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Overview: You’ll be astonished by what you’ll find in The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities. Editors Ann and Jeff Vandermeer have gathered together a spectacular array of exhibits, oddities, images, and stories by some of the most renowned and bestselling writers and artists in speculative and graphic fiction, including Ted Chiang, Mike Mignola (creator of Hellboy), China Miéville, and Michael Moorcock. A spectacularly illustrated anthology of Victorian steampunk devices and the stories behind them, The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities is a boldly original, enthrallingly imaginative, and endlessly entertaining entry into a hidden world of weird science and unnatural nature that will appeal equally to fantasy lovers and graphic novel aficionados.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Contents
Introduction: The Contradictions of a Collection: Dr. Lambshead’s Cabinet
Holy Devices and Infernal Duds: The Broadmore Exhibits
The Electrical Neurheographiton—Minister Faust
St. Brendan’s Shank—Kelly Barnhill
The Auble Gun—Will Hindmarch
Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny—Ted Chiang
Honoring Lambshead: Stories Inspired by the Cabinet
Threads—Carrie Vaughn
Ambrose and the Ancient Spirits of East and West—Garth Nix
Relic—Jeffrey Ford
Lord Dunsany’s Teapot—Naomi Novik
Lot 558: Shadow of My Nephew by Wells, Charlotte—Holly Black
A Short History of Dunkelblau’s Meistergarten—Tad Williams
Microbial Alchemy and Demented Machinery: The Mignola Exhibits
Addison Howell and the Clockroach—Cherie Priest
Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham, GBE, a.k.a. Roboticus the All-Knowing—Lev Grossman
Shamalung (The Diminutions)—Michael Moorcock
Pulvadmonitor: The Dust’s Warning—China Miéville
The Miéville Anomalies
The Very Shoe—Helen Oyeyemi
The Gallows-horse—Reza Negarestani
Further Oddities
The Thing in the Jar—Michael Cisco
The Singing Fish—Amal El-Mohtar
The Armor of Sir Locust—Stepan Chapman
A Key to the Castleblakeney Key—Caitlín R. Kiernan
Taking the Rats to Riga—Jay Lake
The Book of Categories—Charles Yu
Objects Discovered in a Novel Under Construction—Alan Moore
Visits and Departures
1929: The Singular Taffy Puller—N. K. Jemisin
1943: A Brief Note Pertaining to the Absence of One Olivaceous Cormorant, Stuffed—Rachel Swirsky
1963: The Argument Against Louis Pasteur—Mur Lafferty
1972: The Lichenologist’s Visit—Ekaterina Sedia
1995: Kneel—Brian Evenson
2000: Dr. Lambshead’s Dark Room—S. J. Chambers
2003: The Pea—Gio Clairval
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