Mad Science Cafe — Deborah J. Ross

From the age of steam and the heirs of Dr. Frankenstein to the asteroid belt to the halls of Miskatonic University, the writers at Book View Café have concocted a beakerful of quaint, dangerous, sexy, clueless, genius, insane scientists, their assistants (sometimes equally if not even more deranged, not to mention bizarre), friends, test subjects, and adversaries.Contents:The Jacobean Time Machine, by Chris DolleyComparison of Efficacy Rates, by Marie BrennanA Princess of Wittgenstein, by Jennifer StevensonMandelbrot Moldrot, by Lois GreshDog Star, by Jeffrey A. CarverSecundus, by Brenda W. CloughWillie, by Madeleine E. RobinsOne Night in O’Shaughnessy’s Bar, by David D. LevineRevision, by Nancy Jane MooreNight Without Darkness, by Shannon Page & Mark J. FerrariThe Stink of Reality, by Irene Radford“Value For O,” by Jennifer StevensonThe Peculiar Case of Sir Willoughby Smythe, by Judith TarrThe Gods That Men Don’t See, by Amy Sterling Casil