One More Detour on the Writing Road

Because I've seen it crop up on other lists, it's time to post here.

...there is a requirement that books nominated for the PKD see their North American release in the year of the award. For this year's award--the 2008 award--that means that the books need to have come out in 2008.

ENDGAME came out in November 2007.

I don't know how the judges wound up getting the book, but once I realized what had happened, I let someone know, and they let someone know.

I am disappointed because I like this book a lot, and because it was the last book in a middlin' series that came out about three years late...well, I was glad to see it get some attention. And I was very happy that fellow pros thought it worthy of nomination. But rules is rules.

And so it goes.

PKD noms came out today

EMISSARIES FROM THE DEAD by Adam-Troy Castro (Eos Books)

ENDGAME by Kristine Smith (Eos Books)
FAST FORWARD 2 edited by Lou Anders (Pyr)

JUDGE by Karen Traviss (Eos Books)

TERMINAL MIND by David Walton (Meadowhawk Press)

TIME MACHINES REPAIRED WHILE-U-WAIT by K. A. Bedford (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)

UPDATE: thanks to all for your good wishes. Unfortunately, ENDGAME needed to be pulled from the list because it came out in November 2007. The books to be considered for the 2008 PKD need to have seen first North American release in 2008.