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	5689	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	2745	Lois McMaster Bujold
41	2736	Robert Reed
42	2674	Charles Stross
43	2630	James Patrick Kelly
44	2609	Kelly Link
45	2557	Jack Dann
46	2528	Catherynne M. Valente
47	2522	Margo Lanagan
48	2517	Jeffrey Ford
49	2498	Terri Windling
50	2496	William Gibson
51	2468	Roger Zelazny
52	2451	Jonathan Strahan
53	2437	Geoffrey A. Landis
54	2422	Ted Chiang
55	2406	Michael Whelan
56	2390	Michael F. Flynn
57	2386	David Brin
58	2385	Fritz Leiber
59	2366	Robert A. Heinlein
60	2365	C. J. Cherryh
61	2364	Kaaron Warren
62	2347	Charles de Lint
63	2319	Allen Steele
64	2314	Brandon Sanderson
65	2256	Garth Nix
66	2218	Terry Bisson
67	2210	Bruce Boston
68	2207	Terry Pratchett
69	2207	Peter Straub
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	1996	Aliette de Bodard
83	1983	Paolo Bacigalupi
84	1965	Caitlín R. Kiernan^?Caitlin R. Kiernan
85	1952	James Tiptree, Jr.
86	1951	Kate Wilhelm
87	1935	Jo Walton
88	1930	Nnedi Okorafor
89	1909	Harry Turtledove
90	1898	Neal Stephenson
91	1891	Andy Cox
92	1884	Richard A. Lovett
93	1881	Maureen F. McHugh
94	1839	Anne McCaffrey
95	1830	Alastair Reynolds
96	1822	Walter Jon Williams
97	1816	Pat Cadigan
98	1814	Kim Newman
99	1811	Terry Carr
100	1807	Jack McDevitt
101	1801	John Kessel
102	1778	Jane Yolen
103	1777	Elizabeth Bear
104	1773	Arthur C. Clarke
105	1772	Peter S. Beagle
106	1766	Paul J. McAuley
107	1740	Patricia A. McKillip
108	1738	Ken MacLeod
109	1734	Adam-Troy Castro
110	1733	Michael Moorcock
111	1732	Andreas Eschbach
112	1722	Kage Baker
113	1714	Sean McMullen
114	1709	Ian R. MacLeod
115	1691	Andrew Porter
116	1679	Cat Sparks
117	1676	Charles L. Grant
118	1669	Seanan McGuire
119	1666	Vernor Vinge
120	1650	James Morrow
121	1642	Donato Giancola
122	1636	Thomas M. Disch
123	1631	Lee Murray
124	1622	John Scalzi
125	1618	David Langford
126	1608	Graham Joyce
127	1607	Martin H. Greenberg
128	1605	Andy Duncan
129	1597	Christopher Priest
130	1586	Joe Hill
131	1552	Élisabeth Vonarburg^?Elisabeth Vonarburg
132	1550	Samuel R. Delany
133	1548	John Crowley
134	1534	Ann VanderMeer
135	1515	Sarah Pinsker
136	1506	Ann Leckie
137	1500	Karen Joy Fowler
138	1479	Charles Sheffield
139	1475	Paul Haines
140	1472	Clive Barker
141	1469	Guy Gavriel Kay
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	1362	Daniel Abraham
153	1357	P. Djèlí Clark^?P. Djeli Clark
154	1347	Arnie Fenner
155	1346	Joe R. Lansdale
156	1339	Iain M. Banks
157	1323	Laird Barron
158	1317	Todd Lockwood
159	1315	Ian Watson
160	1315	Julie E. Czerneda
161	1303	Naomi Novik
162	1303	Holly Black
163	1279	Michael Marshall Smith
164	1277	Robert Holdstock
165	1270	Norman Spinrad
166	1262	Lisa Tuttle
167	1260	Avram Davidson
168	1256	Amal El-Mohtar
169	1255	John Picacio
170	1253	Karl Edward Wagner
171	1250	Michael Marrak
172	1247	Brian Stableford
173	1240	Juliet Marillier
174	1232	Shaun Tan
175	1230	Don Maitz
176	1227	Peter Watts
177	1210	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	1174	Stephen Graham Jones
186	1172	Paul Di Filippo
187	1158	Ursula Vernon
188	1154	George Alec Effinger
189	1151	Joe Abercrombie
190	1149	David Gerrold
191	1135	Theodore Sturgeon
192	1133	Pat Murphy
193	1125	S. T. Joshi
194	1113	Timothy Zahn
195	1112	J. R. R. Tolkien
196	1109	Vonda N. McIntyre
197	1106	R. A. Lafferty
198	1106	Octavia E. Butler
199	1106	Tim Lebbon
200	1102	M. John Harrison
201	1097	Nina Kiriki Hoffman
202	1097	Lynne M. Thomas
203	1095	Steve Rasnic Tem
204	1095	Stephen R. Donaldson
205	1086	Marge Simon
206	1083	Spider Robinson
207	1082	Jay Kristoff
208	1075	Gwyneth Jones
209	1069	Alix E. Harrow
210	1060	Gordon R. Dickson
211	1058	Ray Bradbury
212	1058	Martha Wells
213	1053	Rodolfo Martínez
214	1049	Dennis Etchison
215	1043	David Pringle
216	1038	Mary Robinette Kowal
217	1033	F. Paul Wilson
218	1033	Barry N. Malzberg
219	1033	Lisa Goldstein
220	1031	Theodora Goss
221	1029	Stephen Dedman
222	1026	Juan Miguel Aguilera
223	1019	Clifford D. Simak
224	1019	Ben Bova
225	1014	Andreas Brandhorst
226	1008	Suzy McKee Charnas
227	990	Vincent Di Fate
228	979	Yoon Ha Lee
229	977	Joan D. Vinge
230	975	Jerry Pournelle
231	967	Nina Allan
232	961	Adam Roberts
233	958	Mary Rosenblum
234	958	Carol Emshwiller
235	954	Patrick Nielsen Hayden
236	952	Neil Clarke
237	947	Susanna Clarke
238	946	Wolfgang Jeschke
239	943	Marcus Hammerschmitt
240	941	Lavie Tidhar
241	940	Robert Hood
242	939	Suzanne Palmer
243	939	Mike Glyer
244	935	Daryl Gregory
245	934	Joanna Russ
246	933	J. K. Rowling
247	931	Tade Thompson
248	929	Farah Mendlesohn
249	928	Margaret Atwood
250	925	Michael A. Burstein
251	922	Charlie Jane Anders
252	921	Gary A. Braunbeck
253	914	Kirstyn McDermott
254	913	John Barnes
255	911	John Joseph Adams
256	905	Jonathan Maberry
257	903	James Alan Gardner
258	900	Edo van Belkom
259	893	Mary Gentle
260	892	Scott H. Andrews
261	890	Joël Champetier^?Joel Champetier
262	890	Yves Meynard
263	888	Michael Damian Thomas
264	881	Deborah Biancotti
265	873	John C. Wright
266	872	M. Rickert
267	868	Jerry Oltion
268	867	Michael K. Iwoleit
269	859	Rick Riordan
270	855	Stephen L. Burns
271	855	Catherine Asaro
272	852	John Clute
273	851	David A. Hardy
274	849	Becky Chambers
275	842	J. G. Ballard
276	842	Robert Shearman
277	839	Jay Lake
278	838	G. David Nordley
279	831	Paul Tremblay
280	820	Robert R. McCammon
281	815	Kameron Hurley
282	815	Ronald M. Hahn
283	814	Edward Bryant
284	807	Pamela Sargent
285	806	Robert Jackson Bennett
286	805	John Brunner
287	798	Ellen Klages
288	796	Edward M. Lerner
289	796	Rafael Marín^?Rafael Marin
290	795	Nicola Griffith
291	794	Jean-Louis Trudel
292	792	Justine Larbalestier
293	792	Thoraiya Dyer
294	789	Rebecca Roanhorse
295	788	Poppy Z. Brite
296	788	Tim Pratt
297	786	Delia Sherman
298	773	Alisa Krasnostein
299	768	Damon Knight
300	767	Fran Wilde
301	765	Alan Baxter
302	762	Richard Cowper
303	762	David Sutton
304	759	John W. Campbell, Jr.
305	759	Victor LaValle
306	756	Helen Marshall
307	754	George Turner
308	752	R. Garcia y Robertson
309	751	Tom Piccirilli
310	751	Fonda Lee
311	749	Dominic Harman
312	746	Douglas Smith
313	745	Bob Walters
314	745	Amie Kaufman
315	744	Cassandra Clare
316	744	Ty Franck
317	742	Rachel Swirsky
318	742	Adrian Tchaikovsky
319	740	Bradley Denton
320	732	Barry B. Longyear
321	731	Sara Douglass
322	731	Douglas E. Winter
323	729	Janeen Webb
324	728	Naomi Kritzer
325	728	Joel Lane
326	727	Peter Crowther
327	726	Sam J. Miller
328	715	Tom Holt
329	714	Thomas Ligotti
330	713	Charles Coleman Finlay
331	712	Paul Park
332	712	James Van Pelt
333	707	Christopher Fowler
334	707	Dale Bailey
335	706	Alfred Bester
336	705	Jonathan Lethem
337	705	Thomas Thiemeyer
338	702	Frank Herbert
339	700	Richard Chizmar
340	699	Liz Williams
341	697	Eduardo Gallego
342	695	Richard E. Geis
343	693	Susan Shwartz
344	692	Diana Wynne Jones
345	692	Norman Partridge
346	692	Kim Wilkins
347	691	Ellen Kushner
348	689	Joyce Carol Oates
349	682	Richard Bowes
350	680	Piers Anthony
351	676	Max Gladstone
352	675	Daniel Sernine
353	670	Hayden Trenholm
354	668	A. Bertram Chandler
355	667	Dominik Parisien
356	666	Algis Budrys
357	664	Glen Hirshberg
358	664	Uwe Post
359	663	Dean R. Koontz
360	663	Cixin Liu
361	662	Donald A. Wollheim
362	662	Keith Roberts
363	662	Dan Rabarts
364	655	Heidrun Jänchen^?Heidrun Jaenchen
365	654	L. Sprague de Camp
366	654	Sean Stewart
367	650	Thorsten Küper^?Thorsten Kueper
368	648	Sofia Samatar
369	646	Esther M. Friesner
370	646	James Gurney
371	645	Robin McKinley
372	644	Alan M. Clark
373	640	Conrad Williams
374	640	Maggie Stiefvater
375	639	Kinuko Y. Craft
376	638	Frank Kelly Freas
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	Arkady Martine
399	603	Kevin J. Maroney
400	599	Sarah Pinborough
401	597	Karl Schroeder
402	595	Jack Williamson
403	595	Robert Jordan
404	595	Paul Collins
405	593	Lewis Shiner
406	593	James P. Hogan
407	592	Kathryn Cramer
408	589	Emma Bull
409	589	Marion Zimmer Bradley
410	586	Robert Bloch
411	585	Thomas Ziegler
412	585	Dena Brown
413	584	William Barton
414	584	Евгений Лукин^?Evgeni Lukin
415	583	Guillem Sánchez
416	582	Russell Blackford
417	581	Kate Forsyth
418	578	Mike Allen
419	576	Gavin J. Grant
420	574	Dave Duncan
421	573	Stephen Hickman
422	571	Barbara Roden
423	571	Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald
424	568	Arthur W. Saha
425	568	Mary Soon Lee
426	568	Sheila Williams
427	568	Caroline M. Yoachim
428	565	Diane L. Walton
429	564	Justina Robson
430	564	Patrick Ness
431	563	Kevin J. Anderson
432	563	Victoria Schwab
433	562	Tamsyn Muir
434	561	Kelly Robson
435	560	Arndt Drechsler
436	559	Jasper Fforde
437	557	Frank W. Haubold
438	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
439	555	Michael Shea
440	555	Mary A. Turzillo
441	555	Brooke Bolander
442	555	Jonathan Stroud
443	553	R. A. MacAvoy
444	552	Martha Soukup
445	552	Andy Weir
446	550	Francis Berthelot
447	550	Lauren Beukes
448	550	Rich Larson
449	545	Alain Bergeron
450	542	David Marusek
451	542	Janet Kagan
452	542	Eduardo Vaquerizo
453	540	Nancy A. Collins
454	540	Alex Irvine
455	539	Paul Finch
456	539	Rajnar Vajra
457	537	Brian Hodge
458	537	Lee Battersby
459	536	Barbara Hambly
460	536	Leigh Bardugo
461	535	Isobelle Carmody
462	533	David D. Levine
463	530	Robert Asprin
464	530	Melissa Scott
465	528	John Jude Palencar
466	526	Thomas F. Monteleone
467	524	Maurizio Manzieri
468	523	Mark Morris
469	523	Nathan Ballingrud
470	521	Tony Daniel
471	521	Nick Mamatas
472	519	Joanne Anderton
473	518	Jim Butcher
474	518	Sergio Mars
475	518	Jan J. B. Kuipers
476	517	Koldo Campo
477	516	Shauna O'Meara
478	515	Stanley Schmidt
479	515	Shane Dix
480	515	Suzanne Collins
481	512	Patrick Rothfuss
482	512	David Clink
483	511	Linda Nagata
484	511	Octavia Cade
485	510	Will McIntosh
486	510	Mark Lawrence
487	509	Tobias S. Buckell
488	508	Michael Kelly
489	506	L. Neil Smith
490	506	Hilbert Schenck
491	506	Tom Kidd
492	503	Simon Brown
493	503	Susan Forest
494	503	Niall Harrison
495	502	Frances Hardinge
496	502	Brian Evenson
497	501	小松左京^?Komatsu Sakyou Komatsu Sakyō こまつさきょう Komatsu Sakyo
498	500	荒俣宏^?あらまたひろし Hiroshi Aramata
499	498	Kathleen Ann Goonan
500	496	Paul Kincaid

Highest Ranked Authors and Editors of All Time

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