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	95	35	53	12
2.		Gene Wolfe	88	23	51	9
3.		Robert J. Sawyer	29	22	41	11
4.		Ursula K. Le Guin	94	21	36	14
5.		Terry Pratchett	66	21	27	8
6.		C. J. Cherryh	93	20	27	4
7.		Poul Anderson	153	19	26	4
8.		Ramsey Campbell	44	19	21	7
9.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
10.		Ian McDonald	52	18	35	6
11.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
12.		Charles Stross	45	17	32	3
13.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
14.		Lois McMaster Bujold	43	15	34	10
15.		Orson Scott Card	74	15	30	10
16.		Ken MacLeod	30	15	38	5
17.		Jack McDevitt	39	15	20	3
18.		Alastair Reynolds	58	15	19	2
19.		Dan Simmons	31	15	31	13
20.		Greg Bear	58	14	31	2
21.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
22.		Paul J. McAuley	53	14	20	3
23.		Peter Straub	30	14	21	7
24.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
25.		Stephen Baxter	86	13	22	4
26.		Guy Gavriel Kay	14	13	30	3
27.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
28.		Roger Zelazny	77	13	16	3
29.		Julie E. Czerneda	25	12	13	4
30.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
31.		Tanith Lee	92	12	13	1
32.		Juliet Marillier	22	12	13	4
33.		Robert Silverberg	213	12	27	2
34.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
35.		F. Paul Wilson	46	12	12	2
36.		Clive Barker	30	11	14	0
37.		Charles de Lint	61	11	19	1
38.		Cory Doctorow	40	11	19	5
39.		Garth Nix	29	11	15	4
40.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
41.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
42.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
43.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
44.		Elizabeth Hand	29	10	15	3
45.		Robert A. Heinlein	54	10	19	5
46.		Jay Kristoff	16	10	13	6
47.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
48.		Tim Powers	33	10	28	8
49.		Brandon Sanderson	39	10	11	2
50.		Jo Walton	25	10	21	7
51.		Elizabeth Bear	62	10	11	1
52.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
53.		Philip K. Dick	63	9	14	3
54.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
55.		Tanya Huff	35	9	11	1
56.		George R. R. Martin	99	9	22	4
57.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
58.		Michael Moorcock	107	9	12	6
59.		Anne Rice	26	9	11	1
60.		Christopher Priest	23	9	18	7
61.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
62.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
63.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
64.		Joe Abercrombie	17	8	14	1
65.		Gregory Benford	81	8	12	3
66.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
67.		Jonathan Carroll	27	8	15	1
68.		Neil Gaiman	56	8	26	12
69.		Adam Roberts	41	8	14	2
70.		John Scalzi	29	8	14	3
71.		Neal Stephenson	19	8	28	8
72.		Michael Swanwick	88	8	18	1
73.		Catherynne M. Valente	46	8	16	5
74.		Jeff VanderMeer	39	8	16	2
75.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
76.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
77.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
78.		Robert Jackson Bennett	12	7	10	2
79.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
80.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
81.		Joe Haldeman	48	7	15	8
82.		M. John Harrison	20	7	17	3
83.		N. K. Jemisin	26	7	28	8
84.		Nancy Kress	85	7	14	1
85.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
86.		James Morrow	28	7	19	2
87.		Isaac Asimov	144	7	12	5
88.		Frederik Pohl	118	7	18	6
89.		Bruce Sterling	52	7	18	2
90.		Connie Willis	51	7	23	10
91.		Jane Yolen	61	7	11	3
92.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
93.		Peter S. Beagle	36	6	10	3
94.		James P. Blaylock	30	6	10	1
95.		John Crowley	21	6	15	3
96.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
97.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
98.		Robert R. McCammon	26	6	11	4
99.		Maureen F. McHugh	28	6	10	2
100.		Nnedi Okorafor	22	6	15	2
101.		Jerry Pournelle	42	6	10	1
102.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
103.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
104.		Brian W. Aldiss	83	5	10	4
105.		Thomas M. Disch	27	5	10	1
106.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
107.		Daryl Gregory	19	5	10	0
108.		Kameron Hurley	20	5	14	1
109.		Mary Robinette Kowal	28	5	12	3
110.		Ann Leckie	14	5	21	9
111.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
112.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
113.		Lavie Tidhar	43	5	12	2
114.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
115.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
116.		Arthur C. Clarke	53	4	12	7
117.		Yoon Ha Lee	30	4	12	2
118.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	14	4	15	1
119.		Tade Thompson	8	4	10	3
120.		Paul Tremblay	8	4	10	4
121.		Susanna Clarke	4	3	14	5
122.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	37	3	11	2
123.		Naomi Novik	19	3	12	7