 |
| 28. |  |
Jane Yolen | 58 | 7 | 11 | 3 |
| 29. |  |
Gregory Benford | 80 | 8 | 12 | 3 |
| 30. |  |
Arthur C. Clarke | 52 | 4 | 12 | 7 |
| 31. |  |
Julie E. Czerneda | 22 | 11 | 12 | 3 |
| 32. |  |
Samuel R. Delany | 45 | 7 | 12 | 2 |
| 33. |  |
Michael Moorcock | 107 | 9 | 12 | 6 |
| 34. |  |
Naomi Novik | 17 | 3 | 12 | 7 |
| 35. |  |
Isaac Asimov | 139 | 7 | 12 | 5 |
| 36. |  |
Juliet Marillier | 20 | 11 | 12 | 4 |
| 37. |  |
L. Neil Smith | 21 | 12 | 12 | 3 |
| 38. |  |
Sean Stewart | 9 | 6 | 12 | 3 |
| 39. |  |
Scott Westerfeld | 24 | 9 | 12 | 1 |
| 40. |  |
F. Paul Wilson | 43 | 12 | 12 | 2 |
| 41. |  |
Joe Abercrombie | 15 | 7 | 13 | 1 |
| 42. |  |
Paolo Bacigalupi | 21 | 7 | 13 | 5 |
| 43. |  |
Elizabeth Hand | 28 | 9 | 13 | 3 |
| 44. |  |
John Scalzi | 28 | 7 | 13 | 3 |
| 45. |  |
Iain M. Banks | 17 | 9 | 14 | 2 |
| 46. |  |
Jonathan Carroll | 27 | 8 | 14 | 1 |
| 47. |  |
Philip K. Dick | 62 | 9 | 14 | 3 |
| 48. |  |
Nancy Kress | 81 | 7 | 14 | 1 |
| 49. |  |
Nnedi Okorafor | 20 | 6 | 14 | 2 |
| 50. |  |
Adam Roberts | 37 | 8 | 14 | 2 |
| 51. |  |
Jeff VanderMeer | 35 | 6 | 14 | 2 |
| 52. |  |
Michael Bishop | 54 | 8 | 15 | 3 |
| 53. |  |
John Crowley | 17 | 6 | 15 | 3 |
| 54. |  |
Joe Haldeman | 48 | 7 | 15 | 8 |
| 55. |  |
Nalo Hopkinson | 19 | 6 | 15 | 3 |
| 56. |  |
M. John Harrison | 17 | 6 | 16 | 3 |
| 57. |  |
Catherynne M. Valente | 44 | 8 | 16 | 5 |
| 58. |  |
Roger Zelazny | 77 | 13 | 16 | 3 |
| 59. |  |
Alastair Reynolds | 56 | 13 | 17 | 2 |
| 60. |  |
Geoff Ryman | 26 | 9 | 17 | 6 |
| 61. |  |
Michael Swanwick | 87 | 7 | 17 | 1 |
| 62. |  |
Sheri S. Tepper | 40 | 11 | 17 | 1 |
| 63. |  |
John Varley | 38 | 9 | 17 | 2 |
| 64. |  |
Cory Doctorow | 38 | 10 | 18 | 5 |
| 65. |  |
Frederik Pohl | 118 | 7 | 18 | 6 |
| 66. |  |
Christopher Priest | 21 | 9 | 18 | 7 |
| 67. |  |
Bruce Sterling | 50 | 7 | 18 | 2 |
| 68. |  |
Peter Straub | 30 | 12 | 18 | 7 |
| 69. |  |
Sean Williams | 40 | 17 | 18 | 4 |
| 70. |  |
Ramsey Campbell | 43 | 18 | 19 | 7 |
| 71. |  |
Charles de Lint | 61 | 11 | 19 | 1 |
| 72. |  |
Robert A. Heinlein | 53 | 10 | 19 | 5 |
| 73. |  |
Gwyneth Jones | 34 | 12 | 19 | 3 |
| 74. |  |
Ann Leckie | 14 | 4 | 19 | 9 |
| 75. |  |
Paul J. McAuley | 52 | 13 | 19 | 3 |
| 76. |  |
James Morrow | 27 | 7 | 19 | 2 |
| 77. |  |
Graham Joyce | 16 | 14 | 20 | 7 |
| 78. |  |
Jack McDevitt | 39 | 15 | 20 | 3 |
| 79. |  |
Vernor Vinge | 20 | 6 | 20 | 7 |
| 80. |  |
Jo Walton | 24 | 9 | 20 | 7 |
| 81. |  |
Stephen Baxter | 84 | 13 | 22 | 4 |
| 82. |  |
N. K. Jemisin | 24 | 6 | 22 | 6 |
| 83. |  |
George R. R. Martin | 98 | 9 | 22 | 4 |
| 84. |  |
Larry Niven | 91 | 13 | 23 | 5 |
| 85. |  |
Connie Willis | 50 | 7 | 23 | 10 |
| 86. |  |
David Brin | 31 | 10 | 24 | 7 |
| 87. |  |
Poul Anderson | 150 | 19 | 26 | 4 |
| 88. |  |
C. J. Cherryh | 91 | 19 | 26 | 3 |
| 89. |  |
Neil Gaiman | 55 | 8 | 26 | 12 |
| 90. |  |
Patricia A. McKillip | 29 | 18 | 26 | 7 |
| 91. |  |
Tim Powers | 27 | 10 | 27 | 7 |
| 92. |  |
Terry Pratchett | 65 | 21 | 27 | 8 |
| 93. |  |
Robert Silverberg | 211 | 12 | 27 | 2 |
| 94. |  |
Dan Simmons | 31 | 14 | 27 | 9 |
| 95. |  |
Orson Scott Card | 71 | 13 | 28 | 10 |
| 96. |  |
Guy Gavriel Kay | 14 | 12 | 28 | 3 |
| 97. |  |
Neal Stephenson | 18 | 8 | 28 | 8 |
| 98. |  |
Greg Bear | 58 | 14 | 31 | 2 |
| 99. |  |
Robert Charles Wilson | 29 | 14 | 31 | 5 |
| 100. |  |
Charles Stross | 44 | 17 | 32 | 3 |
| 101. |  |
William Gibson | 25 | 9 | 33 | 5 |
| 102. |  |
Ian McDonald | 51 | 17 | 33 | 6 |
| 103. |  |
Lois McMaster Bujold | 40 | 15 | 34 | 10 |
| 104. |  |
Ursula K. Le Guin | 91 | 21 | 36 | 14 |
| 105. |  |
Ken MacLeod | 29 | 15 | 38 | 5 |
| 106. |  |
Stephen King | 92 | 29 | 40 | 10 |
| 107. |  |
Robert J. Sawyer | 28 | 21 | 40 | 11 |
| 108. |  |
China Miéville | 16 | 9 | 42 | 16 |
| 109. |  |
Kim Stanley Robinson | 58 | 18 | 50 | 10 |
| 110. |  |
Gene Wolfe | 86 | 22 | 50 | 9 |
