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	80	28	39	10
2.		Gene Wolfe	70	22	50	9
3.		Ursula K. Le Guin	78	21	36	14
4.		Terry Pratchett	65	21	27	8
5.		Robert J. Sawyer	27	20	39	10
6.		Poul Anderson	140	19	26	4
7.		C. J. Cherryh	72	19	26	3
8.		Patricia A. McKillip	27	18	26	6
9.		Sean Williams	37	17	18	4
10.		Ramsey Campbell	35	16	17	7
11.		Kim Stanley Robinson	51	16	46	10
12.		Charles Stross	37	16	31	3
13.		Lois McMaster Bujold	35	15	34	10
14.		Jack McDevitt	32	15	20	3
15.		Ian McDonald	33	15	30	6
16.		Greg Bear	43	14	31	2
17.		Graham Joyce	16	14	20	7
18.		Ken MacLeod	20	14	37	5
19.		Dan Simmons	26	14	27	9
20.		Robert Charles Wilson	25	14	31	5
21.		Stephen Baxter	58	13	22	4
22.		Orson Scott Card	66	13	28	10
23.		Larry Niven	86	13	23	5
24.		Roger Zelazny	74	13	16	3
25.		Gwyneth Jones	23	12	19	3
26.		Guy Gavriel Kay	13	12	27	3
27.		Paul J. McAuley	30	12	18	3
28.		Alastair Reynolds	28	12	15	1
29.		Robert Silverberg	169	12	27	2
30.		L. Neil Smith	18	12	12	3
31.		Peter Straub	27	12	18	7
32.		F. Paul Wilson	41	12	12	2
33.		Charles de Lint	54	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	27	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	23	10	27	7
42.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
43.		Philip K. Dick	60	9	14	3
44.		Cory Doctorow	21	9	17	5
45.		Michael Flynn	21	9	10	3
46.		William Gibson	18	9	33	5
47.		Elizabeth Hand	25	9	13	3
48.		George R. R. Martin	86	9	22	4
49.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
50.		Michael Moorcock	101	9	12	6
51.		Christopher Priest	17	9	18	7
52.		Geoff Ryman	18	9	17	6
53.		Brandon Sanderson	31	9	10	2
54.		John Varley	35	9	17	2
55.		Jo Walton	20	9	20	7
56.		Gregory Benford	60	8	12	3
57.		Michael Bishop	46	8	15	3
58.		Jonathan Carroll	21	8	14	1
59.		Neil Gaiman	44	8	26	12
60.		Adam Roberts	19	8	14	2
61.		Neal Stephenson	16	8	28	8
62.		Scott Westerfeld	22	8	11	1
63.		Joe Abercrombie	12	7	13	1
64.		Eleanor Arnason	22	7	10	2
65.		Samuel R. Delany	40	7	12	2
66.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
67.		Joe Haldeman	40	7	15	8
68.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
69.		James Morrow	24	7	19	2
70.		Frederik Pohl	112	7	18	6
71.		Bruce Sterling	37	7	18	2
72.		Michael Swanwick	61	7	17	1
73.		Catherynne M. Valente	31	7	13	5
74.		Connie Willis	46	7	23	10
75.		Margaret Atwood	14	6	10	2
76.		Paolo Bacigalupi	14	6	12	5
77.		John Barnes	34	6	11	0
78.		Peter S. Beagle	22	6	10	3
79.		Stephen R. Donaldson	21	6	11	1
80.		M. John Harrison	13	6	16	3
81.		Nalo Hopkinson	15	6	15	3
82.		Nancy Kress	57	6	13	1
83.		Maureen F. McHugh	22	6	10	2
84.		Isaac Asimov	109	6	11	5
85.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
86.		John Scalzi	24	6	11	2
87.		Sean Stewart	7	6	12	3
88.		Vernor Vinge	15	6	20	7
89.		Jane Yolen	47	6	10	3
90.		Brian W. Aldiss	69	5	10	4
91.		John Crowley	14	5	12	2
92.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
93.		N. K. Jemisin	16	5	18	2
94.		Nnedi Okorafor	14	5	13	1
95.		Justina Robson	13	5	11	0
96.		Tricia Sullivan	9	5	10	1
97.		Jeff VanderMeer	30	5	11	2
98.		Emma Bull	13	4	10	1
99.		Arthur C. Clarke	50	4	12	7
100.		Peter Watts	11	4	10	0
101.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	21	3	11	2
102.		Ann Leckie	8	3	16	9