The Philip K. Dick Award is awarded annually at Norwescon to distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form for the first time in the United States.
Sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust, nominees from books published in the previous year are voted on by a panel of judges.
We’ll post reviews of the winners here:
- 2016: The Mercy Journals by Claudia Casper
- Special Citation to Unpronounceable by Susan diRende
- 2015: Apex by Ramez Naam
- Special Citation to Archangel by Marguerite Reed
- 2014: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
- Special Citation to Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett
- 2013: Countdown City (sequel to The Last Policeman) by Ben H. Winters
- Special Citation to Self-Reference ENGINE by Toh EnJoe, trans. Terry Gallagher
- 2012: Lost Everything, Brian Francis Slattery
- Special Citation to LoveStar by Andri SnærMagnason
- 2011: The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy, Simon Morden
- 2010:The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack, Mark Hodder
- 2009: Bitter Angels, C. L. Anderson
- 2008: Tied between:
- Emissaries from The Dead, Adam-Troy Castro
- Terminal Mind, David Walton
- 2007: Nova Swing, M. John Harrison
- 2006: Spin Control, Chris Moriarty
- 2005: War Surf, M. M. Buckner
- 2004: Life, Gwyneth Jones
- 2003: Altered Carbon, Richard K. Morgan
- 2002: The Mount, Carol Emshwiller
- 2001: Ship of Fools, Richard Paul Russo
- 2000: Only Forward, Michael Marshall Smith
- 1999: Vacuum Diagrams, Stephen Baxter
- 1998: 253: The Print Remix, Geoff Ryman
- 1997: The Troika, Stepan Chapman
- 1996: The Time Ships, Stephen Baxter
- 1995: Headcrash, Bruce Bethke
- 1994: Mysterium, Robert Charles Wilson
- 1993: Tied between:
- Growing up Weightless, John M. Ford
- Elvissey, Jack Womack
- 1992: Through the Heart, Richard Grant
- 1991: King of Morning, Queen of Day, Ian McDonald
- 1990: Points of Departure, Pat Murphy
- 1989: Subterranean Gallery, Richard Paul Russo
- 1987: Strange Toys, Patricia Geary
- 1986: Homunculus, James P. Blaylock
- 1985: Dinner at Deviant’s Palace, Tim Powers
- 1984: Neuromancer, William Gibson
- 1983: The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers
- 1982: Software, Rudy Rucker