PHILIP K. DICK AWARD

   Founded in 1983 by admirers of Philip K. DICK, who died in 1982. Because much of Dick's classic sf was published with no fanfare and initially without a hardcover edition, it seemed appropriate to give the award to a distinguished work of sf or fantasy of the previous year first published in paperback. The award was initially suggested by Thomas M. DISCH, who was for several years its administrator; he was succeeded by an administrative team of Algis BUDRYS and David G. HARTWELL. The winners are chosen by a jury (with variously 3, 4 and 5 members) of writers and critics, most of whom choose their own successors for the following year; usually one judge is the previous year's winner. The PKDA is announced at NorWesCon, a CONVENTION held in the state of Washington in March eachyear. In good years, when the committee has collected enough cash, the winner receives $1000 and the second-place winner $500. Plaques are provided by the Philip K. Dick estate.

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   Winners:1983: 1st, Rudy RUCKER, SOFTWARE2nd, Ray Faraday NELSON, The Prometheus Man1984: 1st, Tim POWERS, THE ANUBIS GATES2nd, R.A. MACAVOY, Tea With The Black Dragon1985: 1st, William GIBSON, NEUROMANCER2nd, Kim Stanley ROBINSON, THE WILD SHORE1986: 1st, Tim Powers, Dinner at Deviant's Palace2nd, Richard GRANT, Saraband of Lost Time1987: 1st, James P. BLAYLOCK, HOMUNCULUS2nd, Jack MCDEVITT, The Hercules Text1988: 1st, Patricia Geary, Strange Toys2nd, Mike MCQUAY, Memories1989: 1st (equal), Paul J. MCAULEY, 400 Billion Stars1st (equal), Rudy Rucker, Wetware1990: 1st, Richard Paul RUSSO, Subterranean Gallery2nd, Dave WOLVERTON, On My Way to Paradise1991: 1st, Pat MURPHY, Points of Departure (coll)2nd, Raymond HARRIS, The Schizogenic Man1992: 1st, Ian MCDONALD, King of Morning, Queenof Day2nd, Emma BULL, Bone Dance1993: 1st, Richard Grant, Through the Heart 2nd, Elisabeth VONARBURG, In the Mother's Land1994: 1st, John M. FORD, Growing Up Weightless and Jack WOMACK, Elvissey *