When you look up at clouds in the sky, you typically think of them as fluffy and light, right? Turns out, clouds are HEAVY! The average cumulus cloud weighs over a million pounds! Which presents a couple of questions: 1) how do clouds remain aloft, and 2) how do you weigh a cloud? The answer...
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We’ve got a bunch of news from past and future alumni! T. J. Tranchell has published a collection of short stories, Asleep in the Nightmare Room, through Blysster Press. This marks his second publication with Blysster Press, who published his novella, Cry Down Dark, last year. Jessie Kwak, who has a story forthcoming in MSJ later...
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An essay by Anneke Halim, as provided by S. Qiouyi Lu Art by Amanda Jones The publication of the Journal of Interplanetary Lycan Studies is an opportune time to reflect on the history of our field and what we already know. Although lycans have existed in the histories of all human civilizations and have...
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In Prosser, Washington, there’s a road that inclines upward. But if you put your car in neutral at the bottom, your car will start rolling “up” the hill. This isn’t the only place like this in the world, either. There are a number of hills where gravity seems to work in reverse. But the real...
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As we work on getting Utter Fabrication wrapped up and out the door, we’ve got an exciting giveaway on Goodreads for our anthology from 2016! We’re giving away five copies of Fitting In: Historical Accounts of Paranormal Subcultures. This book collects 28 stories told from the point of view of supernatural creatures living at the...
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Excerpt from Mars as the Abode of Life, by Tranquility Adams, as presented by H. E. Bergeron Art by Luke Spooner It is not, in my opinion, at all hyperbolic to say that mankind would never have reached Mars, or, at the very least, that mankind would not have reached Mars in this century,...
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Russian scientists working in the Volga River in 2002 unearthed an enormous fossilized marine creature, which has now been identified as a new species. Luskhan itilensis, which means “Master Spirit of the Volga,” had a skull approximately 5-7 feet long, and lived roughly 130 million years ago. The fossil is that of a type of plesiosaur,...
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Cassilda’s Song (Chaosium, 2015), edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., contains 18 tales of the mythos of the King in Yellow, all written by female authors. These stories explore many facets of Cassilda, one of the characters from Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow collection of short stories. As Chambers’ stories and the purported...
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An essay by Edmund Teile, as prepared by his great-grandson, Isaac Teile Art by Shannon Legler Abstract: This paper asserts that pinwyrm lizards are closely related to western red and northeastern black dragons despite their contemporary classification as monitors. First, I provide an analysis of comparative behavioral habits between venomous pinwyrms and black dragons (which...
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Ever wonder how music impacts your ability to get work done? Or why certain music works for some tasks, but not for other tasks? There’s a lot of science behind this, it turns out! Check out this article to find out what music does to your brain!
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Phantom limb surgery, dimensional windows, and sentient androids. These are but some of the strange tales to be found in this book. Mad Scientist Journal: Summer 2017 collects thirteen tales from the fictional worlds of mad science. For the discerning mad scientist reader, there are also pieces of fiction from Rhonda Eikamp, Darrell Z....
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Mad Scientist Journal is thrilled to be one of the sponsors for “Showgirls of Beast Island”, a full-length, badly lip-synced, live burlesque B-movie! The production will be in Seattle on July 7th and 8th, and is produced by (and features) one of our MSJ artists, Scarlett O’Hairdye! Those purchasing VIP tickets will get a...
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