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