Reviews of Philip K. Dick Award Winners

This is a list of Philip K. Dick Award winners, including ratings for those books that I've read and links to reviews where I've written one. This is a judged award awarded for the best original SF paperback published in the US. Only paperback and trade paperback originals are eligible, not books that were originally published in hardcover.

The date given on this page is the year that the award was given, since I standardize all awards to the year of the award. It will therefore be one year later than the official date on the award, which reflects publication date.

2024 Bethany Jacobs These Burning Stars
2023 Kimberly Unger The Extractionist
2022 Kali Wallace Dead Space
2021 Alison Stine The Road Out of Winter
2020 Sarah Pinsker Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
2019 Audrey Schulman Theory of Bastards
2018 Carrie Vaughn Bannerless
2017 Claudia Casper The Mercy Journals
2016 Ramez Naam Apex
2015 Meg Elison The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
2014 Ben H. Winters Countdown City
2013 Brian Francis Slattery Lost Everything
2012 Simon Morden Equations of Life
2012 Simon Morden Theories of Flight
2012 Simon Morden Degrees of Freedom
2011 Mark Hodder The Strange Affair of Springheel Jack
2010 C. L. Anderson Bitter Angels
2009 Adam-Troy Castro Emissaries from the Dead 7 out of 10
2009 David Walton Terminal Mind
2008 M. John Harrison Nova Swing
2007 Chris Moriarty Spin Control 9 out of 10
2006 M.M. Buckner War Surf
2005 Gwyneth Jones Life
2004 Richard K. Morgan Altered Carbon 7 out of 10
2003 Carol Emshwiller The Mount 7 out of 10
2002 Richard Paul Russo Ship of Fools
2001 Michael Marshall Smith Only Forward 9 out of 10
2000 Stephen Baxter Vacuum Diagrams
1999 Geoff Ryman 253: The Print Remix
1998 Stepan Chapman The Troika
1997 Stephen Baxter The Time Ships 4 out of 10
1996 Bruce Bethke Headcrash
1995 Robert Charles Wilson Mysterium
1994 Jack Womack Elvissey
1994 John M. Ford Growing Up Weightless 8 out of 10
1993 Richard Grant Through the Heart
1992 Ian McDonald King of Morning, Queen of Day
1991 Pat Murphy Points of Departure
1990 Richard Paul Russo Subterranean Gallery
1989 Paul J. McAuley 400 Billion Stars
1989 Rudy Rucker Wetware
1988 Patricia Geary Strange Toys
1987 James P. Blaylock Homunculus
1986 Tim Powers Dinner at Deviant's Palace
1985 William Gibson Neuromancer 7 out of 10
1984 Tim Powers The Anubis Gates
1983 Rudy Rucker Software 3 out of 10

Ratings for books that don't have a review are based on my memory of the book. The rating may well change if I get a chance to read the book again.

Last modified and spun 2024-04-03