{"id":25731,"date":"2022-02-24T13:32:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T21:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=25731"},"modified":"2022-02-24T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T23:08:10","slug":"2022-pkd-award-thoughts-%f0%9f%93%9a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/02\/24\/2022-pkd-award-thoughts-%f0%9f%93%9a\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 PKD Award Thoughts &#x1f4da;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1515,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.norwescon.org\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/11\\\/2022-philip-k-dick-award-nominees-announced&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250804152344\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.norwescon.org\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/11\\\/2022-philip-k-dick-award-nominees-announced\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 19:36:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 21:13:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 15:02:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 14:38:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 14:38:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1516,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/3573e22f-5add-47a4-a90c-14c1bdbb6f07&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1353,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/c82d2368-4b48-462b-8e2c-39cddd43a721&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20241103065607\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/c82d2368-4b48-462b-8e2c-39cddd43a721&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 12:53:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 21:13:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 10:28:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 22:18:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 08:18:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 08:18:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1517,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/8fcfecb2-7f15-4f5a-88c4-f75374f340a3&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1518,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/98bcb512-07d0-41a4-8c38-1ef2b87c39ac&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1354,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/series\\\/25&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1519,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/e0abadd3-a902-486d-91e6-217830903fb5&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1520,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/90ac5b41-90a7-47d8-845d-e0d852cd0fd8&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>As I have for the past several years, I&#8217;ve read all of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.norwescon.org\/2022\/01\/11\/2022-philip-k-dick-award-nominees-announced\/\">Philip K. Dick Award nominated works<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year had a nice strong slate, I&#8217;ve actually had a hard time picking which I&#8217;d choose for the top spot. Top three is pretty easy, but top spot&#8230;that&#8217;s more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>My picks for top three: Nino Cipri&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/3573e22f-5add-47a4-a90c-14c1bdbb6f07\"><em>Defekt<\/em><\/a>, Tade Thompson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/c82d2368-4b48-462b-8e2c-39cddd43a721\"><em>Far From the Light of Heaven<\/em><\/a>, and Lavie Tidhar&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/8fcfecb2-7f15-4f5a-88c4-f75374f340a3\"><em>The Escapement<\/em><\/a>. All of them were the kind of stories that took up residence in my brain and poked me for a few days afterwards, which is always a good sign.<\/p>\n<p>If I had to pick a top choice (and I don&#8217;t have to, but then, what would be the point of this post), I think I&#8217;d go with <em>Far From the Light of Heaven<\/em> by Tade Thompson. Amusingly, it was one of two &#8220;murder mystery in space involving an investigator dealing with misbehaving AIs&#8221; stories (the other being Kali Wallace&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/98bcb512-07d0-41a4-8c38-1ef2b87c39ac\"><em>Dead Space<\/em><\/a>); both were good, but I found Thompson&#8217;s to be my preference &#8212; admittedly, possibly somewhat influenced by my prior enjoyment of Thompson&#8217;s earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/series\/25\"><em>Wormwood<\/em> trilogy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of the books I haven&#8217;t mentioned yet, Jason Sanford&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/e0abadd3-a902-486d-91e6-217830903fb5\"><em>Plague Birds<\/em><\/a> was an enjoyable adventure and well worthy of being nominated; and Giacomo Satori&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/90ac5b41-90a7-47d8-845d-e0d852cd0fd8\"><em>Bug<\/em><\/a> was the only one of this year&#8217;s picks that just didn&#8217;t work for me.<\/p>\n<p>As noted, though, another strong slate, and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing who wins this year (and my tongue-in-cheek advance apologies to Tade Thompson; as his book is my favorite, if historical trends hold true, another book will take the top spot&#8230;but hey, maybe this year is the year to change that)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another strong slate, and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing who wins this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[4107,4109,4114,4110,4103,4101,4115],"class_list":["post-25731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-giacomo-sartori","tag-jason-sanford","tag-kali-wallace","tag-lavie-tidhar","tag-nino-cipri","tag-philip-k-dick-award","tag-tade-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}