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.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
2.		Jay Kristoff	10	7	10	5
3.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
4.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
5.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
6.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
7.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
8.		Guy Gavriel Kay	14	12	28	3
9.		Ann Leckie	14	4	19	9
10.		Joe Abercrombie	15	7	13	1
11.		Margaret Atwood	15	6	10	2
12.		Justina Robson	15	5	11	0
13.		Graham Joyce	16	14	20	7
14.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
15.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
16.		John Crowley	17	6	15	3
17.		Daryl Gregory	17	5	10	0
18.		M. John Harrison	17	6	16	3
19.		Naomi Novik	17	3	12	6
20.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
21.		Neal Stephenson	18	8	28	8
22.		Peter Watts	18	5	11	0
23.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
24.		Nnedi Okorafor	19	6	14	2
25.		Juliet Marillier	19	11	12	4
26.		Kameron Hurley	20	3	10	1
27.		Vernor Vinge	20	6	20	7
28.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
29.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
30.		Christopher Priest	21	9	18	7
31.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
32.		Julie E. Czerneda	22	11	12	3
33.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
34.		N. K. Jemisin	24	6	22	6
35.		Jo Walton	24	9	20	7
36.		Scott Westerfeld	24	9	12	1
37.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
38.		William Gibson	25	9	33	5
39.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
40.		Jonathan Carroll	27	8	14	1
41.		Maureen F. McHugh	27	6	10	2
42.		James Morrow	27	7	19	2
43.		Garth Nix	27	9	10	2
44.		Tim Powers	27	10	27	7
45.		John Scalzi	27	7	13	3
46.		Elizabeth Hand	28	9	13	3
47.		Robert J. Sawyer	28	21	40	11
48.		Yoon Ha Lee	29	3	10	1
49.		Ken MacLeod	29	15	38	5
50.		Patricia A. McKillip	29	18	26	7
51.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
52.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
53.		Peter Straub	30	12	18	7
54.		David Brin	31	10	24	7
55.		Dan Simmons	31	14	27	9
56.		Peter S. Beagle	33	6	10	3
57.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	33	3	11	2
58.		Cory Doctorow	34	10	18	5
59.		Gwyneth Jones	34	12	19	3
60.		Jeff VanderMeer	34	6	14	2
61.		Brandon Sanderson	36	10	11	2
62.		Adam Roberts	37	8	14	2
63.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
64.		Lois McMaster Bujold	39	15	34	10
65.		Jack McDevitt	39	15	20	3
66.		Lavie Tidhar	39	4	11	2
67.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
68.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
69.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
70.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
71.		Ramsey Campbell	43	17	18	7
72.		F. Paul Wilson	43	12	12	2
73.		Charles Stross	44	17	32	3
74.		Catherynne M. Valente	44	8	16	5
75.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
76.		Joe Haldeman	48	7	15	8
77.		Bruce Sterling	50	7	18	2
78.		Connie Willis	50	7	23	10
79.		Ian McDonald	51	17	33	6
80.		Arthur C. Clarke	52	4	12	7
81.		Paul J. McAuley	52	13	19	3
82.		Robert A. Heinlein	53	10	19	5
83.		Michael Bishop	54	8	15	3
84.		Neil Gaiman	55	8	26	12
85.		Alastair Reynolds	56	13	17	2
86.		Greg Bear	58	14	31	2
87.		Kim Stanley Robinson	58	18	50	10
88.		Jane Yolen	58	7	11	3
89.		Charles de Lint	61	11	19	1
90.		Philip K. Dick	61	9	14	3
91.		Terry Pratchett	65	21	27	8
92.		Orson Scott Card	71	13	28	10
93.		Roger Zelazny	77	13	16	3
94.		Gregory Benford	80	8	12	3
95.		Brian W. Aldiss	81	5	10	4
96.		Nancy Kress	81	7	14	1
97.		Stephen Baxter	83	13	22	4
98.		Gene Wolfe	86	22	50	9
99.		Michael Swanwick	87	7	17	1
100.		C. J. Cherryh	88	19	26	3
101.		Stephen King	91	29	40	10
102.		Ursula K. Le Guin	91	21	36	14
103.		Larry Niven	91	13	23	5
104.		George R. R. Martin	98	9	22	4
105.		Michael Moorcock	107	9	12	6
106.		Isaac Asimov	112	7	12	5
107.		Frederik Pohl	118	7	18	6
108.		Poul Anderson	150	19	26	4
109.		Robert Silverberg	210	12	27	2