Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:30:26 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at KeithLynch.net>,<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] PKD Award
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Looks better in the html format I received it in, but heck if I know how
to send such to y'all:

Philip K. Dick Awards
c/o 153 Deerfield Lane
Pleasantville, NY 10570
(914) 769-5545
http://www.philipkdickaward.org
January 12, 2009
For Immediate  Release

2008 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees  Announced

The judges of the 2008  Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia SF
Society,
along with the Philip K.  Dick Trust, are pleased to announce six
nominated
works that comprise the final  ballot for the award:

EMISSARIES FROM THE DEAD by Adam-Troy Castro (Eos  Books)
ENDGAME by Kristine Smith (Eos Books)
FAST FORWARD 2 edited by Lou Anders (Pyr)
JUDGE by  Karen Traviss (Eos Books)
TERMINAL MIND by David Walton (Meadowhawk  Press)
TIME MACHINES REPAIRED WHILE-U-WAIT by K. A. Bedford (EDGE Science
Fiction
and Fantasy Publishing)

First prize and any special  citations will be announced on Friday,
April 10,
2009 at Norwescon 32 at the  Doubletree Seattle Airport Hotel, SeaTac,

Washington.

The Philip K. Dick Award is  presented annually with the support of the

Philip K. Dick Trust for  distinguished science fiction published in
paperback
original form in the United  States.  The award is sponsored by  the
Philadelphia
Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust and the  award
ceremony
is sponsored by the NorthWest Science Fiction Society.  Last year*s
winner was
NOVA SWING by M. John Harrison (Bantam Spectra) with  a special
citation to
FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF DR. BRAIN  by Minister Faust (Del Rey).  The 2008
judges
are Tobias Buckell, M. M. Buckner (chair), Walter Hunt,  Rosemary
Kirstein, and
William Senior.

For more information,  contact the award administration:
David G. Hartwell (914) 769-5545.
Gordon Van Gelder (201) 876-2551
For more information about  the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society,

http://www.psfs.org/:
Contact Gary Feldbaum (215) 563-2511
For more information about  the Philip K. Dick Trust:
www.philipkdick.com
For more information about  Norwescon:  http://www.norwescon.org/:
Contact NorthWest SF Society: (360) 438-0871
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