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Philip K. Dick Award

Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust, awarded annually at Norwescon

An annual American award given to the best original science fiction paperback published in the US, named in honor of author Philip K. Dick and awarded since 1983.

Latest winner · 2026

Next · expected January 2027

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2026

  1. Outlaw Planet

    M. R. Carey

    Won
  2. Casual

    Koji A. Dae

    Shortlisted
  3. City of All Seasons

    Oliver K. Langmead and Aliya Whiteley

    Shortlisted
  4. Scales

    Christopher Hinz

    Shortlisted
  5. Sunward: A Novel

    William Alexander

    Shortlisted
  6. The Immeasurable Heaven

    Caspar Geon

    Shortlisted
  7. Uncertain Sons and Other Stories

    Thomas Ha

    Shortlisted

2025

  1. Time's Agent

    Brenda Peynado

    Won
  2. Alien Clay

    Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. City of Dancing Gargoyles

    Tara Campbell

    Shortlisted
  4. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

    Sofia Samatar

    Shortlisted
  5. Triangulum

    Subodhana Wijeyeratne

    Shortlisted
  6. Your Utopia: Stories

    Bora Chung

    Shortlisted

2024

  1. These Burning Stars

    Bethany Jacobs

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Danged Black Thing

    Eugen Bacon

    Shortlisted
  3. Infinity Gate

    M. R. Carey

    Shortlisted
  4. The Museum of Human History

    Rebekah Bergman

    Shortlisted
  5. Where Rivers Go to Die

    Dilman Dila

    Shortlisted
  6. Wild Spaces

    S. L. Coney

    Shortlisted

2023

  1. The Extractionist

    Kimberly Unger

    Won
  2. Arboreality

    Rebecca Campbell

    Shortlisted
  3. January Fifteenth

    Rachel Swirsky

    Shortlisted
  4. The Legacy of Molly Southbourne

    Tade Thompson

    Shortlisted
  5. Widowland

    C. J. Carey

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. Ymir

    Rich Larson

    Shortlisted

2022

  1. Dead Space

    Kali Wallace

    Won
  2. Bug

    Giacomo Sartori

    Shortlisted
  3. Defekt

    Nino Cipri

    Shortlisted
  4. Far from the Light of Heaven

    Tade Thompson

    Shortlisted
  5. Plague Birds

    Jason Sanford

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. The Escapement

    Lavie Tidhar

    Shortlisted

2021

  1. Road Out of Winter

    Alison Stine

    Won
  2. Bone Silence

    Alastair Reynolds

    Shortlisted
  3. Dance on Saturday

    Elwin Cotman

    Shortlisted
  4. Failed State

    Christopher Brown

    Shortlisted
  5. The Book of Koli

    M. R. Carey

    Shortlisted
  6. The Doors of Eden

    Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

2018

  1. Bannerless

    Carrie Vaughn

    Won
  2. After the Flare

    Deji Bryce Olukotun

    Shortlisted
  3. All Systems Red

    Martha Wells

    Shortlisted
  4. Revenger

    Alastair Reynolds

    Shortlisted
  5. Six Wakes

    Mur Lafferty

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  6. The Book of Etta

    Meg Elison

    Shortlisted
  7. The Wrong Stars

    Tim Pratt

    Shortlisted

2017

  1. The Mercy Journals

    Claudia Casper

    Won
  2. Consider

    Kristy Acevedo

    Shortlisted
  3. Graft

    Matt Hill

    Shortlisted
  4. Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens

    Eleanor Arnason

    Shortlisted
  5. Super Extra Grande

    Yoss

    Shortlisted

  6. Unpronounceable

    Susan diRende

    Shortlisted

2016

  1. Apex

    Ramez Naam

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. (R)evolution

    PJ Manney

    Shortlisted
  3. After the Saucers Landed

    Douglas Lain

    Shortlisted
  4. Archangel

    Marguerite Reed

    Shortlisted
  5. Edge of Dark

    Brenda Cooper

    Shortlisted
  6. Windswept

    Adam Rakunas

    Shortlisted

2015

  1. The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

    Meg Elison

    Won
  2. Elysium

    Jennifer Marie Brissett

    Shortlisted
  3. Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches

    Cherie Priest

    Shortlisted
  4. Memory of Water

    Emmi Itäranta

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Reach for Infinity

    Jonathan Strahan (ed.)

    Shortlisted
  6. The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter

    Rod Duncan

    Shortlisted

2014

  1. Countdown City

    Ben H. Winters

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. A Calculated Life

    Anne Charnock

    Shortlisted
  3. Ancillary Justice

    Ann Leckie

    Won 4 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Life on the Preservation

    Jack Skillingstead

    Shortlisted
  5. Self-Reference Engine

    Toh EnJoe

    Shortlisted
  6. Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Books of Science Fiction

    Ian Whates (ed.)

    Shortlisted
  7. The Mad Scientist’s Daughter

    Cassandra Rose Clarke

    Shortlisted

2013

  1. Lost Everything

    Brian Francis Slattery

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Blueprints of the Afterlife

    Ryan Boudinot

    Shortlisted
  3. Fountain of Age: Stories

    Nancy Kress

    Shortlisted
  4. Harmony

    Keith Brooke

    Shortlisted
  5. Helix Wars

    Eric Brown

    Shortlisted
  6. LoveStar

    Andri Snær Magnason

    Shortlisted
  7. The Not Yet

    Moira Crone

    Shortlisted

2012

  1. The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy

    Simon Morden

    Won
  2. A Soldier's Duty

    Jean Johnson

    Shortlisted
  3. After the Apocalypse

    Maureen F. McHugh

    Shortlisted
  4. Deadline

    Mira Grant

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. The Company Man

    Robert Jackson Bennett

    Shortlisted
  6. The Other

    Matthew Hughes

    Shortlisted
  7. The Postmortal

    Drew Magary

    Shortlisted

2011

  1. The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack

    Mark Hodder

    Won
  2. Chill

    Elizabeth Bear

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Harmony

    Project Itoh (trans. Alexander O. Smith)

    Shortlisted
  4. Song of Scarabaeus

    Sara Creasy

    Shortlisted
  5. State of Decay

    James Knapp

    Shortlisted
  6. The Reapers are the Angels

    Alden Bell

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. Yarn

    Jon Armstrong

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

2010

  1. Bitter Angels

    C. L. Anderson

    Won
  2. Centuries Ago and Very Fast

    Rebecca Ore

    Shortlisted
  3. Cyberabad Days

    Ian McDonald

    Shortlisted
  4. Prophets

    S. Andrew Swann

    Shortlisted
  5. The Devil's Alphabet

    Daryl Gregory

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. The Prisoner

    Carlos J. Cortes

    Shortlisted
  7. The Repossession Mambo

    Eric Garcia

    Shortlisted

2009

  1. Emissaries from The Dead

    Adam-Troy Castro (tie)

    Won
  2. Fast Forward 2

    Lou Anders

    Shortlisted
  3. Judge

    Karen Traviss

    Shortlisted
  4. Plague War

    Jeff Carlson

    Shortlisted
  5. Terminal Mind

    David Walton (tie)

    Shortlisted
  6. Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait

    K. A. Bedford

    Shortlisted

2008

  1. Nova Swing

    M. John Harrison

    Won 1 more award · Nominated for 3 more awards

    Won
  2. Ally

    Karen Traviss

    Shortlisted
  3. From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain

    Minister Faust

    Shortlisted
  4. Gradisil

    Adam Roberts

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Grey

    Jon Armstrong

    Shortlisted
  6. Saturn Returns

    Sean Williams

    Shortlisted
  7. Undertow

    Elizabeth Bear

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

2007

  1. Spin Control

    Chris Moriarty

    Won
  2. Carnival

    Elizabeth Bear

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact

    Nina Kiriki Hoffman

    Shortlisted
  4. Idolon

    Mark Budz

    Shortlisted
  5. Living Next Door to the God of Love

    Justina Robson

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  6. Mindscape

    Andrea Hairston

    Shortlisted
  7. Recursion

    Tony Ballantyne

    Shortlisted

2006

  1. War Surf

    M. M. Buckner

    Won
  2. Cagebird

    Karin Lowachee

    Shortlisted
  3. Cowl

    Neal Asher

    Shortlisted
  4. Natural History

    Justina Robson

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. Silver Screen

    Justina Robson

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  6. To Crush the Moon

    Wil McCarthy

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted

2005

  1. Life

    Gwyneth Jones

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Air

    Geoff Ryman

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Apocalypse Array

    Lyda Morehouse

    Shortlisted
  4. Banner of Souls

    Liz Williams

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. City of Pearl

    Karen Traviss

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. Stable Strategies and Others

    Eileen Gunn

    Shortlisted
  7. The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad

    Minister Faust

    Shortlisted

2004

  1. Altered Carbon

    Richard K. Morgan

    Won
  2. Clade

    Mark Budz

    Shortlisted
  3. Dante's Equation

    Jane Jensen

    Shortlisted
  4. Hyperthought

    M. M. Buckner

    Shortlisted
  5. Spin State

    Chris Moriarty

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. Steel Helix

    Ann Tonsor Zeddies

    Shortlisted

2003

  1. The Mount

    Carol Emshwiller

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. Empire of Bones

    Liz Williams

    Shortlisted

  3. Leviathan Three

    Forrest Aguirre, Jeff VanderMeer (eds.)

    Shortlisted
  4. Maximum Ice

    Kay Kenyon

    Shortlisted
  5. Report to the Men’s Club

    Carol Emshwiller

    Shortlisted
  6. The Scar

    China Miéville

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 4 more awards

    Shortlisted
  7. Warchild

    Karin Lowachee

    Shortlisted

2002

  1. Ship of Fools

    Richard Paul Russo

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Compass Reach

    Mark W. Tiedemann

    Shortlisted
  3. Divine Intervention

    Ken Wharton

    Shortlisted
  4. In the Company of Others

    Julie E. Czerneda

    Shortlisted
  5. Meet Me in the Moon Room

    Ray Vukcevich

    Shortlisted
  6. The Ghost Sister

    Liz Williams

    Shortlisted

2001

  1. Only Forward

    Michael Marshall Smith

    Won 1 more award

    Won
  2. Broken Time

    Maggy Thomas

    Shortlisted
  3. Call from a Distant Shore

    Stephen L. Burns

    Shortlisted
  4. Evolution's Darling

    Scott Westerfeld

    Shortlisted
  5. Midnight Robber

    Nalo Hopkinson

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted
  6. The Bridge

    Janine Ellen Young

    Shortlisted

2000

  1. Vacuum Diagrams

    Stephen Baxter

    Won
  2. Code of Conduct

    Kristine Smith

    Shortlisted

  3. Not of Woman Born

    Constance Ash, ed.

    Shortlisted
  4. Tower of Dreams

    Jamil Nasir

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Typhon's Children

    Toni Anzetti

    Shortlisted
  6. When We Were Real

    William Barton

    Shortlisted

1999

  1. 253: The Print Remix

    Geoff Ryman

    Won
  2. Brown Girl in the Ring

    Nalo Hopkinson

    Shortlisted
  3. Lost Pages

    Paul Di Filippo

    Shortlisted
  4. Slaughtermatic

    Steve Aylett

    Shortlisted
  5. The Invisible Country

    Paul J. McAuley

    Shortlisted

1996

  1. Headcrash

    Bruce Bethke

    Won
  2. Carlucci's Edge

    Richard Paul Russo

    Shortlisted
  3. Permutation City

    Greg Egan

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted

  4. Reluctant Voyagers

    Élisabeth Vonarburg

    Shortlisted
  5. The Color of Distance

    Amy Thomson

    Shortlisted
  6. Virtual Death

    Shale Aaron

    Shortlisted

1995

  1. Mysterium

    Robert Charles Wilson

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Inagehi

    Jack Cady

    Shortlisted
  3. Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality

    Alexander Besher

    Shortlisted
  4. Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone

    Ian McDonald

    Shortlisted
  5. Summer of Love

    Lisa Mason

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. Tonguing the Zeitgeist

    Lance Olsen

    Shortlisted

1994

  1. Growing Up Weightless

    John M. Ford

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Bunch!

    David R. Bunch

    Shortlisted

  3. Crash Course

    Wilhelmina Baird

    Shortlisted
  4. Elvissey

    Jack Womack

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Icarus Descending

    Elizabeth Hand

    Shortlisted

1993

  1. Through the Heart

    Richard Grant

    Won
  2. Aestival Tide

    Elizabeth Hand

    Shortlisted
  3. In the Mothers' Land

    Élisabeth Vonarburg

    Shortlisted

  4. Iron Tears

    R. A. Lafferty

    Shortlisted
  5. Take Back Plenty

    Colin Greenland

    Won 2 more awards

    Shortlisted

1992

  1. King of Morning, Queen of Day

    Ian McDonald

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Bone Dance

    Emma Bull

    Nominated for 4 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Bridge of Years

    Robert Charles Wilson

    Shortlisted
  4. Mojo and the Pickle Jar

    Douglas Bell

    Shortlisted
  5. The Cipher

    Kathe Koja

    Shortlisted

1991

  1. Points of Departure

    Pat Murphy

    Won
  2. Clarke County, Space

    Allen Steele

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

  3. The Oxygen Barons

    Gregory Feeley

    Shortlisted
  4. The Schizogenic Man

    Raymond Harris

    Shortlisted
  5. Winterlong

    Elizabeth Hand

    Shortlisted

1990

  1. Subterranean Gallery

    Richard Paul Russo

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. A Fearful Symmetry

    James Luceno

    Shortlisted
  3. Being Alien

    Rebecca Ore

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Heritage of Flight

    Susan Shwartz

    Shortlisted
  5. Infinity Hold

    Barry B. Longyear

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  6. On My Way to Paradise

    Dave Wolverton

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

1989

  1. Four Hundred Billion Stars

    Paul J. McAuley (tie)

    Won
  2. Neon Lotus

    Marc Laidlaw

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Orphan of Creation

    Roger MacBride Allen

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

  4. Rendezvous

    David Alexander Smith

    Shortlisted
  5. Wetware

    Rudy Rucker

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

1988

  1. Strange Toys

    Patricia Geary

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. Becoming Alien

    Rebecca Ore

    Shortlisted

  3. Dark Seeker

    K. W. Jeter

    Shortlisted
  4. Dover Beach

    Richard Bowker

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  5. Life During Wartime

    Lucius Shepard

    Nominated for 3 more awards

    Shortlisted
  6. Memories

    Mike McQuay

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  7. Mindplayers

    Pat Cadigan

    Shortlisted

1987

  1. Homunculus

    James P. Blaylock

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Won
  2. A Hidden Place

    Robert Charles Wilson

    Shortlisted
  3. Artificial Things

    Karen Joy Fowler

    Shortlisted
  4. The Hercules Text

    Jack McDevitt

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted

1986

  1. Dinner at Deviant's Palace

    Tim Powers

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. Emprise

    Michael P. Kube-McDowell

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Knight Moves

    Walter Jon Williams

    Shortlisted

  4. Saraband of Lost Time

    Richard Grant

    Shortlisted
  5. Terrarium

    Scott Russell Sanders

    Shortlisted
  6. The Remaking of Sigmund Freud

    Barry N. Malzberg

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted

  7. The Timeservers

    Russell Griffin

    Shortlisted

1985

  1. Neuromancer

    William Gibson

    Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won
  2. Emergence

    David R. Palmer

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  3. Frontera

    Lewis Shiner

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. Green Eyes

    Lucius Shepard

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  5. The Alchemists

    Geary Gravel

    Shortlisted
  6. The Wild Shore

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  7. Them Bones

    Howard Waldrop

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  8. Voyager in Night

    C. J. Cherryh

    Shortlisted

1984

  1. The Anubis Gates

    Tim Powers

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Won

  2. Benefits

    Zoe Fairbairns

    Shortlisted
  3. Millennium

    John Varley

    Nominated for 2 more awards

    Shortlisted
  4. Tea with the Black Dragon

    R. A. MacAvoy

    Nominated for 4 more awards

    Shortlisted

  5. The Floating Gods

    M. John Harrison

    Shortlisted
  6. The Zen Gun

    Barrington J. Bayley

    Shortlisted

1983

  1. Software

    Rudy Rucker

    Won
  2. Aurelia

    R. A. Lafferty

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  3. Roderick

    John Sladek

    Nominated for 1 more award

    Shortlisted
  4. The Prometheus Man

    Ray Nelson

    Shortlisted
  5. The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry

    Steve Rasnic Tem

    Shortlisted
  6. Waiting for the Barbarians

    J. M. Coetzee

    Won 1 more award

    Shortlisted

Frequently asked questions

Who won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2026?
“Outlaw Planet” by M. R. Carey won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2026.
Who are the most recent Philip K. Dick Award winners?
2026: “Outlaw Planet” by M. R. Carey; 2025: “Time's Agent” by Brenda Peynado; 2024: “These Burning Stars” by Bethany Jacobs; 2023: “The Extractionist” by Kimberly Unger; 2022: “Dead Space” by Kali Wallace.
Has anyone won the Philip K. Dick Award more than once?
Yes - 3 authors have: Tim Powers (1984, 1986); Richard Paul Russo (1990, 2002); Stephen Baxter (1997, 2000).