Philip K. Dick Award ふぃりっぷ・けー・でぃっくしょう
Edition 7 (1989)
science fictionpaperback original novel
Winners
2 people
Paul J. McAuley
Winner
Hard science fiction on an interstellar scale, it traces civilization, ecology, and interconnection across a vast setting. Scientific speculation and scale drive a story about humanity’s encounter with the unknown.
Hard-edged imagination uncovers the mystery buried in a dead planet.
256 pages
hard SFspaceevolution
Rudy Rucker
Winner
Comic and satirical, the novel explores the fusion of organic life and machines, along with the boundaries of consciousness and identity. It is a cyberpunk sequel that anchors Rudy Rucker’s Ware series.
The line between human and machine dissolves in a mix of absurdity and excitement.
183 pages
artificial intelligencebiotechnologyposthumanismcyberpunk