Philip K. Dick Award

Philip K. Dick Award Winners
for best SF/Fantasy novel published first in paperback format in the past year

The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually for the best science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, and has been supported since 2005 by the Philip K. Dick Trust. The award is selected by an appointed committee of judges. The award is presented at Norwescon, a science fiction and fantasy convention held each spring in Seattle, Washington.

The award is named after science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, and has been given each year since Dick’s death in 1982. Dick’s body of work included 36 novels, 121 short stories, and 14 short story collections. For more information, including including announcements of news related to the Philip K. Dick Award, visit The Official Philip K. Dick Award blog page, and/or the Philip K. Dick Award page on Wikipedia.

(NOTE: The titles in this list are “hotlinked” to the library’s catalog, for all those titles currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries. If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department.)

2023
Kimberly Unger
The Extractionist

2022
Kali Wallace
Dead Space

2021
Alison Stine
Road Out of Winter

2020
Sarah Pinsker
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea

2019
Audrey Schulman
Theory of Bastards

2018
Carrie Vaughn
Bannerless

2017
Claudia Casper
The Mercy Journals

2016
Ramez Naam
Apex

2016 (special citation)
Marguerite Reed
Archangel

2015
Meg Elison
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

2015 (special citation)
Jennifer Marie Brissette
Elysium

2014 
Ben H. Winters
Countdown City

2013 
Brian Francis Slattery
Lost Everything

2012 
Simon Morden
The Samuil Petrovich Trilogy

2011 
Mark Hodder
The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack

2010 [tie] 
C.L. Anderson
Bitter Angels

2009 [tie] 
Adam-Troy Castro
Emissaries From the Dead

2009 [tie] 
David Walton
Terminal Mind

2008 
M. John Harrison
Nova Swing

2007 
Chris Moriarty
Spin Control

2006 
M.M. Buckner
War Surf

2005 
Gwyneth Jones
Life

2004 
Richard K. Morgan
Altered Carbon

2003 
Carol Emshwiller
The Mount

2002 
Richard Paul Russo
Ship of Fools

2001 
Michael Marshall Smith
Only Forward

2000 
Stephen Baxter
Vacuum Diagrams

1999 
Geoff Ryman
253: The Print Remix

1998 
Stepan Chapman
The Troika

1997 
Stephen Baxter
The Time Ships

1996 
Bruce Bethke
Headcrash

1995 
Robert Charles Wilson
Mysterium

1994 
Jack Womack
Elvissey

[tie] 
John M. Ford
Growing Up Weightless

1993 
Richard Grant
Through the Heart

1992 
Ian McDonald
King of Morning, Queen of Day

1991 
Pat Murphy
Points of Departure

1990 
Richard Paul Russo
Subterranean Gallery

1989 
Rudy Rucker
Wetware

[tie] 
Paul J. McAuley
Four Hundred Billion Stars

1988 
Patricia Geary
Strange Toys

1987 
James P. Blaylock
Homonculus

1986 
Tim Powers
Dinner at Deviant’s Palace

1985 
William Gibson
Neuromancer

1984 
Tim Powers
The Anubis Gates

1983 
Rudy Rucker
Software

Last updated May 2023 sdc