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|title=Homunculus

|author=James P Blaylock

|publisher=Titan

|date=February 2013

|website=http://jamespblaylock.com/

|summary=A group of scientists seek to uncover the truth about aliens in an alternative Victorian London.

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What could possibly be the connection between a mechanical toy crocodile that eats birds, a giant emerald, an oxygenator device for a spaceship and a tiny alien man with the power of life and death? The answer, of course, is that each item on this unusual list has been placed inside one of four identical boxes. The boxes are hidden in various locations in order to prevent the contents from falling into the wrong hands, but evil has a habit of seeking things out....