The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases

Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, China Mieville, Michael Bishop, Kage Baker, Cory Doctrow, Brian Stableford, Jeff Vandermeer

ISBN 10: 1892389533 / ISBN 13: 9781892389534

Published by Nightshade Book, 2003

298 pp., Hardcover, signed by the 57 contributors, new in a fine dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Seller Inventory # ZB1288097

Synopsis:

"Imagine if Monty Python wrote the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and you sort of get the idea. Afraid you're afflicted with an unknown malady? Finally you have a place to turn!" --Book Sense

You hold in your hands the most complete and official guide to imaginary ailments ever assembled--each disease carefully documented by the most stellar collection of speculative fiction writers ever to play doctor. Detailed within for your reading and diagnostic pleasure are the frightening, ridiculous, and downright absurdly hilarious symptoms, histories, and possible cures to all the ills human flesh isn't heir to, including Ballistic Organ Disease, Delusions of Universal Grandeur, and Reverse Pinocchio Syndrome.

Lavishly illustrated with cunning examples of everything that can't go wrong with you, the Lambshead Guide provides a healthy dose of good humor and relief for hypochondriacs, pessimists, and lovers of imaginative fiction everywhere. Even if you don't have Pentzler's Lubriciousness or Tian Shan-Gobi Assimilation, the cure for whatever seriousness may ail you is in this remarkable collection.

Review: "An amazing book ... plays delicious postmodernist games that are sure to delight the discerning (and slightly warped) reader."
--"Publishers Weekly
""Lambshead is just what the doctor ordered."
"--Village Voice
"

An amazing book plays delicious postmodernist games that are sure to delight the discerning (and slightly warped) reader.
"Publishers Weekly
" Lambshead is just what the doctor ordered.
" Village Voice
""

An amazing book plays delicious postmodernist games that are sure to delight the discerning (and slightly warped) reader.
Publishers Weekly
Lambshead is just what the doctor ordered.
Village Voice
"

"An amazing book ... plays delicious postmodernist games that are sure to delight the discerning (and slightly warped) reader."
--Publishers Weekly

"Lambshead is just what the doctor ordered."
--Village Voice

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to ...
Publisher: Nightshade Book
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New