Mad Scientist’s Guide on Sale for Just $1.99
The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination is on sale for just $1.99 on Kindle at the moment. Not sure how long the sale will last, so if you’re considering buying it, now would be a good time!
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READING/SIGNING: 7PM Today at University Bookstore in Seattle, WA
I’m on tour! Tor Books is sending me on a short, regional/west coast book tour in support of the release of my new anthology, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination. Today’s event is listed below, but you can also check out the whole tour schedule to see if I’m coming to a bookstore near you.
- University Bookstore
- READING / SIGNING
- Feb. 28, 7:00pm
- 4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA
Oz Reimagined is Now Available!
Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond is now available. Visit the website to learn more about the anthology, or use the links below to purchase the book.
Trade Paperback
Ebook
Single Stories
Each of the stories in the anthology are also available for pre-order individually as Kindle Singles. (You can also see a gallery of all the covers.)
- The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz—Rae Carson & C.C. Finlay
- Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust—Seanan McGuire
- Lost Girls of Oz—Theodora Goss
- The Boy Detective of Oz: An Otherland Story—Tad Williams
- Dorothy Dreams—Simon R. Green
- Dead Blue—David Farland
- One Flew Over the Rainbow—Robin Wasserman
- The Veiled Shanghai—Ken Liu
- Beyond the Naked Eye—Rachel Swirsky
- A Tornado of Dorothys—Kat Howard
- Blown Away—Jane Yolen
- City So Bright—Dale Bailey
- Off to See the Emperor—Orson Scott Card
- A Meeting in Oz—Jeffrey Ford
- The Cobbler of Oz—Jonathan Maberry
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SIGNING: 7PM Today at The Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, AZ
I’m on tour! Tor Books is sending me on a short, regional/west coast book tour in support of the release of my new anthology, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination. Today’s event is listed below, but you can also check out the whole tour schedule to see if I’m coming to a bookstore near you.
- Poisoned Pen
- SIGNING
- Feb. 25, 7:00pm
- 4014 N Goldwater Blvd STE 101, Scottsdale, AZ
- Also featuring contributor Diana Gabaldon!
READING/SIGNING: 3PM Today at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, CA
I’m on tour! Tor Books is sending me on a short, regional/west coast book tour in support of the release of my new anthology, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination. Today’s event is listed below, but you can also check out the whole tour schedule to see if I’m coming to a bookstore near you.
Borderlands
READING / SIGNING
Feb. 23, 3:00pm
866 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA
Also featuring contributor Seanan McGuire!
READING/SIGNING: 7PM Today at Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego, CA
I’m on tour! Tor Books is sending me on a short, regional/west coast book tour in support of the release of my new anthology, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination. Today’s event is listed below, but you can also check out the whole tour schedule to see if I’m coming to a bookstore near you.
Mysterious Galaxy
READING / SIGNING
Feb. 22, 7:00pm
7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd Ste 302, San Diego, CA
Also featuring contributor Austin Grossman!
READING/SIGNING: 7:30PM Today at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, CA
I’m on tour! Tor Books is sending me on a short, regional/west coast book tour in support of the release of my new anthology, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination. Today’s event is listed below, but you can also check out the whole tour schedule to see if I’m coming to a bookstore near you.
Kepler’s Books
READING / SIGNING
Feb. 21, 7:30pm
1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park CA
TorChat Today at 4PM ET on Twitter
Join me today for a Twitter chat with contributors to The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination. Here’s the press release from Tor:
This Wednesday, February 20, at 4 PM EST #TorChat is taking you behind the scenes in some very dangerous places—the minds of several mad scientists. Joining readers will be the mistress of time travel and author of the New York Times bestselling Outlander novels, Diana Gabaldon; the creator of Soon I Will Be Invincible’s Doctor Impossible, Austin Grossman; and creative genius (and by that, we mean mad scientist) Seanan McGuire, the author of the October Daye series, as well as the Newsflesh Trilogy (as Mira Grant). Together, they’ll be discussing the perfect layout to the underground lair, how to perfect your evil laugh, and, of course, the best way to try to take over the world!
The chat will be loosely moderated by editor extraordinaire and mad scientist wrangler John Joseph Adams, a fanastic anthologist, editor, and the publisher of Lightspeed Magazine. We hope all you budding evil geniuses will follow the chat and join in using the Twitter hashtag #TorChat!
JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS (@JohnJosephAdams) is the bestselling editor of Wastelands, Under the Moons of Mars, Seeds of Change, The Living Dead, The Way of the Wizard, By Blood We Live, and The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He’s a two-time finalist for the Hugo and a three-time finalist for the World Fantasy Award. He is also the publisher and editor of Lightspeed Magazine, and the co-host of Wired.com’s “The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy” podcast. His newest anthology is The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, publishing on February 19th.
DIANA GABALDON(@Writer_DG) is the author of the award-winning, number one New York Times bestselling Outlander novels, which includeOutlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums Of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath Of Snow And Ashes, and An Echo In The Bone, with twenty million copies in print worldwide. She has also written a graphic novel calledThe Exile, and a number of novels and novellas about her character, Lord John Grey, the latest of which, The Scottish Prisoner, came out in 2011. The eighth novel in the main series, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood, will be published in 2013.
AUSTIN GROSSMAN (@Austin_Grossman) is the author of Soon I Will Be Invincible, which was nominated for the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. His writing has appeared in Granta, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He is a video game design consultant and a doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, and he has written and designed for a number of critically acclaimed video games, including Ultima Underworld II, System Shock, Trespasser, andDeus Ex. His second novel, You, came out from Mulholland Books in 2012, and his short fiction has also appeared in the anthology Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom.
SEANAN MCGUIRE(@seananmcguire) is the author of the October Daye and InCryptid urban fantasy series. Writing under the open pseudonym Mira Grant, she is the author the Newsflesh trilogy—which includes Feed,Deadline, and Blackout—which she describes as “science fiction zombie political thrillers” that focus on blogging, medical technology, and the ethics of fear. A story set in that milieu appeared in John Joseph Adams’s anthologyThe Living Dead 2. Her other short work has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Book View Café, The Edge of Propinquity, Apex Magazine, and in the anthologies Zombiesque and Tales from the Ur-Bar.
NOW ON SALE: The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination
Mwa-ha-ha-ha!
The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, edited by yours truly, is now on sale and available wherever books are sold. Here’s the cover copy:
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
To learn more, visit the website I built for the book, which features Free Reads, interviews with the authors, and more!
Locus Awards Nomination Period Now Open
This year’s Locus Awards nomination period is now open.
Anyone may vote for the Locus Awards. In each category, you may vote for up to five works or nominees, ranking them 1 (first place) through 5 (fifth). Listed options in each category are based on Locus‘s 2012 Recommended Reading List, with options in categories for editor, artist, magazine, and publisher including results of the past two years. You are welcome to use the write-in boxes to vote for other titles and nominees in any category. Nominations close April 15, 2013. To nominate, go here.
To assist you in finding material to nominate, I’ve assembled this post to list everything that I worked on in 2012.
- All of Lightspeed‘s original fiction from 2012 is available online (and also much of the 2012 original fiction is available as a podcast).
- All of Nightmare‘s original fiction from 2012 is available online (and also much of the 2012 original fiction is available as a podcast).
- Selected stories from Armored are available online.
- Selected stories from Under the Moons of Mars are available online.
- Selected stories from Other Worlds Than These (reprints) are available online (not eligible for the short fiction categories, but this may assist you in nominating in the Anthology category).
- Selected stories from Epic: Legends of Fantasy (reprints) are available online (not eligible for the short fiction categories, but this may assist you in nominating in the Anthology category).
After the jump, you’ll find all of the 2012 eligible stories/authors that either appeared in Lightspeed or Nightmare, or in projects I’m otherwise affiliated with.
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