Category Archives: Thaumatophilia

Silverghost Mad Science Pulp Gallery added to blogroll

If you look in the links bar off to the right, you’ll find a new link to a gallery of mad science pulp art at Silverghost, which contains some very fine examples of the genre.

Like this, for instance.  Mad scientist, pretty girl apparently dissolving in a vat.  Could this be an early example of the Apsinthion Protocol meme?

Chasing the provenance on this one was a little tricky.  It seems to have been the cover art for a pulp magazine called Fantastic Adventures, which according to Wikipedia was published between 1939 and 1953.

I was able to find a scan of the cover online, but it’s a thumbnail so unfortunately I can’s read the date.  However cross-checking the novel The Involuntary Immortals on Rog Phillips’s entry in the Internet Science Fiction Database would seem to place the publication date in 1949.  I would welcome additional provenance in the comments.

KristinF amazing madlab

Browsing over at Renderotica recently, seeking out clever folks using technology to make their own, I can across a very classy madlab by artist KristinF, which I present here with the kind permission of the artist.

(Click on the image to see larger.)  This is mad science not playing around.  Not only do we have someone strapped to a table about to undergo…well, I’m not really sure what but I’m sure it will really advance human knowledge — and two tube girls.  Or perhaps one tube girl and one tube futanari, which would be even cooler.  Someone’s been doing her homework!

To me, this is a triumph of the CG artist at work.  You can see more of KristinF’s work either at Renderotica or by looking here at EroticIllusions, which I strongly encourage if you’re a fan of this site.

Cambrian III: Acceptance

So Cambrian reaches the culmination of its plot when Hot Lady Scientist, having had enough of being molested by sex machines and otherwise subject to abuse, transforms herself into some sort of spiky blond valkyrie-demon, breaks out of her bonds, slays Junior Mad Scientist, forces Bad Girl to flee into a conveniently-large airshaft, and then liberates Nerdy Assistant, who had been chained up and subjected to abuse by Bad Girl for some reason.

There is then a meeting of the minds.

Hot lady scientist

This is what I am. Can you still love me?

Nerdy Assistant stands up, then kneels down, grasping the spike growing out of Hot Lady Scientist’s crotch. He points the spike at his own throat, and speaks.

Nerdy Assistant

If it’s destined….

The surprisingly understated scene that follows is an exterior view of what we know (from its having been established earlier) of Hot Lady Scientist’s laboratory building. It would seem that we are being invited to write our own ending in our imaginations here, but at the same time it seems like a moment of acceptance, of embracing what you are (or someone else is) even if that seems monstrous.

And that, dear readers, is what puts Cambrian just a little bit beyond just another tits ‘n tentacles story, at least for me.

 

Cambrian II: Sex machine

So the plot of Cambrian rolls forward something like this:  Hot Lady Scientist answers a summons from her former boss Senior Mad Scientist, who has been kicked out by the scientific establishment for human cloning experiments.  Hot Lady Scientist arrives at Senior Mad Scientist’s isolated laboratory to find that he has been involved in experiments “accelerating” evolution, promptly finds herself stripped and bound by Senior Mad Scientist, who then transforms into your standard-issue tentacle beast and…well people who read this blog don’t really need to be told what happens next.

Hot Lady Scientist escapes from Senior Mad Scientist’s laboratory (carried by Nerdy Assistant, who is desperately in love with her).  The “Cambrian” transformation spreads by sexual contact, from Hot Lady Scientist to her boyfriend Junior Mad Scientist, and thence to Bad Girl.  Unsurprisingly, both Junior Mad Scientist and Bad Girl are thrilled at their new posthuman status, and are soon in cahoots.

Eventually Hot Lady Scientist ends up being abducted by Junior Mad Scientist and tormented with sex machines, which makes for some decent mad-lab images.  This…

and this…

…and this.

Not too bad, although the idiosyncratic reason for me to actually like this anime comes tomorrow.

Cambrian I: Tube…things

I’ve reeived via my trusty courier the two episodes of a curious anime series called Cambrian, acquired by me because there was alleged to be some sort of mad science going on in there.  It was put out in mid-decade by Milky Animation, an outfit whose website is I think here.  Anyone out there with real Japanese literacy skills is of course welcome to correct me on this if I’ve got it wrong.

Yes, some.  On the surface this appears to be just a standard tits ‘n tentacles story, albeit a fairly compressed one containing only five characters of any consequence:  Senior Mad Scientist, Hot Lady Scientist, Junior Mad Scientist, Bad Girl, and Nerdy Assistant.    The opening scene has some appeal.  As best I understand it, Senior Mad Scientist has figured out some means of “speeding up” evolution through “radiation waves.”  Obviously evolution does not work the same in anime world as it does in the real world.  In the real world, evolution is a process through with there is differential success of replicators (genes, in the case of biological evolution), a blind, goal-free process which nonetheless results in various kinds of exquisite design.  In the anime world, by way of contrast, evolution is a goal-directed process.  And the τέλος at which this process is aimed is turning all creatures great and small into things very muscular, tentacular, and rapey.  (Ol’ Aristotle would have been so proud to see this philosophical development.)

So anyway we open with a pretty good lab scene.  Senior Mad Scientist has speeded up evolution and has a lab full of tubes of…well, I’m not really sure.

He analogizes his (rather questionable) achievement to the “Cambrian Explosion,” all the while addressing what appears to be a female experimental victim inside the lab.

Unsurprisingly nude female victim will be writhing in ecstasy within a few frame.  And slain within a few frames more.  Genre!

Colorful event

I don’t know if any mad science was intended here, but this animated gif of a female orgasm sure partakes of the erotic mad science aesthetic, if nothing else.  And it’s also someone’s splendid example of making vis own.

Found at the appropriately named site LSDEX.  Some of the linked-to posts are equally trippy-erotic.

Tube girls without the mad science

And sometimes, of course, the serendipity of search turns up things you would never have thought of.  This image also comes up under “tube girl” if you look hard enough, in a blog post with the somewhat awkward title “Beauty fever pipe tube exercise because of olympics.”

No mad science I can perceive here, but I must say that what these Chinese women are doing is certainly an impressive (and sexy) display of athleticism.