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.		Susanna Clarke	5	3	15	5
2.		Catriona Ward	5	5	11	4
3.		Becky Chambers	7	5	12	1
4.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
5.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
6.		Alix E. Harrow	11	3	11	1
7.		Fonda Lee	11	6	11	4
8.		Rebecca Roanhorse	11	5	10	1
9.		Tade Thompson	11	6	13	3
10.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
11.		Nicola Griffith	13	4	11	2
12.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
13.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
14.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
15.		Paul Tremblay	14	6	13	4
16.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
17.		Robert Jackson Bennett	15	8	12	2
18.		Amie Kaufman	15	9	10	3
19.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
20.		Guy Gavriel Kay	16	14	31	3
21.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
22.		Ann Leckie	17	6	24	9
23.		China Miéville	17	9	42	16
24.		Joe Abercrombie	18	8	14	1
25.		Iain M. Banks	18	9	14	2
26.		Jay Kristoff	18	11	14	6
27.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	18	6	20	3
28.		Mary Gentle	19	5	11	1
29.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
30.		Neal Stephenson	20	8	28	8
31.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
32.		Daryl Gregory	21	6	11	0
33.		M. John Harrison	21	7	17	3
34.		Kameron Hurley	21	5	14	1
35.		Naomi Novik	21	5	14	7
36.		Paolo Bacigalupi	22	7	13	5
37.		John Crowley	22	6	15	3
38.		Nalo Hopkinson	22	7	16	3
39.		Stephen Graham Jones	22	6	18	6
40.		L. Neil Smith	22	12	12	3
41.		Juliet Marillier	23	12	13	4
42.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
43.		Jo Walton	24	11	22	8
44.		Stephen R. Donaldson	25	6	11	1
45.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
46.		Michael Flynn	26	10	11	3
47.		Christopher Priest	26	10	19	7
48.		N. K. Jemisin	27	8	29	8
49.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
50.		Geoff Ryman	28	10	18	6
51.		James Morrow	29	7	19	2
52.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
53.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
54.		Jonathan Carroll	30	8	14	1
55.		Julie E. Czerneda	30	12	13	4
56.		Maureen F. McHugh	30	6	10	2
57.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
58.		Peter Straub	30	12	19	7
59.		Charlie Jane Anders	31	6	11	6
60.		Mary Robinette Kowal	31	6	14	3
61.		Nnedi Okorafor	31	7	16	2
62.		Robert J. Sawyer	31	22	41	11
63.		Martha Wells	31	5	11	5
64.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
65.		Elizabeth Hand	33	11	16	3
66.		Dan Simmons	33	15	31	13
67.		T. Kingfisher	33	10	18	6
68.		Ken MacLeod	34	15	38	5
69.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
70.		Yoon Ha Lee	36	5	14	3
71.		Tim Powers	36	11	29	8
72.		Clive Barker	37	11	14	0
73.		John Scalzi	37	10	18	4
74.		Garth Nix	38	13	19	4
75.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
76.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
77.		Peter S. Beagle	40	7	11	3
78.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
79.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	41	3	11	2
80.		Jack McDevitt	41	15	20	3
81.		Sean Williams	41	18	19	4
82.		Jeff VanderMeer	44	10	19	2
83.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
84.		Lois McMaster Bujold	46	15	34	10
85.		Ramsey Campbell	46	18	19	7
86.		Jerry Pournelle	46	6	10	1
87.		Cory Doctorow	47	13	21	5
88.		Adam Roberts	47	10	16	2
89.		Brandon Sanderson	47	10	11	2
90.		F. Paul Wilson	49	12	12	2
91.		Catherynne M. Valente	50	9	17	5
92.		Joe Haldeman	51	7	15	8
93.		Charles Stross	51	17	32	3
94.		Connie Willis	52	8	24	10
95.		Bruce Sterling	54	7	18	2
96.		Adrian Tchaikovsky	55	14	21	5
97.		Ian McDonald	55	19	36	6
98.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
99.		Arthur C. Clarke	56	4	12	7
100.		Paul J. McAuley	56	15	21	3
101.		Neil Gaiman	58	8	26	12
102.		Lavie Tidhar	58	7	14	2
103.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
104.		Robert A. Heinlein	59	10	19	5
105.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
106.		Alastair Reynolds	62	16	20	2
107.		Jane Yolen	62	7	11	3
108.		Charles de Lint	64	11	19	1
109.		Philip K. Dick	67	9	14	3
110.		Terry Pratchett	67	21	27	8
111.		Elizabeth Bear	68	10	11	1
112.		Orson Scott Card	80	14	29	10
113.		Roger Zelazny	80	13	16	3
114.		Brian W. Aldiss	84	5	10	4
115.		Gregory Benford	84	8	12	3
116.		Nancy Kress	87	7	14	1
117.		Stephen Baxter	90	13	22	4
118.		Gene Wolfe	91	23	51	9
119.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
120.		C. J. Cherryh	95	21	28	4
121.		Michael Swanwick	95	8	18	1
122.		Ursula K. Le Guin	97	21	36	14
123.		George R. R. Martin	101	9	22	4
124.		Stephen King	102	37	53	12
125.		Michael Moorcock	108	9	12	6
126.		Frederik Pohl	121	7	18	6
127.		Isaac Asimov	161	7	12	5
128.		Poul Anderson	166	19	26	4
129.		Robert Silverberg	219	12	27	2