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 …
Phil in SF says: 2010 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2011 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2012 co-winner
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Theories of Flight by Simon Morden (Samuil Petrovitch, #2)
4 stars
Theorem: Petrovitch has a lot of secrets.
Proof: Secrets like how to make anti-gravity for one. For another, he's …
Phil in SF says: 2012 co-winner
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Degrees of freedom by Simon Morden (Samuil Petrovich novels -- 3)
4 stars
"The Six Degrees of Petrovitch -- Michael is an AI of incalculable complexity trapped under the remains of Oshicora tower. …
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)
4 stars
Set three months before a deadly asteroid is due to hit Earth, this Last Policeman sequel chronicles the further adventures …
Phil in SF says: 2014 winner
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The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
4 stars
In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the …
Phil in SF says: 2015 winner
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Apex by Ramez Naam (Nexus -- 3)
4 stars
Global unrest spreads through the world, lies set off shockwaves of anger, rippling from mind to mind. Riot police battle …
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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3 stars
"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
"Stage four. Surgery. Recovering." While those are the simple words that once described Dr. Francine Burk's situation, the reality is …
Phil in SF says: 2019 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2020 winner
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Phil in SF says: 2021 winner
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4 stars
An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic asteroid mine in this tense science fiction thriller from the …
Phil in SF says: 2022 winner














