Annal:1982 Philip K. Dick Award
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Results of the Philip K. Dick Award in the year 1982. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
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- 1982 Philip K Dick winner
- Score: 10.32
It was Cobb Anderson who built the “boppers”—the first robots with real brains. Now, in 2020, Cobb is just another aged “pheezer” with a bad heart, drinking and grooving an the old tunes in Florida retirement hell. His “bops” have came a long way, though, rebelling against their subjugation to set up their own society an the moon. And now they’re offering creator Cobb immortality but at a stiff price: his body his soul…and his world.It was Cobb Anderson who built the “boppers”—the first robots with real brains. Now, in 2020, Cobb is just another aged pheezer with…
- 1982 Philip K Dick nominee
- Score: 6.32
Roderick is a robot pursued by authorities for having been illicitly conceived. He is on the road and growing up in a mad, morally bankrupt world.
- 1980 JT Black-Fiction winner
- 1982 Philip K Dick nominee
- Score: 16.3
For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire’s cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state.
J. M. Coetzee’s prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between opressor and opressed. The Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis…
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