The Cipher by Kathe Koja (@kathekoja) is in The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle!
The Cipher by Kathe Koja is in The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle! THE CIPHER is Kathe Koja's classic, award-winning horror novel: the story of Nicholas, a failed poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, who discover a strange hole in the storage room down the hall: "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." At first it’s a curiosity, a joke - the Funhole. But then the experiments start. "Wouldn't it be wild to go down there?" says Nakota. Nicholas says no—but from the first, they’re not in control. And the experiments turn to obsession, and violence, and a very final transformation for everyone who gets too close to the Funhole. The Cipher was the winner of the 1991 Bram Stoker Award as well as a Finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award , and was named one of io9's Top 10 Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World By Storm . Here’s ...