Philip K. Dick Award

The **Philip K. Dick Award** is a science fiction award. It is named after science fiction and fantasy writer Philip K. Dick.  It has been awarded since 1983. Dick died in 1982. The prize is given to the best original paperback published each year in the US. It is given at the Norwescon science fiction convention every year. The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society supports the award. The Philip K. Dick Trust has supported the award since 2005. Books that have won the award have _Best Original SF Paperback_ printed on their covers.

Thomas Disch started this award with help from David G. Hartwell, Paul S. Williams, and Charles N. Brown.  David G. Hartwell and Gordon Van Gelder manage the award now. Some other people who have been in charge of the award include Algis Budrys and David Alexander Smith.

## Winners and candidates of the Philip K. Dick Award

Winning authors are listed in **bold**.

Authors of books that were given special notice or citations are listed in _italics_. The year in the table below tells the year the book was published. The award was given the next year.

|Author|Title|
| --- | --- |
|**Rudy Rucker**|_Software_|
|_Ray Nelson_|_The Prometheus Man_|
|J. M. Coetzee|_Waiting for the Barbarians_|
|R. A. Lafferty|_Aurelia_|
|John Sladek|_Roderick_|
|Steve Rasnic Tem''|_The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry_|
|**Tim Powers**|_The Anubis Gates_|
|_R. A. MacAvoy_|_Tea with the Black Dragon_|
|Barrington J. Bayley|_The Zen Gun_|
|Zoe Fairbairns|_Benefits_|
|M. John Harrison|_The Floating Gods_|
|John Varley|_Millennium_|
|**William Gibson**|_Neuromancer_|
|_Kim Stanley Robinson_|_The Wild Shore_|
|C. J. Cherryh|_Voyager in Night_|
|Geary Gravel|_The Alchemists_|
|David R. Palmer|_Emergence_|
|Lucius Shepard|_Green Eyes_|
|Lewis Shiner|_Frontera_|
|Howard Waldrop|_Them Bones_|
|**Tim Powers**|_Dinner at Deviant's Palace_|
|_Richard Grant_|_Saraband of Lost Time_|
|Russell Griffin|_The Timeservers_|
|Michael P. Kube-McDowell|_Emprise_|
|Barry N. Malzberg|_The Remaking of Sigmund Freud_|
|Scott Russell Sanders|_Terrarium_|
|Walter Jon Williams|_Knight Moves_|
|**James P. Blaylock**|_Homunculus_|
|_Jack McDevitt_|_The Hercules Text_|
|Karen Joy Fowler|_Artificial Things_|
|Robert Charles Wilson|_A Hidden Place_|
|**Patricia Geary**|_Strange Toys_|
|_Mike McQuay_|_Memories_|
|Richard Bowker|_Dover Beach_|
|Pat Cadigan|_Mindplayers_|
|K. W. Jeter|_Dark Seeker_|
|Rebecca Ore|_Becoming Alien_|
|Lucius Shepard|_Life During Wartime_|
|**Paul J. McAuley** (tie)|_Four Hundred Billion Stars_|
|**Rudy Rucker** (tie)|_Wetware_|
|Roger MacBride Allen|_Orphan of Creation_|
|Marc Laidlaw|_Neon Lotus_|
|David Alexander Smith|_Rendezvous_|
|**Richard Paul Russo**|_Subterranean Gallery_|
|_Dave Wolverton_|_On My Way to Paradise_|
|Barry B. Longyear|_Infinity Hold_|
|James Luceno|_A Fearful Symmetry_|
|Rebecca Ore|_Being Alien_|
|Susan Shwartz|_Heritage of Flight_|
|**Pat Murphy**|_Points of Departure_|
|_Raymond Harris_|_The Schizogenic Man_|
|Gregory Feeley|_The Oxygen Barons_|
|Elizabeth Hand|_Winterlong_|
|Allen M. Steele|_Clarke County, Space_|
|**Ian McDonald**|_King of Morning, Queen of Day_|
|_Emma Bull_|_Bone Dance_|
|Douglas Bell|_Mojo and the Pickle Jar_|
|Kathe Koja|_The Cipher_|
|Robert Charles Wilson|_Bridge of Years_|
|**Richard Grant**|_Through the Heart_|
|_Élisabeth Vonarburg_|_In the Mothers' Land_|
|Colin Greenland|_Take Back Plenty_|
|Elizabeth Hand|_Aestival Tide_|
|R. A. Lafferty|_Iron Tears_|
|**John M. Ford**|_Growing Up Weightless_|
|**Jack Womack**|_Elvissey_|
|Wilhelmina Baird|_Crash Course_|
|David R. Bunch|_Bunch!_|
|Elizabeth Hand|_Icarus Descending_|
|**Robert Charles Wilson**|_Mysterium_|
|_Jack Cady_|_Inagehi_|
|Alexander Besher|_Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality_|
|Ian McDonald|_Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone_|
|Lisa Mason|_Summer of Love_|
|Lance Olsen|_Tonguing the Zeitgeist_|
|**Bruce Bethke**|_Headcrash_|
|_Richard Paul Russo_|_Carlucci's Edge_|
|Shale Aaron|_Virtual Death_|
|Greg Egan|_Permutation City_|
|Amy Thomson|_The Color of Distance_|
|Élisabeth Vonarburg|_Reluctant Voyagers_|
|**Stephen Baxter**|_The Time Ships_|
|_Michael Bishop_|_At the City Limits of Fate_|
|William Barton|_The Transmigration of Souls_|
|George Foy|_The Shift_|
|Sarah Zettel|_Reclamation_|
|**Stepan Chapman**|_The Troika_|
|_William Barton_|_Acts of Conscience_|
|Susan R. Matthews|_An Exchange of Hostages_|
|Richard Paul Russo|_Carlucci's Heart_|
|Denise Vitola|_Opalite Moon_|
|Catherine Wells|_Mother Grimm_|
|**Geoff Ryman**|_253: The Print Remix_|
|_Paul Di Filippo_|_Lost Pages_|
|Nalo Hopkinson|_Brown Girl in the Ring_|
|Steve Aylett|_Slaughtermatic_|
|Paul J. McAuley|_The Invisible Country_|
|**Stephen Baxter**|_Vacuum Diagrams_|
|_Jamil Nasir_|_Tower of Dreams_|
|Kristine Smith|_Code of Conduct_|
|Constance Ash, ed.|_Not of Woman Born_|
|Toni Anzetti|_Typhon's Children_|
|William Barton|_When We Were Real_|
|**Michael Marshall Smith**|_Only Forward_|
|_Scott Westerfeld_|_Evolution's Darling_|
|Stephen L. Burns|_Call from a Distant Shore_|
|Nalo Hopkinson|_Midnight Robber_|
|Maggy Thomas|_Broken Time_|
|Janine Ellen Young|_The Bridge_|
|**Richard Paul Russo**|_Ship of Fools_|
|_Ken Wharton_|_Divine Intervention_|
|Julie E. Czerneda|_In the Company of Others_|
|Mark W. Tiedemann|_Compass Reach_|
|Ray Vukcevich|_Meet Me in the Moon Room_|
|Liz Williams|_The Ghost Sister_|
|**Carol Emshwiller**|_The Mount_|
|_China Miéville_|_The Scar_|
|Carol Emshwiller|_Report to the Men’s Club_|
|Kay Kenyon|_Maximum Ice_|
|Karin Lowachee|_Warchild_|
|Liz Williams|_Empire of Bones_|
|Jeff VanderMeer, Forrest Aguirre (eds.)|_Leviathan Three_|
|**Richard K. Morgan**|_Altered Carbon_|
|_Jane Jensen_|_Dante's Equation_|
|M. M. Buckner|_Hyperthought_|
|Mark Budz|_Clade_|
|Chris Moriarty|_Spin State_|
|Ann Tonsor Zeddies|_Steel Helix_|
|**Gwyneth Jones**|_Life_|
|_Lyda Morehouse_|_Apocalypse Array_|
|Geoff Ryman|_Air_|
|Liz Williams|_Banner of Souls_|
|Karen Traviss|_City of Pearl_|
|Minister Faust|_The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad_|
|Eileen Gunn|_Stable Strategies and Others_|
|**M. M. Buckner**|_War Surf_|
|_Justina Robson_|_Natural History_|
|Neal Asher|_Cowl_|
|Karin Lowachee|_Cagebird_|
|Justina Robson|_Silver Screen_|
|Wil McCarthy|_To Crush the Moon_|
|**Chris Moriarty**|_Spin Control_|
|_Elizabeth Bear_|_Carnival_|
|Andrea Hairston|_Mindscape_|
|Nina Kiriki Hoffman|_Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact_|
|Tony Ballantyne|_Recursion_|
|Mark Budz|_Idolon_|
|Justina Robson|_Living Next Door to the God of Love_|
|**M. John Harrison**|_Nova Swing_|
|_Minister Faust_|_From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain_|
|Jon Armstrong|_Grey_|
|Elizabeth Bear|_Undertow_|
|Adam Roberts|_Gradisil_|
|Karen Traviss|_Ally_|
|Sean Williams|_Saturn Returns_|
|**Adam-Troy Castro** (tie)|_Emissaries from The Dead_|
|**David Walton** (tie)|_Terminal Mind_|
|Lou Anders|_Fast Forward 2_|
|Karen Traviss|_Judge_|
|Jeff Carlson|_Plague War_|
|K. A. Bedford|_Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait_|
|**C. L. Anderson**|_Bitter Angels_|
|_Ian McDonald_|_Cyberabad Days_|
|Carlos J. Cortes|_The Prisoner_|
|Eric Garcia|_The Repossession Mambo_|
|Daryl Gregory|_The Devil's Alphabet_|
|Rebecca Ore|_Centuries Ago and Very Fast_|
|S. Andrew Swann|_Prophets_|
|**Mark Hodder**|_The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack_|
|_Project Itoh_ (trans. Alexander O. Smith)|_Harmony_|
|Jon Armstrong|_Yarn_|
|Elizabeth Bear|_Chill_|
|Alden Bell|_The Reapers are the Angels_|
|Sara Creasy|_Song of Scarabaeus_|
|James Knapp|_State of Decay_|
|**Simon Morden**|_The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy_|
|_Robert Jackson Bennett_|_The Company Man_|
|Jean Johnson|_A Soldier's Duty_|
|Maureen F. McHugh|_After the Apocalypse_|
|Mira Grant|_Deadline_|
|Matthew Hughes|_The Other_|
|Drew Magary|_The Postmortal_|
|**Brian Francis Slattery**|_Lost Everything_|
|_Andri Snær Magnason_|_LoveStar_|
|Ryan Boudinot|_Blueprints of the Afterlife_|
|Keith Brooke|_Harmony_|
|Eric Brown|_Helix Wars_|
|Moira Crone|_the not yet_|
|Nancy Kress|_Fountain of Age: Stories_|

## Other websites

- The official award homepage
- List of the most honored Philip K. Dick Award nominees
- List of all winning and nominated novels