What Is the Philip K. Dick Award? The Philip K. Dick Award Storybundle
What Is the Philip K.
Dick Award?
The Philip K. Dick Award Storybundle
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. The award ceremony is sponsored by the NorthWest Science
Fiction Society.
The
award was inaugurated in 1983 after the untimely death of Philip K. Dick on March 2, 1982 of a stroke at the age of
fifty-three. Thomas Disch (the author, now deceased), David G.
Hartwell (the editor and anthologist), Paul S. Williams (Dick's longtime friend
and a music journalist), and Charles N. Brown (the founder and publisher of
Locus Magazine, also deceased) helped found the award.
The
current administrators are Patrick Lo Brutto (an editor), John Silbersack (a
literary agent), and Gordon Van Gelder (the publisher of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction).
Dick’s
forty-four novels were published as paperback originals. Given the implosion of
New York publishing over the past twenty years, many SF/F books of excellent
quality have been, and are now, published as paperback originals, trade or mass
market.
Personally,
I love trade paperbacks. Trades are more substantial than mass market
paperbacks and often have the collectible quality of hardcovers.
So
there you have it, my friends. The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle includes
Aestival Tide by Elizabeth Hand
(PKD Finalist), Life by Gwyneth
Jones (PKD Winner), The Cipher by
Kathe Koja (PKD Finalist), Points of Departure by Pat Murphy (PKD Winner), Dark Seeker by K. W. Jeter (PKD Finalist), Summer of Love by Lisa Mason (PKD Finalist), Frontera
by Lewis Shiner (PKD Finalist), Acts
of Conscience by William Barton (PKD
Special Citation), Maximum Ice by
Kay Kenyon (PKD Finalist), Knight Moves by Walter Jon Williams (PKD Finalist), and Reclamation by Sarah Zettel
(PKD Finalist).
The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle runs only until October 15. Once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Download yours today at http://storybundle.com/pkdaward
and enjoy world-class, award-winning
reading right now and into the holidays.
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