Books that have won the Philip K. Dick Award, given annually since 1982 by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society for Best Original SF Paperback.
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Jack Burroughs.
Some say he was the best.
Some say he was a complete dork.
Some call him the coolest …
Phil in SF says: 1996 winner
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The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
There is a secret passage through time ...and it leads all the way to the end of Eternity. But the …
Phil in SF says: 1997 winner
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Beneath the glare of three purple suns, three travelers—an old Mexican woman, an automated jeep, and a brontosaurus—have trudged across …
Phil in SF says: 1998 winner
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253: The Print Remix by Geoff Ryman
4 stars
A cult classic in the making. 253 is the novel about everyone you’ve ever met and wished you hadn’t or …
Phil in SF says: 1999 winner
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Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter
"And everywhere the humans went they found life . . . "
This dazzling future history, the most ambitious and …
Phil in SF says: 2000 winner
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Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Marshall Smith has written a tale that from page one hurtles us only forward in this unsettling, suspenseful, and …
Phil in SF says: 2001 winner
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Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo
3 stars
Home to generations of humans, the starship Argonos has wandered aimlessly throughout the galaxy for hundreds of years, desperately searching …
Phil in SF says: 2002 winner
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4 stars
Charley is an athlete. He wants to grow up to be the fastest runner in the world, like his father. …
Phil in SF says: 2003 winner
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Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
4 stars
In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions …
Phil in SF says: 2004 winner
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4 stars
Life is a richly textured fictional biography of the brilliant Anna Senoz, a scientist who makes a momentous discovery about …
Phil in SF says: 2005 winner
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Nasir Deepra is 248 years old, rich, bright, vigorous, and virtually immortal thanks to advanced nanotechnology – but he’s bored …
Phil in SF says: 2006 winner
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Spin Control by Chris Moriarty (Spin, #2)
5 stars
In this stunning follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel Spin State, Chris Moriarty depicts a grim future in which the …
Phil in SF says: 2007 winner
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Nova Swing by M. John Harrison (Kefahuchi Tract, #2)
Years after Ed Chianese’s fateful trip into the Kefahuchi Tract, the tract has begun to expand and change in ways …
Phil in SF says: 2008 winner
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Emissaries from the Dead by Adam-Troy Castro (Andrea Cort, #1)
Two murders have occurred on One One One, an artificial ecosystem created by the universe's dominant AIs to house several …
Phil in SF says: 2009 co-winner
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Years in the future, the U.S. is a splintered country. The city-state of Philadelphia is ripe for revolution. Mark McGovern, …
Phil in SF says: 2009 co-winner
