Annal:2005 Philip K. Dick Award
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Results of the Philip K. Dick Award in the year 2005. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Philip K. Dick Award
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- Speculative Fiction books
- Speculative Fiction authors.
- 2005 Philip K Dick winner
- Score: 10.55
In the 23rd century, Nasir Deepra finds fun by dropping into minor wars. High-tech gear fully protects him, but nothing can protect him from a woman named Sheeba—and her voracious lust for danger.
- 2005 Philip K Dick citation
- 2004 Campbell 2nd
- Score: 16.55
In the far future, humanity has engineered itself into new forms capable of spaceflight, the terraforming of planets, and the exploration of the deepest oceans. Evolution has reached a new zenith, and it seems there is no environment we cannot conquer. But when interstellar voyager meets a piece of alien technology in a head-on collision, the results go to show that the synthesis of the human race and its own technology is not the first or the most advanced of its kind in the galaxy.
- 2005 Philip K Dick nominee
- Score: 6.55
In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system, after a bitter war with their Umbrathane progenitors. But some of the Umbrathane have escaped into the distant past, where they can position themselves to wreak havoc across time and undo their defeat. The most fanatical of them is the superhuman Cowl, more monstrous than any of the creatures outside his prehistoric redoubt.
Cowl sends his terrifying hyperdimensional pet, the torbeast, hunting through all the timelines for human specimens. It sheds its scales—each one an organic…
- 2005 Philip K Dick nominee
- Score: 6.55
At age four, Yuri Kirov watched his homecolony destroyed by the alien enemy. By six,he was a wounded soul, fending for himself in a desolate refugee camp, and still a child when the pirates found him. Now 24, Yuri is a killer, a spy, a blackmailer, and a pirate captain—doing life in prison. That is until Earthhub Black Ops agents decide to make Yuri their secret weapon in a covert interstellar power grab. Released from jail, but on a leash to the government, Yuri is more trapped than ever. Controlled by men even more ruthless than the brigands he’s ordered to…
- 2005 Philip K Dick nominee
- 2000 Clarke shortlist
- Score: 12.55
Ray Croft may or may not have been a genius. On his death he left behind a court case that could destroy everything he had worked for, and a rival who’s about to live out Roy’s dream, but turning himself into a machine. He also left a special mystery which only one person alive can solve.
- 2006 Nebula nominee
- 2005 Philip K Dick nominee
- Score: 12.56
Once the Queendom of Sol was a glowing monument to humankind’s loftiest dreams. Ageless and immortal, its citizens lived in peaceful splendor. But as Sol buckled under the swell of an immorbid population, space itself literally ran out….
Conrad Mursk has returned to Sol on the crippled starship Newhope. His crew are the frozen refugees of a failed colony known as Barnard’s Star. A thousand years older, Mursk finds Sol on the brink of rebellion, while a fanatic necro cult is reviving death itself. Now Mursk and his lover, Captain Xiomara “Xmary” Li Weng, are…
