The Mad Scientist's Daughter

“This novel ( The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter ) would not exist without the help of a great many people. I would like to thank John Paul Riquelme and Julia Prewitt Brown, the first and second readers of my dissertation, for letting me write about monsters, and for their tireless patience with a graduate student who was already, at that point, transmuting into a writer. Before this was a novel, it was a short story called “The Mad Scientist’s Daughter.” I’m grateful to Karen Meisner, who purchased and edited it for Strange Horizons, and to John Joseph Adams, who reprinted it in The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination.”- from the Acknowledgements of “The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter.”