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The PK Dick award started back when books that originated in paperback were the norm, only bigger names got hardback originals. It's just that while I used to like Philip Dick's work, and many of his stories have been made into movies, I haven't liked most of the award's short list books in recent years. Ramez Naam's work was published in trade paper editions, which still qualifies as "paperback".
I've known about this award for a long time, since I've been attending NorWesCon for more than 30 years. Like any award, it's used mostly for marketing, but it's considered only slightly less prestigious than the Hugo and Nebula.
James Glass is also an SF author, I've had some of his books for 20 years or more. I've heard of Brenda Clough, but don't have any of her books.
As a side note, there was a panel at the con where an artist talked about how he designed and built the actual trophies to be used this summer for the Hugo awards.
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