Philip K. Dick Award finalists

This year's finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award -- honoring SF books first published in the previous year as paperback originals in the US -- include my friend and fellow Canadian Minister Faust for The Notebooks of Dr. Brain.

The full list:

• Grey, Jon Armstrong (Night Shade)
  
• Undertow, Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
  
• From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain, Minister Faust (Del Rey)
  
• Nova Swing, M. John Harrison (Bantam Spectra)
  
• Gradisil, Adam Roberts (Pyr)
  
• Ally, Karen Traviss (Eos)
  
• Saturn Returns, Sean Williams (Ace)

Many years ago, I was a Philip K. Dick Award judge. The previous Canadian PKD Award winners are Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984), and, in the year I was a judge, Mysterium by Robert Charles Wilson -- long before we became close friends, I might add. :)

The copy of the cover of Minister Faust's book that is kicking around online has a quote from Richard K. Morgan in the upper left, but the actual book instead has this blurb from me there: "An outlandish, outrageous tour de force by the most innovative prose stylist in the field." --Robert J. Sawyer, author of Hominids

The Robert J. Sawyer Web Site