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	82	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	13	4	10	1
7.		Thomas M. Disch	27	5	10	1
8.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
9.		Daryl Gregory	17	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	40	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	80	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	18	3	12	7
40.		Isaac Asimov	142	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	91	12	13	1
49.		John Scalzi	28	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	37	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	39	10	18	5
72.		Frederik Pohl	118	7	18	6
73.		Christopher Priest	21	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	27	7	19	2
83.		Jack McDevitt	39	15	20	3
84.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
85.		Jo Walton	25	9	20	7
86.		Ramsey Campbell	44	19	21	7
87.		Ann Leckie	14	5	21	9
88.		Peter Straub	30	14	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	91	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	92	20	27	4
100.		Terry Pratchett	66	21	27	8
101.		Robert Silverberg	212	12	27	2
102.		Tim Powers	29	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	24	9	33	5
111.		Lois McMaster Bujold	41	15	34	10
112.		Ian McDonald	52	18	35	6
113.		Ursula K. Le Guin	93	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	52	12