2011 Philip K. Dick Award nominees announced

The 2011 Philip K. Dick Award nominees have been announced. The award is presented annually to a distinguished work of science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States.

The nominees are:

The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
Deadline by Mira Grant (Orbit)
The Other by Matthew Hughes (Underland)
A Soldier’s Duty by Jean Johnson (Ace)
The Postmortal by Drew Magary (Penguin)
After the Apocalypse by Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer)
The Samuel Petrovich Trilogy by Simon Morden (Orbit)

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