The Mad Scientists’ Club is a series of twelve stories and two short novels written by the author’s father. The stories were written between 1960 and 1974, with the first seven tales being collected in the book “The Mad Scientists’ Club” published in 1965. Although initially rejected, the eighth story, “Big Chief Rainmaker,” was eventually included in a subsequent book. The series continued with “The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club” in 1968. The first novel-length story, “The Big Kerplop!,” was published in 1974. The last tale of the Mad Scientists’ Club, “The Big Chunk of Ice,” was published in 2005.
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