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Cover for "Scenes from a Quiet Apocalypse"
Scenes from a Quiet Apocalypse
Cover Art for Selfies from the End of the World
Selfies from the End of the World: Historical Accounts of the Apocalypse

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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 meantime, we thought we’d give our readers a little preview of the cover art, by […]

  • Fiction and the Changing Landscape

    One of the iconic aspects of Seattle transportation–the Highway 99 Viaduct–is currently being deconstructed. And that got me thinking about the way that fiction, and the landscape it’s set in, is a product of its time. Scenes from a Quiet Apocalypse is set in Seattle, even though that’s never explicitly stated. And there’s one scene in the book where […]

  • 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 the size of the universe. Of being approximately sixty-six thousand cubic centimetres of wet warmth […]

  • Fun for Friday: 301 Writing Prompts!

    The awesome folks at ServiceScape Incorporated recently contacted me to let me know about another list of writing prompts. They offer 301 writing prompts on their website! They’re sorted by broad genres, so that some of them might be taken in different directions, and they also offer a list of “story starters” that would make […]

  • 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 program called Insect Allies, through which insects are used to carry genetically modified viruses into […]

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