Monthly Archives: January 2019

I Didn’t Break the Lamp Kickstarter Launches Tomorrow!

Tomorrow is the big day when we launch our Kickstarter for I Didn’t Break the Lamp: Historical Accounts of Imaginary Acquaintances! Be sure to check it out as early as you can tomorrow so you can get in on the sweet … Continue reading

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Mad Scientist Alum on the Bram Stoker Preliminary List!

The 2018 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot has been announced, and three MSJ alum are on it! Gwendolyn Kiste has been nominated for Superior Achievement in a First Novel for her The Rust Maidens (Journalstone, 2018). L. Chan and Steve Toase … Continue reading

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That Man Behind the Curtain: December 2018

December was focused mostly on getting Winter 2019’s quarterly out the door. Amazon’s Createspace is being absorbed by Amazon’s KDP Print, and this was our first stab at publishing a book through them. There was a sharp learning curve, as … Continue reading

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Sacrifice

An essay by Eleanor Bradley, as provided by Annika Sundberg Art by Leigh Legler My name is Eleanor Bradley and I am the reason you are alive. How do I know this, you ask? Anyone could be reading this. But … Continue reading

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Strange Science: Sonic Attack Followup

Back in June, we talked about an incident in 2016 when U.S. diplomats in Cuba claimed to have been attacked with some sort of sonic weapon. However, after analyzing the audio recording of the attack, scientists now suggest that the … Continue reading

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Knitting and Science

Ask any knitter about the stretch of a knitted piece, and they can tell you a bit about physics, even if they don’t identify what they’re doing as science. This article at Physics World talks about how one physicist accepted … Continue reading

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Review of Magic or Die

J. P. Jackson’s novel Magic or Die (NineStar Press, 2018) is a novel that explores the dark side of how people with enormous and uncontrollable magical power might be handled by governments and society. It’s an urban fantasy novel with … Continue reading

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Coming in February: Our Next Anthology Kickstarter!

Mad Scientist Journal is pleased to announce our next anthology, I Didn’t Break the Lamp: Historical Accounts of Imaginary Acquaintances. We’ll be launching the Kickstarter for this anthology on February 1st, and we’ll be sharing information about the Kickstarter far and wide once it’s up and running. But in the … Continue reading

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Every Little Star

An essay by Evangeline Artemisia “Artie” Quelch, as provided by Fiona Moore Art by America Jones 5 May 1963. Two weeks sealed in the pilot’s cabin on top of the gigantic Shackleton speed-of-light rocket had made me intimately familiar with … Continue reading

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Strange Science: Weaponizing Insects

Our Monday story from Rick Tobin hypothesized about weaponizing insects, but he recently ran across an article that suggests that some believe that the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) could be doing just that. DARPA spearheads a … Continue reading

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