Monthly Archives: September 2012
Zombie Anthology with a Mad Scientist Alumnus!
Rebecca L. Brown is one of the authors providing exclusive content to the upcoming Mad Scientist Journal: Summer 2012. And she has a story that will be on the site next month. But more immediately available is the anthology A Quick Bite of Flesh: An Anthology of Zombie Flash Fiction, which features Brown along with [...]
Robot Ethics and the Turkish Turtledove
An essay by Mando Viday, as provided by Django Mathijsen Dylah wasn’t the prettiest girl I’ve ever known. Still she is the only one I often recalled with melancholy and even regret. Because although we’d been close, we’d never become “an item.” I’ve often wondered if she should have been the one. So it was [...]
Mad Scientist Journal Summer 2012 Cover Art!
Just thought I’d drop in with a quick mid-week post to share something with all y’all. Last night I got the laid-out cover for the next collection of Mad Scientist Journal. I liked it so much, I had to share it. The photo is by Eleanor Leonne Bennett, the layout work is by Katie Nyborg. [...]
Maturity
An essay by Max Steiner, as presented by Nathaniel K. Miller Scientist profile: Dr. Marvin Steiner was a controversial and pioneering nodal physicist, known for developing the Jaunte Drive, an early prototype teleportation engine. He and his son Max disappeared under mysterious circumstances after an apparently disastrous test of the device. The bodies of Steiner’s [...]
Suzanne van Rooyen’s Young Adult SF Coming December
In further news from the world of mad science, alumnus Suzanne van Rooyen has just signed a contract with Etopia Press for the publication of her book, Obscura Burning. This young adult science fiction novel is due for release this December! She has also just signed with an agent: Jordy Albert of the Corvisiero Literary [...]
Mad Scientist Alumni in the Wild
Mad Scientist Journal alumnus Torrey Podmajersky has a new story up at Daily Science Fiction. You can click here to read “The Gifter” now. Concurrently, assistant editor Dawn Vogel has a new story up at Fickle Muses. You can click here to read “Bringing Light to the World” now. We now return you to [...]
Death-Ray Barking Dog Torches Home
Article by Dan Foley, as provided by Kyle Yadlosky Photography by Eleanor Leonne Bennett Pine Lane, New Jersey, was rocked yesterday afternoon, when neighbors heard an explosion from one of the houses in the gated community. Apparently, a two-month-old Jack Russell terrier was responsible for the explosion, barking what residents claimed was “fire.” “I saw [...]
A Thread Finer than Hope
Essay by Malini Gupta, as provided by Jack N. Waddell Photography by Eleanor Leonne Bennett “Professor Gupta,” Dr. Cowen says, voice raised. Had she been speaking? “I’m afraid you must make a decision.” My undergraduate quantum physics students might have thought it grimly funny, this doctor observing me and expecting an answer, forcing me into [...]
That Man Behind the Curtain: August 2012
Sorry for the delay. Yesterday was an adventure in health. So you get this the afternoon of the second. This month we get to look at our first full month of ad revenue, the biggest advertising budget to date, and our first collection out for sale. It all comes out a little depressing. Grab your hankies, [...]
