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.		Brian W. Aldiss	81	5	10	4
2.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
3.		Margaret Atwood	15	6	10	2
4.		Peter S. Beagle	33	6	10	3
5.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
6.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
7.		Daryl Gregory	17	5	10	0
8.		Kameron Hurley	20	3	10	1
9.		Jay Kristoff	10	7	10	5
10.		Yoon Ha Lee	29	3	10	1
11.		Maureen F. McHugh	27	6	10	2
12.		Garth Nix	27	9	10	2
13.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
14.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
15.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	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.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	33	3	11	2
21.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
22.		Justina Robson	15	5	11	0
23.		Brandon Sanderson	36	10	11	2
24.		Lavie Tidhar	39	4	11	2
25.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
26.		Peter Watts	18	5	11	0
27.		Jane Yolen	58	7	11	3
28.		Gregory Benford	80	8	12	3
29.		Arthur C. Clarke	52	4	12	7
30.		Julie E. Czerneda	22	11	12	3
31.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
32.		Michael Moorcock	107	9	12	6
33.		Naomi Novik	17	3	12	6
34.		Isaac Asimov	112	7	12	5
35.		Juliet Marillier	19	11	12	4
36.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
37.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
38.		Scott Westerfeld	24	9	12	1
39.		F. Paul Wilson	43	12	12	2
40.		Joe Abercrombie	15	7	13	1
41.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
42.		Elizabeth Hand	28	9	13	3
43.		John Scalzi	27	7	13	3
44.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
45.		Jonathan Carroll	27	8	14	1
46.		Philip K. Dick	61	9	14	3
47.		Nancy Kress	81	7	14	1
48.		Nnedi Okorafor	19	6	14	2
49.		Adam Roberts	37	8	14	2
50.		Jeff VanderMeer	34	6	14	2
51.		Michael Bishop	54	8	15	3
52.		John Crowley	17	6	15	3
53.		Joe Haldeman	48	7	15	8
54.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
55.		M. John Harrison	17	6	16	3
56.		Catherynne M. Valente	44	8	16	5
57.		Roger Zelazny	77	13	16	3
58.		Alastair Reynolds	56	13	17	2
59.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
60.		Michael Swanwick	87	7	17	1
61.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
62.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
63.		Ramsey Campbell	43	17	18	7
64.		Cory Doctorow	34	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.		Charles de Lint	61	11	19	1
71.		Robert A. Heinlein	53	10	19	5
72.		Gwyneth Jones	34	12	19	3
73.		Ann Leckie	14	4	19	9
74.		Paul J. McAuley	52	13	19	3
75.		James Morrow	27	7	19	2
76.		Graham Joyce	16	14	20	7
77.		Jack McDevitt	39	15	20	3
78.		Vernor Vinge	20	6	20	7
79.		Jo Walton	24	9	20	7
80.		Stephen Baxter	83	13	22	4
81.		N. K. Jemisin	24	6	22	6
82.		George R. R. Martin	98	9	22	4
83.		Larry Niven	91	13	23	5
84.		Connie Willis	50	7	23	10
85.		David Brin	31	10	24	7
86.		Poul Anderson	150	19	26	4
87.		C. J. Cherryh	88	19	26	3
88.		Neil Gaiman	55	8	26	12
89.		Patricia A. McKillip	29	18	26	7
90.		Tim Powers	27	10	27	7
91.		Terry Pratchett	65	21	27	8
92.		Robert Silverberg	210	12	27	2
93.		Dan Simmons	31	14	27	9
94.		Orson Scott Card	71	13	28	10
95.		Guy Gavriel Kay	14	12	28	3
96.		Neal Stephenson	18	8	28	8
97.		Greg Bear	58	14	31	2
98.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
99.		Charles Stross	44	17	32	3
100.		William Gibson	25	9	33	5
101.		Ian McDonald	51	17	33	6
102.		Lois McMaster Bujold	39	15	34	10
103.		Ursula K. Le Guin	91	21	36	14
104.		Ken MacLeod	29	15	38	5
105.		Stephen King	91	29	40	10
106.		Robert J. Sawyer	28	21	40	11
107.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
108.		Kim Stanley Robinson	58	18	50	10
109.		Gene Wolfe	86	22	50	9