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	93	35	53	12
2.		Gene Wolfe	88	22	50	9
3.		Ursula K. Le Guin	93	21	36	14
4.		Terry Pratchett	66	21	27	8
5.		Robert J. Sawyer	29	21	40	11
6.		C. J. Cherryh	93	20	27	4
7.		Poul Anderson	153	19	26	4
8.		Ramsey Campbell	44	19	21	7
9.		Ian McDonald	52	18	35	6
10.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
11.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	18	50	10
12.		Charles Stross	45	17	32	3
13.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
14.		Lois McMaster Bujold	42	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.		Dan Simmons	31	15	31	13
19.		Greg Bear	58	14	31	2
20.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
21.		Alastair Reynolds	57	14	18	2
22.		Peter Straub	30	14	21	7
23.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
24.		Stephen Baxter	85	13	22	4
25.		Guy Gavriel Kay	14	13	30	3
26.		Paul J. McAuley	53	13	19	3
27.		Larry Niven	91	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	91	12	13	1
32.		Juliet Marillier	22	12	13	4
33.		Robert Silverberg	212	12	27	2
34.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
35.		F. Paul Wilson	45	12	12	2
36.		Clive Barker	30	11	14	0
37.		Charles de Lint	61	11	19	1
38.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
39.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
40.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
41.		Cory Doctorow	39	10	18	5
42.		Elizabeth Hand	29	10	15	3
43.		Robert A. Heinlein	54	10	19	5
44.		Garth Nix	29	10	12	3
45.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
46.		Tim Powers	29	10	28	8
47.		Brandon Sanderson	38	10	11	2
48.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
49.		Philip K. Dick	63	9	14	3
50.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
51.		William Gibson	25	9	33	5
52.		Tanya Huff	35	9	11	1
53.		Jay Kristoff	11	9	12	6
54.		George R. R. Martin	99	9	22	4
55.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
56.		Michael Moorcock	107	9	12	6
57.		Anne Rice	26	9	11	1
58.		Christopher Priest	21	9	18	7
59.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
60.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
61.		Jo Walton	25	9	20	7
62.		Scott Westerfeld	24	9	12	1
63.		Elizabeth Bear	61	9	10	1
64.		Gregory Benford	80	8	12	3
65.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
66.		Jonathan Carroll	27	8	15	1
67.		Neil Gaiman	56	8	26	12
68.		Adam Roberts	39	8	14	2
69.		Neal Stephenson	18	8	28	8
70.		Michael Swanwick	88	8	18	1
71.		Catherynne M. Valente	45	8	16	5
72.		Joe Abercrombie	16	7	13	1
73.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
74.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
75.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
76.		Robert Jackson Bennett	12	7	10	2
77.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
78.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
79.		Joe Haldeman	48	7	15	8
80.		Nancy Kress	84	7	14	1
81.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
82.		James Morrow	27	7	19	2
83.		Isaac Asimov	142	7	12	5
84.		Frederik Pohl	118	7	18	6
85.		John Scalzi	28	7	13	3
86.		Bruce Sterling	51	7	18	2
87.		Jeff VanderMeer	37	7	15	2
88.		Connie Willis	51	7	23	10
89.		Jane Yolen	59	7	11	3
90.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
91.		Peter S. Beagle	36	6	10	3
92.		James P. Blaylock	30	6	10	1
93.		John Crowley	21	6	15	3
94.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
95.		M. John Harrison	20	6	16	3
96.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
97.		N. K. Jemisin	26	6	22	6
98.		Robert R. McCammon	26	6	11	4
99.		Maureen F. McHugh	28	6	10	2
100.		Nnedi Okorafor	22	6	14	2
101.		Jerry Pournelle	40	6	10	1
102.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
103.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
104.		Brian W. Aldiss	82	5	10	4
105.		Thomas M. Disch	27	5	10	1
106.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
107.		Daryl Gregory	17	5	10	0
108.		Kameron Hurley	20	5	14	1
109.		Ann Leckie	14	5	21	9
110.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
111.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
112.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
113.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
114.		Arthur C. Clarke	52	4	12	7
115.		Mary Robinette Kowal	25	4	10	3
116.		Yoon Ha Lee	30	4	12	2
117.		Lavie Tidhar	40	4	11	2
118.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	37	3	11	2
119.		Naomi Novik	18	3	12	7