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.
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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

YearAuthorTitleRef
1983'Software
1983
1983Waiting for the Barbarians
1983Aurelia
1983Roderick
1983
1984''
1984Tea with the Black Dragon
1984
1984Benefits
1984
1984Millennium
1985'Neuromancer
1985
1985Voyager in Night
1985
1985Emergence
1985Green Eyes
1985Frontera
1985Them Bones
1986'Dinner at Deviant's Palace
1986Saraband of Lost Time
1986
1986Emprise
1986
1986Terrarium
1986Knight Moves
1987'Homunculus
1987
1987Artificial Things
1987
1988'Strange Toys
1988Memories
1988Dover Beach
1988Mindplayers
1988Dark Seeker
1988Becoming Alien
1988Life During Wartime
1989' Four Hundred Billion Stars
1989Rudy Rucker Wetware
1989Orphan of Creation
1989Neon Lotus
1989Rendezvous
1990'Subterranean Gallery
1990On My Way to Paradise
1990Infinity Hold
1990
1990Being Alien
1990Heritage of Flight
1991'Points of Departure
1991
1991
1991Winterlong
1991Clarke County, Space
1992'King of Morning, Queen of Day
1992Bone Dance
1992Mojo and the Pickle Jar
1992
1992Bridge of Years
1993'Through the Heart
1993In the Mothers' Land
1993Take Back Plenty
1993Aestival Tide
1993Iron Tears
1994' Growing Up Weightless
1994' Elvissey
1994Crash Course
1994Bunch!
1994Icarus Descending
1995'Mysterium
1995Inagehi
1995Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality
1995Summer of Love
1995Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone
1995Tonguing the Zeitgeist
1996'Headcrash
1996Carlucci's Edge
1996Virtual Death
1996Permutation City
1996
1996Reluctant Voyagers
1997''
1997At the City Limits of Fate
1997
1997
1997Reclamation
1998'
1998Acts of Conscience
1998
1998Carlucci's Heart
1998Opalite Moon
1998Mother Grimm
1999'253: The Print Remix
1999Lost Pages
1999Slaughtermatic
1999Brown Girl in the Ring
1999
2000'Vacuum Diagrams
2000Tower of Dreams
2000Typhon's Children
2000, ed.Not of Woman Born
2000When We Were Real
2000Code of Conduct
2001'Only Forward
2001Evolution's Darling
2001Call from a Distant Shore
2001Midnight Robber
2001Broken Time
2001
2002'Ship of Fools
2002Divine Intervention
2002In the Company of Others
2002Compass Reach
2002Meet Me in the Moon Room
2002
2003'
2003
2003Report to the Men’s Club
2003Maximum Ice
2003Warchild
2003Empire of Bones
2003, Jeff VanderMeer Leviathan Three
2004'Altered Carbon
2004Dante's Equation
2004Hyperthought
2004Clade
2004Spin State
2004Steel Helix
2005'Life
2005Apocalypse Array
2005Air
2005Banner of Souls
2005City of Pearl
2005
2005Stable Strategies and Others
2006'War Surf
2006Natural History
2006Cowl
2006Cagebird
2006Silver Screen
2006To Crush the Moon
2007'Spin Control
2007Carnival
2007Recursion
2007Idolon
2007Mindscape
2007Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact
2007Living Next Door to the God of Love
2008'Nova Swing
2008From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain
2008Grey
2008Undertow
2008Gradisil
2008Ally
2008Saturn Returns
2009' Emissaries from The Dead
2009' Terminal Mind
2009Fast Forward 2
2009Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait
2009Plague War
2009Judge
2010'Bitter Angels
2010Cyberabad Days
2010
2010
2010
2010Centuries Ago and Very Fast
2010Prophets
2011''
2011Project Itoh Harmony
2011Yarn
2011Chill
2011
2011Song of Scarabaeus
2011State of Decay
2012''
2012
2012Deadline
2012
2012
2012
2012After the Apocalypse
2013'Lost Everything
2013LoveStar
2013Blueprints of the Afterlife
2013Harmony
2013Helix Wars
2013
2013Fountain of Age: Stories
2014'Countdown City
2014Self-Reference Engine
2014
2014
2014Ancillary Justice
2014Life on the Preservation
2014 Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Books of Science Fiction
2015''
2015Elysium
2015
2015Memory of Water
2015Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches
2015 Reach for Infinity
2016'Apex
2016Archangel
2016Edge of Dark
2016After the Saucers Landed
2016evolution
2016Windswept
2017''
2017Unpronounceable
2017Consider
2017Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens
2017Graft
2017YossSuper Extra Grande
2018'Bannerless
2018After the Flare
2018
2018Six Wakes
2018
2018Revenger
2018All Systems Red
2019'Theory of Bastards
201984K
2019Time Was
2019
2019Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories
2019Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
2020'Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea
2020
2020
2020Velocity Weapon
2020All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions
2020
2021'Road Out of Winter
2021
2021Failed State
2021Dance on Saturday
2021Bone Silence
2021
2022'Dead Space
2022
2022Defekt
2022Plague Birds
2022Bug
2022Far from the Light of Heaven
2023'The Extractionist
2023The Legacy of Molly Southbourne
2023Rebecca CampbellArboreality
2023C. J. CareyWidowland
2023Rich LarsonYmir
2023Rachel SwirskyJanuary Fifteenth
2024'These Burning Stars
2024The Museum of Human History
2024Eugen BaconDanged Black Thing
2024M. R. CareyInfinity Gate
2024S. L. ConeyWild Spaces
2024Dilman DilaWhere Rivers Go to Die
2025Brenda PeynadoTime's Agent
2025Adrian TchaikovskyAlien Clay
2025Tara CampbellCity of Dancing Gargoyles
2025Bora ChungYour Utopia: Stories
2025Sofia SamatarThe Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
2025Subodhana WijeyeratneTriangulum
2026William AlexanderSunward: A Novel
2026M. R. CareyOutlaw Planet
2026Koji A. DaeCasual
2026Caspar GeonThe Immeasurable Heaven
2026Thomas HaUncertain Son and Other Stories
2026Christopher HinzScales
2026Oliver K. Langmead and Aliya WhiteleyCity of All Seasons