If you’re in the Seattle area and would like to get your hands on some of our books, stop by the DefCon One Publishing table at GeekGirlCon this weekend! We will have copies of Mad Scientist Journal quarterlies, all five of our anthologies, and more! You’ll also be able to pick up a coloring postcard...
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An essay by Nathan Williams, as provided by Nicole Tanquary Art provided by Scarlett O’Hairdye The door to the shop was open, so I walked in, scuffing the bottoms of my shoes against the welcome mat to get off the slush. Mrs. Mabel was way in the back, hunched low over her worktable. She...
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Just how far-fetched are superheroes? What about mutants? The answer is: maybe not as out there as you think! While humans might not develop the power of flight or telekinesis, there are a number of physical and mental mutations that aren’t too far off from powers possessed by superheroes. This article lists a number...
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Have you picked up a copy of Battling in All Her Finery: Historical Accounts of Otherworldly Women Leaders yet? If you have, and you’ve had a chance to read the stories, we’d love to know what you think! You can write reviews, even if they’re just a quick “loved it!” at Amazon and GoodReads! If...
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Time travel can be tricky. But Kate Heartfield’s Alice Payne Arrives (Tor, 2018) handles the topic deftly. This novella is a clever tale of time travel across multiple timelines with a firm grasp of the consequences of mucking about with history. The titular character, Alice Payne, lives in England in 1788, making a living...
Read more →Battling in All Her Finery: Historical Accounts of Otherworldly Women Leaders is available today! This anthology collects twenty-one stories of women who rule, whether that be in the houses of government, on the battlefield, in the boardroom, on stage, or in space! We’ve put together a fantastic collection of authors with many stories under their...
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An essay by Daniela Villanueva, as provided by Alyssa N. Vaughn Art provided by Errow Collins I’d like to tell you about the first time I ever took out a superhero. I was eleven. The afternoon it all began, I sat at my desk with my arms crossed, scowling at my science textbook. I...
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Mice are frequently used in laboratory settings, but now it’s their stem cells that are being studied, rather than their behaviors. Scientists in Switzerland have found that if stem cells from mice are placed into a growth-promoting broth, they will organize themselves into a banana-like shape–far more organized than the scientists had originally thought...
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As we lead up to the release of Battling in All Her Finery, we’re featuring a handful of women in science from history. Check back in the coming weeks to learn more about early women scientific leaders, and check out Battling in All Her Finery when it releases on October 16! Maryam Mirzakhani was...
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Bikes not Rockets (Microcosm Publishing, 2018), edited by Elly Blue, is the fifth volume in the Bikes in Space series, all of which feature speculative fiction centered around bicycles. The theme of this volume was intersectional stories, and it collects eleven stories in that vein. The stories in this volume vary between those that...
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As we lead up to the release of Battling in All Her Finery, we’re featuring a handful of women in science from history. Check back in the coming weeks to learn more about early women scientific leaders, and check out Battling in All Her Finery when it releases on October 16! Mary Jackson was...
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Correspondence initiated by Unclassified Sample 38267, as provided by Julia K. Patt Art by Leigh Legler Are you there, Professor? It’s me, Unclassified. You: A brilliant but ostracized xenobiologist, recently denied tenure from a prestigious university. Me: The beaker of extraterrestrial goop you definitely weren’t supposed to bring home from the lab and combine with...
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