Philip K. Dick Awards
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April 18, 2014
For Immediate Release
2014 Philip K. Dick Award Winner Announced
It was announced on Friday, April 18, at Norwescon 37, in SeaTac, Washington, that the winner for the distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2013 in the U.S.A. is:
COUNTDOWN CITY by Ben H. Winters (Quirk Books)
Special citation was given to:
SELF-REFERENCE ENGINE by Toh EnJoe, trans. Terry Gallagher (Haikasoru)
The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust and the award ceremony is sponsored by the NorthWest Science Fiction Society. The 2013 award was given to LOST EVERYTHING by Brian Francis Slattery (Tor Books) with a special citation given to LOVESTAR by Andri Snær Magnason (Seven Stories Press). The judges for the 2014 Award were Elizabeth Bear (chair), Siobhan Carroll, Michael Kandel, Jamil Nasir, and Timothy Sullivan.
This year’s judges are Jon Armstrong, Ritch Calvin, Ellen Klages, Laura J. Mixon, and Michaela Roessner,
For more information, contact the award administration:
Gordon Van Gelder (201) 876-2551
John Silbersack (212) 333-1513
Pat Lo Brutto (301) 460-3164
For more information about the Philip K. Dick Trust: http://www.philipkdick.com
For more information about the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, http://www.psfs.org/:
Contact Gary Feldbaum (215) 665-5752
For more information about Norwescon: http://www.norwescon.org/:
Contact NorthWest SF Society: (425) 686-9737
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Review Copies 15 April 2014
Galleys
1) ROGUES edited by George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois (Bantam, June 2014)
2) THE WURMS OF BLEARMOUTH: a Malazan Tale of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach by Steven Erikson (Tor Books, July 2014)
3) THE LITTLE GREEN BOOK OF CHAIRMAN RAHMA by Brian Herbert (Tor Books, July 2014)
4) NEW FRONTIERS, a Collection of tales about The Past, The Present, and the Future by Ben Bova (Tor Books, July 2014)
5) THE ULTRA THIN MAN by Patrick Swenson (Tor Books, August 2014)
6) CONVERSION by Katherine Howe (Putnam, July 2014)
7) THE SHADOW THRONE, Book 2 of The Shadow Campaigns, by Django Wexler (Roc, July 2014)
8) THE RETURN OF THE DISCONTINUED MAN, A Burton & Swinburne Adventure by Mark Hodder (Pyr, July 2014)
9) DEAD MAN’S HAND, An anthology of The Weird West, edited by John Joseph Adams (Titan, May 2014)
10) THE TOWER LORD, A Raven’s Shadow Novel, by Anthony Ryan (Ace, July 2014)
11) VEIL OF THE DESERTERS, Bloodsounder’s Arc Book 2, by Jeff Salyards (Night Shade July 2014)
12) ROBOGENESIS, sequel to Robopocalypse, by Daniel H. Wilson (Doubleday, June 2014)
13) YEAR’S BEST SF FICTION: 31st Annual, edited by Gardner Dozois (St Martin’s Griffin, July 2014)
Hardcovers
1) TRANS/HUMAN by Ben Bova (Tor Books, April 2014)
2) AFTERPARTY by Daryl Gregory (Tor Books, April 2014)
3) EXPIRATION DAY by William Campbell Powell (Tor Books, April 2014)
4) MIDNIGHT CROSSROAD by Charlaine Harris (Ace, May 2014)
5) GEMSIGNS, Revolution Book 1 by Stephanie Saulter (Jo Fletcher Books, May 2014)
6) THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL: A WORLD WITHOUT PRINCES, BOOK 2, By Soman Chainani (Harper, April 2014)
7) LOST FLEET: BEYOND THE FRONTIER: STEADFAST by Jack Campbell (Ace, May 2014)
8) DEADLY SHORES: DESTROYERMEN by Taylor Anderson (Roc, May 2014)
9) WHAT I THOUGHT WAS TRUE by Huntley Fitzpatrick (Dial, April 2014)
10) EARTH STAR by Janet Edwards (Pyr, April 2014)
11) THE SERPENT OF VENICE by Christopher Moore (Wm Morrow, April 2014)
12) Professor Whiskerton Presents STEAMPUNK ABC by Lisa Falkenstern (Two Lions, April 2014)
13) MIRROR SIGHT, The Sequel to Blackveil, By Kristen Britain (DAW Books, May 2014)
14) THE FORBIDDEN LIBRARY by Django Wexler (Kathy Dawson Books, Penguin Young Readers, April 2014)
Paperbacks
1) LEAVING EARTH by Dean Warren (self published)
2) DRAGON AGE: THE MASKED EMPIRE by Patrick Weekes/Bioware tie in (Tor Books, April 2014)
3) DEADROADS by Robin Riopelle (Night Shade/Skyhorse, April 2014)
4) WITCHES IN RED, a novel of the Mist-Torn Witches, by Barb Hendee (Roc, May 2014)
5) SCIENCE FICTION 101: EXPLORING THE CRAFT OF SCIENCE FICTION by Robert Silverberg (Roc, May 2014) (classic stories followed by Silverberg analytical essays)
6) ALIEN COLLECTIVE by Gini Koch (DAW Books, May 2014)
7) FIRE KIN, A Novel of the Half-Light City by M.J. Scott (Roc, May 2014)
8) SILVER MIRRORS, an Apparatus Infernum Novel, by A. A. Aguirre (Ace, May 2014)
9) THE BEST OF CONNIE WILLIS, Award Winning Stories, by Connie Willis (Del Rey, April 2014)
10) SHADOW HAND, Tales of Goldstone Wood, by Anne Elisabeth Stengl (Bethany House, March 2014)