Philip K. Dick Award
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Oct 9, 2026
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William Gibson published this novel in 1984.
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It famously won the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Philip K. Dick Award in a single year, the undisputed triple crown of science fiction.
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Which is just insane.
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It is.
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It really did.
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It remains the only novel to win the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award in the same year.
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In 1985.
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In 1985.
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It's visionary.
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The book swept the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Philip K. Dick Awards.
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It laid down the entire foundation of the cyberpunk genre.
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The neon rain, right?
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And that bugs me a lot.
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So even I had a book that was nominated for Hugo in a Nebula and the Philip K. Dick Awards.
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And I'm still anxious about it because I don't know what magic sauce was there.
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I worry that it was my editor who doesn't edit anymore.
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It changed everything.
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It won the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Philip K. Dick Award.
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It effectively single-handedly codified the cyberpunk genre.
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We use the word cyberpunk all the time now, you know, in video games and movies.
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Neuromancer swept science fiction's Triple Crown.
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It won the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Nebula Award in its debut year.
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It was universally and immediately recognized as a massive paradigm shift.
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It also completely redefined the sci-fi protagonist.
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Right.
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And All Systems Red itself was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award back in 2017.
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So why is it bringing up the rear?
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Well, here's where the data tells a story all on its own.
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So that's like the three sort of, you know, awards that are given to it, to a science fiction novel.
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So he won the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award and the Philip K. Dick Award.
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And it eventually sold more than six and a half million copies worldwide.
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Right.