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Author Awards
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 | |||
TOTAL | NOMINATED | NOMS | WINS | |||
1. | Brian W. Aldiss | 84 | 5 | 10 | 4 | |
2. | Charlie Jane Anders | 28 | 5 | 10 | 5 | |
3. | Eleanor Arnason | 30 | 7 | 10 | 2 | |
4. | Peter S. Beagle | 40 | 6 | 10 | 3 | |
5. | Robert Jackson Bennett | 14 | 7 | 10 | 2 | |
6. | Emma Bull | 14 | 4 | 10 | 1 | |
7. | Michael Flynn | 25 | 9 | 10 | 3 | |
8. | Amie Kaufman | 15 | 9 | 10 | 3 | |
9. | Maureen F. McHugh | 29 | 6 | 10 | 2 | |
10. | Glenda Larke | 12 | 10 | 10 | 0 | |
11. | Jerry Pournelle | 46 | 6 | 10 | 1 | |
12. | Rebecca Roanhorse | 11 | 5 | 10 | 1 | |
13. | Tricia Sullivan | 10 | 5 | 10 | 1 | |
14. | John Barnes | 40 | 6 | 11 | 0 | |
15. | Becky Chambers | 7 | 4 | 11 | 1 | |
16. | Stephen R. Donaldson | 25 | 6 | 11 | 1 | |
17. | Mary Gentle | 19 | 5 | 11 | 1 | |
18. | Daryl Gregory | 19 | 6 | 11 | 0 | |
19. | Nicola Griffith | 13 | 4 | 11 | 2 | |
20. | Jon Courtenay Grimwood | 14 | 7 | 11 | 2 | |
21. | Caitlín R. Kiernan | 39 | 3 | 11 | 2 | |
22. | Fonda Lee | 10 | 6 | 11 | 4 | |
23. | R. A. MacAvoy | 13 | 7 | 11 | 1 | |
24. | Justina Robson | 16 | 5 | 11 | 0 | |
25. | Brandon Sanderson | 46 | 10 | 11 | 2 | |
26. | Paul Tremblay | 13 | 5 | 11 | 4 | |
27. | Sara Douglass | 20 | 11 | 11 | 3 | |
28. | Peter Watts | 19 | 5 | 11 | 0 | |
29. | Elizabeth Bear | 66 | 10 | 11 | 1 | |
30. | Jane Yolen | 62 | 7 | 11 | 3 | |
31. | Margaret Atwood | 15 | 7 | 12 | 2 | |
32. | Gregory Benford | 83 | 8 | 12 | 3 | |
33. | Arthur C. Clarke | 56 | 4 | 12 | 7 | |
34. | Samuel R. Delany | 45 | 7 | 12 | 2 | |
35. | Yoon Ha Lee | 34 | 4 | 12 | 2 | |
36. | Michael Moorcock | 108 | 9 | 12 | 6 | |
37. | Isaac Asimov | 158 | 7 | 12 | 5 | |
38. | L. Neil Smith | 22 | 12 | 12 | 3 | |
39. | Sean Stewart | 9 | 6 | 12 | 3 | |
40. | T. Kingfisher | 28 | 7 | 12 | 4 | |
41. | Scott Westerfeld | 25 | 9 | 12 | 1 | |
42. | F. Paul Wilson | 46 | 12 | 12 | 2 | |
43. | Paolo Bacigalupi | 22 | 7 | 13 | 5 | |
44. | Adrian Tchaikovsky | 49 | 11 | 13 | 5 | |
45. | Julie E. Czerneda | 30 | 12 | 13 | 4 | |
46. | Stephen Graham Jones | 18 | 4 | 13 | 5 | |
47. | Juliet Marillier | 23 | 12 | 13 | 4 | |
48. | Tade Thompson | 10 | 6 | 13 | 3 | |
49. | Joe Abercrombie | 17 | 8 | 14 | 1 | |
50. | Iain M. Banks | 18 | 9 | 14 | 2 | |
51. | Clive Barker | 37 | 11 | 14 | 0 | |
52. | Jonathan Carroll | 30 | 8 | 14 | 1 | |
53. | Philip K. Dick | 67 | 9 | 14 | 3 | |
54. | Kameron Hurley | 21 | 5 | 14 | 1 | |
55. | Mary Robinette Kowal | 29 | 6 | 14 | 3 | |
56. | Nancy Kress | 86 | 7 | 14 | 1 | |
57. | Jay Kristoff | 18 | 11 | 14 | 6 | |
58. | Naomi Novik | 20 | 5 | 14 | 7 | |
59. | Lavie Tidhar | 56 | 7 | 14 | 2 | |
60. | Michael Bishop | 56 | 8 | 15 | 3 | |
61. | Susanna Clarke | 4 | 3 | 15 | 5 | |
62. | John Crowley | 22 | 6 | 15 | 3 | |
63. | Joe Haldeman | 51 | 7 | 15 | 8 | |
64. | Elizabeth Hand | 33 | 10 | 15 | 3 | |
65. | Nalo Hopkinson | 20 | 6 | 15 | 3 | |
66. | Nnedi Okorafor | 28 | 7 | 16 | 2 | |
67. | Adam Roberts | 43 | 10 | 16 | 2 | |
68. | Catherynne M. Valente | 49 | 8 | 16 | 5 | |
69. | Roger Zelazny | 80 | 13 | 16 | 3 | |
70. | M. John Harrison | 21 | 7 | 17 | 3 | |
71. | John Scalzi | 34 | 10 | 17 | 4 | |
72. | Sheri S. Tepper | 40 | 11 | 17 | 1 | |
73. | John Varley | 38 | 9 | 17 | 2 | |
74. | Garth Nix | 34 | 13 | 18 | 4 | |
75. | Frederik Pohl | 119 | 7 | 18 | 6 | |
76. | Geoff Ryman | 28 | 10 | 18 | 6 | |
77. | Bruce Sterling | 52 | 7 | 18 | 2 | |
78. | Michael Swanwick | 91 | 8 | 18 | 1 | |
79. | Jeff VanderMeer | 43 | 9 | 18 | 2 | |
80. | Ramsey Campbell | 46 | 18 | 19 | 7 | |
81. | Charles de Lint | 64 | 11 | 19 | 1 | |
82. | Cory Doctorow | 44 | 11 | 19 | 5 | |
83. | Robert A. Heinlein | 57 | 10 | 19 | 5 | |
84. | Gwyneth Jones | 35 | 12 | 19 | 3 | |
85. | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | 17 | 6 | 19 | 3 | |
86. | James Morrow | 29 | 7 | 19 | 2 | |
87. | Christopher Priest | 26 | 10 | 19 | 7 | |
88. | Peter Straub | 30 | 12 | 19 | 7 | |
89. | Sean Williams | 41 | 18 | 19 | 4 | |
90. | Jack McDevitt | 41 | 15 | 20 | 3 | |
91. | Alastair Reynolds | 62 | 16 | 20 | 2 | |
92. | Vernor Vinge | 23 | 6 | 20 | 7 | |
93. | Paul J. McAuley | 56 | 15 | 21 | 3 | |
94. | Stephen Baxter | 88 | 13 | 22 | 4 | |
95. | Graham Joyce | 16 | 14 | 22 | 7 | |
96. | George R. R. Martin | 101 | 9 | 22 | 4 | |
97. | Jo Walton | 25 | 11 | 22 | 8 | |
98. | Ann Leckie | 17 | 6 | 23 | 9 | |
99. | Larry Niven | 94 | 13 | 23 | 5 | |
100. | Connie Willis | 52 | 7 | 23 | 10 | |
101. | David Brin | 32 | 10 | 24 | 7 | |
102. | Poul Anderson | 166 | 19 | 26 | 4 | |
103. | Neil Gaiman | 57 | 8 | 26 | 12 | |
104. | Patricia A. McKillip | 30 | 18 | 26 | 7 | |
105. | C. J. Cherryh | 94 | 20 | 27 | 4 | |
106. | Terry Pratchett | 67 | 21 | 27 | 8 | |
107. | Robert Silverberg | 219 | 12 | 27 | 2 | |
108. | Tim Powers | 36 | 10 | 28 | 8 | |
109. | Neal Stephenson | 19 | 8 | 28 | 8 | |
110. | Orson Scott Card | 79 | 14 | 29 | 10 | |
111. | N. K. Jemisin | 27 | 8 | 29 | 8 | |
112. | Greg Bear | 59 | 14 | 31 | 2 | |
113. | Guy Gavriel Kay | 15 | 14 | 31 | 3 | |
114. | Dan Simmons | 32 | 15 | 31 | 13 | |
115. | Robert Charles Wilson | 29 | 14 | 31 | 5 | |
116. | Charles Stross | 50 | 17 | 32 | 3 | |
117. | Lois McMaster Bujold | 45 | 15 | 34 | 10 | |
118. | William Gibson | 28 | 10 | 34 | 5 | |
119. | Ian McDonald | 54 | 18 | 35 | 6 | |
120. | Ursula K. Le Guin | 95 | 21 | 36 | 14 | |
121. | Ken MacLeod | 33 | 15 | 38 | 5 | |
122. | Robert J. Sawyer | 31 | 22 | 41 | 11 | |
123. | China Miéville | 16 | 9 | 42 | 16 | |
124. | Gene Wolfe | 89 | 23 | 51 | 9 | |
125. | Stephen King | 99 | 37 | 53 | 12 | |
126. | Kim Stanley Robinson | 59 | 19 | 53 | 10 |