Book 9 of 2025: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Sixth and final Philip K. Dick award nominee of the year. As such, not reviewed.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
PKD Day
This year’s nominees for the Philip K. Dick award were announced today, and I already have my copies! Looking forward to diving in as soon as I’m done with the book I’m currently reading.
- 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)
Amusingly, I only had to order five. I’d picked up Triangulum last year at Norwescon, and just hadn’t gotten around to reading it yet. Guess it’s time!
Uncanny Magazine Issue 61 edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Monte Lin, and Betsy Aoki
71/2024 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Favorites this issue were “Woodmask” by Adrian Tchaikovsky and “Ancestor Heart” by Naomi Day.
📚 13/2021: The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee 6/6
Very much enjoyed this one. From chasing cryptids to speculative evolution, with parallel worlds and spacefaring trilobites, and a good dose of humor and good old British stiff-upper-lip.
All of this year’s Philip K. Dick Award nominees have arrived! Two months to get through them all (plus two more that are predecessors of books in this stack). Will I make it? 📚
