Edited by John Joseph Adams and published by TOR, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination features 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.

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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.

We asked a few of the authors a couple of questions…

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Edited by John Joseph Adams and published by TOR, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination features 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 book description is this:

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.

We asked a few of the authors a couple of questions…

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In this video, Alan Dean Foster, John Jakes, Ellen Datlow, Patricia Wrede, and Barbara Hambly talk about the difference between science fiction and fantasy…
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• Interviews and Profiles:
  • @Wizards of the Coast: Marty Durham has a two-part video interview with fantasy author R.A. Salvatore. [via QuasarDragon]
  • @GeekDad: Alan Dean Foster.
  • @Agony Column: Lou Anders, Editor of Fast Forward 2.
  • @The Nebula Awards website: Richard Bowes.
  • Copper Robot podcast-interviews Robert Charles Wilson (Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America). (See also: Their Second Life video version) [via Boing Boing]
  • Niall Harrison has posted the transcript of a BBC interview with Alastair Reynolds and Adam Roberts.
• For those still looking for the now-missing SciFiction archive from the SciFi Channel’s original website, behold the Internets!
• The Art Department shows us the Spectrum 17 Call For Entries poster.
• Dean Wesley Smith on what the world would be like without copyright.
• Mark Chadbourn’s Omnivoracious Guest Post on the Age of Misrule series: The Invisible Hand of the Gods of Writing.
• Nancy Kress likes Shadow Unit.
• At Black Gate, James Enge looks at Henry Kuttner’s Gallagher Stories.
• Seth Godin on The purpose of a book cover. [via Bibliophile Stalker] Meanwhile, Bookninja says All Book Cover Designers Are Liars.
• The Internet Review of Science Fiction welcomes new Editor Robin Shantz of Bloginhood and Not a Planet Anymore fame. Well, not fame so much as court orders. Hiyo!
• Is the Science Fiction Book Club considering eBooks?
• Tanga is selling a Sexy Slave Leia Costume for $WhoCares. [Thanks, Kevin!]
• Lists:
  • @myFiveBest: Five Best Fantasy Series of Books. [via The World in the Satin Bag]
  • Over at AMC, Nick Nadel lists Stan Lee’s Best and Worst Marvel Movie Cameos.
  @Screen Rant: The Top 5 Astronaut Movies of All Time.