Behind every great author is a team of editors, printers, cover artists, marketing and distribution specialists... all the unsung heroes of the publishing industry. Below is a list of the Top SF/F/H Publishers, the large and the small, who have made it possible for us to enjoy all those Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror award-winning authors.
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Top SF/F/H Publishers
Below is a list of the top SF/F/H publishers in the WWEnd database that have received at least 10 nominations across the 16 awards we cover.
# | PUBLISHER | AUTHORS | NOVELS | NOMS | WINS |
1. | Tor | 655 | 2674 | 642 | 119 |
2. | Gollancz | 347 | 1184 | 495 | 141 |
3. | Ace Books | 514 | 2052 | 294 | 56 |
4. | Orbit | 281 | 1082 | 294 | 47 |
5. | Bantam Spectra | 203 | 560 | 188 | 40 |
6. | William Morrow & Co. | 106 | 204 | 115 | 34 |
7. | Del Rey | 162 | 461 | 114 | 29 |
8. | Doubleday | 256 | 689 | 102 | 17 |
9. | DAW Books | 234 | 1328 | 101 | 15 |
10. | HarperCollins/Voyager | 160 | 405 | 97 | 15 |
11. | HarperCollins | 123 | 252 | 94 | 22 |
12. | Baen | 288 | 1124 | 83 | 18 |
13. | Ballantine Books | 181 | 434 | 79 | 17 |
14. | Roc | 181 | 632 | 77 | 10 |
15. | St. Martin's Press | 150 | 278 | 76 | 19 |
16. | Del Rey / Ballantine | 206 | 838 | 73 | 12 |
17. | Bantam UK | 74 | 178 | 67 | 13 |
18. | Alfred A. Knopf | 85 | 193 | 65 | 14 |
19. | Open Road Integrated Media | 94 | 368 | 56 | 8 |
20. | HarperCollins UK | 62 | 144 | 54 | 11 |
21. | Hodder & Stoughton | 82 | 247 | 53 | 9 |
22. | Orion Books | 77 | 125 | 50 | 9 |
23. | Eos | 50 | 108 | 49 | 9 |
24. | Pyr | 93 | 254 | 48 | 10 |
25. | G. P. Putnam's Sons | 107 | 230 | 44 | 9 |
26. | Little, Brown and Company | 87 | 174 | 43 | 3 |
27. | Timescape Books | 62 | 86 | 42 | 10 |
28. | Headline Publishing Group | 45 | 133 | 42 | 19 |
29. | Saga Press | 66 | 113 | 41 | 5 |
30. | HarperCollins Australia | 26 | 78 | 41 | 11 |
31. | Small Beer Press | 50 | 94 | 41 | 12 |
32. | Macmillan UK | 42 | 98 | 40 | 12 |
33. | HarperPrism | 59 | 92 | 40 | 11 |
34. | Penguin Books | 209 | 301 | 39 | 5 |
35. | Pocket Books | 307 | 935 | 39 | 9 |
36. | Avon | 181 | 340 | 39 | 10 |
37. | Scribner | 43 | 97 | 38 | 5 |
38. | Random House | 110 | 172 | 37 | 10 |
39. | Simon & Schuster | 120 | 178 | 35 | 10 |
40. | Bantam Dell Publishing Group | 51 | 132 | 35 | 5 |
41. | Solaris | 117 | 277 | 35 | 4 |
42. | Science Fiction Book Club | 80 | 119 | 34 | 7 |
43. | Pan Macmillan | 44 | 105 | 32 | 8 |
44. | Berkley Publishing Group | 107 | 201 | 32 | 7 |
45. | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | 145 | 272 | 32 | 8 |
46. | Allen & Unwin | 23 | 65 | 32 | 7 |
47. | Angry Robot Books | 94 | 228 | 32 | 8 |
48. | Warner Aspect | 71 | 126 | 32 | 5 |
49. | Tor.com Publishing | 383 | 735 | 32 | 3 |
50. | Aqueduct Press | 72 | 118 | 31 | 4 |
51. | Bloomsbury Publishing | 47 | 101 | 31 | 11 |
52. | Galaxy Science Fiction | 67 | 107 | 31 | 16 |
53. | Harper & Row | 61 | 116 | 30 | 9 |
54. | Self-Published | 120 | 196 | 30 | 3 |
55. | Night Shade Books | 121 | 283 | 29 | 5 |
56. | Carroll & Graf | 51 | 106 | 29 | 4 |
57. | PS Publishing | 77 | 154 | 28 | 5 |
58. | Macmillan Publishing | 47 | 83 | 28 | 4 |
59. | Jo Fletcher Books | 38 | 115 | 28 | 2 |
60. | Signet | 96 | 236 | 26 | 5 |
61. | Millennium | 29 | 47 | 25 | 5 |
62. | Jonathan Cape | 46 | 98 | 25 | 6 |
63. | Berkley/Putnam | 43 | 68 | 25 | 3 |
64. | Asimov's Science Fiction | 220 | 679 | 25 | 4 |
65. | Atheneum | 35 | 80 | 25 | 5 |
66. | Titan Books | 134 | 312 | 25 | 6 |
67. | Arbor House | 37 | 55 | 24 | 4 |
68. | Faber and Faber | 49 | 130 | 24 | 5 |
69. | Houghton Mifflin | 63 | 123 | 23 | 7 |
70. | Grafton | 69 | 138 | 22 | 3 |
71. | New English Library | 76 | 162 | 22 | 8 |
72. | Gregg Press | 67 | 99 | 22 | 4 |
73. | Subterranean Press | 129 | 332 | 21 | 3 |
74. | Viking Press | 32 | 60 | 21 | 5 |
75. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 55 | 112 | 21 | 3 |
76. | Doubleday Foundation | 26 | 45 | 20 | 6 |
77. | St. Martin's Griffin | 38 | 115 | 20 | 6 |
78. | Tachyon Publications | 75 | 131 | 19 | 3 |
79. | Simon & Schuster UK | 39 | 76 | 18 | 2 |
80. | Earthlight UK | 24 | 41 | 18 | 1 |
81. | Warner Books | 65 | 148 | 17 | 3 |
82. | Scholastic | 53 | 132 | 17 | 1 |
83. | Forge | 34 | 76 | 16 | 2 |
84. | Crown Publishers | 41 | 66 | 16 | 2 |
85. | Legend | 38 | 71 | 16 | 4 |
86. | Harcourt, Inc. | 20 | 60 | 15 | 3 |
87. | Doubleday UK | 27 | 73 | 14 | 3 |
88. | Henry Holt and Company | 33 | 57 | 14 | 1 |
89. | Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 278 | 521 | 14 | 1 |
90. | HarperTorch | 6 | 44 | 14 | 4 |
91. | Sidgwick & Jackson | 37 | 60 | 14 | 3 |
92. | Orb Books | 30 | 49 | 14 | 4 |
93. | Easton Press | 48 | 66 | 14 | 3 |
94. | Viking Canada | 3 | 14 | 14 | 2 |
95. | Chatto & Windus | 21 | 39 | 13 | 2 |
96. | Leisure Books | 42 | 113 | 13 | 1 |
97. | Greenwillow Press | 15 | 67 | 13 | 0 |
98. | Corvus | 11 | 24 | 13 | 2 |
99. | Penguin Australia | 10 | 18 | 13 | 2 |
100. | ChiZine Publications | 41 | 57 | 13 | 2 |
101. | HarperCollins/Eos | 45 | 86 | 13 | 0 |
102. | Harcourt, Brace & World | 22 | 49 | 13 | 3 |
103. | Delacorte Press | 60 | 124 | 13 | 0 |
104. | Dell Publishing | 116 | 189 | 12 | 2 |
105. | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | 25 | 55 | 12 | 8 |
106. | Dutton | 54 | 104 | 12 | 6 |
107. | Spectra | 17 | 27 | 12 | 5 |
108. | Phantasia Press | 15 | 23 | 12 | 2 |
109. | EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing | 13 | 30 | 12 | 2 |
110. | Arrow | 59 | 117 | 12 | 2 |
111. | e-reads | 11 | 51 | 11 | 1 |
112. | Redhook | 8 | 19 | 11 | 2 |
113. | Arthur A. Levine Books | 11 | 20 | 11 | 1 |
114. | Prime Books | 71 | 165 | 11 | 0 |
115. | Holt, Rinehart & Winston | 30 | 48 | 11 | 2 |
116. | Atlantic Monthly Press | 12 | 20 | 10 | 1 |
117. | Avon Eos | 28 | 42 | 10 | 2 |
118. | 47North | 58 | 148 | 10 | 1 |
119. | Head of Zeus | 19 | 47 | 10 | 2 |
120. | Original French publication | 69 | 108 | 10 | 2 |
121. | NewCon Press | 50 | 80 | 10 | 0 |
122. | Candlewick Press | 19 | 31 | 10 | 2 |
123. | Viking UK | 16 | 24 | 10 | 2 |
124. | Walker Books | 26 | 51 | 10 | 2 |
125. | Vintage | 73 | 122 | 10 | 2 |