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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Past administrators include Algis Budrys and David G. Hartwell.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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	Template:Sortname	Software
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	Template:Sortname	Waiting for the Barbarians
	Template:Sortname	Aurelia
	Template:Sortname	Roderick
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1984	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
	Template:Sortname	Tea with the Black Dragon
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	Template:Sortname	Benefits
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	Template:Sortname	Millennium
1985	Template:Sortname	Neuromancer
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	Template:Sortname	Voyager in Night
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	Template:Sortname	Emergence
	Template:Sortname	Green Eyes
	Template:Sortname	Frontera
	Template:Sortname	Them Bones
1986	Template:Sortname	Dinner at Deviant's Palace
	Template:Sortname	Saraband of Lost Time
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	Template:Sortname	Emprise
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	Template:Sortname	Terrarium
	Template:Sortname	Knight Moves
1987	Template:Sortname	Homunculus
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	Template:Sortname	Artificial Things
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1988	Template:Sortname	Strange Toys
	Template:Sortname	Memories
	Template:Sortname	Dover Beach
	Template:Sortname	Mindplayers
	Template:Sortname	Dark Seeker
	Template:Sortname	Becoming Alien
	Template:Sortname	Life During Wartime
1989	Template:Sortname (tie)	Four Hundred Billion Stars
	Rudy Rucker (tie)	Wetware
	Template:Sortname	Orphan of Creation
	Template:Sortname	Neon Lotus
	Template:Sortname	Rendezvous
1990	Template:Sortname	Subterranean Gallery
	Template:Sortname	On My Way to Paradise
	Template:Sortname	Infinity Hold
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
	Template:Sortname	Being Alien
	Template:Sortname	Heritage of Flight
1991	Template:Sortname	Points of Departure
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	Template:Sortname	Winterlong
	Template:Sortname	Clarke County, Space
1992	Template:Sortname	King of Morning, Queen of Day
	Template:Sortname	Bone Dance
	Template:Sortname	Mojo and the Pickle Jar
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
	Template:Sortname	Bridge of Years
1993	Template:Sortname	Through the Heart
	Template:Sortname	In the Mothers' Land
	Template:Sortname	Take Back Plenty
	Template:Sortname	Aestival Tide
	Template:Sortname	Iron Tears
1994	Template:Sortname (tie)	Growing Up Weightless
	Template:Sortname (tie)	Elvissey
	Template:Sortname	Crash Course
	Template:Sortname	Bunch!
	Template:Sortname	Icarus Descending
1995	Template:Sortname	Mysterium
	Template:Sortname	Inagehi
	Template:Sortname	Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality
	Template:Sortname	Summer of Love
	Template:Sortname	Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone
	Template:Sortname	Tonguing the Zeitgeist
1996	Template:Sortname	Headcrash
	Template:Sortname	Carlucci's Edge
	Template:Sortname	Virtual Death
	Template:Sortname	Permutation City
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
	Template:Sortname	Reluctant Voyagers
1997	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
	Template:Sortname	At the City Limits of Fate
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	Template:Sortname	Reclamation
1998	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
	Template:Sortname	Acts of Conscience
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	Template:Sortname	Carlucci's Heart
	Template:Sortname	Opalite Moon
	Template:Sortname	Mother Grimm
1999	Template:Sortname	253: The Print Remix
	Template:Sortname	Lost Pages
	Template:Sortname	Slaughtermatic
	Template:Sortname	Brown Girl in the Ring
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2000	Template:Sortname	Vacuum Diagrams
	Template:Sortname	Tower of Dreams
	Template:Sortname	Typhon's Children
	Template:Sortname, ed.	Not of Woman Born
	Template:Sortname	When We Were Real
	Template:Sortname	Code of Conduct
2001	Template:Sortname	Only Forward
	Template:Sortname	Evolution's Darling
	Template:Sortname	Call from a Distant Shore
	Template:Sortname	Midnight Robber
	Template:Sortname	Broken Time
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2002	Template:Sortname	Ship of Fools
	Template:Sortname	Divine Intervention
	Template:Sortname	In the Company of Others
	Template:Sortname	Compass Reach
	Template:Sortname	Meet Me in the Moon Room
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2003	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
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	Template:Sortname	Report to the Men’s Club
	Template:Sortname	Maximum Ice
	Template:Sortname	Warchild
	Template:Sortname	Empire of Bones
	Template:Sortname, Jeff VanderMeer (eds.)	Leviathan Three
2004	Template:Sortname	Altered Carbon
	Template:Sortname	Dante's Equation
	Template:Sortname	Hyperthought
	Template:Sortname	Clade
	Template:Sortname	Spin State
	Template:Sortname	Steel Helix
2005	Template:Sortname	Life
	Template:Sortname	Apocalypse Array
	Template:Sortname	Air
	Template:Sortname	Banner of Souls
	Template:Sortname	City of Pearl
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
	Template:Sortname	Stable Strategies and Others
2006	Template:Sortname	War Surf
	Template:Sortname	Natural History
	Template:Sortname	Cowl
	Template:Sortname	Cagebird
	Template:Sortname	Silver Screen
	Template:Sortname	To Crush the Moon
2007	Template:Sortname	Spin Control
	Template:Sortname	Carnival
	Template:Sortname	Recursion
	Template:Sortname	Idolon
	Template:Sortname	Mindscape
	Template:Sortname	Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact
	Template:Sortname	Living Next Door to the God of Love
2008	Template:Sortname	Nova Swing
	Template:Sortname	From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain
	Template:Sortname	Grey
	Template:Sortname	Undertow
	Template:Sortname	Gradisil
	Template:Sortname	Ally
	Template:Sortname	Saturn Returns
2009	Template:Sortname (tie)	Emissaries from The Dead<ref name="2008 nom">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname (tie)	Terminal Mind<ref name="2008 nom" />
	Template:Sortname	Fast Forward 2<ref name="2008 nom" />
	Template:Sortname	Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait<ref name="2008 nom" />
	Template:Sortname	Plague War<ref name="2008 nom" />
	Template:Sortname	Judge<ref name="2008 nom" />
2010	Template:Sortname	Bitter Angels
	Template:Sortname	Cyberabad Days
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	Template:Sortname	Centuries Ago and Very Fast
	Template:Sortname	Prophets
2011	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
	Project Itoh (trans. Alexander O. Smith)	Harmony
	Template:Sortname	Yarn
	Template:Sortname	Chill
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	Template:Sortname	Song of Scarabaeus
	Template:Sortname	State of Decay
2012	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
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	Template:Sortname	Deadline
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	Template:Sortname	After the Apocalypse
2013	Template:Sortname	Lost Everything<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	LoveStar
	Template:Sortname	Blueprints of the Afterlife
	Template:Sortname	Harmony
	Template:Sortname	Helix Wars
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
	Template:Sortname	Fountain of Age: Stories
2014	Template:Sortname	Countdown City	<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Self-Reference Engine
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
	Template:Sortname	Ancillary Justice
	Template:Sortname	Life on the Preservation
	Template:Sortname (ed.)	Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Books of Science Fiction
2015	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Elysium	<ref name=":1" />
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Memory of Water
	Template:Sortname	Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches
	Template:Sortname (ed.)	Reach for Infinity
2016	Template:Sortname	Apex	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Archangel	<ref name=":2" />
	Template:Sortname	Edge of Dark	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	After the Saucers Landed
	Template:Sortname	(R)evolution
	Template:Sortname	Windswept
2017	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Unpronounceable	<ref name=":3" />
	Template:Sortname	Consider	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens
	Template:Sortname	Graft
	Yoss	Super Extra Grande
2018	Template:Sortname	Bannerless
	Template:Sortname	After the Flare
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Six Wakes
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
	Template:Sortname	Revenger
	Template:Sortname	All Systems Red
2019	Template:Sortname	Theory of Bastards
	Template:Sortname	84K
	Template:Sortname	Time Was	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
	Template:Sortname	Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories
	Template:Sortname	Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
2020	Template:Sortname	Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea	<ref name=":4">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Velocity Weapon
	Template:Sortname	All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions
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2021	Template:Sortname	Road Out of Winter	<ref name=":5">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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	Template:Sortname	Failed State	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Dance on Saturday
	Template:Sortname	Bone Silence
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2022	Template:Sortname	Dead Space	<ref name=":6">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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	Template:Sortname	Defekt	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Plague Birds
	Template:Sortname	Bug
	Template:Sortname	Far from the Light of Heaven
2023	Template:Sortname	The Extractionist	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	The Legacy of Molly Southbourne	<ref name=":7" />
	Rebecca Campbell	Arboreality	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	C. J. Carey	Widowland
	Rich Larson	Ymir
	Rachel Swirsky	January Fifteenth
2024	Template:Sortname	These Burning Stars	<ref name=":22">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	The Museum of Human History
	Eugen Bacon	Danged Black Thing	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	M. R. Carey	Infinity Gate
	S. L. Coney	Wild Spaces
	Dilman Dila	Where Rivers Go to Die
2025	Brenda Peynado	Time's Agent	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Adrian Tchaikovsky	Alien Clay
	Tara Campbell	City of Dancing Gargoyles	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Bora Chung	Your Utopia: Stories
	Sofia Samatar	The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
	Subodhana Wijeyeratne	Triangulum

External links

• Template:Official website
• List of all winning and nominated novels