048 PK Dick Award reading of AMBIGUITY MACHINES AND OTHER STORIES by Vandana Singh
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048 PK Dick Award reading of AMBIGUITY MACHINES AND OTHER STORIES by Vandana Singh
MCed by William Sadorus (https://www.facebook.com/william.sadorus) and Gordon Van Gelder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Van_Gelder)
PK Dick Award official website: https://www.philipkdickaward.org
Award banquet video: https://youtu.be/cN_bcnNADi0
The Nominees:
episode 44 TIME WAS by Ian McDonald (Tor.com)
episode 45 ALIEN VIRUS LOVE DISASTER: STORIES by Abbey Mei Otis (Small Beer Press)
THEORY OF BASTARDS by Audrey Schulman (Europa Editions)
THE BODY LIBRARY by Jeff Noon (Angry Robot) read by Adam Kakoonis
AMBIGUITY MACHINES AND OTHER STORIES by Vandana Singh (Small Beer Press) read by Brenda Cooper
84K by Claire North (Orbit)
A special citation was awarded to 84K by Claire North (Orbit).
The winner of the 2019 PK Dick award was THEORY OF BASTARDS by Audrey Schulman (Europa Editions).
Dick attended Berkeley High School and graduated with Ursula K. Le Guin in 1947. However the two did not know each other. After graduation, he briefly attended the UC Berkeley. Dick did not declare a major and took classes in history, psychology, philosophy, and zoology. Through his studies in philosophy, he believed that existence is based on internal human perception, which does not necessarily correspond to external reality; he described himself as “an acosmic panentheist,” believing in the universe only as an extension of God. After reading the works of Plato and pondering the possibilities of metaphysical realms, Dick came to the conclusion that, the world is not entirely real and there is no way to confirm whether it is truly there. This question from his studies persisted as a theme in many of his novels. Dick dropped out due to anxiety problems and perhaps the mandatory ROTC training.
