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The Mad Scientist's Guide To World Domination: Original Short Fiction For The Modern Evil Genius (2013)

by John Joseph Adams(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0765326450 (ISBN13: 9780765326454)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Tor Books

review 1: Another excellent anthology from John Joseph Adams! It's not easy to be an evil genius, and the stories in this collection show why. My favorites: "Letter to the Editor" by David D. Levine, wherein a mad scientist uses the op-ed page to vent his frustration; and "The Mad Scientist's Daughter" by Theodora Goss, which looks at how the daughters of some well-known literary mad scientists form a club and live in (hopeful) obscurity. A fun read.
review 2: This was a great concept for an anthology, and great fun to see where different authors took the mad scientist theme. Some broke away from the hard sciences and included mad social scientists, mad mathematicians, and mad political scientists. Many stories in this collection are full of camp and superhero parody, ... morebut I was surprised to find drama and philosophy too. There were three stories in the middle of the book that I felt were quite slow. The Mad Scientist’s Daughter was a great idea, and I feel that the author was trying to create a celebration of the mundane for his fantastic cast, but it made for a dry story. The Space Between took a long time to develop and didn’t fit the theme as well as some of the other stories. A More Perfect Union covered a long period of time with a distant narrator, which made it hard to get a feel for the characters. I’m glad I kept reading, however, because two of my absolute favorite stories from this collection are in the second half of the book. The Last Dignity of Man took me completely by surprise. It was an interesting concept that started out harmless, but when the characters were in jeopardy, I found myself really caring about them. This is quite an accomplishment from author Marjorie M. Liu. Mofongo Knows by Grady Hendrix is also one of my favorites in this collection. If you like talking gorillas or old pulps, you will like this story. In the first half of the book, Tin Man was another favorite. Those three stories alone are worth the price of the book. The reader may want to save the story introductions until after they have read the stories. less

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