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 | 733 | 2903 | 714 | 132 |
2. | Gollancz | 371 | 1274 | 495 | 138 |
3. | Orbit | 323 | 1274 | 341 | 56 |
4. | Ace Books | 565 | 2269 | 293 | 56 |
5. | Bantam Spectra | 208 | 572 | 187 | 40 |
6. | Del Rey | 186 | 532 | 147 | 35 |
7. | William Morrow & Co. | 120 | 235 | 126 | 35 |
8. | HarperCollins/Voyager | 191 | 507 | 113 | 20 |
9. | Doubleday | 307 | 786 | 102 | 17 |
10. | DAW Books | 273 | 1522 | 101 | 15 |
11. | HarperCollins | 141 | 281 | 94 | 23 |
12. | Baen | 314 | 1269 | 87 | 19 |
13. | Tor.com Publishing | 456 | 968 | 81 | 15 |
14. | Ballantine Books | 207 | 516 | 78 | 17 |
15. | Roc | 193 | 663 | 75 | 10 |
16. | Del Rey / Ballantine | 213 | 875 | 73 | 12 |
17. | St. Martin's Press | 167 | 321 | 71 | 19 |
18. | Saga Press | 86 | 166 | 71 | 12 |
19. | Alfred A. Knopf | 96 | 219 | 68 | 14 |
20. | Bantam UK | 74 | 178 | 67 | 13 |
21. | Self-Published | 211 | 423 | 64 | 6 |
22. | Hodder & Stoughton | 106 | 321 | 58 | 11 |
23. | Orion Books | 100 | 174 | 56 | 9 |
24. | HarperCollins UK | 67 | 158 | 52 | 11 |
25. | Titan Books | 208 | 474 | 51 | 12 |
26. | Open Road Integrated Media | 99 | 395 | 51 | 8 |
27. | Eos | 53 | 112 | 49 | 9 |
28. | Pyr | 95 | 264 | 48 | 10 |
29. | Solaris | 141 | 333 | 48 | 5 |
30. | G. P. Putnam's Sons | 120 | 258 | 47 | 9 |
31. | Penguin Books | 255 | 364 | 45 | 5 |
32. | Little, Brown and Company | 105 | 207 | 44 | 4 |
33. | Bloomsbury Publishing | 64 | 128 | 43 | 12 |
34. | Small Beer Press | 54 | 102 | 42 | 12 |
35. | Timescape Books | 64 | 89 | 42 | 10 |
36. | HarperCollins Australia | 30 | 82 | 42 | 12 |
37. | Macmillan UK | 45 | 104 | 40 | 12 |
38. | HarperPrism | 62 | 100 | 39 | 11 |
39. | Avon | 209 | 401 | 39 | 10 |
40. | Headline Publishing Group | 50 | 160 | 39 | 19 |
41. | Allen & Unwin | 31 | 79 | 38 | 9 |
42. | Angry Robot Books | 126 | 296 | 38 | 9 |
43. | Random House | 140 | 214 | 38 | 10 |
44. | Pocket Books | 322 | 975 | 37 | 9 |
45. | Scribner | 59 | 120 | 37 | 5 |
46. | Simon & Schuster | 147 | 208 | 36 | 10 |
47. | Science Fiction Book Club | 84 | 122 | 34 | 7 |
48. | Bantam Dell Publishing Group | 51 | 131 | 34 | 5 |
49. | Pan Macmillan | 46 | 108 | 33 | 8 |
50. | Macmillan Publishing | 49 | 88 | 33 | 4 |
51. | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | 154 | 289 | 32 | 8 |
52. | Aqueduct Press | 88 | 142 | 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 | 300 | 29 | 5 |
57. | Harper & Row | 66 | 121 | 29 | 9 |
58. | Jo Fletcher Books | 43 | 127 | 28 | 2 |
59. | PS Publishing | 83 | 168 | 27 | 5 |
60. | Faber and Faber | 57 | 148 | 27 | 5 |
61. | Jonathan Cape | 50 | 119 | 26 | 6 |
62. | Atheneum | 41 | 86 | 26 | 5 |
63. | Asimov's Science Fiction | 224 | 711 | 25 | 4 |
64. | Berkley/Putnam | 43 | 68 | 25 | 3 |
65. | Signet | 105 | 256 | 25 | 5 |
66. | Tachyon Publications | 88 | 159 | 25 | 4 |
67. | Millennium | 29 | 47 | 24 | 5 |
68. | Arbor House | 37 | 57 | 24 | 4 |
69. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 77 | 139 | 24 | 4 |
70. | Houghton Mifflin | 65 | 126 | 23 | 7 |
71. | Carroll & Graf | 55 | 112 | 22 | 4 |
72. | Subterranean Press | 147 | 405 | 22 | 3 |
73. | Gregg Press | 68 | 100 | 22 | 4 |
74. | Viking Press | 34 | 62 | 20 | 5 |
75. | New English Library | 83 | 177 | 20 | 8 |
76. | Doubleday Foundation | 26 | 45 | 20 | 6 |
77. | Grafton | 71 | 142 | 20 | 3 |
78. | St. Martin's Griffin | 46 | 153 | 19 | 6 |
79. | Scholastic | 61 | 152 | 19 | 1 |
80. | Earthlight UK | 27 | 49 | 18 | 1 |
81. | Henry Holt and Company | 44 | 75 | 18 | 1 |
82. | Warner Books | 80 | 187 | 17 | 3 |
83. | NewCon Press | 52 | 90 | 16 | 0 |
84. | Redhook | 20 | 42 | 16 | 3 |
85. | Crown Publishers | 47 | 73 | 16 | 2 |
86. | Delacorte Press | 77 | 156 | 15 | 0 |
87. | Doubleday UK | 30 | 78 | 15 | 3 |
88. | Forge | 37 | 85 | 15 | 1 |
89. | Legend | 39 | 73 | 15 | 4 |
90. | Harcourt, Inc. | 20 | 61 | 15 | 3 |
91. | Simon & Schuster UK | 44 | 84 | 15 | 2 |
92. | Head of Zeus | 26 | 84 | 15 | 3 |
93. | Berkley Books | 114 | 234 | 14 | 2 |
94. | Easton Press | 49 | 69 | 14 | 3 |
95. | Viking Canada | 3 | 14 | 14 | 2 |
96. | HarperTorch | 6 | 44 | 14 | 4 |
97. | Sidgwick & Jackson | 42 | 75 | 14 | 3 |
98. | Chatto & Windus | 23 | 42 | 14 | 2 |
99. | Orb Books | 31 | 50 | 14 | 4 |
100. | Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | 279 | 527 | 14 | 1 |
101. | HarperCollins/Eos | 47 | 90 | 13 | 0 |
102. | Harcourt, Brace & World | 23 | 52 | 13 | 3 |
103. | Leisure Books | 51 | 133 | 13 | 1 |
104. | Candlewick Press | 24 | 39 | 13 | 2 |
105. | Penguin Australia | 15 | 28 | 13 | 2 |
106. | ChiZine Publications | 43 | 60 | 13 | 2 |
107. | Tor Teen | 26 | 70 | 13 | 3 |
108. | Greenwillow Press | 16 | 69 | 13 | 0 |
109. | Corvus | 10 | 26 | 13 | 2 |
110. | Mulholland Books | 14 | 26 | 12 | 3 |
111. | Unsung Stories | 7 | 9 | 12 | 0 |
112. | MCD | 14 | 19 | 12 | 2 |
113. | EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing | 13 | 30 | 12 | 2 |
114. | Walker Books | 30 | 58 | 12 | 2 |
115. | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | 27 | 57 | 12 | 8 |
116. | Dutton | 66 | 120 | 12 | 7 |
117. | Spectra | 19 | 37 | 12 | 5 |
118. | Phantasia Press | 15 | 24 | 12 | 2 |
119. | Picador | 46 | 59 | 12 | 2 |
120. | Prime Books | 75 | 185 | 11 | 0 |
121. | Holt, Rinehart & Winston | 32 | 52 | 11 | 2 |
122. | Grove Press | 35 | 44 | 11 | 5 |
123. | Vintage | 93 | 146 | 11 | 2 |
124. | e-reads | 11 | 51 | 11 | 1 |
125. | Amulet Books | 18 | 30 | 11 | 1 |
126. | Arthur A. Levine Books | 11 | 20 | 11 | 1 |
127. | Original French publication | 89 | 161 | 10 | 2 |
128. | Razorbill | 19 | 48 | 10 | 2 |
129. | 47North | 72 | 203 | 10 | 1 |
130. | Erewhon Books | 17 | 21 | 10 | 1 |
131. | Viking UK | 19 | 26 | 10 | 2 |
132. | Arrow | 64 | 128 | 10 | 2 |
133. | Canongate Books Ltd. | 34 | 47 | 10 | 2 |
134. | Avon Eos | 30 | 44 | 10 | 2 |