Philip K. Dick Award
The Philip K. Dick Award is an American literary award for contemporary science fiction literature. After the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, it is one of the most important science fiction prizes.
The award was launched by Thomas M. Disch at the Northwest Regional Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention (Norwescon) in 1982 in memory of Philip K. Dick , who passed away that same year. It is awarded with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States and funded by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society (PSFS). It was administered in the first few years by Thomas M. Disch and then by Algis Budrys . He was followed by David G. Hartwell , who shared the task with Gordon Van Gelder .
Five judges decide on a shortlist, which is published in January. From this they will later choose the winner, who will be announced at the Norwescon at the end of March or beginning of April. They then choose their successors. Only writers and scientists are admitted.
The prize has been awarded annually at Norwescon since 1983. The award goes to the best science fiction publication of the previous year, which was first published in the USA as a paperback. Simultaneous publications as a bound edition will not be allowed in the selection. As a result, the winners rarely match other science fiction prizes.
One reason for the restriction to paperback books is that the works of the namesake of this award, Philip K. Dick, were mostly first published as paperbacks. Furthermore, the distribution of paperbacks is to be promoted.
In addition to the winner, the judges will select a work from the list of nominees that will receive a special mention. For the years 1988, 1993 and 2008 there were two winners and no special mention.
This is followed by the works and authors honored with the Philip K. Dick Award and with a special mention, as well as the other nominees. The year information relates to the year of publication and not to the year of the award ceremony.
Award winners
1982-1990
| year | Author | English title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Rudy Rucker | software | software |
| 1983 | Tim Powers | The Anubis Gates | The gates to Anubis realm |
| 1984 | William Gibson | Neuromancer | Neuromancer |
| 1985 | Tim Powers | Dinner at Deviant's Palace | At table in Deviant's palace |
| 1986 | James P. Blaylock | Homunculus | Homunculus |
| 1987 | Patricia Geary | Strange toys | - |
| 1988 | Paul J. McAuley (*) | 400 billion stars | Four hundred billion stars |
| Rudy Rucker (*) | Wetware | Wetware | |
| 1989 | Richard Paul Russo | Subterranean Gallery | The underground gallery |
| 1990 | Pat Murphy | Points of Departure | - |
(*) Joint award winners
1991-2000
| year | Author | English title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Ian McDonald | King of Morning, Queen of Day | King of the Dawn, Queen of the Light |
| 1992 | Richard Grant | Through the heart | - |
| 1993 | John M. Ford (*) | Growing up weightless | - |
| Jack Womack (*) | Elvissey | Elvissey | |
| 1994 | Robert Charles Wilson | Mystery | - |
| 1995 | Bruce Bethke | Head crash | - |
| 1996 | Stephen Baxter | The Time Ships | Time ships |
| 1997 | Stepan Chapman | The Troika | - |
| 1998 | Geoff Ryman | 253: The Print Remix | 253 - The subway novel |
| 1999 | Stephen Baxter | Vacuum diagrams | Vacuum charts |
| 2000 | Michael Marshall Smith | Only forward | Stark, the dream detective |
(*) Joint award winners
2001-2010
| year | Author | English title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Richard Paul Russo | Ship of Fools | - |
| 2002 | Carol Emshwiller | The Mount | - |
| 2003 | Richard Morgan | Altered carbon | The immortality program |
| 2004 | Gwyneth Jones | Life | - |
| 2005 | MM Buckner | Was surf | - |
| 2006 | Chris Moriarty | Spin Control | Lighthunt |
| 2007 | M. John Harrison | Nova Swing | nova |
| 2008 | Adam-Troy Castro (*) | Emissaries From The Dead | Half spirit |
| David Walton (*) | Terminal min | - | |
| 2009 | CL Anderson | Bitter Angels | - |
| 2010 | Mark Hodder | The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack | The curious case of the Spring Heeled Jack |
(*) Joint award winners
2011-2018
| year | Author | English title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Simon Morden | The Samuil Petrovich Trilogy | - |
| 2012 | Brian Francis Slattery | Lost Everything | - |
| 2013 | Ben H. Winters | Countdown City | - |
| 2014 | Meg Elison | The Book of the Unnamed Midwife | - |
| 2015 | Ramez Naam | apex | apex |
| 2016 | Claudia Casper | The Mercy Journals | - |
| 2017 | Carrie Vaughn | Bannerless | The Banners of Haven |
| 2018 | Audrey Schulman | Theory of Bastards | - |
Special mention
1982-1990
| year | Author | English title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Ray Faraday Nelson | The Prometheus Man | - |
| 1983 | RA MacAvoy | Tea with the Black Dragon | Meet at the black dragon |
| 1984 | Kim Stanley Robinson | The Wild Shore | The wild bank |
| 1985 | Richard Grant | Saraband of Lost Time | - |
| 1986 | Jack McDevitt | The Hercules text | First contact |
| 1987 | Mike McQuay | Memories | - |
| 1988 | - | - | - |
| 1989 | Dave Wolverton | On My Way to Paradise | - |
| 1990 | Raymond Harris | The Schizogenic Man | - |
1991-2000
| year | Author | English title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Emma Bull | Bone Dance | - |
| 1992 | Elisabeth Vonarburg | In the Mothers' Land | - |
| 1993 | - | - | - |
| 1994 | Jack Cady | Inagehi | - |
| 1995 | Richard Paul Russo | Carlucci's Edge | - |
| 1996 | Michael Bishop | At the City Limits of Fate | - |
| 1997 | William Barton | Acts of Conscience | - |
| 1998 | Paul Di Filippo | Lost Pages | - |
| 1999 | Jamil Nasir | Tower of Dreams | - |
| 2000 | Scott Westerfeld | Evolution's darling | - |
2001-2010
| year | Author | English title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Ken Wharton | Divine Intervention | - |
| 2002 | China Miéville | The Scar | The Scar and Leviathan (*) |
| 2003 | Jane Jensen | Dante's equation | - |
| 2004 | Lyda Morehouse | Apocalypse array | - |
| 2005 | Justina Robson | Natural history | The merger |
| 2006 | Elizabeth Bear | Carnival | - |
| 2007 | Minister Faust | From the notebooks of Dr. Brain | - |
| 2008 | - | - | - |
| 2009 | Ian McDonald | Cyberabad Days | - |
| 2010 | Project Itoh | Harmony | - |
(*) The German edition of the novel was published in two volumes.
2011-2018
| year | Author | English title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Robert Jackson Bennett | The Company Man | - |
| 2012 | Andri Snær Magnason | LoveStar | LoveStar |
| 2013 | Toh EnJoe | Self-Reference Engine | - |
| 2014 | Jennifer Marie Brissett | Elysium | - |
| 2015 | Marguerite Reed | Archangel | - |
| 2016 | Susan diRende | Unpronounceable | - |
| 2017 | Deji Bryce Olukotun | After the flare | - |
| 2018 | Claire North | 84K | - |
Other nominees
1982-1990
| year | Author | English title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | RA Lafferty | Aurelia | - |
| 1982 | John Sladek | Roderick | Roderick or Raising a Machine |
| 1982 | Steve Rasnic Tem (Ed.) | The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry | - |
| 1982 | JM Coetzee | Waiting for the Barbarians | Waiting for the barbarians |
| 1983 | Zoe Fairbairns | Benefits | The women's tower |
| 1983 | M. John Harrison | The floating gods | The gods of the pastel city |
| 1983 | John Varley | millennium | Millennium: a millennium love |
| 1983 | Barrington J. Bayley | The Zen Gun | - |
| 1984 | Geary Gravel | The Alchemists | - |
| 1984 | David R. Palmer | Emergence | - |
| 1984 | Lewis Shiner | Frontera | Frontera |
| 1984 | Lucius Shepard | Green eyes | Green eyes |
| 1984 | Howard Waldrop | Them bones | Your bones |
| 1984 | CJ Cherryh | Voyager in Night | - |
| 1985 | Michael P. Kube-McDowell | Emprise | Trine 1: the risk |
| 1985 | Walter Jon Williams | Knight moves | - |
| 1985 | Barry N. Malzberg | The Remaking of Sigmund Freud | - |
| 1985 | Scott Russell Sanders | terrarium | terrarium |
| 1985 | Russell Griffin | The Timeservers | - |
| 1986 | Karen Joy Fowler | Artificial Things | Artificial things |
| 1986 | Robert Charles Wilson | A hidden place | - |
| 1987 | KW Jeter | Dark Seeker | - |
| 1987 | Richard Bowker | Dover Beach | - |
| 1987 | Lucius Shepard | Life During Wartime | Life in war |
| 1987 | Pat Cadigan | Mindplayers | Mind games |
| 1988 | Rebecca Ore | Becoming alien | - |
| 1988 | Marc Laidlaw | Neon lotus | Neon lotus |
| 1988 | Roger MacBride Allen | Orphan of Creation | The orphans of creation |
| 1988 | D. Alexander Smith | date | - |
| 1989 | Rebecca Ore | Being alien | - |
| 1989 | James Luceno | A Fearful Symmetry | - |
| 1989 | Susan Shwartz | Heritage of Flight | - |
| 1989 | Barry B. Longyear | Infinity Hold | - |
| 1990 | Allen Steele | Clarke County, Space | The last days of Clark County |
| 1990 | Gregory Feeley | The Oxygen Barons | - |
| 1990 | Elizabeth hand | Winter long | - |
1991-2000
| year | Author | English title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Robert Charles Wilson | Bridge of Years | Until the end of time |
| 1991 | Kathe Koja | The cipher | Black abyss |
| 1991 | Douglas Bell | Mojo and the Pickle Jar | - |
| 1992 | Elizabeth hand | Æstival tide | - |
| 1992 | RA Lafferty | Iron Tears | - |
| 1992 | Colin Greenland | Take Back Plenty | Encounters on the Möbius strip |
| 1993 | David R. Bunch | Bunch! | - |
| 1993 | Wilhelmina Baird | CrashCourse | - |
| 1993 | Elizabeth hand | Icarus Descending | - |
| 1994 | Alexander Besher | RIM: A Novelof Virtual Reality | - |
| 1994 | Ian McDonald | Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone | Scissors cut paper wrap stone |
| 1994 | Lisa Mason | Summer of Love | - |
| 1994 | Lance Olsen | Tonguing the zeitgeist | - |
| 1995 | Amy Thomson | The color of distance | - |
| 1995 | Greg Egan | Permutation City | Cyber city |
| 1995 | Elisabeth Vonarburg | Reluctant Voyagers | - |
| 1995 | Shale Aaron | Virtual death | - |
| 1996 | Sarah slip of paper | Reclamation | - |
| 1996 | George Foy | The Shift | - |
| 1996 | William Barton | The Transmigration of Souls | - |
| 1997 | Richard Paul Russo | Carlucci's Heart | - |
| 1997 | Susan R. Matthews | An Exchange of Hostages | - |
| 1997 | Catherine Wells | Mother Grimm | - |
| 1997 | Denise Vitola | Opalite Moon | - |
| 1998 | Nalo Hopkinson | Brown girl in the ring | - |
| 1998 | Paul J. McAuley | The Invisible Country | - |
| 1998 | Steve Aylett | Slaughtermatic | - |
| 1999 | Kristine Smith | Code of Conduct | - |
| 1999 | Constance Ash | Not of Woman Born | - |
| 1999 | Tony Anzetti | Typhon's Children | - |
| 1999 | William Barton | When We Were Real | - |
| 2000 | Janine Ellen Young | The Bridge | - |
| 2000 | Maggie Thomas | Broken time | - |
| 2000 | Stephen L. Burns | Call From a Distant Shore | - |
| 2000 | Nalo Hopkinson | Midnight Robber | - |
2001-2010
| year | Author | English title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Mark W. Tiedemann | Compass Reach | - |
| 2001 | Liz Williams | The Ghost Sister | - |
| 2001 | Julie E. Czerneda | In the Company of Others | - |
| 2001 | Ray Vukcevich | Meet Me in the Moon Room | - |
| 2002 | Liz Williams | Empire of Bones | - |
| 2002 | Jeff VanderMeer and Forrest Aguirre (Eds.) | Leviathan Three | - |
| 2002 | Kay Kenyon | Maximum ice | - |
| 2002 | Carol Emshwiller | Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories | - |
| 2002 | Karin Lowachee | Warchild | - |
| 2003 | Mark Budz | Clade | - |
| 2003 | MM Buckner | Hyperthought | - |
| 2003 | Chris Moriarty | Spin state | Light trail |
| 2003 | Ann Tonsor Zeddies | Steel Helix | - |
| 2004 | Geoff Ryman | Air | - |
| 2004 | Liz Williams | Banner of Souls | - |
| 2004 | Karen Traviss | City of Pearl | - |
| 2004 | Minister Faust | The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad | - |
| 2004 | Eileen Gunn | Stable Strategies and Others | - |
| 2005 | Karin Lowachee | Cagebird | - |
| 2005 | Neal Asher | Cowl | The time beast |
| 2005 | Justina Robson | Silver screen | transformation |
| 2005 | Wil McCarthy | To crush the moon | - |
| 2006 | Andrea Hairston | Mindscape | - |
| 2006 | Nina Kiriki Hoffman | Catalyst | - |
| 2006 | Tony Ballantyne | Recursion | - |
| 2006 | Mark Budz | Idolon | - |
| 2006 | Justina Robson | Living Next Door to the God of Love | - |
| 2007 | Jon Armstrong | Gray | - |
| 2007 | Elizabeth Bear | Undertow | - |
| 2007 | Adam Roberts | Gradisil | - |
| 2007 | Karen Traviss | Ally | - |
| 2007 | Sean Williams | Saturn Returns | - |
| 2008 | Lou Anders | Fast Forward 2 | - |
| 2008 | Karen Traviss | Judge | - |
| 2008 | Jeff Carlson | Plague War | plasma |
| 2008 | KA Bedford | Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait | - |
| 2009 | Carlos J. Cortes | The prisoner | - |
| 2009 | Eric Garcia | The Repossession Mambo | - |
| 2009 | Daryl Gregory | The Devil's Alphabet | - |
| 2009 | Rebecca Ore | Centuries Ago and Very Fast | - |
| 2009 | S. Andrew Swann | Prophets | - |
| 2010 | Jon Armstrong | Yarn | - |
| 2010 | Elizabeth Bear | Chill | - |
| 2010 | Alden Bell | The Reapers Are the Angels | After the end |
| 2010 | Sara Creasy | Song of Scarabaeus | - |
| 2010 | James Knapp | State of Decay | - |
2011-2018
| year | Author / Ed. | English title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Jean Johnson | A Soldier's Duty | - |
| 2011 | Maureen F. McHugh | After the apocalypse | - |
| 2011 | Mira Grant | Deadline | Deadline: Deadly Truth |
| 2011 | Matthew Hughes | The Other | - |
| 2011 | Drew Magary | The post mortem | - |
| 2012 | Ryan Boudinot | Blueprints of the Afterlife | - |
| 2012 | Keith Brooke | Harmony | - |
| 2012 | Eric Brown | Helix Wars | - |
| 2012 | Moira Crone | the not yet | - |
| 2012 | Nancy Kress | Fountain of Age: Stories | - |
| 2013 | Anne Charnock | A Calculated Life | - |
| 2013 | Cassandra Rose Clarke | The Mad Scientist's Daughter | - |
| 2013 | Ann Leckie | Ancillary Justice | The machines |
| 2013 | Jack Skillingstead | Life on the Preservation | - |
| 2013 | Ian Whates | Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction | - |
| 2014 | Rod Duncan | The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter | - |
| 2014 | Emmi Itäranta | Memory of Water | The taste of water |
| 2014 | Cherie Priest | Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches | - |
| 2014 | Jonathan Strahan | Reach for Infinity | - |
| 2015 | Brenda Cooper | Edge of Dark | - |
| 2015 | Douglas Lain | After the Saucers Landed | - |
| 2015 | PJ Manney | (Revolution | - |
| 2015 | Adam Rakunas | Windswept | - |
| 2016 | Kristy Acevedo | Consider | - |
| 2016 | Eleanor Arnason | Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales By Aliens | - |
| 2016 | Matt Hill | Graft | - |
| 2016 | Yoss | Super extra grande | - |
| 2017 | Meg Elison | The Book of Etta | - |
| 2017 | Mur Lafferty | Six wakes | - |
| 2017 | Tim Pratt | The Wrong Stars | - |
| 2017 | Alastair Reynolds | Revenger | revenge |
| 2017 | Martha Wells | All Systems Red | - |
| 2018 | Ian McDonald | Time what | - |
| 2018 | Jeff Noon | The Body Library | - |
| 2018 | Abbey Mei Otis | Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories | - |
| 2018 | Vandana Singh | Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories | - |
literature
- Greg Beatty: Naming the Stars: The Awards of Science Fiction [7]
- David G. Hartwell: The Origin of the Philip K. Dick Award [8]
Web links
- Official homepage of the Philip K. Dick Award
- Philip K. Dick Award , entry in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
- Philip K. Dick Award , Index in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Individual evidence
- ^ Greg Beatty: Naming the Stars: The Awards of Science Fiction [1]
- ↑ Norwescon: Philip K. Dick Award [2]
- ↑ Philip K. Dick Trust: The Philip K. Dick Award ( Memento from April 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ A b David G. Hartwell: The Origin of the Philip K. Dick Award [3]
- ↑ a b Mark R. Kelly and Locus Publications: Philip K. Dick Award - About the Awards Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b The Official Philip K. Dick Award Home Page: Administration & Rules [4]
- ^ The Official Philip K. Dick Award Home Page: List of all works nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award (1982 to 2003) [5]
- ↑ Mark R. Kelly and Locus Publications: Philip K. Dick Award Nominees List Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Werner Bauer and Wolfgang Jeschke (eds.): Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy - The program . 1998 ISBN 3-453-14016-8
- ↑ German National Library: Catalog of the German National Library [6]
- ↑ a b 2017 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announced. Philip K. Dick Award website, accessed September 17, 2017 .
- ↑ a b 2019 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announced. Philip K. Dick Award website, accessed May 1, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d 2017 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced. SFWA website, accessed September 17, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c d 2018 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced. Philip K. Dick Award website, accessed May 1, 2019 .
