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The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius

Book ID: 126175149
Publisher: Unknown publisher
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Weight: 431 KB
Category: Standards

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✦ Synopsis

Mad scientists have never had it so tough. In super-hero comics, graphic novels, films, TV series, video games and even works of what may be fiction, they are besieged by those who stand against them, devoid of sympathy for their irrational, megalomaniacal impulses to rule, destroy or otherwise dominate the world as we know it.

Dr. Frankenstein was the first truly mad scientist of the modern era. And where did it get him? Destroyed by his own creation. And Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo, a man ahead of his time as well as out of his head, what did he do to deserve persecution?
Even Lex Luthor, by all counts a genius, has been hindered not once, not twice, but so many times that it has taken hundreds of comic books, a few films and no fewer than ten full seasons of a television series to keep him properly thwarted.

It’s just not fair. So those of us who are so twisted and sick that we love mad scientists have created this guide. Some of the names have been changed to protect the guilty, but you’ll recognize them. But it doesn’t matter. This guide is not for you. It’s for them, the underhanded, over-brained, paranoiacs who so desperately need our help.

What lies behind those unfocused, restless eyes and drooling, wicked grins? Why–and how–do they concoct their nefarious plots? Why are they so set on taking over the world? If you’ve ever asked yourself any of these questions, you’re in luck: Because we are exposing their secrets, aiding and abetting their evil. It all awaits, within.
Watch out, world!

All original, all nefarious, all conquering tales from the megalomaniacal pens of DIANA GABALDON, AUSTIN GROSSMAN, SEANAN McGUIRE, NAOMI NOVIK, DANIEL H. WILSON and 17 OTHER EVIL GENIUSES

The following stories can be found in The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination.

Foreword by Chris Claremont
Professor Incognito Apologizes: an Itemized List by Austin Grossman
Father of the Groom by Harry Turtledove
Laughter at the Academy by Seanan McGuire
Letter to the Editor by David D. Levine
Instead of a Loving Heart by Jeremiah Tolbert
The Executor by Daniel H. Wilson
The Angel of Death Has a Business Plan by Heather Lindsley
Homo Perfectus by David Farland
Ancient Equations by L. A. Banks
Rural Singularity by Alan Dean Foster
Captain Justice Saves the Day by Genevieve Valentine
The Mad Scientist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss
The Space Between by Diana Gabaldon
Harry and Marlowe Meet the Founder of the Aetherian Revolution by Carrie Vaughn
Blood and Stardust by Laird Barron
A More Perfect Union by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Rocks Fall by Naomi Novik
We Interrupt This Broadcast by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Last Dignity of Man by Marjorie M. Liu
Pittsburg Technology by Jeffrey Ford
Mofongo Knows by Grady Hendrix
The Food Taster’s Boy by Ben Winters