Finalists: 2008 Philip K. Dick Award [UPDATED]

Posted on January 12, 2009 by John DeNardo in Awards // 1 Comment

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]

Carl V. // January 12, 2009 at 7:35 pm //

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!