by Jeff VanderMeer, Mark Roberts · Macmillan · tapa dura · ISBN 9781405049603
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«The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases» is the satirical guide to fictional diseases by Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts.
A humorous guide parodying medical treatises: it describes fictional diseases and extravagant ailments with false seriousness. Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts bring together over eighty entries from fifty-eight writers, including Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and Michael Moorcock; John Coulthart's drawings reinforce the air of an old manual.
Published by Macmillan in 2004, the hardcover edition has 496 pages in English. It is part of the Thackery T. Lambshead series and was nominated for the World Fantasy and British Fantasy awards.
Intended for readers who enjoy parodies of medical manuals, black humor and speculative fiction.
Jeff VanderMeer is an American author, editor, and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Series. The series' first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, and was adapted into a Hollywood film by director Alex Garland. Among VanderMeer's other novels are Shriek: An Afterword and Borne. He has also edited with his wife Ann VanderMeer such influential and award-winning anthologies as The New Weird, The Weird, and The Big Book of Science Fiction.
