The Hugo Award has been awarded annually by the World Science Fiction Society since 1953. The winners are determined by vote of the attendees and members of the Worldcon science fiction convention.
The Nebula Award for best novel has been awarded annually by the Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA) since 1965.
The Philip K. Dick Award, named in honor of the author, has been awarded annually since 1985.
A ridiculously engaging futuristic murder caper, played at maximum volume (as always) by Bester. When Ben Reich, the megalomaniacal, psychopathic, and extraordinarily successful CEO of Reich Industries, needs to remove his competition from the game, he decides on the oldest gambit of them all -- murder. The only problem is, murder hasn't been successfully committed for decades, thanks to the efforts of Earth's telepathic police corps. Bester faces Reich off against master teep detective Lincoln Powell, and the pyrotechnic results are unfailingly memorable.
Bester's other classic, brimming with action and invention. Slow, brutish Gulliver Foyle, trapped for months on a destroyed spaceship in the midst of an interplanetary war, is abandoned by his would-be rescuers. His single-minded, violent quest for revenge consumes him, and everything he touches -- until he learns that the entire solar system may be at stake. Bester's remarkable vision of a future where people can teleport at will -- and the resulting social consequences -- would be more than enough to carry a lesser novel, but Foyle's transformative odyssey is the real treat here.
One of the all-time sf classics. In my opinion, the greatest sf novel ever written. Herbert does something radical (for the time) here and eschews plotting technological advancement for something far stranger -- human development. As he relates the story of the superhuman Paul Atreides -- known to his worshippers as Muad'Dib, the ultimate product of ten thousand years of controlled breeding -- Herbert also weaves a densely plotted, intricate, fascinating story of massive (and subtle) political, religious, spiritual, and human dimensions.