Annal:1995 Philip K. Dick Award
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Results of the Philip K. Dick Award in the year 1995. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Philip K. Dick Award
- Science Fiction books
- Science Fiction authors
- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
- 1995 Philip K Dick winner
- Score: 10.45
When Jack Burroughs, a brilliant young computer programmer, is given his pink slip, he is offered the opportunity to use his skills for a little industrial espionage. Donning the guise of his online alter ego, Max Kool, Burroughs transforms himself into one of the hippest cybernetic surfers on the InfoBahn.
- 1995 Philip K Dick citation
- Score: 8.45
A chilling scenario of the bleak urban landscape that is 21st-century San Francisco, and the return of Lt. Frank Carlucci. The San Francisco Police Department is stonewalling seemingly unrelated murder investigations, and Carlucci is determined to find out why. His unauthorized investigation leads him to an insidious black market run by top political officials.
- 1995 Philip K Dick nominee
- Score: 6.45
Lydia is a death artist who has flatlined for fame and fortune in vast arenas and underground clubs. She has died more times than anyone alive, and then got out of the game. But Lydia is a legend, and legends’ lives are not their own. So Lydia has agreed to end it all one more time in the big comeback that could be her last.
- 1995 Campbell 1st
- 1995 Philip K Dick nominee
- Score: 16.45
The good news is that you have just awakened into Eternal Life. You are going to live forever. Immortality is a reality. A medical miracle? Not exactly.
The bad news is that you are a scrap of electronic code. The world you see around you, the you that is seeing it, has been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. You are a Copy that knows it is a copy.
The good news is that there is a way out. By law, every Copy has the option of terminating itself, and waking up to normal flesh-and-blood life again. The bail-out is on the…
- 1995 Philip K Dick nominee
- Score: 6.45
Juna is the sole survivor of a team of surveyors marooned in the dense and isolated Tendu rain forest, an uninhabitable world for humans. Her only hope for survival is total transformation—and terrifying assimilation—into the amphibian Tendu species. Now she speaks as they speak. She fears what they fear. And in surviving as they survive, Juna will come to fathom more about her own human nature than ever before…
