Philip K. Dick Award

author: Rudy Rucker asin: 0380701774 binding: Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99

Cobb Anderson created the "boppers," sentient robots that overthrew their human overlords. But now Cobb is just an aging alcoholic waiting to die, and the big boppers are threatening to absorb all of the little boppers--and eventually every human--into a giant, melded consciousness.

author: Tim Powers asin: 0441004016 binding: Paperback list price: $15.00 USD amazon price: $13.95 USD

Author Tim Powers evokes 17th-century England with a combination of meticulously researched historic detail and imaginative flights in this sci-fi tale of time travel. Winner of the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award for best original science fiction paperback, this 1989 edition of the book that took the fantasy world by storm is the first hardcover version to be published in the United States.

author: James P. Blaylock asin: 1930235135 binding: Paperback list price: $17.95 USD amazon price: $17.95 USD

Homonculus is a fascinating trip to a London that never existed ... but perhaps should have.

author: Rudy V. B. Rucker asin: 0380701782 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $5.99 USD amazon price: $5.99

Humans created the sentient robot "boppers," but now it's the boppers who have started creating humans. Clones and DNA-splicing have spawned the meatbop, a human body infused with the software (the mind and personality) of a bopper. The meatbops are interested in propagating down on Earth, but that might not be so good for humanity (the boppers have a nasty habit of enslaving humans, actually).

author: Pat Murphy asin: 0553286153 binding: Mass Market Paperback list price: $3.95 USD amazon price: $3.95

Points of Departure is a collection of short stories tinged with barbed humor that won the 1991 Philip K. Dick Award.