Monthly Archives: June 2012
New Fiction by Thomas Canfield
If you enjoyed last week’s story provided by MSJ contributor Thomas Canfield, then you will be pleased to know that he has two more new pieces out that you can read. UK podcast Cast of Wonders provides an audio version of Canfield’s story “A Clean Sweep of It.” Also, at Daily Science Fiction you can read his story [...]
An Experimental Excursion in Artificially Amplifying Armoured Animalia
Reported Retroactively by Ms. Cadmium Drury Addiber Graduate Studies: Contrapting, Abnatural Sciences, Electrogenesis, Illogical Reasoning, et al University of Mispury-Gearfax As provided by Jimmy Grist Illustration by Dawn Vogel Abstract The following research project took place sixteen (16) years ago. This report has been filled out retroactively for records of study and/or self-defence in a [...]
Encore
An essay by an anonymous bioethicist, presented by Thomas Canfield Illustration by Katie Nyborg March 11, 2117. Mark that date in your calendar. That was the day the first client in a state of cryostasis was revived. There were only two people present: Dr Maxwell Bessemer, who was head of the program, and myself. I [...]
Who’s Yer Mummy
Being a curious tale of Archaeology, Burn Fetishism, and World Domination, by world-famous Undead Egyptologist, Jack Eidolon, as told to Mike Bryant Photography by Eleanor Leonne Bennett “My name is Jack. And I’m a braineater.” That was me, about two and a half years ago, at my first Undead Anonymous meeting. Just like everyone else [...]
Small Addition to the Special Call for Submissions
It has been brought to my attention that writing a 100+ word story in the style of a classified ad is a little ridiculous. Because classified ads are not usually that long. So I am going to expand the call to be: One or more classified ads, the combined total of which is 100-500 words. [...]
Special Call for Submissions
EDIT: I have revised these guidelines here. It has occurred to us that putting together a collection of just the stories we publish for free online is a little silly. So, for the month of June only, we are looking for submissions to be included in our quarterly collection of stories. These submissions must: Be [...]
An Arcane Methodology to Reach a Perfect World
An essay by Dr. Strangehate, presented by Jetse de Vries Photo provided by Eleanor Leonne Bennett PLEASE DELETE THIS UNREAD. You didn’t, did you? Otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this. So don’t pretend reverse psychology doesn’t work. Let’s chat. Anyway, as I have perfected this virus you simply won’t be able to delete it. [...]
That Man Behind the Curtain: May 2012
I have a few quick notes regarding some small changes at Mad Scientist Journal this month. The first is that my wife and fellow author, Dawn Vogel, will be officially listed as the Assistant Editor. She’s been doing all the edits to manuscripts the last couple months, so this is just making it official. Also, [...]
