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 and fantasy writer Philip K. Dick. It has been awarded since 1983, the year after Dick's death. Works that have received the award are identified on their covers as Best Original… (più)

 

Selezione2012

Lost Everything

Philip K. Dick Award 2012

di Brian Francis Slattery

From the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation comes an incandescent and thrilling post-apocalyptic tale in the vein of 1984 or The Road.

 

In the not-distant-enough...


Selezione2011

Degrees of Freedom

Samuil Petrovitch #3

Philip K. Dick Award 2011

di Simon Morden

Winner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award

The Six Degrees of Petrovitch

Michael is an AI of incalculable complexity trapped under the remains of Oshicora tower. Petrovitch will free him one day, he just has to...


Equations of Life

Samuil Petrovitch #1

Philip K. Dick Award 2011

di Simon Morden

Winner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award

Samuil Petrovitch is a survivor.

He survived the nuclear fallout in St. Petersburg and hid in the London Metrozone - the last city in England. He's lived this long because...


Theories of Flight

Samuil Petrovitch #2

Philip K. Dick Award 2011

di Simon Morden

Winner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award

Theorem: Petrovitch has a lot of secrets.

Proof: Secrets like how to make anti-gravity for one. For another, he's keeping a sentient computer program on a secret server...


Selezione2009

Bitter Angels

Philip K. Dick Award 2009

di C.L. Anderson

An Imploding Star System.

A Murdered Galactic Spy.

A Woman Seeking the Truth—and Finding the Unbelievable…

The Erasmus System is a sprawling realm of slavery, smugglers, spies—and constant, creeping decrepitude....


Selezione2008

Emissaries from the Dead

Philip K. Dick Award 2008

di Adam-Troy Castro

Two murders have occurred on One One One, an artificial ecosystem created by the universe's dominant AIs to house several engineered species, including a violent, sentient race of sloth-like creatures. Under...


Selezione2007

Nova Swing

the Kefahuchi Tract trilogy #2

Arthur C. Clarke 2007, Philip K. Dick Award 2007

di M. John Harrison

Years after Ed Chianese’s fateful trip into the Kefahuchi Tract, the tract has begun to expand and change in ways we never could have predicted—and, even more terrifying, parts of it have actually begun...


Selezione2006

Spin Control

Philip K. Dick Award 2006

di Chris Moriarty

Call Arkady a clone with a conscience. Or call him a traitor. A member of the space-faring Syndicates, Arkady has defected to Israel with a hot commodity: a genetic weapon powerful enough to wipe out humanity....


Selezione2005

War Surf

Philip K. Dick Award 2005

di M. M. Buckner

What would you do if you were rich, bright, vigorous, virtually immortal-and nearly bored to death?You'd invent a thrill sport..."An Innovative and exciting read. A treat." - C.J. Cherryh"Buckner hits another...


Selezione2003

Altered Carbon

Takeshi Kovacs #1

Philip K. Dick Award 2003

di Richard K. Morgan

In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined...


Selezione2001

Ship of Fools

Philip K. Dick Award 2001

di Richard Russo

Home to generations of humans, the starship Argonos has wandered aimlessly throughout the galaxy for hundreds of years, desperately searching for other signs of life. Now an unidentified transmission lures them...


Selezione1999

Vacuum Diagrams

Philip K. Dick Award 1999

di Stephen Baxter

"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life ..."This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells...


Selezione1986

Homunculus

Narbondo #2

Philip K. Dick Award 1986

di James P. Blaylock

It is the late 19th century and a mysterious airship orbits through the foggy skies. Its terrible secrets are sought by many, including the Royal Society, a fraudulent evangelist, a fiendish vivisectionist,...


Selezione1984

Neuromancer

Sprawl trilogy #1

Hugo Award for Best Novel 1985, Nebula Best Novel 1985, Philip K. Dick Award 1984

di William Gibson

The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . .

Case had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful...


Selezione1983

The Anubis Gates

Philip K. Dick Award 1983

di Tim Powers

Ace Books is proud to present this classic novel of time travel in a beautiful new trade edition. It took the fantasy world by storm a decade ago, and now fans can savor this Philip K. Dick Award-winner for...