Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: Oingo Boingo, "Weird Science."

From my heart and from my hands, why don't people understand my intentions?

WEIRD SCIENCE!

(Duh dum bum bum da dum.)

Or, really, MAD SCIENCE, because that is where my heart of hearts makes its forever home. The new anthology, The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination, is hitting shelves now, and includes my short story, "Laughter at the Academy: A Study in the Development of Schizotypal Creative Genius Personality Disorder (SCGPD)." Fans of my music will recognize the basic plot of the story as matching that of my Pegasus Award-winning song, "What A Woman's For." Yes. It is a story based on a song about using womanly wiles to cause perfectly reasonable researchers to embrace grave-robbing and storm-chasing as a means of advancing their careers. My mother is so proud.

Anyway, it's a fantastic book that I'm going to talk about a bit more in a little while, and I'm happy as hell to be a part of it. And if you're in the Bay Area, this weekend will bring you the opportunity to see the editor, John Joseph Adams, appearing with yours truly at San Francisco's own Borderlands Books. The event begins at 3:00 pm, and will undoubtedly be a rocking good time. It's always a rocking good time when John and I get together.

The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination is available now at a bookstore or internet retailer near you. Published by Tor Books, you can get it in either hardcover ($25.99) or trade paperback ($14.99), and honestly, it's worth it at either price point.

Hope to see you Saturday!
Tags: in the wild, mad science, schedule, short fiction, support local bookstores, where's seanan
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  • 37 comments

groblek

February 19 2013, 18:25:03 UTC 4 years ago

Shiny! Hopefully that means I'll get a call from my local bookstore to let me know that my copy has arrived. We'll miss the release as we'll be wrangling toddlers at Josh's birthday party starting at the same time that day (He's going to be two! How time flies.). Hopefully we'll get to have you sign it another time.

Also, now I've got two of your songs fighting in my head. I finally got copies of the Narbonic collection last week, and have had "Oh Helen" stuck in my head since. Now it's fighting with "What A Woman's For." Nothing good will come of this. :)

seanan_mcguire

February 19 2013, 19:27:36 UTC 4 years ago

Two songs enter. One horrifying hybrid leaves.

groblek

February 20 2013, 04:05:11 UTC 4 years ago

Heh, heh, heh. Then we toddlerize and end up with alternate lyrics to "Wheels on the bus"

The Sparks on the bus say Bwa hah ha, Bwa hah ha, Bwa hah ha....
The scientist on the bus will Show Them All, Show Them All, Show Them All...
The minion on the bus says Yes Master, Yes Master, Yes Master...
The T-Rex on the bus says Ha ha, Die!, Ha Ha Die!, Ha Ha Die!...
(Ok, that last was inspired by yet another of yours...)

celticdragonfly

February 20 2013, 07:51:34 UTC 4 years ago

BWAHAHAHAHAHAA I like it

seanan_mcguire

February 21 2013, 16:18:10 UTC 4 years ago

This rules.