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Coming in 2019!

Cover art for Mad Scientist Journal - Summer 2019.
Mad Scientist Journal - Summer 2019
Book Cover: I Didn't Break the Lamp - Historical Accounts of Imaginary Acquaintances
I Didn't Break the Lamp - Historical Accounts of Imaginary Acquaintances

New Releases!

Cover of Mad Scientist Journal Spring 2019 featuring a giant hand coming out of a field of flowers.
Mad Scientist Journal - Spring 2019
Cover Art for Battling in All Her Finery
Battling in All Her Finery: Historical Accounts of Otherworldly Women Leaders
Cover art for Eye for an Eye
Eye for an Eye
Cover art for Cobalt City: Ties That Bind
Cobalt City: Ties that Bind
Book Cover: Rites & Desires
Rites & Desires
Cover for Kensei Tales: Unorthodoxy
Kensei Tales: Unorthodoxy
Book Cover: The Trouble with the Tick-Tock Tabby
The Trouble with the Tick-Tock Tabby

Upcoming Events

  1. Washington State Summer Con 2019

    June 15 - June 16

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  • Fiction: Excerpts From the Audio Notes

    An essay by Jim Dennath, P. (Eldritch) E., as provided by Jonathan Ficke Art by Leigh Legler Day 1 Finally, a place where my desire to dream beyond the bounds of what a rational engineer may dream, to build that which ought never be built, to be the mad engineer that breaks down barriers, and […]

  • Fun for Friday: Another Three Images

    It’s time for another batch of images to potentially inspire a story or some other piece of writing! This week, we’ve got: A microscopic view of a multi-colored object with three roughly equal segments topped with a much smaller segment. A dark haired woman in profile, wearing heavy black eye makeup and black lipstick, smirking […]

  • Strange Science: Potential for Hosting Life on Another Planet

    Researchers have found that a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star might be able to host life. Barnard’s Star is roughly 6 light years away from Earth, and the planet orbiting it is roughly 3.2 times larger than Earth. And the average temperature there is negative 274 degrees Fahrenheit. But there are geothermal processes occurring beneath the […]

  • Scenes from a Quiet Apocalypse “Pinspiration”

    When I write many of my longer pieces, and even some of my short stories, I make a Pinterest board where I collect images that connect to the themes, characters, or other aspects of my writing. For Scenes from a Quiet Apocalypse, which drew on the major arcana of the tarot deck for inspiration, my Pinterest […]

  • Space Travel Throughout the History of MSJ

    We’ve published a lot of science fiction stories involving space travel over the years at Mad Scientist Journal. Here’s just a few of them! “Every Little Star” by Fiona Moore (an alternate history look at 1960s space travel and technology) “Introduction to the Journal of Interplanetary Lycan Studies, Volume 1” by S. Qiouyi Lu (an […]

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