Living pasta, sinister balloon animals, robotic torch singers. These are but some of the strange tales to be found in this book. Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2015 collects thirteen tales from the fictional worlds of mad science. For the discerning mad scientist reader, there are also pieces of fiction from Deborah Walker, Jamie Lackey, and Kaleigh Rodgerson. Readers will also find other resources for the budding mad scientist, including an advice column, horoscopes, and other brief messages from mad scientists. Authors featured in this volume also include David-John Tyrer, Meg Merriet, Rich Knight, Jarod Anderson, L. L. Phelps, Robert Dawson, Leland Neville, K. G. Jewell, Sierra July, Diana Rohlman, K. Kitts, Jen Albert, Michael Hudson, Kate Elizabeth, Torrey Podmajersky, Scott Chaddon, Loria Chaddon, and Andy Brown. Illustrations are provided by Errow Collins, Luke Spooner, Shannon Legler, Justine McGreevy, Scarlett O'Hairdye, and Dawn Vogel.

Mad Scientist Journal: Spring 2015

Literature & Fiction

Walker, Deborah

Merriet, Meg

Anderson, Jarod K.

Lackey, Jamie

Rodgerson, Kaleigh

Knight, Rich

Phelps, L. L.

Tyrer, D.J.

Short Stories & Anthologies

DefConOne Publishing

In the first novel of Meg Merriet’s Sky Song series, a fledgling sky pirate becomes entangled in a revolution. Clikk is a sky pirate. A picklock with a tragic past. An orphan out for revenge. The Blue Dusk allow knights to brutalize peasants with impunity. As famine grips the provinces, they collect what little harvest remains. Molly, a child with a dangerous secret, could be the catalyst of a revolution, but Captain Dirk of the Wastrel has every intention of selling her to the tyrannical regime. Clikk has other plans, plans involving mutiny, sabotage and action that will plunge the nation into chaos.

Sky Song: Overture

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

Createspace Independent Pub

A fairy tale for pirates and rogues.\nScrappy sky pirate Clikk flies aboard The Wastrel disguised as a man. Girls are bad luck on the air, and if anyone finds out about her she will be expelled at the nearest port, lest the airship catch fire and fall from the sky.\nAirmen have a host of superstitions, but as it turns out, not everyone believes in them. The captain himself has a young girl named Molly stowed in his cabin. Molly is under a curse that makes her unable to stop crying, and the only cure is listening to a mysterious song Clikk plays for her on her violin.\nWhen Clikk hears of the captain's plan to sell Molly as a bride to the emperor's son, she begins to question his ethics. Robbing people seems reasonable enough, selling children as brides crosses a line, especially where the emperor is concerned.\nThe emperor rules through terror and cruelty, allowing his subjects to starve while he throws extravagant parties in the sky. Clikk has hated him all her life, ever since his army marched through her homeland and brutalized its people. As she gets to know Molly, she learns there is more to this exchange than holy matrimony-Molly has a secret that could be the catalyst for a revolutionary war. Clikk would give anything to see the emperor unseated. She schemes to help Molly escape, but first, she must inspire a mutiny, stop an imperial wedding at sky, and sneak the girl onto a hijacked ship, all while enduring the girl's intolerable crying curse.

Song of Ramona

Teen & Young Adult

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Water Street Press

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