At Large Philip K. Dick Award Winners Announced
posted by on March 21 at 21:15 PM
I just left the big awards dinner for the Philip K. Dick awards. The Special Citation, or runner-up, went to From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain, by Minister Faust. I read this one, and I’ve got to say, I’m pretty disappointed. It’s not a very good book, an unoriginal satire on superheroes and power and blah blah blah.
And the winner of the Philip K. Dick Award this year is Nova Swing, by M. John Harrison, a kind of noir-y alternate universe story. Harrison’s previous serial-killer novel, Light, was excellent. Harrison’s speech was read by a surrogate, since he couldn’t be here, but it was a good speech, mainly about how he’s all about growing beyond the idea of personality being a consistent thing, that we are a bunch of actions who are consistently retroactively explaining our actions, and that justification is what we think makes us us. It was a good speech, and people read from all seven books on the short list before the prizes was announced and there is, thankfully, no actual statuette of a prize (a Dick prize could be banned in certain states, I’m sure) because they decide to give the winners the money instead. How civilized.
Now it’s time for the afterparties. I hear there are two dragon-themed parties to choose from. I might report later tonight or, if I pass out, early tomorrow morning. SeaTac loves you.
OMG, Minister Faust? Crazy... I read his Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad, and it wasn't great, to be honest, but it was very... Edmontonian. Woot for Edmonton, I guess.
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