Annal:1986 Philip K. Dick Award

Homunculus

James P. Blaylock

• 1986 Philip K Dick winner
• Score: 10.36

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

Darkly atmospheric, Homonculus weaves together the stories of Narbondo—a mad hunchback who works tirelessly to bring the dead back to life, of the members of the Trismegistus Club—a surly group of scientists and philosophers who meet at Captain Powers’ Pipe Shop, and of the homonculus—a tiny man whose powers can drive men to murder.

The Hercules Text

Jack McDevitt

• 1986 Philip K Dick citation
• Score: 8.36

 

Artificial Things

Karen Joy Fowler

• 1986 Philip K Dick nominee
• Score: 6.36

 

A Hidden Place

Robert Charles Wilson

• 1986 Philip K Dick nominee
• Score: 6.36

In the hard years of the Depression, young Travis lives with his uncle and aunt. Upstairs lives the mysterious Anna. Anna says she’s going to be “changing,” and she needs Travis’s help…for purposes she won’t explain. What follows is a tale of passion, terror, and hope, opening out to a great, dark, and unsuspected universe.