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Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections. In “Classic Mad Scientist Tales from the Pulps, Volume One” you get a startling collection of vintage tales about the the “bad side” of pulp magazine scientists! In the early days of the classic science fiction pulp magazines, for every story featuring a scientist with a revolutionary discovery that would benefit the human race, there was usually another story with a different kind of scientist who was hell-bent on bringing mankind to its knees in some fashion or other. These crazed lunatics, or “mad scientists” as we came to lovingly call them, caused no end of trouble. As witnessed by the stories in this collection, you’ll find them trying conquer mankind, destroy their enemies with cancer, steal people’s brains, develop death rays, shoot airplanes out of the sky with heat rays, or in some cases just end up dead because of the monstrosities they created. They’re not a very pleasant lot, but boy are they fun to read about—especially when they get their well-deserved comeuppance at the end of every story!
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