Lydia Kang. Dial, $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3904-8
Kang’s medical bona fides are on display in this SF debut. In a near-dystopian future, states have consolidated, education is via online holo, and people live under the agriplane, an elevated platform where crops are grown. Zelia, 17, and her...
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Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen. Workman, $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7611-8981-7
In this informally written but well-researched history, physician Kang and journalist Pedersen expose the strange, and to modern eyes ludicrous, ways in which humankind has tried to cure all manner of diseases and afflictions over the centuries. The
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Lydia Kang. Lake Union, $14.95 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-5420-1779-4
Kang’s bustling, inspired historical mystery (after A Beautiful Poison) tackles drug addiction, vampirism, and deficiencies of medicine in New York at the end of the 19th century. Spunky and scientifically curious Tillie Pembroke, who has no...
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Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen. Workman, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-523-51329-1
Physician Kang and historian Pedersen team up again (after Quackery) with a thorough and morbidly funny study of some of the world’s deadliest diseases. Those covered include rabies (so ancient it’s mentioned in the ancient Middle Eastern Laws of...
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Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen. Workman, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5235-2425-9
Physician Kang and journalist Pedersen follow up their 2017 collaboration, Quackery, with a fizzy survey of outlandish theories from throughout history. The authors explain that polygraphs test for fear rather than falsehoods, and that the...
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