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Hugo Award winner Ann VanderMeer founded the critically acclaimed Buzzcity Press and she currently serves as the fiction editor for Weird Tales, the oldest fantasy magazine in the world. Ann has partnered with her husband, author Jeff VanderMeer, on such editing projects as the World Fantasy Award winning Leviathan series, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, The New Weird, Steampunk and Fast Ships, Black Sails, recently nominated for a Shirley Jackson award. A guest editor for Best American Fantasy, she also coedited The Leonardo Variations and Last Drink Bird Head anthologies. World Fantasy Award winner Jeff VanderMeer has had novels published in fifteen languages, won multiple awards, and made the best-of-year lists of Publishers Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, LA Weekly, and many other publications. His short fiction has been featured on Wired.com's GeekDad and Tor.com. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Miami Herald, the Huffington Post, and hundreds of others. Recent and forthcoming books include the novel Finch, The Steampunk Bible, and The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals (cowritten with Ann VanderMeer).
Working with an impressive stable of sf and fantasy writers, including Holly Black, Cherie Priest, Tad Williams, and Lev Grossman, and styles ranging from short, detailed write-ups to fascinating tales of objects, the duo have created a fascinating, entertaining, and intriguing tome of sf with a dose of steampunk. -- Library Journal (starred review) Some of the most interesting fantasist-fabulists writing today. -- Los Angeles Times The narrative scope and stellar assemblage of writers and illustrators in The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities makes this a book that will be absolutely cherished by fantasy, science fiction, and steampunk aficionados alike. -- Paul Goat Allen A science-fiction symphony of strangeness... 'The Cabinet of Curiosities' will give you a good jolt of wonder. -- The Gainesville Times Well written with plenty of meticulous line drawings, photos, excerpts from letters and manuscripts and more, this engaging read is sure to pique the interest of young and old alike. -- MonstersandCritics.com The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities was a reminder of why I love books, of invention and imagination, humour and fascination, all rolled up into a collection that I will return to often. -- SF Site A book likely to become a classic at the intersection of fantasy, horror, steampunk and magical realism...Every fantasy lover, and all you postmodernists out there, need to take a tour of the Cabinet. -- PopMatters.com
