Philip K. Dick Award

The Philip K. Dick Memorial Award was created by admirers of the author shortly after Dick's death (in 1982) to honor the Best American Original SF Paperback Book of the year. The prize ($1,000 for 1st place, $500 for 2nd) is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and awarded at Norwescon, held in the state of Washington each year in the Spring.

The Award was suggested initially by SF author Thomas M. Disch, who was for several years its administrator. An administrative team of Algis Budrys and David G. Hartwell succeeded him.

The prizes come with a certificate, featuring a gold logo for first place and a silver logo for second. A jury (of 3, 4, or 5 members) now comprises each year's panel, with most of the jurors naming their successors for the next year. Usually one judge is the previous year's winner. In addition to SF and fantasy authors, there is at least one academic and one editor on each panel.

Prize moneys initially were obtained by solicitations from publishers of paperback books, and some authorities have contended that the $1,000 and $500 prizes were awarded only when funds were available. The Award currently is supported by the Philip K. Dick Trust.

The first winner of the Award was Rudy Rucker for his novel Software. Ray Nelson, a friend and one-time collaborator of Dick (The Ganymede Takeover) was a finalist for the first Award and received a Special Citation from the award administrators. Special Citations usually are given for books that take second place in the competition.

Rudy Rucker, Tim Powers, Stephen Baxter, and Richard Paul Russo all have won the Award more than once.

Year	Author	Work
1983	Rudy Rucker	Software
1984	Tim Powers	The Anubis Gates
1985	William Gibson	Neuromancer
1986	Tim Powers	Dinner at Deviant's Palace
1987	James P. Blaylock	Homunculus
1988	Patricia Geary	Strange Toys
1989 tie	Paul J. McAuley	Four Hundred Billion Stars
1989 tie	Rudy Rucker	Wetware
1990	Richard Paul Russo	Subterranean Gallery
1991	Pat Murphy	Points of Departure
1992	Ian McDonald	King of Morning, Queen of Day
1993	Richard Grant	Through the Heart
1994 tie	John M. Ford	Growing Up Weightless
1994 tie	Jack Womack	Elvissey
1995	Robert Charles Wilson	Mysterium
1996	Bruce Bethke	Headcrash
1997	Stephen Baxter	The Time Ships
1998	Stepan Chapman	The Troika
1999	Geoff Ryman	253
2000	Stephen Baxter	Vacuum Diagrams
2001	Michael Marshall Smith	Only Forward
2002	Richard Paul Russo	Ship of Fools
2003	Carol Emshwiller	The Mount
2004	Richard Morgan	Altered Carbon
2005	Gwyneth Jones	Life
2006	M. M. Buckner	War Surf
2007	Chris Moriarty	Spin Control
2008	M. John Harrison	Nova Swing
2009 tie	Adam-Troy Castro	Emissaries from the Dead
2009 tie	David Walton	Terminal Mind
2010	C. L. Anderson	Bitter Angels
2011	Mark Hodder	The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
2012	Simon Morden	Samuil Petrovitch trilogy
2013	Brian Francis Slattery	Lost Everything
2014	Ben H. Winters	Countdown City
2015	Meg Elison	The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
2016	Ramez Naam	Apex
2017	Claudia Casper	The Mercy Journals
2018	Carrie Vaughn	Bannerless
2019	Sarah Pinsker	Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea:Stories

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