Highest Ranked Authors and Editors of All Time

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Note: Some recent awards are yet to be integrated into the database. Only title-based awards are used for ranking purposes.
Scoring: Wins are worth 50 points, nominations and second places are worth 35 points. For polls, third and lower places are worth (33-poll position) points.

Place	Score	Author
1	6870	Ursula K. Le Guin
2	6790	Robert Silverberg
3	6244	Stephen King
4	5854	Connie Willis
5	5654	Ellen Datlow
6	5560	George R. R. Martin
7	5362	Lucius Shepard
8	5329	Mike Resnick
9	5281	Michael Swanwick
10	4847	Gene Wolfe
11	4782	Greg Egan
12	4772	Neil Gaiman
13	4757	Kim Stanley Robinson
14	4301	Orson Scott Card
15	4268	Stephen Baxter
16	4193	Nancy Kress
17	4074	Harlan Ellison
18	3886	Gardner Dozois
19	3783	Robert J. Sawyer
20	3543	Dan Simmons
21	3411	Ian McDonald
22	3384	Stephen Jones
23	3351	Isaac Asimov
24	3327	Larry Niven
25	3301	China Miéville^?China Mieville
26	3259	Michael Bishop
27	3201	Poul Anderson
28	3143	Joe Haldeman
29	3088	Frederik Pohl
30	3049	Bruce Sterling
31	2959	Bob Eggleton
32	2944	Ramsey Campbell
33	2934	Greg Bear
34	2881	Gregory Benford
35	2838	John Varley
36	2832	Charles N. Brown
37	2778	Kristine Kathryn Rusch
38	2763	Jeff VanderMeer
39	2754	Robert Charles Wilson
40	2744	Lois McMaster Bujold
41	2736	Robert Reed
42	2639	Charles Stross
43	2630	James Patrick Kelly
44	2609	Kelly Link
45	2557	Jack Dann
46	2522	Margo Lanagan
47	2517	Jeffrey Ford
48	2498	Terri Windling
49	2496	William Gibson
50	2468	Roger Zelazny
51	2451	Jonathan Strahan
52	2444	Catherynne M. Valente
53	2437	Geoffrey A. Landis
54	2422	Ted Chiang
55	2406	Michael Whelan
56	2397	Charles de Lint
57	2390	Michael F. Flynn
58	2386	David Brin
59	2385	Fritz Leiber
60	2366	Robert A. Heinlein
61	2365	C. J. Cherryh
62	2364	Kaaron Warren
63	2319	Allen Steele
64	2264	Brandon Sanderson
65	2255	Garth Nix
66	2218	Terry Bisson
67	2207	Terry Pratchett
68	2207	Peter Straub
69	2206	Bruce Boston
70	2204	Ken Liu
71	2171	Howard Waldrop
72	2141	Elizabeth Hand
73	2108	Tanith Lee
74	2108	Cory Doctorow
75	2067	Geoff Ryman
76	2064	N. K. Jemisin
77	2044	Tim Powers
78	2032	David G. Hartwell
79	2014	Brian W. Aldiss
80	2001	Sean Williams
81	1998	Terry Dowling
82	1983	Paolo Bacigalupi
83	1969	Aliette de Bodard
84	1965	Caitlín R. Kiernan^?Caitlin R. Kiernan
85	1952	James Tiptree, Jr.
86	1951	Kate Wilhelm
87	1935	Jo Walton
88	1909	Harry Turtledove
89	1898	Neal Stephenson
90	1884	Richard A. Lovett
91	1881	Maureen F. McHugh
92	1855	Andy Cox
93	1844	Nnedi Okorafor
94	1839	Anne McCaffrey
95	1830	Alastair Reynolds
96	1822	Walter Jon Williams
97	1814	Kim Newman
98	1811	Terry Carr
99	1807	Jack McDevitt
100	1801	John Kessel
101	1777	Jane Yolen
102	1776	Elizabeth Bear
103	1773	Arthur C. Clarke
104	1772	Peter S. Beagle
105	1766	Paul J. McAuley
106	1740	Patricia A. McKillip
107	1738	Ken MacLeod
108	1734	Adam-Troy Castro
109	1733	Michael Moorcock
110	1732	Andreas Eschbach
111	1722	Kage Baker
112	1716	Pat Cadigan
113	1714	Sean McMullen
114	1709	Ian R. MacLeod
115	1691	Andrew Porter
116	1679	Cat Sparks
117	1676	Charles L. Grant
118	1666	Vernor Vinge
119	1650	James Morrow
120	1642	Donato Giancola
121	1636	Thomas M. Disch
122	1618	David Langford
123	1608	Graham Joyce
124	1607	Martin H. Greenberg
125	1605	Andy Duncan
126	1597	Christopher Priest
127	1597	Lee Murray
128	1587	John Scalzi
129	1586	Joe Hill
130	1575	Samuel R. Delany
131	1564	Seanan McGuire
132	1552	Élisabeth Vonarburg^?Elisabeth Vonarburg
133	1548	John Crowley
134	1534	Ann VanderMeer
135	1505	Ann Leckie
136	1500	Karen Joy Fowler
137	1479	Charles Sheffield
138	1475	Paul Haines
139	1472	Clive Barker
140	1469	Guy Gavriel Kay
141	1466	Sarah Pinsker
142	1457	Jonathan Carroll
143	1456	Eleanor Arnason
144	1446	Scott Westerfeld
145	1445	Tansy Rayner Roberts
146	1440	Angela Slatter
147	1426	Kij Johnson
148	1410	Nalo Hopkinson
149	1391	Jack Vance
150	1391	Damien Broderick
151	1382	Cathy Fenner
152	1347	Arnie Fenner
153	1346	Joe R. Lansdale
154	1339	Iain M. Banks
155	1323	Laird Barron
156	1317	Todd Lockwood
157	1315	Ian Watson
158	1315	Julie E. Czerneda
159	1279	Michael Marshall Smith
160	1277	Robert Holdstock
161	1276	Daniel Abraham
162	1270	Norman Spinrad
163	1262	Lisa Tuttle
164	1260	Avram Davidson
165	1256	Amal El-Mohtar
166	1255	John Picacio
167	1253	Karl Edward Wagner
168	1253	Naomi Novik
169	1253	Holly Black
170	1250	Michael Marrak
171	1247	Brian Stableford
172	1240	Juliet Marillier
173	1232	Shaun Tan
174	1230	Don Maitz
175	1229	P. Djèlí Clark^?P. Djeli Clark
176	1227	Peter Watts
177	1211	uncredited
178	1206	James P. Blaylock
179	1199	S. P. Somtow
180	1194	Jim Burns
181	1187	Robin Hobb
182	1186	Philip K. Dick
183	1179	Lucy Sussex
184	1175	Silvia Moreno-Garcia
185	1172	Paul Di Filippo
186	1154	George Alec Effinger
187	1151	Joe Abercrombie
188	1149	David Gerrold
189	1135	Theodore Sturgeon
190	1133	Pat Murphy
191	1125	S. T. Joshi
192	1123	Ursula Vernon
193	1112	J. R. R. Tolkien
194	1106	R. A. Lafferty
195	1106	Octavia E. Butler
196	1104	Stephen Graham Jones
197	1102	M. John Harrison
198	1097	Nina Kiriki Hoffman
199	1095	Steve Rasnic Tem
200	1095	Stephen R. Donaldson
201	1086	Marge Simon
202	1083	Spider Robinson
203	1082	Jay Kristoff
204	1075	Gwyneth Jones
205	1074	Vonda N. McIntyre
206	1060	Gordon R. Dickson
207	1058	Ray Bradbury
208	1057	Martha Wells
209	1056	Tim Lebbon
210	1053	Rodolfo Martínez
211	1049	Dennis Etchison
212	1048	Lynne M. Thomas
213	1043	David Pringle
214	1037	Mary Robinette Kowal
215	1033	F. Paul Wilson
216	1033	Barry N. Malzberg
217	1033	Lisa Goldstein
218	1031	Theodora Goss
219	1029	Stephen Dedman
220	1026	Juan Miguel Aguilera
221	1019	Clifford D. Simak
222	1019	Ben Bova
223	1014	Andreas Brandhorst
224	1013	Timothy Zahn
225	1008	Suzy McKee Charnas
226	990	Vincent Di Fate
227	979	Yoon Ha Lee
228	975	Jerry Pournelle
229	972	Alix E. Harrow
230	967	Nina Allan
231	961	Adam Roberts
232	958	Mary Rosenblum
233	958	Carol Emshwiller
234	954	Patrick Nielsen Hayden
235	950	Neil Clarke
236	947	Susanna Clarke
237	946	Wolfgang Jeschke
238	943	Marcus Hammerschmitt
239	941	Lavie Tidhar
240	940	Robert Hood
241	939	Mike Glyer
242	934	Joanna Russ
243	933	J. K. Rowling
244	930	Tade Thompson
245	929	Farah Mendlesohn
246	928	Margaret Atwood
247	927	Joan D. Vinge
248	925	Michael A. Burstein
249	921	Gary A. Braunbeck
250	914	Kirstyn McDermott
251	913	John Barnes
252	911	John Joseph Adams
253	903	James Alan Gardner
254	900	Edo van Belkom
255	900	Daryl Gregory
256	893	Mary Gentle
257	890	Joël Champetier^?Joel Champetier
258	890	Yves Meynard
259	890	Suzanne Palmer
260	881	Deborah Biancotti
261	873	John C. Wright
262	872	M. Rickert
263	868	Jerry Oltion
264	867	Michael K. Iwoleit
265	865	Scott H. Andrews
266	859	Rick Riordan
267	855	Stephen L. Burns
268	855	Catherine Asaro
269	852	John Clute
270	851	David A. Hardy
271	845	Charlie Jane Anders
272	842	J. G. Ballard
273	842	Robert Shearman
274	839	Jay Lake
275	839	Michael Damian Thomas
276	838	G. David Nordley
277	831	Paul Tremblay
278	820	Robert R. McCammon
279	815	Kameron Hurley
280	815	Ronald M. Hahn
281	814	Edward Bryant
282	807	Pamela Sargent
283	806	Robert Jackson Bennett
284	805	John Brunner
285	798	Ellen Klages
286	796	Edward M. Lerner
287	796	Rafael Marín^?Rafael Marin
288	795	Nicola Griffith
289	794	Jean-Louis Trudel
290	792	Justine Larbalestier
291	792	Thoraiya Dyer
292	789	Rebecca Roanhorse
293	788	Poppy Z. Brite
294	788	Tim Pratt
295	786	Delia Sherman
296	773	Alisa Krasnostein
297	768	Damon Knight
298	765	Alan Baxter
299	762	Richard Cowper
300	762	David Sutton
301	759	John W. Campbell, Jr.
302	759	Victor LaValle
303	756	Helen Marshall
304	755	Jonathan Maberry
305	754	George Turner
306	752	R. Garcia y Robertson
307	751	Tom Piccirilli
308	749	Dominic Harman
309	746	Douglas Smith
310	745	Bob Walters
311	745	Amie Kaufman
312	744	Cassandra Clare
313	742	Rachel Swirsky
314	740	Bradley Denton
315	737	Becky Chambers
316	733	Fran Wilde
317	732	Barry B. Longyear
318	731	Sara Douglass
319	731	Douglas E. Winter
320	729	Janeen Webb
321	728	Joel Lane
322	727	Peter Crowther
323	725	Sam J. Miller
324	716	Fonda Lee
325	715	Tom Holt
326	714	Thomas Ligotti
327	713	Charles Coleman Finlay
328	712	Paul Park
329	712	James Van Pelt
330	707	Christopher Fowler
331	707	Dale Bailey
332	706	Alfred Bester
333	705	Jonathan Lethem
334	705	Thomas Thiemeyer
335	702	Frank Herbert
336	700	Richard Chizmar
337	699	Liz Williams
338	699	Naomi Kritzer
339	697	Eduardo Gallego
340	695	Richard E. Geis
341	693	Susan Shwartz
342	693	Ty Franck
343	692	Diana Wynne Jones
344	692	Norman Partridge
345	692	Kim Wilkins
346	691	Ellen Kushner
347	689	Joyce Carol Oates
348	682	Richard Bowes
349	680	Piers Anthony
350	676	Max Gladstone
351	675	Daniel Sernine
352	670	Hayden Trenholm
353	668	A. Bertram Chandler
354	667	Dominik Parisien
355	666	Algis Budrys
356	664	Glen Hirshberg
357	664	Uwe Post
358	663	Dean R. Koontz
359	663	Cixin Liu
360	662	Donald A. Wollheim
361	662	Keith Roberts
362	662	Dan Rabarts
363	655	Heidrun Jänchen^?Heidrun Jaenchen
364	654	L. Sprague de Camp
365	654	Sean Stewart
366	650	Thorsten Küper^?Thorsten Kueper
367	648	Sofia Samatar
368	646	Esther M. Friesner
369	646	James Gurney
370	645	Robin McKinley
371	644	Alan M. Clark
372	640	Conrad Williams
373	640	Maggie Stiefvater
374	639	Kinuko Y. Craft
375	638	Frank Kelly Freas
376	637	Adrian Tchaikovsky
377	635	Kathleen Jennings
378	634	Peter F. Hamilton
379	629	Julie Dillon
380	627	Gordon Van Gelder
381	624	Charlee Jacob
382	623	Kathe Koja
383	619	Lisa L. Hannett
384	618	Richard Harland
385	617	Philip José Farmer
386	617	Sheri S. Tepper
387	617	Alyssa Wong
388	616	Christopher Golden
389	614	Sarah J. Maas
390	610	James E. Gunn
391	610	Simon Clark
392	609	Karsten Kruschel
393	608	Herbert W. Franke
394	607	Anne Rice
395	606	Jack Cady
396	605	R. Graeme Cameron
397	604	Nisi Shawl
398	603	Kevin J. Maroney
399	599	Sarah Pinborough
400	597	Karl Schroeder
401	595	Jack Williamson
402	595	Robert Jordan
403	595	Paul Collins
404	593	Lewis Shiner
405	593	James P. Hogan
406	592	Kathryn Cramer
407	589	Emma Bull
408	589	Marion Zimmer Bradley
409	586	Robert Bloch
410	585	Thomas Ziegler
411	585	Dena Brown
412	584	William Barton
413	584	Евгений Лукин^?Evgeni Lukin
414	583	Guillem Sánchez
415	582	Russell Blackford
416	581	Kate Forsyth
417	578	Mike Allen
418	576	Gavin J. Grant
419	574	Dave Duncan
420	573	Stephen Hickman
421	571	Barbara Roden
422	568	Arthur W. Saha
423	568	Sheila Williams
424	565	Diane L. Walton
425	564	Justina Robson
426	564	Patrick Ness
427	562	Tamsyn Muir
428	561	Kelly Robson
429	560	Arndt Drechsler
430	559	Jasper Fforde
431	557	Frank W. Haubold
432	556	神林長平^?Chōhei Kanbayashi Chohei Kambayashi Chouhei Kambayashi Chōhei Kambayashi Chouhei Kanbayashi Chohei Kanbayashi かんばやしちょうへい
433	555	Michael Shea
434	555	Mary A. Turzillo
435	555	Brooke Bolander
436	555	Jonathan Stroud
437	554	Arkady Martine
438	553	R. A. MacAvoy
439	552	Martha Soukup
440	550	Francis Berthelot
441	550	Lauren Beukes
442	550	Rich Larson
443	545	Alain Bergeron
444	542	David Marusek
445	542	Janet Kagan
446	542	Eduardo Vaquerizo
447	540	Nancy A. Collins
448	539	Paul Finch
449	539	Rajnar Vajra
450	539	Caroline M. Yoachim
451	537	Brian Hodge
452	537	Lee Battersby
453	536	Barbara Hambly
454	536	Leigh Bardugo
455	535	Isobelle Carmody
456	533	David D. Levine
457	530	Robert Asprin
458	530	Melissa Scott
459	528	John Jude Palencar
460	528	Victoria Schwab
461	526	Thomas F. Monteleone
462	526	Andy Weir
463	524	Maurizio Manzieri
464	523	Mark Morris
465	523	Nathan Ballingrud
466	521	Tony Daniel
467	521	Nick Mamatas
468	519	Mary Soon Lee
469	519	Joanne Anderton
470	518	Jim Butcher
471	518	Sergio Mars
472	518	Jan J. B. Kuipers
473	517	Koldo Campo
474	516	Shauna O'Meara
475	515	Stanley Schmidt
476	515	Shane Dix
477	515	Suzanne Collins
478	512	Patrick Rothfuss
479	511	Linda Nagata
480	511	Octavia Cade
481	511	David Clink
482	510	Will McIntosh
483	510	Mark Lawrence
484	509	Tobias S. Buckell
485	506	L. Neil Smith
486	506	Hilbert Schenck
487	506	Tom Kidd
488	503	Simon Brown
489	503	Susan Forest
490	503	Niall Harrison
491	502	Frances Hardinge
492	502	Brian Evenson
493	501	小松左京^?Komatsu Sakyou Komatsu Sakyō こまつさきょう Komatsu Sakyo
494	500	荒俣宏^?あらまたひろし Hiroshi Aramata
495	498	Kathleen Ann Goonan
496	496	Paul Kincaid
497	495	A. E. van Vogt
498	494	James Blish
499	494	Douglas Clegg
500	492	David J. Skal

Highest Ranked Authors and Editors of All Time

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