Here are the nominees for the 2025 Philip K. Dick awards
Some of the best paperback SF from 2025
The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust have announced the finalists for this year's Philip K. Dick Award.
The award is issued annually since 1983 to honor the best "science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States during the previous calendar year," and is selected by a jury. (this year's group consisted of Jim Aikin, Kim Antieau, J. D. Goff, Abbey Mei Otis, and Lisa Swanstrom.)
Past winners of the award include William Gibson's Neuromancer, Stephen Baxter's The Time Ships, and Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon – and quite a few more. Last year's winner of the award was Brenda Peynado for her novel Time’s Agent, while Adrian Tchaikovsky earned a Special Citation for his novel Alien Clay.
Here are this year's nominees:
- Sunward: A Novel by William Alexander
- Outlaw Planet by M. R. Carey
- Casual by Koji A. Dae
- The Immeasurable Heaven by Caspar Geon
- Uncertain Son and Other Stories by Thomas Ha
- Scales by Christopher Hinz
- City of All Seasons by Oliver K. Langmead and Aliya Whiteley
Like in prior years, this seems like a solid list: I have Sunward on my to-read list, and I've seen great reviews for City of All Seasons and Outlaw Planet.
The winner of this year's award will be announced at Norwescon 48 on Friday, April 3rd, 2026.