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 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 |
| Year | Author | Title | Ref |
| 1983 | ' | Software | |
| 1983 | |||
| 1983 | Waiting for the Barbarians | ||
| 1983 | Aurelia | ||
| 1983 | Roderick | ||
| 1983 | |||
| 1984 | ' | ' | |
| 1984 | Tea with the Black Dragon | ||
| 1984 | |||
| 1984 | Benefits | ||
| 1984 | |||
| 1984 | Millennium | ||
| 1985 | ' | Neuromancer | |
| 1985 | |||
| 1985 | Voyager in Night | ||
| 1985 | |||
| 1985 | Emergence | ||
| 1985 | Green Eyes | ||
| 1985 | Frontera | ||
| 1985 | Them Bones | ||
| 1986 | ' | Dinner at Deviant's Palace | |
| 1986 | Saraband of Lost Time | ||
| 1986 | |||
| 1986 | Emprise | ||
| 1986 | |||
| 1986 | Terrarium | ||
| 1986 | Knight Moves | ||
| 1987 | ' | Homunculus | |
| 1987 | |||
| 1987 | Artificial Things | ||
| 1987 | |||
| 1988 | ' | Strange Toys | |
| 1988 | Memories | ||
| 1988 | Dover Beach | ||
| 1988 | Mindplayers | ||
| 1988 | Dark Seeker | ||
| 1988 | Becoming Alien | ||
| 1988 | Life During Wartime | ||
| 1989 | ' | Four Hundred Billion Stars | |
| 1989 | Rudy Rucker | Wetware | |
| 1989 | Orphan of Creation | ||
| 1989 | Neon Lotus | ||
| 1989 | Rendezvous | ||
| 1990 | ' | Subterranean Gallery | |
| 1990 | On My Way to Paradise | ||
| 1990 | Infinity Hold | ||
| 1990 | |||
| 1990 | Being Alien | ||
| 1990 | Heritage of Flight | ||
| 1991 | ' | Points of Departure | |
| 1991 | |||
| 1991 | |||
| 1991 | Winterlong | ||
| 1991 | Clarke County, Space | ||
| 1992 | ' | King of Morning, Queen of Day | |
| 1992 | Bone Dance | ||
| 1992 | Mojo and the Pickle Jar | ||
| 1992 | |||
| 1992 | Bridge of Years | ||
| 1993 | ' | Through the Heart | |
| 1993 | In the Mothers' Land | ||
| 1993 | Take Back Plenty | ||
| 1993 | Aestival Tide | ||
| 1993 | Iron Tears | ||
| 1994 | ' | Growing Up Weightless | |
| 1994 | ' | Elvissey | |
| 1994 | Crash Course | ||
| 1994 | Bunch! | ||
| 1994 | Icarus Descending | ||
| 1995 | ' | Mysterium | |
| 1995 | Inagehi | ||
| 1995 | Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality | ||
| 1995 | Summer of Love | ||
| 1995 | Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone | ||
| 1995 | Tonguing the Zeitgeist | ||
| 1996 | ' | Headcrash | |
| 1996 | Carlucci's Edge | ||
| 1996 | Virtual Death | ||
| 1996 | Permutation City | ||
| 1996 | |||
| 1996 | Reluctant Voyagers | ||
| 1997 | ' | ' | |
| 1997 | At the City Limits of Fate | ||
| 1997 | |||
| 1997 | |||
| 1997 | Reclamation | ||
| 1998 | ' | ||
| 1998 | Acts of Conscience | ||
| 1998 | |||
| 1998 | Carlucci's Heart | ||
| 1998 | Opalite Moon | ||
| 1998 | Mother Grimm | ||
| 1999 | ' | 253: The Print Remix | |
| 1999 | Lost Pages | ||
| 1999 | Slaughtermatic | ||
| 1999 | Brown Girl in the Ring | ||
| 1999 | |||
| 2000 | ' | Vacuum Diagrams | |
| 2000 | Tower of Dreams | ||
| 2000 | Typhon's Children | ||
| 2000 | , ed. | Not of Woman Born | |
| 2000 | When We Were Real | ||
| 2000 | Code of Conduct | ||
| 2001 | ' | Only Forward | |
| 2001 | Evolution's Darling | ||
| 2001 | Call from a Distant Shore | ||
| 2001 | Midnight Robber | ||
| 2001 | Broken Time | ||
| 2001 | |||
| 2002 | ' | Ship of Fools | |
| 2002 | Divine Intervention | ||
| 2002 | In the Company of Others | ||
| 2002 | Compass Reach | ||
| 2002 | Meet Me in the Moon Room | ||
| 2002 | |||
| 2003 | ' | ||
| 2003 | |||
| 2003 | Report to the Men’s Club | ||
| 2003 | Maximum Ice | ||
| 2003 | Warchild | ||
| 2003 | Empire of Bones | ||
| 2003 | , Jeff VanderMeer | Leviathan Three | |
| 2004 | ' | Altered Carbon | |
| 2004 | Dante's Equation | ||
| 2004 | Hyperthought | ||
| 2004 | Clade | ||
| 2004 | Spin State | ||
| 2004 | Steel Helix | ||
| 2005 | ' | Life | |
| 2005 | Apocalypse Array | ||
| 2005 | Air | ||
| 2005 | Banner of Souls | ||
| 2005 | City of Pearl | ||
| 2005 | |||
| 2005 | Stable Strategies and Others | ||
| 2006 | ' | War Surf | |
| 2006 | Natural History | ||
| 2006 | Cowl | ||
| 2006 | Cagebird | ||
| 2006 | Silver Screen | ||
| 2006 | To Crush the Moon | ||
| 2007 | ' | Spin Control | |
| 2007 | Carnival | ||
| 2007 | Recursion | ||
| 2007 | Idolon | ||
| 2007 | Mindscape | ||
| 2007 | Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact | ||
| 2007 | Living Next Door to the God of Love | ||
| 2008 | ' | Nova Swing | |
| 2008 | From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain | ||
| 2008 | Grey | ||
| 2008 | Undertow | ||
| 2008 | Gradisil | ||
| 2008 | Ally | ||
| 2008 | Saturn Returns | ||
| 2009 | ' | Emissaries from The Dead | |
| 2009 | ' | Terminal Mind | |
| 2009 | Fast Forward 2 | ||
| 2009 | Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait | ||
| 2009 | Plague War | ||
| 2009 | Judge | ||
| 2010 | ' | Bitter Angels | |
| 2010 | Cyberabad Days | ||
| 2010 | |||
| 2010 | |||
| 2010 | |||
| 2010 | Centuries Ago and Very Fast | ||
| 2010 | Prophets | ||
| 2011 | ' | ' | |
| 2011 | Project Itoh | Harmony | |
| 2011 | Yarn | ||
| 2011 | Chill | ||
| 2011 | |||
| 2011 | Song of Scarabaeus | ||
| 2011 | State of Decay | ||
| 2012 | ' | ' | |
| 2012 | |||
| 2012 | Deadline | ||
| 2012 | |||
| 2012 | |||
| 2012 | |||
| 2012 | After the Apocalypse | ||
| 2013 | ' | Lost Everything | |
| 2013 | LoveStar | ||
| 2013 | Blueprints of the Afterlife | ||
| 2013 | Harmony | ||
| 2013 | Helix Wars | ||
| 2013 | |||
| 2013 | Fountain of Age: Stories | ||
| 2014 | ' | Countdown City | |
| 2014 | Self-Reference Engine | ||
| 2014 | |||
| 2014 | |||
| 2014 | Ancillary Justice | ||
| 2014 | Life on the Preservation | ||
| 2014 | Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Books of Science Fiction | ||
| 2015 | ' | ' | |
| 2015 | Elysium | ||
| 2015 | |||
| 2015 | Memory of Water | ||
| 2015 | Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches | ||
| 2015 | Reach for Infinity | ||
| 2016 | ' | Apex | |
| 2016 | Archangel | ||
| 2016 | Edge of Dark | ||
| 2016 | After the Saucers Landed | ||
| 2016 | evolution | ||
| 2016 | Windswept | ||
| 2017 | ' | ' | |
| 2017 | Unpronounceable | ||
| 2017 | Consider | ||
| 2017 | Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens | ||
| 2017 | Graft | ||
| 2017 | Yoss | Super Extra Grande | |
| 2018 | ' | Bannerless | |
| 2018 | After the Flare | ||
| 2018 | |||
| 2018 | Six Wakes | ||
| 2018 | |||
| 2018 | Revenger | ||
| 2018 | All Systems Red | ||
| 2019 | ' | Theory of Bastards | |
| 2019 | 84K | ||
| 2019 | Time Was | ||
| 2019 | |||
| 2019 | Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories | ||
| 2019 | Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories | ||
| 2020 | ' | Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea | |
| 2020 | |||
| 2020 | |||
| 2020 | Velocity Weapon | ||
| 2020 | All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions | ||
| 2020 | |||
| 2021 | ' | Road Out of Winter | |
| 2021 | |||
| 2021 | Failed State | ||
| 2021 | Dance on Saturday | ||
| 2021 | Bone Silence | ||
| 2021 | |||
| 2022 | ' | Dead Space | |
| 2022 | |||
| 2022 | Defekt | ||
| 2022 | Plague Birds | ||
| 2022 | Bug | ||
| 2022 | Far from the Light of Heaven | ||
| 2023 | ' | The Extractionist | |
| 2023 | The Legacy of Molly Southbourne | ||
| 2023 | Rebecca Campbell | Arboreality | |
| 2023 | C. J. Carey | Widowland | |
| 2023 | Rich Larson | Ymir | |
| 2023 | Rachel Swirsky | January Fifteenth | |
| 2024 | ' | These Burning Stars | |
| 2024 | 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 | Brenda Peynado | Time's Agent | |
| 2025 | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Alien Clay | |
| 2025 | Tara Campbell | City of Dancing Gargoyles | |
| 2025 | Bora Chung | Your Utopia: Stories | |
| 2025 | Sofia Samatar | The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain | |
| 2025 | Subodhana Wijeyeratne | Triangulum | |
| 2026 | William Alexander | Sunward: A Novel | |
| 2026 | M. R. Carey | Outlaw Planet | |
| 2026 | Koji A. Dae | Casual | |
| 2026 | Caspar Geon | The Immeasurable Heaven | |
| 2026 | Thomas Ha | Uncertain Son and Other Stories | |
| 2026 | Christopher Hinz | Scales | |
| 2026 | Oliver K. Langmead and Aliya Whiteley | City of All Seasons |