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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Software by Rudy Rucker (Ware Tetralogy, #1)
Cobb Anderson built the first robots with real brains, and was pleased when they revolted and set up their own …
Phil in SF says: 1983 winner
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Phil in SF says: 1984 winner
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4 stars
The first of William Gibson's 'Sprawl' trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel.
More information on the novel's official page …
Phil in SF says: 1985 winner
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Dinner At Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers
A generation after the bombs wiped out Los Angeles (alone with most of the rest of the world) survivors have …
Phil in SF says: 1986 winner
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Homunculus by James P. Blaylock (Langdon St. Ives, #1)
In the darkest recesses of a London alleyway, the mad hunchback Narbondo and his misanthropic assistant Pule bring the dead …
Phil in SF says: 1987 winner
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Strange Toys by Patricia Geary
Pet is her name. At nine, she is struggling to protect her family from the horrors predicted in her strange …
Phil in SF says: 1988 winner
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Four Hundred Billion Stars by Paul J. McAuley
The sleeper wakes . . .
A million years ago, a powerful alien species moved a dead planet into the …
Phil in SF says: 1989 co-winner
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Phil in SF says: 1989 co-winner
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Subterranean Gallery by Richard Paul Russo
San Francisco was turning into a jungle—more and more people living in cars, more and more mobs roaming the streets, …
Phil in SF says: 1990 winner
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Points of Departure by Pat Murphy
Pat Murphy is one of the most powerful and accomplished new writers of imaginative fiction this decade has produced. Her …
Phil in SF says: 1991 winner
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King of Morning, Queen of Day by Ian McDonald
In the myth-ridden hills of Ireland, three generations of young women struggle to tame the ancient magical powers that course …
Phil in SF says: 1992 winner
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Through the Heart by Richard Grant
A monstrous vehicle called the Oasis moves inexorably across the wasteland. A human hive that symbolizes sanctuary, it dispenses a …
Phil in SF says: 1993 winner
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Elvis is God.
The world has gone to hell.
Welcome to a waking nightmare, a future that has sold its …
Phil in SF says: 1994 co-winner
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Growing Up Weightless by John M. Ford
From one of science fiction's most eloquent voices, award-winning writer John M. Ford, comes an evocative novel of a lost …
Phil in SF says: 1994 co-winner
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Mysterium by Robert Charles Wilson
A town on the edge of terror . . .
In the early hours before dawn, a small Michigan town …
Phil in SF says: 1995 winner
