The judges of the 2011 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia SF Society have announced the seven nominated works that comprise the final ballot for the award. The award recognizes distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States.
The nominees are:
The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
Deadline by Mira Grant (Orbit)
The Other by Matthew Hughes (Underland Press)
A Soldier’s Duty by Jean Johnson (Ace Books)
The Postmortal by Drew Magary (Penguin Books)
After the Apocalypse by Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer Press)
The Samuil Petrovich Trilogy: Equations of Life, Theories of Flight, and Degrees of Freedom by Simon Morden (Orbit)
First prize and any special citations will be announced on Friday 6 April 2012 at Norwescon 35 at the Doubletree Seattle Airport Hotel, SeaTac, Washington.
The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the award ceremony is sponsored by the NorthWest Science Fiction Society. Last year’s winner was The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder (Pyr) with a special citation to Harmony by Project Itoh (Haikasoru). The 2011 judges are Scott Baker (chair), Mark Budz, Roby James, Darrell Schweitzer, and Alice K. Turner.