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