American science-fiction author Richard Paul Russo twice received the Philip K. Dick Award: in 1989, for his second novel, Subterranean Gallery, and in 2001 for Ship of Fools.

His critically acclaimed Carlucci Trilogy, consisting of Destroying Angel, Carlucci's Edge, and Carlucci's Heart, were praised by Science Fiction Chronicle as "Truly gripping . . . a lot more realistic than most near-future SF, as well as being just plain better written than most of it."