Philip K. Dick Award finalists
by Rob - January 9th, 2008.Filed under: Uncategorized.
This year’s finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award — honoring SF books first published in the previous year as paperback originals in the US — include my friend and fellow Canadian Minister Faust for The Notebooks of Dr. Brain.
The full list:
- Grey, Jon Armstrong (Night Shade)
- Undertow, Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
- From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain, Minister Faust (Del Rey)
- Nova Swing, M. John Harrison (Bantam Spectra)
- Gradisil, Adam Roberts (Pyr)
- Ally, Karen Traviss (Eos)
- Saturn Returns, Sean Williams (Ace)
Many years ago, I was a Philip K. Dick Award judge. The previous Canadian PKD Award winners are Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984), and, in the year I was a judge, Mysterium by Robert Charles Wilson — long before we became close friends, I might add. :)
The copy of the cover of Minister Faust’s book that is kicking around online has a quote from Richard K. Morgan in the upper left, but the actual book instead has this blurb from me there: “An outlandish, outrageous tour de force by the most innovative prose stylist in the field.” –Robert J. Sawyer, author of Hominids
The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site