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It Lives!
After some delay, I finally present to you Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2012.
A Critique of Vorchek’s Holobiologia
An essay by Leonard Smok, as presented by Jeffery Scott Sims Photography by Eleanor Leonne Bennett In this latest edition of “Weird Case Files” we consider the curious new book, just published by Starfire Press, entitled Holobiologia: Unlocking the Ultimate Secrets of Life. This largish volume, by one Anton Vorchek, Professor of something-or-other, purports to [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Therium 99
An essay by Virgil Ther, presented by Mark Andrew Edwards Illustration by Katie Nyborg Day 1: Early September Dear diary, Finally getting things set up around here. The grant money from the Department of Defense will be put to great use. And not just for this wicked cool digital recorder. Hello? Hello? Heh, I can change [...]
Losing It
An essay by Samantha Higson, as provided by Davin Ireland. “Don’t talk to me about the ironies of life,” Josh Rideout complained for perhaps the twentieth time that afternoon, “I’ve had it up to here with ironies. Big ones, small ones, they’ll be the death of me yet.” Possibly to illustrate the point, he shook [...]
The Exploded Manifestations of Ari Ascher
An anonymous essay, presented by Nathaniel K. Miller A heavy wave slams against the hull of the skiff, jolting me to awareness. The sea is black around me, full of looming spirit dangers, of the unknown and the unknowable. In the distance, the island juts from the roiling surface, a ten-mile plateau perched just out [...]
Proton Pursuit
An essay by Dr. Lars, as presented by D.K. Snape There’s a flaw in the Hadron Collider. I know it. So do you, if you search down deep. Remember how queasy you felt when they first talked about starting it up? Remember all the protests? We finally accepted it. We had to. Otherwise, the damn [...]
The Ghosts of Ganymede
An essay by Dr. Krista Solaris, presented by Suzanne van Rooyen Illustration by Katie Nyborg For six months we hurtled through the solar system towards that bright rock so dwarfed by the shadow of its planet, Jupiter. At last we approached our destination. Ganymede lay ensconced in the stellar soup surrounding it, rippled purple and [...]
