NMLP P-031320 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Dinner at Deviant's Palace

Tim Powers · Ace Books · 1985

The US Ace paperback original of 1985 is the true first and the award-eligible edition: it won the 1986 Philip K. Dick Award and the 1985 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel, and was a 1985 Nebula nominee. The later Charnel House signed/limited hardcover is a collectible 'first thus,' not the true first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-031320 for "Dinner at Deviant's Palace" by Tim Powers (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-031320, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).