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	17	9	42	16
2.		Ursula K. Le Guin	97	21	36	14
3.		Dan Simmons	33	15	31	13
4.		Neil Gaiman	58	8	26	12
5.		Stephen King	102	38	54	12
6.		Robert J. Sawyer	32	23	42	11
7.		Lois McMaster Bujold	49	15	34	10
8.		Orson Scott Card	80	14	29	10
9.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
10.		Connie Willis	52	8	24	10
11.		Ann Leckie	18	6	24	9
12.		Gene Wolfe	91	23	51	9
13.		Joe Haldeman	51	7	15	8
14.		N. K. Jemisin	27	8	29	8
15.		Stephen Graham Jones	23	7	22	8
16.		Tim Powers	37	11	29	8
17.		Terry Pratchett	67	21	27	8
18.		Neal Stephenson	20	8	28	8
19.		Jo Walton	26	11	22	8
20.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
21.		Ramsey Campbell	46	18	19	7
22.		Arthur C. Clarke	56	4	12	7
23.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
24.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
25.		Naomi Novik	22	5	14	7
26.		Christopher Priest	26	10	19	7
27.		Peter Straub	30	12	19	7
28.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
29.		Charlie Jane Anders	31	7	12	6
30.		Jay Kristoff	19	11	14	6
31.		Ian McDonald	56	19	36	6
32.		Michael Moorcock	109	9	12	6
33.		Frederik Pohl	121	7	18	6
34.		Geoff Ryman	28	10	18	6
35.		T. Kingfisher	36	11	19	6
36.		Paolo Bacigalupi	22	7	13	5
37.		Susanna Clarke	5	3	15	5
38.		Adrian Tchaikovsky	61	15	23	5
39.		Cory Doctorow	47	14	22	5
40.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
41.		Robert A. Heinlein	59	10	19	5
42.		Ken MacLeod	34	15	38	5
43.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
44.		Isaac Asimov	170	7	12	5
45.		Catherynne M. Valente	50	9	17	5
46.		Martha Wells	33	6	12	5
47.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
48.		Brian W. Aldiss	84	5	10	4
49.		Poul Anderson	167	19	26	4
50.		Stephen Baxter	91	13	22	4
51.		Robert Jackson Bennett	16	9	15	4
52.		C. J. Cherryh	95	21	28	4
53.		Julie E. Czerneda	31	13	14	4
54.		Michael Flynn	26	10	11	4
55.		Yoon Ha Lee	37	6	15	4
56.		Fonda Lee	12	6	11	4
57.		George R. R. Martin	101	9	22	4
58.		Garth Nix	39	13	19	4
59.		John Scalzi	39	11	19	4
60.		Juliet Marillier	23	12	13	4
61.		Paul Tremblay	15	6	13	4
62.		Catriona Ward	6	5	11	4
63.		Sean Williams	41	18	19	4
64.		Peter S. Beagle	40	7	11	3
65.		Gregory Benford	84	8	12	3
66.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
67.		John Crowley	22	6	15	3
68.		Philip K. Dick	67	9	14	3
69.		Elizabeth Hand	33	11	16	3
70.		M. John Harrison	22	7	17	3
71.		Nalo Hopkinson	22	7	16	3
72.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
73.		Amie Kaufman	16	9	10	3
74.		Guy Gavriel Kay	16	15	32	3
75.		Mary Robinette Kowal	31	6	14	3
76.		Paul J. McAuley	57	15	21	3
77.		Jack McDevitt	41	15	20	3
78.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	19	7	23	3
79.		Nnedi Okorafor	33	8	19	3
80.		L. Neil Smith	22	12	12	3
81.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
82.		Charles Stross	52	17	32	3
83.		Tade Thompson	12	6	13	3
84.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
85.		Jane Yolen	62	7	11	3
86.		Roger Zelazny	80	13	16	3
87.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
88.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
89.		Iain M. Banks	18	9	14	2
90.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
91.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
92.		Nicola Griffith	13	4	11	2
93.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
94.		Alix E. Harrow	12	4	13	2
95.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	44	3	11	2
96.		Joe Hill	18	6	11	2
97.		Maureen F. McHugh	30	6	10	2
98.		James Morrow	29	7	19	2
99.		Alastair Reynolds	64	16	20	2
100.		Adam Roberts	50	10	16	2
101.		Brandon Sanderson	50	10	11	2
102.		Robert Silverberg	220	12	27	2
103.		Bruce Sterling	54	7	18	2
104.		Lavie Tidhar	59	7	14	2
105.		Jeff VanderMeer	45	10	19	2
106.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
107.		F. Paul Wilson	49	12	12	2
108.		Joe Abercrombie	18	9	15	1
109.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
110.		Jonathan Carroll	30	8	14	1
111.		Becky Chambers	8	5	12	1
112.		Charles de Lint	65	11	19	1
113.		Stephen R. Donaldson	25	6	11	1
114.		Mary Gentle	19	5	11	1
115.		Tanya Huff	39	8	10	1
116.		Kameron Hurley	21	5	14	1
117.		Nancy Kress	87	7	14	1
118.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
119.		Jerry Pournelle	46	6	10	1
120.		Rebecca Roanhorse	11	5	10	1
121.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
122.		Michael Swanwick	95	8	18	1
123.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
124.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
125.		Elizabeth Bear	69	11	12	1
126.		Clive Barker	37	11	14	0
127.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
128.		Daryl Gregory	21	7	13	0
129.		Grady Hendrix	9	5	11	0
130.		Glenda Larke	13	10	10	0
131.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
132.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0