Order History
Premium Membership & Rewards
Help Center / FAQ
The Mad Scientist's Daughter
Paperback
$14.99
4|
Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5. Learn More
Select a store to view item availability.
Nominated for the Phillip K. Dick Award, a science fiction fairy tale set in a collapsing future America about a girl and the android she falls in love with.
When Cat Novak was a young girl, her father brought Finn, an experimental android, to their isolated home. A billion-dollar construct, Finn looks and acts human, but he has no desire to be one. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection.
His primary task now is to tutor Cat. Finn stays with her, becomi...
When Cat Novak was a young girl, her father brought Finn, an experimental android, to their isolated home. A billion-dollar construct, Finn looks and acts human, but he has no desire to be one. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection.
His primary task now is to tutor Cat. Finn stays with her, becomi...
You May Also Like
The Ballad of Falling Dragons (Deluxe Limited Edition) (The Moonfall Series #2)
The Moonfall Series
Hardcover
$31.00
$34.00
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl #3)
Dungeon Crawler Carl Series
Hardcover
$25.00
$30.00
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl Series #1)
Dungeon Crawler Carl Series
Hardcover
$25.00
$30.00
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl #4)
Dungeon Crawler Carl Series
Hardcover
$25.00
$30.00
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl Series #5)
Dungeon Crawler Carl Series
Hardcover
$30.00
$35.00
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl #6)
Dungeon Crawler Carl Series
Hardcover
$34.00
$39.00
From the B&N Reads Blog
Throwback Thursday: The Mad Scientist’s Daughter Is Romantic Science Fiction with a Capital R
I can admit it: I first read The Mad Scientist’s Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke almost solely because of the cover. Sure, the plot description made it sound like just my thing, but I looked closer because of the dreamy moon-and-figure-on-the-road that adorned the first edition. What I found within seduced me, embroiled me in a love […]
Read More
Star’s End: An Inner Space Opera
Cassandra Rose Clarke’s novels to date favor a sense of Gothic claustrophobia. The Mad Scientist’s Daughter details a fraught, largely unrequited relationship between a girl and her android tutor, and then a stuttering romance between a woman and the first of his kind; much of the action, as it were, is set within the childhood home, […]
Read More
10 Times Sci-Fi & Fantasy Went Looking for Love Outside Our Species
As anyone who has ever been single can attest, finding love isn’t easy. In fact, sometimes it seems like finding one person out of the billions here on Earth is impossible. For sci-fi and fantasy writers, of course, the impossible is often the starting point for a story, so it’s no surprise that SFF novels […]
Read More