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.
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 AuthorTitleRef1983Software Waiting for the Barbarians Aurelia Roderick 1984Tea with the Black DragonBenefitsMillennium1985NeuromancerVoyager in NightEmergenceGreen EyesFronteraThem Bones1986Dinner at Deviant's PalaceSaraband of Lost TimeEmpriseTerrariumKnight Moves1987HomunculusArtificial Things1988Strange ToysMemoriesDover BeachMindplayersDark SeekerBecoming AlienLife During Wartime1989 (tie)Four Hundred Billion StarsRudy Rucker (tie)WetwareOrphan of CreationNeon LotusRendezvous1990Subterranean GalleryOn My Way to ParadiseInfinity HoldBeing AlienHeritage of Flight1991Points of DepartureWinterlongClarke County, Space1992King of Morning, Queen of DayBone DanceMojo and the Pickle JarBridge of Years1993Through the HeartIn the Mothers' LandTake Back PlentyAestival TideIron Tears1994 (tie)Growing Up Weightless (tie)ElvisseyCrash CourseBunch!Icarus Descending1995MysteriumInagehiRim: A Novel of Virtual RealitySummer of LoveScissors Cut Paper Wrap StoneTonguing the Zeitgeist1996HeadcrashCarlucci's EdgeVirtual DeathPermutation CityReluctant Voyagers1997At the City Limits of FateReclamation1998Acts of ConscienceCarlucci's HeartOpalite MoonMother Grimm1999253: The Print RemixLost PagesSlaughtermaticBrown Girl in the Ring2000Vacuum DiagramsTower of DreamsTyphon's Children, ed.Not of Woman BornWhen We Were RealCode of Conduct2001Only ForwardEvolution's DarlingCall from a Distant ShoreMidnight RobberBroken Time2002Ship of FoolsDivine InterventionIn the Company of OthersCompass ReachMeet Me in the Moon Room2003Report to the Men’s ClubMaximum IceWarchildEmpire of Bones, Jeff VanderMeer (eds.)Leviathan Three2004Altered CarbonDante's EquationHyperthoughtCladeSpin StateSteel Helix2005Life Apocalypse Array Air Banner of Souls City of Pearl Stable Strategies and Others2006War Surf Natural History Cowl Cagebird Silver Screen To Crush the Moon2007 Spin Control Carnival Recursion Idolon Mindscape Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact Living Next Door to the God of Love2008 Nova Swing From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain Grey Undertow Gradisil Ally Saturn Returns2009 (tie) Emissaries from The Dead (tie) Terminal Mind Fast Forward 2 Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait Plague War Judge2010 Bitter Angels Cyberabad Days Centuries Ago and Very Fast Prophets2011 Project Itoh (trans. Alexander O. Smith) Harmony Yarn Chill Song of Scarabaeus State of Decay2012 Deadline After the Apocalypse2013 Lost Everything LoveStar Blueprints of the Afterlife Harmony Helix Wars Fountain of Age: Stories2014 Countdown City Self-Reference Engine Ancillary Justice Life on the Preservation (ed.) Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Books of Science Fiction2015 Elysium Memory of Water Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches (ed.) Reach for Infinity2016 Apex Archangel Edge of Dark After the Saucers Landed (R)evolution Windswept2017 Unpronounceable Consider Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens GraftYoss Super Extra Grande2018 Bannerless After the Flare Six Wakes Revenger All Systems Red2019 Theory of Bastards 84K Time Was Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories2020 Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea Velocity Weapon All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions 2021 Road Out of Winter Failed State Dance on Saturday Bone Silence 2022 Dead Space Defekt Plague Birds Bug Far from the Light of Heaven2023The Extractionist The Legacy of Molly SouthbourneRebecca CampbellArborealityC. J. CareyWidowlandRich LarsonYmirRachel SwirskyJanuary Fifteenth2024These Burning StarsThe Museum of Human HistoryEugen BaconDanged Black ThingM. R. CareyInfinity GateS. L. ConeyWild SpacesDilman DilaWhere Rivers Go to Die2025Brenda PeynadoTime's AgentAdrian TchaikovskyAlien ClayTara CampbellCity of Dancing GargoylesBora ChungYour Utopia: StoriesSofia SamatarThe Practice, the Horizon, and the ChainSubodhana WijeyeratneTriangulum2026M. R. CareyOutlaw Planet Thomas HaUncertain Sons and Other StoriesWilliam AlexanderSunward: A NovelKoji A. DaeCasual Caspar GeonThe Immeasurable HeavenChristopher Hinz ScalesOliver K. Langmead and Aliya WhiteleyCity of All Seasons
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External links
List of all winning and nominated novels