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

by Mark Roberts

A field guide to imaginary ailments

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A field guide to imaginary ailments

Framed as a medical reference, this fictional compendium catalogs invented diseases through their symptoms, histories, and possible cures. Its entries range from Ballistic Organ Disease to Reverse Pinocchio Syndrome, placing medical-guide conventions in the service of speculative invention and absurd humor. Illustrations accompany the collection, which treats its nonexistent conditions as material for playful diagnostic reading.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in speculative fiction presented in reference-book form
  • Those who enjoy absurd humor and invented medical terminology
  • Fans of illustrated collections of fictional entries

Themes

Imaginary diseasesMedical-guide conventionsAbsurd humorSpeculative fiction

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Book overview

"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.
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