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Dark Designs: Tales of Mad Science
Science without limits. Madness without end.
All proceeds from the purchase of this ebook will be donated to Doctors Without Borders / Medicins Sans Frontieres.
This is a warning. What you are about to read violates the boundaries of imagination, in a world where science breeds and breathes without restraint. A world very much like our own.
Within these shadowy corridors you will discover characters seeking retribution, understanding, power, a second chance at life—human stories of undiscovered species, government secrets, the horrors of parenthood, adolescence and bullying, envisioned through a warped lens of megalomania, suffering, and blind hubris. Curious inventors dabble with portals to alternate worlds, overzealous scientists and precocious children toy with living beings, offer medical marvels, and pick away at the thin veil of reality.
You can run. You can look away. But don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Witness our Dark Designs.
All proceeds from the purchase of this ebook will be donated to Doctors Without Borders / Medicins Sans Frontieres.
This is a warning. What you are about to read violates the boundaries of imagination, in a world where science breeds and breathes without restraint. A world very much like our own.
Within these shadowy corridors you will discover characters seeking retribution, understanding, power, a second chance at life—human stories of undiscovered species, government secrets, the horrors of parenthood, adolescence and bullying, envisioned through a warped lens of megalomania, suffering, and blind hubris. Curious inventors dabble with portals to alternate worlds, overzealous scientists and precocious children toy with living beings, offer medical marvels, and pick away at the thin veil of reality.
You can run. You can look away. But don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Witness our Dark Designs.
331 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 25, 2017
About the author
Thomas S. Flowers
34 books122 followersThomas S. Flowers is an Operation Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom Army veteran who loves scary movies, BBQ, and coffee. Ever since reading Remarque’s "All Quiet on the Western Front" and Stephen King’s "Salem’s Lot" he has inspired to write deeply disturbing things that relate to war and horror, from the paranormal to his gory zombie infested PLANET of the DEAD series, to even his recent dabbling of vampiric flirtation in The Last Hellfighter readers can expect to find complex characters, rich historical settings, and mind-altering horror. Thomas is also the senior editor at Machine Mean, a horror movie and book review site that hosts contributors in the horror and science fiction genre.
PLANET of the DEAD and The Last Hellfighter are best-sellers on Amazon's Top 100 lists for Apocalyptic Fiction and African American Horror.
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March 31, 2017
Review of DARK DESIGNS
I cannot highly enough rave about the DARK DESIGNS Anthology, edited by Thomas S. Flowers and Duncan Ralston (both of whom also contributed stories), and comprising 15 exceptional stories. I have my personal specific favorites, of course, based on my own preferred horror flavours, but each entry is exciting, intriguing, and yes, horrifying. I love science, and off-the-track science as presented here is, well, mind-boggling. (smile)
All proceeds from this outstanding anthology go to “Medicin San Frontiers” (Doctors Without Borders).
I cannot highly enough rave about the DARK DESIGNS Anthology, edited by Thomas S. Flowers and Duncan Ralston (both of whom also contributed stories), and comprising 15 exceptional stories. I have my personal specific favorites, of course, based on my own preferred horror flavours, but each entry is exciting, intriguing, and yes, horrifying. I love science, and off-the-track science as presented here is, well, mind-boggling. (smile)
All proceeds from this outstanding anthology go to “Medicin San Frontiers” (Doctors Without Borders).
April 20, 2017
Full disclosure, I am one of the sixteen other authors in this work, and I was part of the team that put Dark Designs together. Take that for what it's worth.
Having read each story, I can tell you not one is the same. Each of these pieces brings their own flavor of mad science. From dark humor to the grotesque, and even a melodrama or two, if you're a fan of mad science, you will not be disappointed.
Proceeds from this anthology benefit Doctors Without Borders.
Having read each story, I can tell you not one is the same. Each of these pieces brings their own flavor of mad science. From dark humor to the grotesque, and even a melodrama or two, if you're a fan of mad science, you will not be disappointed.
Proceeds from this anthology benefit Doctors Without Borders.
April 24, 2017
Fantastic! Most stories were cyberpunk, and well done! Very fun read.
July 12, 2017
As stated in the summary, this is a "Charity Anthology" - with all of the proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders. This is a good book with a great cause, so purchase your copy now (currently only $4).
This book is edited by both Thomas S Flowers and Duncan Ralston, both of whom not only contribute their own stories, they also both offer their personal thoughts on the "mad science" genre.
This book was immediately a must-read for me, not only because of the genre, but also because it includes stories from Thomas S Flowers, Chad Lutzke, and Ken Preston (three authors who I totally enjoy!).
Rather than break down every individual story (of which there are 16 total), I am just going to tell you my favorites:
The stand-out story, for me, in this collection is, without a doubt, T. N. Kaylor's Death Ray Potato Bake. This story is worth the $4 alone! (I definitely plan on reading more of Kaylor's work!
Other superb stories were Jeffery X Martin's Underneath the Foam, Chad Lutzke's Discerning the Adversary (which is the shortest story in this collection), Ken Preston's Looking After the Parents, and Thomas S Flowers' The Ascension of Henry Porter.
Other enjoyable stories were Daniel Marc Chant's How They Met Themselves, Chad Clark's Through the Slip, G. H. Finn's The Hidden War on Terror, and Duncan Ralston's The Burden.
The other stories are good as well - there isn't a bad one in the bunch - the above we're just my favorites.
This book is edited by both Thomas S Flowers and Duncan Ralston, both of whom not only contribute their own stories, they also both offer their personal thoughts on the "mad science" genre.
This book was immediately a must-read for me, not only because of the genre, but also because it includes stories from Thomas S Flowers, Chad Lutzke, and Ken Preston (three authors who I totally enjoy!).
Rather than break down every individual story (of which there are 16 total), I am just going to tell you my favorites:
The stand-out story, for me, in this collection is, without a doubt, T. N. Kaylor's Death Ray Potato Bake. This story is worth the $4 alone! (I definitely plan on reading more of Kaylor's work!
Other superb stories were Jeffery X Martin's Underneath the Foam, Chad Lutzke's Discerning the Adversary (which is the shortest story in this collection), Ken Preston's Looking After the Parents, and Thomas S Flowers' The Ascension of Henry Porter.
Other enjoyable stories were Daniel Marc Chant's How They Met Themselves, Chad Clark's Through the Slip, G. H. Finn's The Hidden War on Terror, and Duncan Ralston's The Burden.
The other stories are good as well - there isn't a bad one in the bunch - the above we're just my favorites.
April 30, 2017
This is one of the most compelling collections, Shadoworks publishing has put out. It takes great minds and creates great stories, would recommend.
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