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 | 695 | 2796 | 692 | 127 |
2. | Gollancz | 358 | 1226 | 492 | 138 |
3. | Orbit | 298 | 1182 | 330 | 55 |
4. | Ace Books | 548 | 2176 | 293 | 56 |
5. | Bantam Spectra | 205 | 565 | 187 | 40 |
6. | Del Rey | 176 | 491 | 136 | 33 |
7. | William Morrow & Co. | 114 | 217 | 124 | 34 |
8. | HarperCollins/Voyager | 177 | 449 | 109 | 17 |
9. | Doubleday | 279 | 728 | 101 | 17 |
10. | DAW Books | 259 | 1460 | 95 | 14 |
11. | HarperCollins | 134 | 270 | 91 | 22 |
12. | Baen | 302 | 1191 | 85 | 19 |
13. | Ballantine Books | 197 | 499 | 78 | 17 |
14. | Roc | 186 | 648 | 75 | 10 |
15. | Del Rey / Ballantine | 212 | 871 | 73 | 12 |
16. | St. Martin's Press | 156 | 296 | 71 | 19 |
17. | Alfred A. Knopf | 90 | 209 | 68 | 14 |
18. | Bantam UK | 74 | 178 | 67 | 13 |
19. | Saga Press | 74 | 140 | 61 | 10 |
20. | Tor.com Publishing | 398 | 801 | 60 | 10 |
21. | Hodder & Stoughton | 95 | 269 | 58 | 11 |
22. | Orion Books | 93 | 146 | 56 | 9 |
23. | HarperCollins UK | 65 | 147 | 52 | 11 |
24. | Open Road Integrated Media | 97 | 377 | 51 | 8 |
25. | Self-Published | 165 | 311 | 50 | 5 |
26. | Eos | 51 | 109 | 49 | 9 |
27. | Pyr | 94 | 262 | 48 | 10 |
28. | G. P. Putnam's Sons | 115 | 249 | 47 | 9 |
29. | Solaris | 133 | 311 | 46 | 4 |
30. | Penguin Books | 232 | 328 | 45 | 5 |
31. | Little, Brown and Company | 100 | 197 | 43 | 4 |
32. | Small Beer Press | 53 | 100 | 42 | 12 |
33. | Timescape Books | 64 | 89 | 42 | 10 |
34. | HarperCollins Australia | 29 | 81 | 42 | 12 |
35. | Bloomsbury Publishing | 55 | 113 | 41 | 12 |
36. | Macmillan UK | 44 | 100 | 40 | 12 |
37. | HarperPrism | 59 | 92 | 39 | 11 |
38. | Avon | 193 | 371 | 39 | 10 |
39. | Headline Publishing Group | 47 | 143 | 39 | 19 |
40. | Allen & Unwin | 28 | 72 | 38 | 9 |
41. | Titan Books | 177 | 404 | 38 | 7 |
42. | Scribner | 53 | 109 | 37 | 5 |
43. | Pocket Books | 312 | 954 | 37 | 9 |
44. | Random House | 127 | 194 | 37 | 10 |
45. | Simon & Schuster | 130 | 192 | 36 | 10 |
46. | Angry Robot Books | 118 | 271 | 35 | 8 |
47. | Science Fiction Book Club | 82 | 120 | 34 | 7 |
48. | Bantam Dell Publishing Group | 51 | 131 | 34 | 5 |
49. | Pan Macmillan | 46 | 108 | 33 | 8 |
50. | Macmillan Publishing | 48 | 86 | 33 | 4 |
51. | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | 147 | 276 | 32 | 8 |
52. | Aqueduct Press | 83 | 136 | 32 | 4 |
53. | Berkley Publishing Group | 107 | 201 | 31 | 7 |
54. | Galaxy Science Fiction | 68 | 110 | 31 | 16 |
55. | Warner Aspect | 73 | 134 | 31 | 5 |
56. | Night Shade Books | 123 | 298 | 29 | 5 |
57. | Harper & Row | 63 | 118 | 29 | 9 |
58. | Jo Fletcher Books | 40 | 121 | 28 | 2 |
59. | PS Publishing | 79 | 159 | 27 | 5 |
60. | Faber and Faber | 54 | 140 | 27 | 5 |
61. | Jonathan Cape | 48 | 115 | 26 | 6 |
62. | Berkley/Putnam | 43 | 68 | 25 | 3 |
63. | Asimov's Science Fiction | 220 | 682 | 25 | 4 |
64. | Atheneum | 37 | 83 | 25 | 5 |
65. | Signet | 100 | 247 | 25 | 5 |
66. | Tachyon Publications | 84 | 149 | 25 | 4 |
67. | Millennium | 29 | 47 | 24 | 5 |
68. | Arbor House | 37 | 57 | 24 | 4 |
69. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 64 | 126 | 23 | 3 |
70. | Houghton Mifflin | 64 | 125 | 23 | 7 |
71. | Carroll & Graf | 51 | 106 | 22 | 4 |
72. | Subterranean Press | 140 | 375 | 22 | 3 |
73. | Gregg Press | 67 | 99 | 22 | 4 |
74. | Viking Press | 32 | 60 | 20 | 5 |
75. | New English Library | 80 | 167 | 20 | 8 |
76. | Doubleday Foundation | 26 | 45 | 20 | 6 |
77. | Grafton | 70 | 139 | 20 | 3 |
78. | St. Martin's Griffin | 43 | 135 | 19 | 6 |
79. | Scholastic | 55 | 139 | 18 | 1 |
80. | Earthlight UK | 25 | 43 | 18 | 1 |
81. | Warner Books | 77 | 172 | 17 | 3 |
82. | NewCon Press | 52 | 89 | 16 | 0 |
83. | Crown Publishers | 46 | 72 | 16 | 2 |
84. | Henry Holt and Company | 39 | 66 | 16 | 1 |
85. | Legend | 39 | 73 | 15 | 4 |
86. | Harcourt, Inc. | 20 | 61 | 15 | 3 |
87. | Simon & Schuster UK | 41 | 81 | 15 | 2 |
88. | Delacorte Press | 69 | 143 | 15 | 0 |
89. | Doubleday UK | 28 | 74 | 15 | 3 |
90. | Forge | 37 | 78 | 15 | 1 |
91. | Redhook | 13 | 28 | 15 | 3 |
92. | Head of Zeus | 23 | 69 | 14 | 3 |
93. | Easton Press | 48 | 66 | 14 | 3 |
94. | Viking Canada | 3 | 14 | 14 | 2 |
95. | HarperTorch | 6 | 44 | 14 | 4 |
96. | Sidgwick & Jackson | 40 | 73 | 14 | 3 |
97. | Chatto & Windus | 22 | 41 | 14 | 2 |
98. | Orb Books | 30 | 49 | 14 | 4 |
99. | Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 277 | 524 | 14 | 1 |
100. | HarperCollins/Eos | 46 | 87 | 13 | 0 |
101. | Harcourt, Brace & World | 22 | 50 | 13 | 3 |
102. | Leisure Books | 46 | 125 | 13 | 1 |
103. | ChiZine Publications | 42 | 59 | 13 | 2 |
104. | Penguin Australia | 11 | 19 | 13 | 2 |
105. | Greenwillow Press | 15 | 68 | 13 | 0 |
106. | Corvus | 11 | 24 | 13 | 2 |
107. | EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing | 13 | 30 | 12 | 2 |
108. | Candlewick Press | 21 | 34 | 12 | 2 |
109. | Walker Books | 27 | 53 | 12 | 2 |
110. | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | 26 | 56 | 12 | 8 |
111. | Spectra | 17 | 27 | 12 | 5 |
112. | Phantasia Press | 15 | 24 | 12 | 2 |
113. | Picador | 39 | 52 | 12 | 2 |
114. | Prime Books | 74 | 184 | 11 | 0 |
115. | Holt, Rinehart & Winston | 30 | 49 | 11 | 2 |
116. | Grove Press | 32 | 41 | 11 | 5 |
117. | Dutton | 58 | 111 | 11 | 6 |
118. | Vintage | 75 | 124 | 11 | 2 |
119. | e-reads | 11 | 51 | 11 | 1 |
120. | Arthur A. Levine Books | 11 | 20 | 11 | 1 |
121. | Tor Teen | 23 | 55 | 11 | 1 |
122. | Amulet Books | 18 | 30 | 11 | 1 |
123. | Unsung Stories | 7 | 9 | 11 | 0 |
124. | MCD | 10 | 12 | 11 | 1 |
125. | Berkley Books | 102 | 189 | 10 | 2 |
126. | 47North | 65 | 172 | 10 | 1 |
127. | Mulholland Books | 12 | 19 | 10 | 1 |
128. | Viking UK | 19 | 26 | 10 | 2 |
129. | Arrow | 62 | 125 | 10 | 2 |
130. | Canongate Books Ltd. | 32 | 45 | 10 | 2 |
131. | Avon Eos | 28 | 42 | 10 | 2 |