Nominations have been made for the 2025 Philip K. Dick Award, sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust and honoring the best science fiction published in paperback original form in the U.S. in the previous year. The award ceremony, sponsored by the Northwest Science Fiction Society, will take place on April 18 at Norwescon 47. This year's nominees are:
City of Dancing Gargoyles by Tara Campbell (Santa Fe Writers Project)
Your Utopia: Stories by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin Books)
Time's Agent by Brenda Peynado (Tordotcom)
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit)
Triangulum by Subodhana Wijeyeratne (Rosarium Publishing)
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Three finalists have been selected for the Story Prize. The winner will be announced March 25 at a private event that will be livestreamed, feature readings by and interviews with the finalists, capped by the announcement of the winner. The winner receives $20,000 and an engraved silver bowl; the two runners-up each receive $5,000. The finalists:
Highway Thirteen by Fiona McFarlane (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes Jr. (Mariner Books)
Ghost Pains by Jessi Jezewska Stevens (And Other Stories)
This year's judges are bookseller Lucy Yu, owner of Yu & Me Books, New York City; author Maurice Carlos Ruffin; and writer and editor Elliott Holt.