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	4	3	14	5
2.		Tade Thompson	8	4	10	3
3.		Paul Tremblay	8	4	10	4
4.		Sean Stewart	9	6	12	3
5.		Tricia Sullivan	10	5	10	1
6.		Robert Jackson Bennett	12	7	10	2
7.		Glenda Larke	12	10	10	0
8.		R. A. MacAvoy	13	7	11	1
9.		Emma Bull	14	4	10	1
10.		Jon Courtenay Grimwood	14	7	11	2
11.		Guy Gavriel Kay	14	13	30	3
12.		Ann Leckie	14	5	21	9
13.		Silvia Moreno-Garcia	14	4	15	1
14.		Margaret Atwood	15	7	12	2
15.		Graham Joyce	16	14	22	7
16.		Jay Kristoff	16	10	13	6
17.		China Miéville	16	9	42	16
18.		Justina Robson	16	5	11	0
19.		Joe Abercrombie	17	8	14	1
20.		Iain M. Banks	17	9	14	2
21.		Mary Gentle	18	5	11	1
22.		Daryl Gregory	19	5	10	0
23.		Nalo Hopkinson	19	6	15	3
24.		Naomi Novik	19	3	12	7
25.		Neal Stephenson	19	8	28	8
26.		Peter Watts	19	5	11	0
27.		M. John Harrison	20	7	17	3
28.		Kameron Hurley	20	5	14	1
29.		Sara Douglass	20	11	11	3
30.		Paolo Bacigalupi	21	7	13	5
31.		John Crowley	21	6	15	3
32.		L. Neil Smith	21	12	12	3
33.		Nnedi Okorafor	22	6	15	2
34.		Juliet Marillier	22	12	13	4
35.		Christopher Priest	23	9	18	7
36.		Vernor Vinge	23	6	20	7
37.		Stephen R. Donaldson	24	6	11	1
38.		Julie E. Czerneda	25	12	13	4
39.		Michael Flynn	25	9	10	3
40.		Jo Walton	25	10	21	7
41.		Scott Westerfeld	25	9	12	1
42.		N. K. Jemisin	26	7	28	8
43.		Robert R. McCammon	26	6	11	4
44.		Anne Rice	26	9	11	1
45.		Geoff Ryman	26	9	17	6
46.		Jonathan Carroll	27	8	15	1
47.		Thomas M. Disch	27	5	10	1
48.		William Gibson	28	10	34	5
49.		Mary Robinette Kowal	28	5	12	3
50.		Maureen F. McHugh	28	6	10	2
51.		James Morrow	28	7	19	2
52.		Elizabeth Hand	29	10	15	3
53.		Garth Nix	29	11	15	4
54.		Robert J. Sawyer	29	22	41	11
55.		John Scalzi	29	8	14	3
56.		Robert Charles Wilson	29	14	31	5
57.		Eleanor Arnason	30	7	10	2
58.		Clive Barker	30	11	14	0
59.		James P. Blaylock	30	6	10	1
60.		Yoon Ha Lee	30	4	12	2
61.		Ken MacLeod	30	15	38	5
62.		Patricia A. McKillip	30	18	26	7
63.		Peter Straub	30	14	21	7
64.		Dan Simmons	31	15	31	13
65.		David Brin	32	10	24	7
66.		Tim Powers	33	10	28	8
67.		Tanya Huff	35	9	11	1
68.		Gwyneth Jones	35	12	19	3
69.		Peter S. Beagle	36	6	10	3
70.		Caitlín R. Kiernan	37	3	11	2
71.		John Varley	38	9	17	2
72.		Jack McDevitt	39	15	20	3
73.		Brandon Sanderson	39	10	11	2
74.		Jeff VanderMeer	39	8	16	2
75.		John Barnes	40	6	11	0
76.		Cory Doctorow	40	11	19	5
77.		Sheri S. Tepper	40	11	17	1
78.		Sean Williams	40	17	18	4
79.		Adam Roberts	41	8	14	2
80.		Jerry Pournelle	42	6	10	1
81.		Lois McMaster Bujold	43	15	34	10
82.		Lavie Tidhar	43	5	12	2
83.		Ramsey Campbell	44	19	21	7
84.		Samuel R. Delany	45	7	12	2
85.		Charles Stross	45	17	32	3
86.		Catherynne M. Valente	46	8	16	5
87.		F. Paul Wilson	46	12	12	2
88.		Joe Haldeman	48	7	15	8
89.		Connie Willis	51	7	23	10
90.		Ian McDonald	52	18	35	6
91.		Bruce Sterling	52	7	18	2
92.		Arthur C. Clarke	53	4	12	7
93.		Paul J. McAuley	53	14	20	3
94.		Robert A. Heinlein	54	10	19	5
95.		Michael Bishop	56	8	15	3
96.		Neil Gaiman	56	8	26	12
97.		Greg Bear	58	14	31	2
98.		Alastair Reynolds	58	15	19	2
99.		Kim Stanley Robinson	59	19	53	10
100.		Charles de Lint	61	11	19	1
101.		Jane Yolen	61	7	11	3
102.		Elizabeth Bear	62	10	11	1
103.		Philip K. Dick	63	9	14	3
104.		Terry Pratchett	66	21	27	8
105.		Orson Scott Card	74	15	30	10
106.		Roger Zelazny	77	13	16	3
107.		Gregory Benford	81	8	12	3
108.		Brian W. Aldiss	83	5	10	4
109.		Nancy Kress	85	7	14	1
110.		Stephen Baxter	86	13	22	4
111.		Michael Swanwick	88	8	18	1
112.		Gene Wolfe	88	23	51	9
113.		Tanith Lee	92	12	13	1
114.		C. J. Cherryh	93	20	27	4
115.		Ursula K. Le Guin	94	21	36	14
116.		Larry Niven	94	13	23	5
117.		Stephen King	95	35	53	12
118.		George R. R. Martin	99	9	22	4
119.		Michael Moorcock	107	9	12	6
120.		Frederik Pohl	118	7	18	6
121.		Isaac Asimov	144	7	12	5
122.		Poul Anderson	153	19	26	4
123.		Robert Silverberg	213	12	27	2