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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Bitter Angels by C. L. Anderson
An Imploding Star System. A Murdered Galactic Spy. A Woman Seeking the Truth—and Finding the Unbelievable…
The Erasmus System is …
Phil in SF says: 2010 winner
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The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder (Burton & Swinburne, #1)
London, 1861.
Sir Richard Francis Burton—explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner …
Phil in SF says: 2011 winner
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Equations of Life by Simon Morden (Samuil Petrovitch, #1)
Samuil Petrovitch is a survivor.
He survived the nuclear fallout in St. Petersburg and hid in the London Metrozone -- …
Phil in SF says: 2012 co-winner
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Theories of Flight by Simon Morden (Samuil Petrovitch, #2)
Theorem: Petrovitch has a lot of secrets.
Proof: Secrets like how to make anti-gravity for one. For another, he's keeping …
Phil in SF says: 2012 co-winner
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Degrees of Freedom by Simon Morden (Samuil Petrovitch, #3)
The Six Degrees of Petrovitch
Michael is an AI of incalculable complexity trapped under the remains of Oshicora tower. Petrovitch …
Phil in SF says: 2012 co-winner
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Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery
From the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation comes an incandescent and thrilling post-apocalyptic …
Phil in SF says: 2013 winner
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Countdown City by Ben H. Winters (The Last Policeman, #2)
The Last Policeman received the 2013 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original--along with plenty of glowing reviews.
Now Detective Hank …
Phil in SF says: 2014 winner
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The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
The apocalypse will be asymmetrical.
In the aftermath of a plague that has decimated the world population, the unnamed midwife …
Phil in SF says: 2015 winner
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Apex by Ramez Naam (Nexus, #3)
Global unrest spreads through the US, China, and beyond. Secrets and lies set off shockwaves of anger, rippling from mind …
Phil in SF says: 2016 winner
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The Mercy Journals by Claudia Casper
This unsettling novel is set thirty years in the future, in the wake of a third world war. Runaway effects …
Phil in SF says: 2017 winner
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Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn (The Bannerless Saga, #1)
A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she’s learned about the foundation of …
Phil in SF says: 2018 winner
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Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman
Life is finally worth living for Francine. After the years stolen by unbearable, undiagnosed pain, a recent surgery has provided …
Phil in SF says: 2019 winner
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Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker
A wide-ranging debut collection from a writer whose musicality and humor shine through even when plumbing the darkest depths of …
Phil in SF says: 2020 winner
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Road Out of Winter by Alison Stine
In an endless winter, she carries seeds of hope
Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty—her family grows …
Phil in SF says: 2021 winner
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An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science fiction thriller from the …
Phil in SF says: 2022 winner
