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	79	13	16	3
2.		Jane Yolen	62	7	11	3
3.		Gene Wolfe	89	23	51	9
4.		Elizabeth Bear	63	10	11	1
5.		F. Paul Wilson	46	12	12	2
6.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
7.		Connie Willis	52	7	23	10
8.		Sean Williams	41	18	19	4
9.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
10.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
11.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
12.		Jo Walton	25	11	22	8
13.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
14.		T. Kingfisher	26	7	12	4
15.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
16.		Jeff VanderMeer	42	9	18	2
17.		Catherynne M. Valente	47	8	16	5
18.		Paul Tremblay	10	5	11	4
19.		Lavie Tidhar	46	7	14	2
20.		Tade Thompson	10	6	13	3
21.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
22.		Michael Swanwick	89	8	18	1
23.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
24.		Charles Stross	50	17	32	3
25.		Peter Straub	30	12	19	7
26.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
27.		Bruce Sterling	52	7	18	2
28.		Neal Stephenson	19	8	28	8
29.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
30.		Dan Simmons	31	15	31	13
31.		Robert Silverberg	218	12	27	2
32.		Juliet Marillier	23	12	13	4
33.		John Scalzi	34	9	16	4
34.		Robert J. Sawyer	30	22	41	11
35.		Brandon Sanderson	46	10	11	2
36.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
37.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
38.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
39.		Adam Roberts	43	10	16	2
40.		Rebecca Roanhorse	10	5	10	1
41.		Alastair Reynolds	61	16	20	2
42.		Christopher Priest	24	9	18	7
43.		Terry Pratchett	67	21	27	8
44.		Tim Powers	36	10	28	8
45.		Jerry Pournelle	43	6	10	1
46.		Frederik Pohl	119	7	18	6
47.		Isaac Asimov	157	7	12	5
48.		Nnedi Okorafor	27	7	16	2
49.		Naomi Novik	20	5	14	7
50.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
51.		Garth Nix	32	12	17	4
52.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
53.		James Morrow	29	7	19	2
54.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	17	5	18	3
55.		Michael Moorcock	108	9	12	6
56.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
57.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
58.		Maureen F. McHugh	28	6	10	2
59.		Ian McDonald	54	18	35	6
60.		Jack McDevitt	40	15	20	3
61.		Paul J. McAuley	54	15	21	3
62.		George R. R. Martin	101	9	22	4
63.		Ken MacLeod	32	15	38	5
64.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
65.		Yoon Ha Lee	34	4	12	2
66.		Fonda Lee	10	6	11	4
67.		Ann Leckie	16	5	21	9
68.		Ursula K. Le Guin	95	21	36	14
69.		Jay Kristoff	16	11	14	6
70.		Nancy Kress	86	7	14	1
71.		Mary Robinette Kowal	29	6	14	3
72.		Stephen King	98	37	53	12
73.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	39	3	11	2
74.		Guy Gavriel Kay	15	14	31	3
75.		Amie Kaufman	15	9	10	3
76.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
77.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
78.		Stephen Graham Jones	15	3	12	5
79.		N. K. Jemisin	27	8	29	8
80.		Kameron Hurley	21	5	14	1
81.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
82.		Robert A. Heinlein	57	10	19	5
83.		M. John Harrison	21	7	17	3
84.		Elizabeth Hand	33	10	15	3
85.		Joe Haldeman	51	7	15	8
86.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
87.		Nicola Griffith	13	4	11	2
88.		Daryl Gregory	19	6	11	0
89.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
90.		Mary Gentle	19	5	11	1
91.		Neil Gaiman	57	8	26	12
92.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
93.		Stephen R. Donaldson	25	6	11	1
94.		Cory Doctorow	42	11	19	5
95.		Philip K. Dick	65	9	14	3
96.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
97.		Charles de Lint	64	11	19	1
98.		Julie E. Czerneda	29	12	13	4
99.		Adrian Tchaikovsky	45	11	13	5
100.		John Crowley	22	6	15	3
101.		Arthur C. Clarke	56	4	12	7
102.		Susanna Clarke	4	3	15	5
103.		C. J. Cherryh	93	20	27	4
104.		Becky Chambers	7	4	11	1
105.		Jonathan Carroll	28	8	14	1
106.		Orson Scott Card	76	14	29	10
107.		Ramsey Campbell	46	18	19	7
108.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
109.		Lois McMaster Bujold	44	15	34	10
110.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
111.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
112.		Robert Jackson Bennett	14	7	10	2
113.		Gregory Benford	83	8	12	3
114.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
115.		Peter S. Beagle	37	6	10	3
116.		Stephen Baxter	88	13	22	4
117.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
118.		Clive Barker	37	11	14	0
119.		Iain M. Banks	18	9	14	2
120.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
121.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
122.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
123.		Poul Anderson	166	19	26	4
124.		Charlie Jane Anders	28	5	10	5
125.		Brian W. Aldiss	84	5	10	4
126.		Joe Abercrombie	17	8	14	1