Article: The Mad Scientists' Club.(The Big Chunk of Ice)(The Big Kerplop!)(The Mad Scientists' Club)(The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club )(Book review)

The Mad Scientists' Club (Purple House, 217 pages, $17.95) The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club (Purple House, 210 pages, $17.95) The Big Kerplop! (Purple House, 238 pages, $17.95) The Big Chunk of Ice (Purple House, 288 pages, $18.95) by Bertrand R. Brinley

There's a kind of negative sound a model rocket makes after you throw the switch or light the fuse, a sort of indrawn breath as the spark disappears into the touchhole.

For an instant the whole rickety contraption--dunce-hat top, stove-pipe body, shark-tail fins--seems to shrink back like one of those wide-eyed gifts on the cover of a 1940s Amazing Stories as the tentacles of the space ...

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