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PKD Award Nominees

January 12th, 2009 by Editors

The nominees for the 2009 Philip K Dick Award have been announced. They are as follows:

  • Emissaries from the Dead, Adam-Troy Castro (Eos Books)
  • Fast Forward 2, Lou Anders (ed.) (Pyr)
  • Judge, Karen Traviss (Eos Books)
  • Plague War, Jeff Carlson (Ace Books)
  • Terminal Mind, David Walton (Meadowhawk Press)
  • Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait, K. A. Bedford (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)

The winner and any special citations will be announced on Friday, April 10, 2009 at Norwescon 32 at the Doubletree Seattle Airport Hotel, SeaTac, Washington. The judges for this year are Tobias Buckell, M. M. Buckner (chair), Walter Hunt, Rosemary Kirstein, and William Senior.

Update, January 14: Endgame by Kristine Smith (Eos Books), which was originally announced as a nominee, is apparently ineligible and has been replaced with Plague War by Jeff Carlson (Ace Books).

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6 Responses to “PKD Award Nominees”

  1. on 12 Jan 2009 at 5:58 pm1 Susan Loyal

    Endgame was published in October of 2007. I like it a lot, but I’m puzzled about it’s eligibility. How does the PKD work exactly?

  2. on 12 Jan 2009 at 6:50 pm2 Cheryl

    I can’t say for certain, Susan, but I suspect what happens is this. The jury has to produce a verdict fairly quickly at the end of the year in order to get a nominee list out in January. Consequently books published late in the year may not get considered. The jury for the following year is empowered to pick up books that they know the “correct” year failed to consider. I’m pretty sure that the Tiptree works that way, and I know the Crawford does (though it is a little easier for us as we are mostly the same committee each year).

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  4. on 13 Jan 2009 at 10:57 am4 Susan Loyal

    Thanks, Cheryl. That would make sense.

  5. on 13 Jan 2009 at 8:12 pm5 Dave

    Endgame, by Kristine Smith, has just been replaced for the PKD with Plague War, by Jeff Carlson. That’s got to be embarrassing.

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