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