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Description:
First "published"
in 1915, as World War I raged through Europe, The Thackery T. Lambshead
Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases was for thirty
years disseminated to doctors around the world in the form of loose-leaf
carbon copies and photocopies. In 1945, London’s Chatto &
Windus published the first formal edition of the Guide. Twenty editions
later, the Guide was discontinued, but continued to be updated by
Dr. Lambshead and his colleagues and privately printed by friends.
From Freetown to Istanbul, Timbuktu to Ulan Bator, it has proven its
worth under less than ideal conditions. When a doctor lost in the
Congo rainforests with only a few antibiotics and feral pigmy elephants
for company cannot diagnose his odd spinal condition, he reaches for
his handy copy of the Guide. When a family practice doctor cannot
understand why a patient of 30 years with no history of mental defect
suddenly begins to mimic inanimate objects, she turns to the reliable
Lambshead Pocket Guide.
Now that the Lambshead Pocket Guide will once again be publicly published, Dr. Lambshead, well over one hundred years of
age, has decided to pass the editorship of the Guide on to the capable if rather young, in the good doctor’s opinion,
hands of Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts. Although Dr. Lambshead will continue to monitor the influx of documentation
regarding new diseases, he will leave the day-to-day editorial duties to VanderMeer and Roberts, both able doctors in
their own right.
Confirmed Contributors:
- Alan M. Clark
- Alan Moore
- Andrew J Wilson
- Brendan Connell
- Brian Evenson
- Brian Stableford
- China Miéville
- Cory Doctorow
- David Langford
- Dawn Andrews
- Elliot Fintushel
- G Eric Schaller
- Gahan Wilson
- Gary Couzens
- Harvey Jacobs
- Iain Rowan
- Jack Slay Jr
- Jay Caselburg
- Jeff Topham
- Jeffrey Ford
- Jeffrey Thomas
- John Coulthart
- Kage Baker
- L Timmel Duchamp
- Lance Olsen
- Liz Williams
- Martin Newell
- Michael Barry
- Michael Bishop
- Michael Cisco
- Michael Cobley
- Michael Moorcock
- Mike O'Driscoll
- Nathan Ballingrud
- Neil Gaiman
- Neil Williamson
- Paul DiFilippo
- R.M. Berry
- Rachel Pollack
- Rhys Hughes
- Richard Calder
- Rikki Ducornet
- Robert Freeman Wexler
- Sara Gwenllian Jones
- Shelley Jackson
- Stepan Chapman
- Steve Aylett
- Steve Rasnic Tem
- Steve Redwood
- Tamar Yellin
- Tim Lebbon
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