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• Foreword (The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius) • essay by Chris Claremont
• Secret Identity Management Variables: Managing Your Love Life Is No Easier for Geniuses • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Professor Incognito Apologizes: An Itemized List • short story by Austin Grossman
• Unexpected Cryptozoological Ramifications: Spoiled Brides Are No Match for Science • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Father of the Groom • short story by Harry Turtledove
• Observations in Psychological Cataclysms: Doctor, Heal Thyself • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Laughter at the Academy: A Field Study in the Genesis of Schizotypal Creative Genius Personality Disorder (SCGPD) • short story by Seanan McGuire
• Vectors and Properties in Nemesis Relationships: Every Genius Needs a Good Publicist • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Letter to the Editor • short story by David D. Levine
• Experiments in Inorganic Intelligence: The Only Thing Worse Than Obsolescence Is Knowing You're Obsolete • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Instead of a Loving Heart • (2004) • short story by Jeremiah Tolbert
• Experiments in Inorganic Intelligence: Families Can Drive You Crazy • essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Executor • short story by Daniel H. Lewis
• Vectors and Properties in Nemesis Relationships: Everybody Needs Help with Their Evil Monologue • essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Angel of Death Has a Business Plan • short story by Heather Lindsley
• Biochemical Deterministic Happenstances: You Might Not Like Drugs, But They Will Like You • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Homo Perfectus • short story by Dave Wolverton [as by David Farland]
• Promethean Origination and Impacts: Weird Science Is No Substitute for Love • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Ancient Equations • short story by L. A. Banks
• Unmapped Variables in Multiple Intelligences: Touch Nothing in the Secret Lab • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Rural Singularity • short story by Alan Dean Foster
• Logistics and Support of Evil Programmatics: Never Trust a Job Posting on Craigslist • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Captain Justice Saves the Day • short story by Genevieve Valentine
• Promethean Origination and Impacts: These Things Run in the Family • essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Mad Scientist's Daughter • (2010) • novelette by Theodora Goss
• Alchemical Explorations: Mad Science is Stranger Than Magic • essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Space Between • [Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)] • (2012) • novella by Diana Gabaldon
• Unexpected Cryptozoological Ramifications: It's Not Easy Being Tentacled • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Harry and Marlowe Meet the Founder of the Aetherian Revolution • [Harry and Marlowe / The Aetherian Revolution] • short story by Carrie Vaughn
• Promethean Origination and Impacts: As You Sow, So Shall You Reap (or Even Geniuses Get What They Deserve) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Blood & Stardust • short story by Laird Barron
• Power Strategies and Fact Management: A Real Genius Can Fool All the People, All the Time • essay by John Joseph Adams
• A More Perfect Union • short story by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
• Secret Identity Management Variables: It's Lonely at the Top • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Rocks Fall • short story by Naomi Novik
• Mathematical Destruction Scenarios: Always Double-Check the Calculations • essay by John Joseph Adams
• We Interrupt This Broadcast • [Lady Astronaut] • short story by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Unexpected Cryptozoological Ramifications: Pick Your Supervillain Name with Care • essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Last Dignity of Man • novelette by Marjorie M. Liu
• Observations in Pathological Cataclysms: If it Sounds Too Good to Be True, It's Crazy • essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Pittsburgh Technology • short story by Jeffrey Ford
• Vectors and Properties in Nemesis Relationships: Pick a Good Partner and an Even Better Nemesis • essay by John Joseph Adams
• Mofongo Knows • short story by Grady Hendrix
• Absolute World Domination Successes: When You Can Get Anything You Want, Be Careful What You Wish For • essay by John Joseph Adams
• The Food Taster's Boy • short story by Ben H. Winters