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Random Normality of a Graphical Nature
2008 Philip K. Dick Award Finalists
# 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)
I have not read a single one of those books due to the fact that graduate school requires that I actually like study and junk…
Even though this is not a “serious” literary award, it should be noted that both of my mentors (well, I call them my mentors, I suppose they might not like to be known as such…), James P Blaylock and Tim Powers are past Philip K. Dick winners.
I haven’t read any of those books either, but when it comes to awards, even the Academy Awards, I usually haven’t seen any. I’ve been sick and blowing through mediocre but semi-quick reads, Carol Berg’s Flesh and Spirit, David B Coe’s Children of Amarid, and Oliver Johnson’s Lightbringer Trilogy, which I don’t recommend unless you see the whole thing for under a buck. I got it as strips, which Kilian will know about. The dark secret of booksellers. (I also walked out of B and N with all of Jordan’s series that way.)
P.S. Am I the only one still voting???
I’m still punching my vote in every 15-23 hours when the website allows it. I think we’ve hit a plateau in competing against the other sites out there.
I’d say so…I vote twice a day, once from work and home…we need to recruit some more Normalinauts!
And, ah good ol’ strips…I was once stripping some MM when a supervisor, A SUPERVISOR, came in the back and yelled at me for destroying inventory…god it was nice to see the GM explain to her that she was an idiot…
I’d totally go back to BN to dumpster dive if I could get away with it. Some policeman would likely find me in the back in a pool of books, a blissful yet empty look on my face…
Strips are an awesome way to get books!!! Well, free books anyway.