# Philip K. Dick Award

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 2016, it is administered by Pat LoBrutto, John Silbersack, and Gordon Van Gelder. Past administrators include Algis Budrys, David G. Hartwell, and David Alexander Smith.

## 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
| Year | Author | Title |
| 1983 | Rudy Rucker | Software |
| 1983 | Ray Nelson | The Prometheus Man |
| 1983 | J. M. Coetzee | Waiting for the Barbarians |
| 1983 | R. A. Lafferty | Aurelia |
| 1983 | John Sladek | Roderick |
| 1983 | Steve Rasnic Tem | The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry |
| 1984 | Tim Powers | The Anubis Gates |
| 1984 | R. A. MacAvoy | Tea with the Black Dragon |
| 1984 | Barrington J. Bayley | The Zen Gun |
| 1984 | Zoe Fairbairns | Benefits |
| 1984 | M. John Harrison | The Floating Gods |
| 1984 | John Varley | Millennium |
| 1985 | William Gibson | Neuromancer |
| 1985 | Kim Stanley Robinson | The Wild Shore |
| 1985 | C. J. Cherryh | Voyager in Night |
| 1985 | Geary Gravel | The Alchemists |
| 1985 | David R. Palmer | Emergence |
| 1985 | Lucius Shepard | Green Eyes |
| 1985 | Lewis Shiner | Frontera |
| 1985 | Howard Waldrop | Them Bones |
| 1986 | Tim Powers | Dinner at Deviant's Palace |
| 1986 | Richard Grant | Saraband of Lost Time |
| 1986 | Russell Griffin | The Timeservers |
| 1986 | Michael P. Kube-McDowell | Emprise |
| 1986 | Barry N. Malzberg | The Remaking of Sigmund Freud |
| 1986 | Scott Russell Sanders | Terrarium |
| 1986 | Walter Jon Williams | Knight Moves |
| 1987 | James P. Blaylock | Homunculus |
| 1987 | Jack McDevitt | The Hercules Text |
| 1987 | Karen Joy Fowler | Artificial Things |
| 1987 | Robert Charles Wilson | A Hidden Place |
| 1988 | Patricia Geary | Strange Toys |
| 1988 | Mike McQuay | Memories |
| 1988 | Richard Bowker | Dover Beach |
| 1988 | Pat Cadigan | Mindplayers |
| 1988 | K. W. Jeter | Dark Seeker |
| 1988 | Rebecca Ore | Becoming Alien |
| 1988 | Lucius Shepard | Life During Wartime |
| 1989 | Paul J. McAuley (tie) | Four Hundred Billion Stars |
| 1989 | Rudy Rucker (tie) | Wetware |
| 1989 | Roger MacBride Allen | Orphan of Creation |
| 1989 | Marc Laidlaw | Neon Lotus |
| 1989 | David Alexander Smith | Rendezvous |
| 1990 | Richard Paul Russo | Subterranean Gallery |
| 1990 | Dave Wolverton | On My Way to Paradise |
| 1990 | Barry B. Longyear | Infinity Hold |
| 1990 | James Luceno | A Fearful Symmetry |
| 1990 | Rebecca Ore | Being Alien |
| 1990 | Susan Shwartz | Heritage of Flight |
| 1991 | Pat Murphy | Points of Departure |
| 1991 | Raymond Harris | The Schizogenic Man |
| 1991 | Gregory Feeley | The Oxygen Barons |
| 1991 | Elizabeth Hand | Winterlong |
| 1991 | Allen Steele | Clarke County, Space |
| 1992 | Ian McDonald | King of Morning, Queen of Day |
| 1992 | Emma Bull | Bone Dance |
| 1992 | Douglas Bell | Mojo and the Pickle Jar |
| 1992 | Kathe Koja | The Cipher |
| 1992 | Robert Charles Wilson | Bridge of Years |
| 1993 | Richard Grant | Through the Heart |
| 1993 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | In the Mothers' Land |
| 1993 | Colin Greenland | Take Back Plenty |
| 1993 | Elizabeth Hand | Aestival Tide |
| 1993 | R. A. Lafferty | Iron Tears |
| 1994 | John M. Ford (tie) | Growing Up Weightless |
| 1994 | Jack Womack (tie) | Elvissey |
| 1994 | Wilhelmina Baird | Crash Course |
| 1994 | David R. Bunch | Bunch! |
| 1994 | Elizabeth Hand | Icarus Descending |
| 1995 | Robert Charles Wilson | Mysterium |
| 1995 | Jack Cady | Inagehi |
| 1995 | Alexander Besher | Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality |
| 1995 | Lisa Mason | Summer of Love |
| 1995 | Ian McDonald | Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone |
| 1995 | Lance Olsen | Tonguing the Zeitgeist |
| 1996 | Bruce Bethke | Headcrash |
| 1996 | Richard Paul Russo | Carlucci's Edge |
| 1996 | Shale Aaron | Virtual Death |
| 1996 | Greg Egan | Permutation City |
| 1996 | Amy Thomson | The Color of Distance |
| 1996 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | Reluctant Voyagers |
| 1997 | Stephen Baxter | The Time Ships |
| 1997 | Michael Bishop | At the City Limits of Fate |
| 1997 | William Barton | The Transmigration of Souls |
| 1997 | George Foy | The Shift |
| 1997 | Sarah Zettel | Reclamation |
| 1998 | Stepan Chapman | The Troika |
| 1998 | William Barton | Acts of Conscience |
| 1998 | Susan R. Matthews | An Exchange of Hostages |
| 1998 | Richard Paul Russo | Carlucci's Heart |
| 1998 | Denise Vitola | Opalite Moon |
| 1998 | Catherine Wells | Mother Grimm |
| 1999 | Geoff Ryman | 253: The Print Remix |
| 1999 | Paul Di Filippo | Lost Pages |
| 1999 | Steve Aylett | Slaughtermatic |
| 1999 | Nalo Hopkinson | Brown Girl in the Ring |
| 1999 | Paul J. McAuley | The Invisible Country |
| 2000 | Stephen Baxter | Vacuum Diagrams |
| 2000 | Jamil Nasir | Tower of Dreams |
| 2000 | Toni Anzetti | Typhon's Children |
| 2000 | Constance Ash, ed. | Not of Woman Born |
| 2000 | William Barton | When We Were Real |
| 2000 | Kristine Smith | Code of Conduct |
| 2001 | Michael Marshall Smith | Only Forward |
| 2001 | Scott Westerfeld | Evolution's Darling |
| 2001 | Stephen L. Burns | Call from a Distant Shore |
| 2001 | Nalo Hopkinson | Midnight Robber |
| 2001 | Maggy Thomas | Broken Time |
| 2001 | Janine Ellen Young | The Bridge |
| 2002 | Richard Paul Russo | Ship of Fools |
| 2002 | Ken Wharton | Divine Intervention |
| 2002 | Julie E. Czerneda | In the Company of Others |
| 2002 | Mark W. Tiedemann | Compass Reach |
| 2002 | Ray Vukcevich | Meet Me in the Moon Room |
| 2002 | Liz Williams | The Ghost Sister |
| 2003 | Carol Emshwiller | The Mount |
| 2003 | China Miéville | The Scar |
| 2003 | Carol Emshwiller | Report to the Men’s Club |
| 2003 | Kay Kenyon | Maximum Ice |
| 2003 | Karin Lowachee | Warchild |
| 2003 | Liz Williams | Empire of Bones |
| 2003 | Forrest Aguirre, Jeff VanderMeer (eds.) | Leviathan Three |
| 2004 | Richard K. Morgan | Altered Carbon |
| 2004 | Jane Jensen | Dante's Equation |
| 2004 | M. M. Buckner | Hyperthought |
| 2004 | Mark Budz | Clade |
| 2004 | Chris Moriarty | Spin State |
| 2004 | Ann Tonsor Zeddies | Steel Helix |
| 2005 | Gwyneth Jones | Life |
| 2005 | Lyda Morehouse | Apocalypse Array |
| 2005 | Geoff Ryman | Air |
| 2005 | Liz Williams | Banner of Souls |
| 2005 | Karen Traviss | City of Pearl |
| 2005 | Minister Faust | The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad |
| 2005 | Eileen Gunn | Stable Strategies and Others |
| 2006 | M. M. Buckner | War Surf |
| 2006 | Justina Robson | Natural History |
| 2006 | Neal Asher | Cowl |
| 2006 | Karin Lowachee | Cagebird |
| 2006 | Justina Robson | Silver Screen |
| 2006 | Wil McCarthy | To Crush the Moon |
| 2007 | Chris Moriarty | Spin Control |
| 2007 | Elizabeth Bear | Carnival |
| 2007 | Tony Ballantyne | Recursion |
| 2007 | Mark Budz | Idolon |
| 2007 | Andrea Hairston | Mindscape |
| 2007 | Nina Kiriki Hoffman | Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact |
| 2007 | Justina Robson | Living Next Door to the God of Love |
| 2008 | M. John Harrison | Nova Swing |
| 2008 | Minister Faust | From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain |
| 2008 | Jon Armstrong | Grey |
| 2008 | Elizabeth Bear | Undertow |
| 2008 | Adam Roberts | Gradisil |
| 2008 | Karen Traviss | Ally |
| 2008 | Sean Williams | Saturn Returns |
| 2009 | Adam-Troy Castro (tie) | Emissaries from The Dead |
| 2009 | David Walton (tie) | Terminal Mind |
| 2009 | Lou Anders | Fast Forward 2 |
| 2009 | K. A. Bedford | Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait |
| 2009 | Jeff Carlson | Plague War |
| 2009 | Karen Traviss | Judge |
| 2010 | C. L. Anderson | Bitter Angels |
| 2010 | Ian McDonald | Cyberabad Days |
| 2010 | Carlos J. Cortes | The Prisoner |
| 2010 | Eric Garcia | The Repossession Mambo |
| 2010 | Daryl Gregory | The Devil's Alphabet |
| 2010 | Rebecca Ore | Centuries Ago and Very Fast |
| 2010 | S. Andrew Swann | Prophets |
| 2011 | Mark Hodder | The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack |
| 2011 | Project Itoh (trans. Alexander O. Smith) | Harmony |
| 2011 | Jon Armstrong | Yarn |
| 2011 | Elizabeth Bear | Chill |
| 2011 | Alden Bell | The Reapers are the Angels |
| 2011 | Sara Creasy | Song of Scarabaeus |
| 2011 | James Knapp | State of Decay |
| 2012 | Simon Morden | The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy |
| 2012 | Robert Jackson Bennett | The Company Man |
| 2012 | Mira Grant | Deadline |
| 2012 | Matthew Hughes | The Other |
| 2012 | Jean Johnson | A Soldier's Duty |
| 2012 | Drew Magary | The Postmortal |
| 2012 | Maureen F. McHugh | After the Apocalypse |
| 2013 | Brian Francis Slattery | Lost Everything |
| 2013 | Andri Snær Magnason | LoveStar |
| 2013 | Ryan Boudinot | Blueprints of the Afterlife |
| 2013 | Keith Brooke | Harmony |
| 2013 | Eric Brown | Helix Wars |
| 2013 | Moira Crone | The Not Yet |
| 2013 | Nancy Kress | Fountain of Age: Stories |
| 2014 | Ben H. Winters | Countdown City |
| 2014 | Toh EnJoe | Self-Reference Engine |
| 2014 | Anne Charnock | A Calculated Life |
| 2014 | Cassandra Rose Clarke | The Mad Scientist’s Daughter |
| 2014 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice |
| 2014 | Jack Skillingstead | Life on the Preservation |
| 2014 | Ian Whates (ed.) | Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Books of Science Fiction |
| 2015 | Meg Elison | The Book of the Unnamed Midwife |
| 2015 | Jennifer Marie Brissett | Elysium |
| 2015 | Rod Duncan | The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter |
| 2015 | Emmi Itäranta | Memory of Water |
| 2015 | Cherie Priest | Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches |
| 2015 | Jonathan Strahan (ed.) | Reach for Infinity |
| 2016 | Ramez Naam | Apex |
| 2016 | Marguerite Reed | Archangel |
| 2016 | Brenda Cooper | Edge of Dark |
| 2016 | Douglas Lain | After the Saucers Landed |
| 2016 | PJ Manney | (R)evolution |
| 2016 | Adam Rakunas | Windswept |
| 2017 | Claudia Casper | The Mercy Journals |
| 2017 | Susan diRende | Unpronounceable |
| 2017 | Kristy Acevedo | Consider |
| 2017 | Eleanor Arnason | Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens |
| 2017 | Matt Hill | Graft |
| 2017 | Yoss | Super Extra Grande |
| 2018 | Carrie Vaughn | Bannerless |
| 2018 | Deji Bryce Olukotun | After the Flare |
| 2018 | Meg Elison | The Book of Etta |
| 2018 | Mur Lafferty | Six Wakes |
| 2018 | Tim Pratt | The Wrong Stars |
| 2018 | Alastair Reynolds | Revenger |
| 2018 | Martha Wells | All Systems Red |
| 2019 | Audrey Schulman | Theory of Bastards |
| 2019 | Claire North | 84K |
| 2019 | Ian McDonald | Time Was |
| 2019 | Jeff Noon | The Body Library |
| 2019 | Abbey Mei Otis | Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories |
| 2019 | Vandana Singh | Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories |
| 2020 | Sarah Pinsker | Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea |
| 2020 | Sarah Tolmie | The Little Animals |
| 2020 | Ada Hoffmann | The Outside |
| 2020 | Megan E. O'Keefe | Velocity Weapon |
| 2020 | Susan Palwick | All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions |
| 2020 | Tade Thompson | The Rosewater Redemption |
| 2021 | Alison Stine | Road Out of Winter |
| 2021 | M. R. Carey | The Book of Koli |
| 2021 | Christopher Brown | Failed State |
| 2021 | Elwin Cotman | Dance on Saturday |
| 2021 | Alastair Reynolds | Bone Silence |
| 2021 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | The Doors of Eden |
| 2022 | Kali Wallace | Dead Space |
| 2022 | Lavie Tidhar | The Escapement |
| 2022 | Nino Cipri | Defekt |
| 2022 | Jason Sanford | Plague Birds |
| 2022 | Giacomo Sartori | Bug |
| 2022 | Tade Thompson | Far from the Light of Heaven |
| 2023 | Kimberly Unger | The Extractionist |
| 2023 | Tade Thompson | The Legacy of Molly Southbourne |
| 2023 | Rebecca Campbell | Arboreality |
| 2023 | C. J. Carey | Widowland |
| 2023 | Rich Larson | Ymir |
| 2023 | Rachel Swirsky | January Fifteenth |
| 2024 | Bethany Jacobs | These Burning Stars |
| 2024 | Rebekah Bergman | The Museum of Human History |
| 2024 | Eugen Bacon | Danged Black Thing |
| 2024 | M. R. Carey | Infinity Gate |
| 2024 | S. L. Coney | Wild Spaces |
| 2024 | Dilman Dila | Where Rivers Go to Die |
| 2025 | Tara Campbell | City of Dancing Gargoyles |
| 2025 | Bora Chung | Your Utopia: Stories |
| 2025 | Brenda Peynado | Time's Agent |
| 2025 | Sofia Samatar | The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain |
| 2025 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Alien Clay |
| 2025 | Subodhana Wijeyeratne | Triangulum |