Finalists: 2008 Philip K. Dick Award [UPDATED]
The finalists for the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award, given to the best original paperback published each year in the U.S., have been announced:
[Update: via SF Scope , Endgame by Kristine Smith is ineligible because it was published in 2007 and has since been replaced with Plague War by Jeff Carlson. ]
- Emissaries from the Dead by Adam-Troy Castro (Eos)
- Fast Forward 2 edited by Lou Anders (Pyr)
- Judge by Karen Traviss (Eos)
- Plague War by Jeff Carlson (Ace)
- Terminal Mind by David Walton (Meadowhawk Press)
- Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait by K.A. Bedford (EDGE)
See also: Past winners
[via Locus Online]
I’ve heard good things about Emissaries from the Dead. If my feet were pressed to the fire, though, I would predicate Fast Forward 2 as the winner, simply based on the fact that I saw this book all over people’s best of lists this past year. I’m kicking myself that I didn’t pick it up and read it last year. Thankfully there isn’t an expiration date…I can actually still enjoy it!