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.		Stephen King	88	29	40	10
2.		Gene Wolfe	76	22	50	9
3.		Ursula K. Le Guin	88	21	36	14
4.		Terry Pratchett	65	21	27	8
5.		Robert J. Sawyer	27	21	40	11
6.		Poul Anderson	146	19	26	4
7.		C. J. Cherryh	83	19	26	3
8.		Patricia A. McKillip	27	18	26	7
9.		Ramsey Campbell	41	17	18	7
10.		Kim Stanley Robinson	55	17	47	10
11.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
12.		Charles Stross	41	16	31	3
13.		Lois McMaster Bujold	37	15	34	10
14.		Ken MacLeod	27	15	38	5
15.		Jack McDevitt	34	15	20	3
16.		Ian McDonald	49	15	30	6
17.		Greg Bear	56	14	31	2
18.		Graham Joyce	16	14	20	7
19.		Dan Simmons	30	14	27	9
20.		Robert Charles Wilson	27	14	31	5
21.		Stephen Baxter	72	13	22	4
22.		Orson Scott Card	70	13	28	10
23.		Larry Niven	88	13	23	5
24.		Roger Zelazny	75	13	16	3
25.		Gwyneth Jones	31	12	19	3
26.		Guy Gavriel Kay	13	12	28	3
27.		Paul J. McAuley	48	12	18	3
28.		Alastair Reynolds	49	12	16	2
29.		Robert Silverberg	204	12	27	2
30.		L. Neil Smith	18	12	12	3
31.		Peter Straub	30	12	18	7
32.		F. Paul Wilson	42	12	12	2
33.		Charles de Lint	57	11	19	1
34.		Juliet Marillier	19	11	12	4
35.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
36.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
37.		David Brin	29	10	24	7
38.		Julie E. Czerneda	20	10	11	3
39.		Robert A. Heinlein	52	10	19	5
40.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
41.		Tim Powers	25	10	27	7
42.		Brandon Sanderson	34	10	11	2
43.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
44.		Philip K. Dick	61	9	14	3
45.		Cory Doctorow	23	9	17	5
46.		Michael Flynn	23	9	10	3
47.		William Gibson	25	9	33	5
48.		Elizabeth Hand	28	9	13	3
49.		George R. R. Martin	94	9	22	4
50.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
51.		Michael Moorcock	102	9	12	6
52.		Christopher Priest	20	9	18	7
53.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
54.		John Varley	36	9	17	2
55.		Jo Walton	23	9	20	7
56.		Gregory Benford	67	8	12	3
57.		Michael Bishop	52	8	15	3
58.		Jonathan Carroll	23	8	14	1
59.		Neil Gaiman	48	8	26	12
60.		Adam Roberts	30	8	14	2
61.		Neal Stephenson	16	8	28	8
62.		Scott Westerfeld	23	8	11	1
63.		Joe Abercrombie	13	7	13	1
64.		Eleanor Arnason	29	7	10	2
65.		Samuel R. Delany	42	7	12	2
66.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
67.		Joe Haldeman	46	7	15	8
68.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
69.		James Morrow	24	7	19	2
70.		Isaac Asimov	112	7	12	5
71.		Frederik Pohl	117	7	18	6
72.		John Scalzi	24	7	12	2
73.		Bruce Sterling	44	7	18	2
74.		Michael Swanwick	77	7	17	1
75.		Catherynne M. Valente	42	7	13	5
76.		Connie Willis	49	7	23	10
77.		Margaret Atwood	14	6	10	2
78.		Paolo Bacigalupi	19	6	12	5
79.		John Barnes	38	6	11	0
80.		Peter S. Beagle	26	6	10	3
81.		Stephen R. Donaldson	23	6	11	1
82.		M. John Harrison	16	6	16	3
83.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
84.		N. K. Jemisin	21	6	21	3
85.		Nancy Kress	72	6	13	1
86.		Maureen F. McHugh	24	6	10	2
87.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
88.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
89.		Vernor Vinge	19	6	20	7
90.		Jane Yolen	52	6	10	3
91.		Brian W. Aldiss	78	5	10	4
92.		John Crowley	17	5	12	2
93.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
94.		Nnedi Okorafor	18	5	13	1
95.		Justina Robson	13	5	11	0
96.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
97.		Jeff VanderMeer	34	5	11	2
98.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
99.		Arthur C. Clarke	52	4	12	7
100.		Ann Leckie	10	4	18	9
101.		Peter Watts	14	4	10	0
102.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	27	3	11	2