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. Table of Contents: The Jacobean Time Machine, by Chris Dolley Comparison of Efficacy Rates, by Marie Brennan A Princess of Wittgenstein, by Jennifer Stevenson Mandelbrot Moldrot, by Lois Gresh Dog Star, by Jeffrey A. Carver Secundus, by Brenda W. Clough Willie, by Madeleine E. Robins One Night in O’Shaughnessy’s Bar, by David D. Levine Revision, by Nancy Jane Moore Night Without Darkness, by Shannon Page & Mark J. Ferrari The Stink of Reality, by Irene Radford “Value For O,” by Jennifer Stevenson The Peculiar Case of Sir Willoughby Smythe, by Judith Tarr The Gods That Men Don’t See, by Amy Sterling Casil