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.		Susanna Clarke	5	3	15	5
2.		Catriona Ward	6	5	11	4
3.		Becky Chambers	8	5	12	1
4.		Grady Hendrix	9	5	11	0
5.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
6.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
7.		Alix E. Harrow	12	4	14	2
8.		Fonda Lee	12	6	11	4
9.		Rebecca Roanhorse	12	5	10	1
10.		Tade Thompson	12	6	13	3
11.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
12.		Glenda Larke	13	10	10	0
13.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
14.		Nicola Griffith	14	4	11	2
15.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
16.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
17.		Paul Tremblay	15	6	13	4
18.		Robert Jackson Bennett	16	9	15	4
19.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
20.		Amie Kaufman	16	9	10	3
21.		Guy Gavriel Kay	16	15	32	3
22.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
23.		Joe Abercrombie	18	9	15	1
24.		Iain M. Banks	18	9	14	2
25.		Joe Hill	18	6	11	2
26.		Ann Leckie	18	6	24	9
27.		China Miéville	18	9	42	16
28.		Mary Gentle	19	5	11	1
29.		Jay Kristoff	19	11	14	6
30.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	19	7	23	3
31.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
32.		Neal Stephenson	20	8	28	8
33.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
34.		Daryl Gregory	21	7	13	0
35.		Kameron Hurley	21	5	14	1
36.		Paolo Bacigalupi	22	7	13	5
37.		John Crowley	22	6	15	3
38.		Nalo Hopkinson	22	7	16	3
39.		Naomi Novik	22	5	14	7
40.		L. Neil Smith	22	12	12	3
41.		Stephen Graham Jones	23	7	22	8
42.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
43.		M. John Harrison	24	7	17	3
44.		Juliet Marillier	24	12	13	4
45.		Stephen R. Donaldson	25	6	11	1
46.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
47.		Michael Flynn	26	10	11	4
48.		Jo Walton	26	11	22	8
49.		N. K. Jemisin	27	8	29	8
50.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
51.		Christopher Priest	28	10	19	7
52.		Geoff Ryman	28	10	18	6
53.		James Morrow	29	7	19	2
54.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
55.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
56.		Jonathan Carroll	30	8	14	1
57.		Maureen F. McHugh	30	6	10	2
58.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
59.		Peter Straub	30	12	19	7
60.		Charlie Jane Anders	31	7	12	6
61.		Julie E. Czerneda	31	13	14	4
62.		Mary Robinette Kowal	31	6	14	3
63.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
64.		Robert J. Sawyer	32	23	42	12
65.		Holly Black	33	8	10	1
66.		Elizabeth Hand	33	11	16	3
67.		Nnedi Okorafor	33	8	19	3
68.		Dan Simmons	33	15	31	13
69.		Martha Wells	33	6	12	5
70.		Ken MacLeod	34	15	38	5
71.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
72.		T. Kingfisher	36	12	20	7
73.		Clive Barker	37	11	14	0
74.		Yoon Ha Lee	37	6	15	4
75.		Tim Powers	37	11	29	8
76.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
77.		Tanya Huff	39	8	10	1
78.		Garth Nix	39	13	19	4
79.		John Scalzi	39	11	19	4
80.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
81.		Peter S. Beagle	40	7	11	3
82.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
83.		Jack McDevitt	41	15	20	3
84.		Sean Williams	41	18	19	4
85.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	44	3	11	2
86.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
87.		Jeff VanderMeer	45	10	19	2
88.		Ramsey Campbell	46	18	19	7
89.		Jerry Pournelle	46	6	10	1
90.		Cory Doctorow	48	14	22	5
91.		Lois McMaster Bujold	49	15	34	10
92.		F. Paul Wilson	49	12	12	2
93.		Brandon Sanderson	50	10	11	2
94.		Catherynne M. Valente	50	9	17	5
95.		Joe Haldeman	51	7	15	8
96.		Adam Roberts	51	10	16	2
97.		Charles Stross	52	17	32	3
98.		Connie Willis	52	8	24	10
99.		Bruce Sterling	54	7	18	2
100.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
101.		Arthur C. Clarke	56	4	12	7
102.		Ian McDonald	56	19	36	6
103.		Paul J. McAuley	57	15	21	3
104.		Neil Gaiman	58	8	26	12
105.		Greg Bear	59	14	31	2
106.		Robert A. Heinlein	59	10	19	5
107.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
108.		Lavie Tidhar	59	7	14	2
109.		Adrian Tchaikovsky	62	15	23	5
110.		Jane Yolen	62	7	11	3
111.		Alastair Reynolds	64	16	20	2
112.		Charles de Lint	65	11	19	1
113.		Terry Pratchett	67	21	27	8
114.		Philip K. Dick	69	9	14	3
115.		Elizabeth Bear	69	11	12	1
116.		Orson Scott Card	80	14	29	10
117.		Roger Zelazny	80	13	16	3
118.		Brian W. Aldiss	84	5	10	4
119.		Gregory Benford	84	8	12	3
120.		Nancy Kress	88	7	14	1
121.		Stephen Baxter	91	13	22	4
122.		Gene Wolfe	91	23	51	9
123.		C. J. Cherryh	95	21	28	4
124.		Larry Niven	95	13	23	5
125.		Michael Swanwick	95	8	18	1
126.		Ursula K. Le Guin	97	21	36	14
127.		George R. R. Martin	101	9	22	4
128.		Stephen King	102	38	54	12
129.		Michael Moorcock	109	9	12	6
130.		Frederik Pohl	121	7	18	6
131.		Poul Anderson	167	19	26	4
132.		Isaac Asimov	184	7	12	5
133.		Robert Silverberg	221	12	27	2