Strange Toys is a fantasy novel by American writer Patricia Geary, published in 1987. It won the Philip K. Dick Award that year.Selected science-fiction and fantasy awards. In Critical Survey of Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature, (3rd edn) (Paul Di Filippo, ed.), p. 1392 (Salem Press; 2017) Peter Nicholls (July 3, 2023). Fantasy. In The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (4th edn)
Ursula Le Guin included it (as well as Geary's Living in Ether) in her selections of "Unjustly Neglected Works of Science Fiction" for a 1993 survey carried out by the journal Science Fiction Studies.The Editors (1993). Unjustly Neglected Works of Science Fiction. Science Fiction Studies 20 (3): 422–432
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Reviews See, Carolyn (August 8, 1987). Witchcraft Power Is Power. Los Angeles Times, p. 5