The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and Norwescon present at Norwescon 47

The 2025 Philip K. Dick Awards

April 18, 2025

2025 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees

City of Dancing Gargoyles
Tara Campbell
Santa Fe Writers Project

Your Utopia: Stories
Bora Chung
Translated by Anton Hur
Algonquin Books

Time’s Agent
Brenda Peynado
Tordotcom

The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
Sofia Samatar
Tordotcom

Alien Clay
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Orbit

Triangulum
Subodhana Wijeyeratne
Rosarium Publishing

The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually for distinguished science fiction books published for the first time in the United States as a paperback original.

www.philipkdickaward.org

Reception Program

6:30 p.m. Doors open

7:20 p.m. Welcome
Michael Hanscom, Master of Ceremonies
Rob Stewart, Chair, Norwescon 47
Gordon Van Gelder, Award Administrator

7:30 p.m. Introduction of the Nominees
Readings

8:20 p.m. Award Presentation
Gordon Van Gelder, Award Administrator

Thank you to the following organizations for their generous contributions to the award:

The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society
The Philip K. Dick Trust

We would like to thank all of the publishers who contributed books for this year’s award.

Award Administrators:

Gary Feldbaum, Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, Fund Administrator
Patrick Lo Brutto, Professional Administrator
John Silbersack, Professional Administrator
Gordon Van Gelder, Professional Administrator

The 2024 judges are:

Maurice Broaddus

3. 19. Friedman
       Rajan Khanna
       Carol McGuirk
       Carrie Vaughn (chair)

Philip K. Dick Award Winners

Presentation Year / Eligibility Year - W: Winner - SC: Special Citation

2024 / 2023
W: These Burning Stars, Bethany Jacobs
SC: The Museum of Human History, Rebekah Bergman

2023 / 2022
W: The Extractionist, Kimberly Unger
SC: The Legacy of Molly Southbourne, Tade Thompson

2022 / 2021
W: Dead Space, Kali Wallace
SC: The Escapement, Lavie Tidhar

2021 / 2020
W: Road Out of Winter, Alison Stine
SC: The Book of Koli, M.R. Carey

2020 / 2019
W: Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories, Sarah Pinsker
SC: The Little Animals, Sarah Tolmie

2019 / 2018
W: Theory of Bastards, Audrey Schulman
SC: 84K, Claire North

2018 / 2017
W: Bannerless, Carrie Vaughn
SC: After the Flare, Deji Bryce Olukotun

2017 / 2016
W: The Mercy Journals, Claudia Casper
SC: Unpronounceable, Susan diRende

2016 / 2015
W: Apex Ramez Naam
SC: Archangel, Marguerite Reed

2015 / 2014
W: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Meg Elison
SC: Elysium, Jennifer Marie Brissett

2014 / 2013
W: Countdown City, Ben H. Winters
SC: Self-Reference Engine, Toh EnJoe

2013 / 2012
W: Lost Everything, Brian Francis Slattery
SC: LoveStar, Andri Snær Magnason

2012 / 2011
W: The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy, Simon Morden
SC: The Company Man, Robert Jackson Bennett

2011 / 2010
W: The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack, Mark Hodder
SC: Harmony, Project Itoh, translated by Alexander O. Smith

2010 / 2009
W: Bitter Angels, C.L. Anderson
SC: Cyberabad Days, Ian McDonald

2009 / 2008
W (tie): Emissaries from the Dead, Adam-Troy Castro
Terminal Mind, David Walton

2008 / 2007
W: Nova Swing, M. John Harrison
SC: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain, Minister Faust

2007 / 2006
W: Spin Control, Chris Moriarty
SC: Carnival, Elizabeth Bear

2006 / 2005
W: War Surf, M.M. Buckner
SC: Natural History, Justina Robson

2005 / 2004
W: Life, Gwyneth Jones
SC: Apocalypse Array, Lyda Morehouse

2004 / 2003
W: Altered Carbon, Richard K. Morgan
SC: Dante’s Equation, Jane Jensen

2003 / 2002
W: The Mount, Carol Emshwiller
SC: The Scar, China Miéville

2002 / 2001
W: Ship of Fools, Richard Paul Russo
SC: Divine Intervention, Ken Wharton

2001 / 2000
W: Only Forward, Michael Marshall Smith
SC: Evolution’s Darling, Scott Westerfeld

2000 / 1999
W: Vacuum Diagrams, Stephen Baxter
SC: Tower of Dreams, Jamil Nasir

1999 / 1998
W: 253: The Print Remix, Geoff Ryman
SC: Lost Pages, Paul Di Filippo

1998 / 1997
W: The Troika, Stefan Chapman
SC: Acts of Conscience, William Barton

1997 / 1996
W: The Time Ships, Stephen Baxter
SC: At the City Limits of Fate, Michael Bishop

1996 / 1995
W: Headcrash, Brush Bethke
SC: Carlucci’s Edge, Richard Paul Russo

1995 / 1994
W: Mysterium, Robert Charles Wilson
SC: Inagehi, Jack Lady

1994 / 1993
W (tie): Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford
Elvissey, Jack Womack

1993 / 1992
W: Through the Heart, Richard Grant
SC: In the Mothers’ Land, Élizabeth Vonarburg

1992 / 1991
W: King of Morning, Queen of Day, Ian McDonald
SC: Bone Dance, Emma Bull

1991 / 1990
W: Points of Departure, Pat Murphy
SC: The Schizogenic Man, Raymond Harris

1990 / 1989
W: Subterranean Gallery, Richard Paul Russo
SC: On My Way to Paradise, Dave Wolverton

1989 / 1988
W (tie): Four Hundred Billion Stars, Paul J. McAuley
Wetware, Rudy Rucker

1988 / 1987
W: Strange Toys, Patricia Geary
SC: Memories, Mike McQuay

1987 / 1986
W: Homunculus, James P. Blaylock
SC: The Hercules Text, Jack McDevitt

1986 / 1985
W: Dinner at Deviant’s Palace, Tim Powers
SC: Saraband of Lost Time, Richard Grant

...and we’ve run out of space!

For the full list of winners, please see Norwescon’s Philip K. Dick Award webpage or the Philip K. Dick Award website.

Thanks for joining us, and we’ll see you again next year!