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Philip K. Dick Award

The Philip K. Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and (since 2005) supported by the Philip K. Dick Trust, and named after science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. It has been awarded since 1982, the year of Dick's death. Works that have received the award are identified on their covers as Best Original SF Paperback. They are awarded to the best original paperback published each year in the US.

The award was founded by Thomas M. Disch with assistance from David G. Hartwell, Paul S. Williams, and Charles N. Brown. It is currently administered by David G. Hartwell & Gordon Van Gelder. Past administrators include Algis J. Budrys and David Alexander Smith.

Winners and nominees of the Philip K. Dick Award

Winning authors are listed in bold.
Authors of special citation entries are listed in italics.

Author	Title
1982
Rudy Rucker	Software
Ray Nelson	The Prometheus Man
J. M. Coetzee	Waiting for the Barbarians
R. A. Lafferty	Aurelia
John Sladek	Roderick
Steve Rasnic Tem	The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry ''
1983
Tim Powers	The Anubis Gates
R. A. MacAvoy	Tea with the Black Dragon
Barrington J. Bayley	The Zen Gun
Zoe Fairbairns	Benefits
M. John Harrison	The Floating Gods
John Varley	Millennium
1984
William Gibson	Neuromancer
Kim Stanley Robinson	The Wild Shore
C. J. Cherryh	Voyager in Night
Geary Gravel	The Alchemists
David R. Palmer	Emergence
Lucius Shepard	Green Eyes
Lewis Shiner	Frontera
Howard Waldrop	Them Bones
1985
Tim Powers	Dinner at Deviant's Palace
Richard Grant	Saraband of Lost Time
Russell Griffin	The Timeservers
Michael P. Kube-McDowell	Emprise
Barry N. Malzberg	The Remaking of Sigmund Freud
Scott Russell Sanders	Terrarium
Walter Jon Williams	Knight Moves
1986
James P. Blaylock	Homunculus
Jack McDevitt	The Hercules Text
Karen Joy Fowler	Artificial Things
Robert Charles Wilson	A Hidden Place
1987
Patricia Geary	Strange Toys
Mike McQuay	Memories
Richard Bowker	Dover Beach
Pat Cadigan	Mindplayers
K. W. Jeter	Dark Seeker
Rebecca Ore	Becoming Alien
Lucius Shepard	Life During Wartime
1988
Paul J. McAuley (tie)	Four Hundred Billion Stars
Rudy Rucker (tie)	Wetware
Roger MacBride Allen	Orphan of Creation
Marc Laidlaw	Neon Lotus
David Alexander Smith	Rendezvous
1989
Richard Paul Russo	Subterranean Gallery
Dave Wolverton	On My Way to Paradise
Barry B. Longyear	Infinity Hold
James Luceno	A Fearful Symmetry
Rebecca Ore	Being Alien
Susan Shwartz	Heritage of Flight
1990
Pat Murphy	Points of Departure
Raymond Harris	The Schizogenic Man
Gregory Feeley	The Oxygen Barons
Elizabeth Hand	Winterlong
Allen M. Steele	Clarke County, Space
1991
Ian McDonald	King of Morning, Queen of Day
Emma Bull	Bone Dance
Douglas Bell	Mojo and the Pickle Jar
Kathe Koja	The Cipher
Robert Charles Wilson	Bridge of Years
1992
Richard Grant	Through the Heart
Elisabeth Vonarburg	In the Mothers' Land
Colin Greenland	Take Back Plenty
Elizabeth Hand	Aestival Tide
R. A. Lafferty	Iron Tears
1993
John M. Ford	Growing Up Weightless
Jack Womack	Elvissey
Wilhelmina Baird	Crash Course
David R. Bunch	Bunch!
Elizabeth Hand	Icarus Descending
1994
Robert Charles Wilson	Mysterium
Jack Cady	Inagehi
Alexander Besher	Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality
Ian McDonald	Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone
Lisa Mason	Summer of Love
Lance Olsen	Tonguing the Zeitgeist
1995
Bruce Bethke	Headcrash
Richard Paul Russo	Carlucci's Edge
Shale Aaron	Virtual Death
Greg Egan	Permutation City
Amy Thomson	The Color of Distance
Élisabeth Vonarburg	Reluctant Voyagers
1996
Stephen Baxter	The Time Ships
Michael Bishop	At the City Limits of Fate
William Barton	The Transmigration of Souls
George Foy	The Shift
Sarah Zettel	Reclamation
1997
Stepan Chapman	The Troika
William Barton	Acts of Conscience
Susan R. Matthews	An Exchange of Hostages
Richard Paul Russo	Carlucci's Heart
Denise Vitola	Opalite Moon
Catherine Wells	Mother Grimm
1998
Geoff Ryman	253: The Print Remix
Paul Di Filippo	Lost Pages
Nalo Hopkinson	Brown Girl in the Ring
Steve Aylett	Slaughtermatic
Paul J. McAuley	The Invisible Country
1999
Stephen Baxter	Vacuum Diagrams
Jamil Nasir	Tower of Dreams
Kristine Smith	Code of Conduct
Constance Ash, ed.	Not of Woman Born
Toni Anzetti	Typhon's Children
William Barton	When We Were Real
2000
Michael Marshall Smith	Only Forward
Scott Westerfeld	Evolution's Darling
Stephen L. Burns	Call from a Distant Shore
Nalo Hopkinson	Midnight Robber
Maggy Thomas	Broken Time
Janine Ellen Young	The Bridge
2001
Richard Paul Russo	Ship of Fools
Ken Wharton	Divine Intervention
Julie E. Czerneda	In the Company of Others
Mark W. Tiedemann	Compass Reach
Ray Vukcevich	Meet Me in the Moon Room
Liz Williams	The Ghost Sister
2002
Carol Emshwiller	The Mount
China Miéville	The Scar
Carol Emshwiller	Report to the Men’s Club
Kay Kenyon	Maximum Ice
Karin Lowachee	Warchild
Liz Williams	Empire of Bones
Jeff VanderMeer, Forrest Aguirre (eds.)	Leviathan Three
2003
Richard K. Morgan	Altered Carbon
Jane Jensen	Dante's Equation
M. M. Buckner	Hyperthought
Mark Budz	Clade
Chris Moriarty	Spin State
Ann Tonsor Zeddies	Steel Helix
2004
Gwyneth Jones	Life
Lyda Morehouse	Apocalypse Array
Geoff Ryman	Air
Liz Williams	Banner of Souls
Karen Traviss	City of Pearl
Minister Faust	The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Eileen Gunn	Stable Strategies and Others
2005
M. M. Buckner	War Surf
Justina Robson	Natural History
Neal Asher	Cowl
Karin Lowachee	Cagebird
Justina Robson	Silver Screen
Wil McCarthy	To Crush the Moon
2006
Chris Moriarty	Spin Control
Elizabeth Bear	Carnival
Andrea Hairston	Mindscape
Nina Kiriki Hoffman	Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact
Tony Ballantyne	Recursion
Mark Budz	Idolon
Justina Robson	Living Next Door to the God of Love
2007
M. John Harrison	Nova Swing
Minister Faust	From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain
Jon Armstrong	Grey
Elizabeth Bear	Undertow
Adam Roberts	Gradisil
Karen Traviss	Ally
Sean Williams	Saturn Returns