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.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
2.		Ursula K. Le Guin	95	21	36	14
3.		Dan Simmons	32	15	31	13
4.		Neil Gaiman	57	8	26	12
5.		Stephen King	99	37	53	12
6.		Robert J. Sawyer	31	22	41	11
7.		Lois McMaster Bujold	45	15	34	10
8.		Orson Scott Card	76	14	29	10
9.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
10.		Connie Willis	52	7	23	10
11.		Ann Leckie	17	6	23	9
12.		Gene Wolfe	89	23	51	9
13.		Joe Haldeman	51	7	15	8
14.		N. K. Jemisin	27	8	29	8
15.		Tim Powers	36	10	28	8
16.		Terry Pratchett	67	21	27	8
17.		Neal Stephenson	19	8	28	8
18.		Jo Walton	25	11	22	8
19.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
20.		Ramsey Campbell	46	18	19	7
21.		Arthur C. Clarke	56	4	12	7
22.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
23.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
24.		Naomi Novik	20	5	14	7
25.		Christopher Priest	26	10	19	7
26.		Peter Straub	30	12	19	7
27.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
28.		Jay Kristoff	18	11	14	6
29.		Ian McDonald	54	18	35	6
30.		Michael Moorcock	108	9	12	6
31.		Frederik Pohl	119	7	18	6
32.		Geoff Ryman	28	10	18	6
33.		Charlie Jane Anders	28	5	10	5
34.		Paolo Bacigalupi	22	7	13	5
35.		Susanna Clarke	4	3	15	5
36.		Adrian Tchaikovsky	49	11	13	5
37.		Cory Doctorow	44	11	19	5
38.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
39.		Robert A. Heinlein	57	10	19	5
40.		Stephen Graham Jones	18	4	13	5
41.		Ken MacLeod	32	15	38	5
42.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
43.		Isaac Asimov	158	7	12	5
44.		Catherynne M. Valente	49	8	16	5
45.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
46.		Brian W. Aldiss	84	5	10	4
47.		Poul Anderson	166	19	26	4
48.		Stephen Baxter	88	13	22	4
49.		C. J. Cherryh	94	20	27	4
50.		Julie E. Czerneda	30	12	13	4
51.		Fonda Lee	10	6	11	4
52.		George R. R. Martin	101	9	22	4
53.		Garth Nix	34	12	17	4
54.		John Scalzi	34	10	17	4
55.		Juliet Marillier	23	12	13	4
56.		Paul Tremblay	13	5	11	4
57.		T. Kingfisher	27	7	12	4
58.		Sean Williams	41	18	19	4
59.		Peter S. Beagle	40	6	10	3
60.		Gregory Benford	83	8	12	3
61.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
62.		John Crowley	22	6	15	3
63.		Philip K. Dick	67	9	14	3
64.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
65.		Elizabeth Hand	33	10	15	3
66.		M. John Harrison	21	7	17	3
67.		Nalo Hopkinson	20	6	15	3
68.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
69.		Amie Kaufman	15	9	10	3
70.		Guy Gavriel Kay	15	14	31	3
71.		Mary Robinette Kowal	29	6	14	3
72.		Paul J. McAuley	56	15	21	3
73.		Jack McDevitt	41	15	20	3
74.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	17	5	18	3
75.		L. Neil Smith	22	12	12	3
76.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
77.		Charles Stross	50	17	32	3
78.		Tade Thompson	10	6	13	3
79.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
80.		Jane Yolen	62	7	11	3
81.		Roger Zelazny	80	13	16	3
82.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
83.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
84.		Iain M. Banks	18	9	14	2
85.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
86.		Robert Jackson Bennett	14	7	10	2
87.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
88.		Nicola Griffith	13	4	11	2
89.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
90.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	39	3	11	2
91.		Yoon Ha Lee	34	4	12	2
92.		Maureen F. McHugh	29	6	10	2
93.		James Morrow	29	7	19	2
94.		Nnedi Okorafor	28	7	16	2
95.		Alastair Reynolds	62	16	20	2
96.		Adam Roberts	43	10	16	2
97.		Brandon Sanderson	46	10	11	2
98.		Robert Silverberg	218	12	27	2
99.		Bruce Sterling	52	7	18	2
100.		Lavie Tidhar	55	7	14	2
101.		Jeff VanderMeer	43	9	18	2
102.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
103.		F. Paul Wilson	46	12	12	2
104.		Joe Abercrombie	17	8	14	1
105.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
106.		Jonathan Carroll	30	8	14	1
107.		Becky Chambers	7	4	11	1
108.		Charles de Lint	64	11	19	1
109.		Stephen R. Donaldson	25	6	11	1
110.		Mary Gentle	19	5	11	1
111.		Kameron Hurley	21	5	14	1
112.		Nancy Kress	86	7	14	1
113.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
114.		Jerry Pournelle	46	6	10	1
115.		Rebecca Roanhorse	11	5	10	1
116.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
117.		Michael Swanwick	91	8	18	1
118.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
119.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
120.		Elizabeth Bear	66	10	11	1
121.		Clive Barker	37	11	14	0
122.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
123.		Daryl Gregory	19	6	11	0
124.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
125.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
126.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0