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.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
3.		Robert Jackson Bennett	11	7	10	2
4.		Jay Kristoff	11	9	12	5
5.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
6.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
7.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
8.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
9.		Guy Gavriel Kay	14	13	30	3
10.		Ann Leckie	14	5	20	9
11.		Joe Abercrombie	15	7	13	1
12.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
13.		Justina Robson	15	5	11	0
14.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
15.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
16.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
17.		Daryl Gregory	17	5	10	0
18.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
19.		Naomi Novik	18	3	12	7
20.		Neal Stephenson	18	8	28	8
21.		John Crowley	19	6	15	3
22.		M. John Harrison	19	6	16	3
23.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
24.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
25.		Kameron Hurley	20	5	13	1
26.		Juliet Marillier	20	12	13	4
27.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
28.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
29.		Nnedi Okorafor	21	6	14	2
30.		Christopher Priest	21	9	18	7
31.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
32.		Julie E. Czerneda	22	12	13	3
33.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
34.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
35.		William Gibson	24	9	33	5
36.		Scott Westerfeld	24	9	12	1
37.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
38.		Mary Robinette Kowal	25	4	10	3
39.		Jo Walton	25	9	20	7
40.		N. K. Jemisin	26	6	22	6
41.		Robert R. McCammon	26	6	11	4
42.		Anne Rice	26	9	11	1
43.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
44.		Jonathan Carroll	27	8	15	1
45.		Thomas M. Disch	27	5	10	1
46.		James Morrow	27	7	19	2
47.		Maureen F. McHugh	28	6	10	2
48.		Garth Nix	28	10	12	2
49.		John Scalzi	28	7	13	3
50.		Elizabeth Hand	29	10	14	3
51.		Ken MacLeod	29	15	38	5
52.		Tim Powers	29	10	28	8
53.		Robert J. Sawyer	29	21	40	11
54.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
55.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
56.		Clive Barker	30	11	14	0
57.		James P. Blaylock	30	6	10	1
58.		Yoon Ha Lee	30	4	12	1
59.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
60.		Peter Straub	30	14	21	7
61.		Dan Simmons	31	15	31	13
62.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
63.		Tanya Huff	35	9	11	1
64.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
65.		Peter S. Beagle	36	6	10	3
66.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	37	3	11	2
67.		Brandon Sanderson	37	10	11	2
68.		Jeff VanderMeer	37	7	15	2
69.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
70.		Cory Doctorow	39	10	18	5
71.		Jack McDevitt	39	15	20	3
72.		Adam Roberts	39	8	14	2
73.		Lavie Tidhar	39	4	11	2
74.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
75.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
76.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
77.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
78.		Lois McMaster Bujold	41	15	34	10
79.		Ramsey Campbell	43	19	21	7
80.		Catherynne M. Valente	44	8	16	5
81.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
82.		Charles Stross	45	17	32	3
83.		F. Paul Wilson	45	12	12	2
84.		Joe Haldeman	48	7	15	8
85.		Connie Willis	50	7	23	10
86.		Bruce Sterling	51	7	18	2
87.		Arthur C. Clarke	52	4	12	7
88.		Ian McDonald	52	18	35	6
89.		Paul J. McAuley	53	13	19	3
90.		Robert A. Heinlein	54	10	19	5
91.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
92.		Neil Gaiman	56	8	26	12
93.		Alastair Reynolds	57	14	18	2
94.		Greg Bear	58	14	31	2
95.		Kim Stanley Robinson	58	18	50	10
96.		Jane Yolen	59	7	11	3
97.		Charles de Lint	61	11	19	1
98.		Elizabeth Bear	61	9	10	1
99.		Philip K. Dick	63	9	14	3
100.		Terry Pratchett	66	21	27	8
101.		Orson Scott Card	74	15	30	10
102.		Roger Zelazny	77	13	16	3
103.		Gregory Benford	80	8	12	3
104.		Brian W. Aldiss	82	5	10	4
105.		Nancy Kress	82	7	14	1
106.		Stephen Baxter	84	13	22	4
107.		Gene Wolfe	86	22	50	9
108.		Michael Swanwick	87	8	18	1
109.		C. J. Cherryh	91	20	27	3
110.		Tanith Lee	91	12	13	1
111.		Larry Niven	91	13	23	5
112.		Stephen King	93	35	52	12
113.		Ursula K. Le Guin	93	21	36	14
114.		George R. R. Martin	99	9	22	4
115.		Michael Moorcock	107	9	12	6
116.		Frederik Pohl	118	7	18	6
117.		Isaac Asimov	141	7	12	5
118.		Poul Anderson	153	19	26	4
119.		Robert Silverberg	212	12	27	2