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.		Brian W. Aldiss	84	5	10	4
2.		Charlie Jane Anders	28	5	10	4
3.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
4.		Peter S. Beagle	37	6	10	3
5.		Robert Jackson Bennett	13	7	10	2
6.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
7.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
8.		Nicola Griffith	12	4	10	2
9.		Amie Kaufman	15	9	10	3
10.		Maureen F. McHugh	28	6	10	2
11.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
12.		Jerry Pournelle	43	6	10	1
13.		Rebecca Roanhorse	8	5	10	1
14.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
15.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
16.		Becky Chambers	7	4	11	1
17.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
18.		Mary Gentle	19	5	11	1
19.		Daryl Gregory	19	6	11	0
20.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
21.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	37	3	11	2
22.		Fonda Lee	9	6	11	4
23.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
24.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
25.		Brandon Sanderson	42	10	11	2
26.		Paul Tremblay	9	5	11	4
27.		T. Kingfisher	25	7	11	2
28.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
29.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
30.		Elizabeth Bear	63	10	11	1
31.		Jane Yolen	62	7	11	3
32.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
33.		Gregory Benford	83	8	12	3
34.		Arthur C. Clarke	56	4	12	7
35.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
36.		Stephen Graham Jones	15	3	12	5
37.		Yoon Ha Lee	32	4	12	2
38.		Michael Moorcock	108	9	12	6
39.		Isaac Asimov	152	7	12	5
40.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
41.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
42.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
43.		F. Paul Wilson	46	12	12	2
44.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
45.		Adrian Tchaikovsky	45	11	13	5
46.		Julie E. Czerneda	29	12	13	4
47.		Mary Robinette Kowal	29	6	13	3
48.		Juliet Marillier	23	12	13	4
49.		Tade Thompson	10	6	13	3
50.		Joe Abercrombie	17	8	14	1
51.		Iain M. Banks	18	9	14	2
52.		Clive Barker	36	11	14	0
53.		Jonathan Carroll	28	8	14	1
54.		Philip K. Dick	64	9	14	3
55.		Kameron Hurley	21	5	14	1
56.		Nancy Kress	86	7	14	1
57.		Jay Kristoff	16	11	14	6
58.		Naomi Novik	20	5	14	7
59.		Lavie Tidhar	45	7	14	2
60.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
61.		Susanna Clarke	4	3	15	5
62.		John Crowley	22	6	15	3
63.		Joe Haldeman	51	7	15	8
64.		Elizabeth Hand	32	10	15	3
65.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
66.		John Scalzi	32	9	15	3
67.		Nnedi Okorafor	24	7	16	2
68.		Adam Roberts	43	10	16	2
69.		Catherynne M. Valente	47	8	16	5
70.		Roger Zelazny	79	13	16	3
71.		M. John Harrison	20	7	17	3
72.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	16	5	17	3
73.		Garth Nix	31	12	17	4
74.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
75.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
76.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
77.		Frederik Pohl	119	7	18	6
78.		Christopher Priest	24	9	18	7
79.		Bruce Sterling	52	7	18	2
80.		Michael Swanwick	89	8	18	1
81.		Jeff VanderMeer	41	9	18	2
82.		Ramsey Campbell	45	18	19	7
83.		Charles de Lint	64	11	19	1
84.		Cory Doctorow	40	11	19	5
85.		Robert A. Heinlein	54	10	19	5
86.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
87.		James Morrow	29	7	19	2
88.		Peter Straub	30	12	19	7
89.		Sean Williams	41	18	19	4
90.		Jack McDevitt	40	15	20	3
91.		Alastair Reynolds	61	16	20	2
92.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
93.		Ann Leckie	15	5	21	9
94.		Paul J. McAuley	54	15	21	3
95.		Stephen Baxter	88	13	22	4
96.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
97.		George R. R. Martin	101	9	22	4
98.		Jo Walton	25	11	22	8
99.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
100.		Connie Willis	52	7	23	10
101.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
102.		Poul Anderson	166	19	26	4
103.		Neil Gaiman	57	8	26	12
104.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
105.		C. J. Cherryh	93	20	27	4
106.		Terry Pratchett	67	21	27	8
107.		Robert Silverberg	218	12	27	2
108.		Tim Powers	35	10	28	8
109.		Neal Stephenson	19	8	28	8
110.		Orson Scott Card	76	14	29	10
111.		N. K. Jemisin	27	8	29	8
112.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
113.		Guy Gavriel Kay	15	14	31	3
114.		Dan Simmons	31	15	31	13
115.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
116.		Charles Stross	50	17	32	3
117.		Lois McMaster Bujold	44	15	34	10
118.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
119.		Ian McDonald	54	18	35	6
120.		Ursula K. Le Guin	95	21	36	14
121.		Ken MacLeod	31	15	38	5
122.		Robert J. Sawyer	30	22	41	11
123.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
124.		Gene Wolfe	88	23	51	9
125.		Stephen King	97	37	53	12
126.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10