City of Dancing Gargoyles by Tara Campbell: 📚: Seventh book and fourth Phliip K. Dick award nominee of the year; not reviewed. https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2025/02/04/city-of-dancing-gargoyles-by-tara-campbell

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PKD Day: This year's nominees for the Philip K. Dick award were announced today, and I already have my copies! https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/?p=51595

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The judges of the 2025 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, along with the Philip K. Dick Trust, are pleased to announce the six nominated works published in 2024 that comprise the final ballot for the award:

• CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES by Tara Campbell (Santa Fe Writers Project)
• YOUR UTOPIA: STORIES by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin Books)
• TIME’S AGENT by Brenda Peynado (Tordotcom)
• THE PRACTICE, THE HORIZON, AND THE CHAIN by Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
• ALIEN CLAY by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit)
• TRIANGULUM by Subodhana Wijeyeratne (Rosarium Publishing)

First prize and any special citations will be announced on Friday, April 18, 2025 at Norwescon 47. Plans for the ceremony will be posted at Norwescon’s website.

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 during the previous calendar year. 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. Last year’s winner was THESE BURNING STARS by Bethany Jacobs (Orbit) with a special citation to THE MUSEUM OF HUMAN HISTORY by Rebekah Bergman (Tin House). The judges for this year’s award are Maurice Broaddus, C. S. Friedman, Rajan Khanna, Carol McGuirk, and Carrie Vaughn (Chair).

For more information, contact the award administration:

Gordon Van Gelder (201) 876-2551
John Silbersack [email protected]
Pat LoBrutto [email protected]

For more information about the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society: Contact Gary Feldbaum (215) 665-5752.

For more information about Norwescon: Norwescon’s website.

https://www.norwescon.org/2025/01/10/2025-philip-k-dick-award-nominees-announced/

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