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Philip K. Dick Award

American annual award for science fiction novels

Summary

American annual award for science fiction novels

FieldValue
namePhilip K. Dick Award
imagesize150px
awarded_forThe best science fiction paperback novel published in the United States in the previous calendar year
presenterPhiladelphia Science Fiction Society, Philip K. Dick Trust, Northwest Science Fiction Society
countryUnited States
year1983
websitephilipkdickaward.org

The Philip K. Dick Award is an American science fiction award given annually at Norwescon and sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and (since 2005) the Philip K. Dick Trust. Named after science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, it has been awarded since 1983, the year after his death. It is awarded to the best original paperback published each year in the US.

The award was founded by Thomas Disch with assistance from David G. Hartwell, Paul S. Williams, and Charles N. Brown. As of 2025, it is administered by Pat LoBrutto, John Silbersack, and Gordon Van Gelder. Past administrators include Algis Budrys and David G. Hartwell.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed in bold.

The year in the table below indicates the year the winners are announced; this is the year after the novels were published.

Key
Winner
Special Citation
YearAuthorTitleRef19831984198519861987198819891990199119921993199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
*****Software*
Waiting for the Barbarians
Aurelia
Roderick
********
Tea with the Black Dragon
Benefits
Millennium
*****Neuromancer*
Voyager in Night
Emergence
Green Eyes
Frontera
Them Bones
*****Dinner at Deviant's Palace*
Saraband of Lost Time
Emprise
Terrarium
Knight Moves
*****Homunculus*
Artificial Things
*****Strange Toys*
Memories
Dover Beach
Mindplayers
Dark Seeker
Becoming Alien
Life During Wartime
**** (tie)*Four Hundred Billion Stars*
Rudy Rucker (tie)*Wetware*
Orphan of Creation
Neon Lotus
Rendezvous
*****Subterranean Gallery*
On My Way to Paradise
Infinity Hold
Being Alien
Heritage of Flight
*****Points of Departure*
Winterlong
Clarke County, Space
*****King of Morning, Queen of Day*
Bone Dance
Mojo and the Pickle Jar
Bridge of Years
*****Through the Heart*
In the Mothers' Land
Take Back Plenty
Aestival Tide
Iron Tears
**** (tie)*Growing Up Weightless*
**** (tie)*Elvissey*
Crash Course
Bunch!
Icarus Descending
*****Mysterium*
Inagehi
Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality
Summer of Love
Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone
Tonguing the Zeitgeist
*****Headcrash*
Carlucci's Edge
Virtual Death
Permutation City
Reluctant Voyagers
********
At the City Limits of Fate
Reclamation
****
Acts of Conscience
Carlucci's Heart
Opalite Moon
Mother Grimm
*****253: The Print Remix*
Lost Pages
Slaughtermatic
Brown Girl in the Ring
*****Vacuum Diagrams*
Tower of Dreams
Typhon's Children
, ed.Not of Woman Born
When We Were Real
Code of Conduct
*****Only Forward*
Evolution's Darling
Call from a Distant Shore
Midnight Robber
Broken Time
*****Ship of Fools*
Divine Intervention
In the Company of Others
Compass Reach
Meet Me in the Moon Room
****
Report to the Men’s Club
Maximum Ice
Warchild
Empire of Bones
, Jeff VanderMeer (eds.)Leviathan Three
*****Altered Carbon*
Dante's Equation
Hyperthought
Clade
Spin State
Steel Helix
*****Life*
Apocalypse Array
Air
Banner of Souls
City of Pearl
Stable Strategies and Others
*****War Surf*
Natural History
Cowl
Cagebird
Silver Screen
To Crush the Moon
*****Spin Control*
Carnival
Recursion
Idolon
Mindscape
Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact
Living Next Door to the God of Love
*****Nova Swing*
From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain
Grey
Undertow
Gradisil
Ally
Saturn Returns
**** (tie)*Emissaries from The Dead*
**** (tie)*Terminal Mind*
Fast Forward 2
Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait
Plague War
Judge
*****Bitter Angels*
Cyberabad Days
Centuries Ago and Very Fast
Prophets
********
Project Itoh (trans. Alexander O. Smith)Harmony
Yarn
Chill
Song of Scarabaeus
State of Decay
********
Deadline
After the Apocalypse
*****Lost Everything*
LoveStar
Blueprints of the Afterlife
Harmony
Helix Wars
Fountain of Age: Stories
*****Countdown City*
Self-Reference Engine
Ancillary Justice
Life on the Preservation
(ed.)Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Books of Science Fiction
********date=April 3, 2014title=2015 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announcedurl=http://www.philipkdickaward.org/2015/04/2015-philip-k-dick-award-winner-announced.html/access-date=April 5, 2015}}
Elysium
Memory of Water
Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches
(ed.)Reach for Infinity
*****Apex*date=March 26, 2014title=2016 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announcedurl=http://www.philipkdickaward.org/2016/03/2016-philip-k-dick-award-winner-announced.html/access-date=March 28, 2015}}
Archangel
Edge of Dark
After the Saucers Landed
(R)evolution
Windswept
********date=April 14, 2017title=2017 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announcedurl=http://www.philipkdickaward.org/2017/04/2017-philip-k-dick-award-winner-announced.html/access-date=April 26, 2017}}
Unpronounceable
Consider
Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens
Graft
YossSuper Extra Grande
*****Bannerless*
After the Flare
Six Wakes
Revenger
All Systems Red
*****Theory of Bastards*
84K
Time Was
Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories
Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
*****Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea*
Velocity Weapon
All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions
*****Road Out of Winter*
Failed State
Dance on Saturday
Bone Silence
*****Dead Space*
Defekt
Plague Birds
Bug
Far from the Light of Heaven
*****The Extractionist*date=7 April 2023title=2023 Philip K. Dick Award winner announcedurl=https://www.philipkdickaward.org/2023/04/2023-philip-k-dick-award-winner-announced.htmlaccess-date=8 April 2023website=Philip K. Dick Award}}
The Legacy of Molly Southbourne
Rebecca CampbellArboreality
C. J. CareyWidowland
Rich LarsonYmir
Rachel SwirskyJanuary Fifteenth
*****These Burning Stars*
The Museum of Human History
Eugen BaconDanged Black Thing
M. R. CareyInfinity Gate
S. L. ConeyWild Spaces
Dilman DilaWhere Rivers Go to Die
Brenda Peynado*Time's Agent*
Adrian TchaikovskyAlien Clay
Tara CampbellCity of Dancing Gargoyles
Bora ChungYour Utopia: Stories
Sofia SamatarThe Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
Subodhana WijeyeratneTriangulum
William AlexanderSunward: A Novel
M. R. CareyOutlaw Planet
Koji A. DaeCasual
Caspar GeonThe Immeasurable Heaven
Thomas HaUncertain Son and Other Stories
Christopher HinzScales
Oliver K. Langmead and Aliya WhiteleyCity of All Seasons

References

References

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  2. "The Official Philip K. Dick Awards Home Page".
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  5. DeNardo, John. (March 30, 2013). "WINNER: 2013 Philip K. Dick Award". [[SF Signal]].
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  7. (10 January 2014). "2013 Philip K. Dick Nominees Announced". Locus.
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  24. (29 March 2024). "2024 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announced".
  25. (9 January 2024). "2024 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced".
  26. Norwescon. (April 18, 2025). "2025 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announced".
  27. Norwescon. (2025-01-10). "2025 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced".
  28. (January 13, 2026). "2026 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced".
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