Following in the tradition of bestsellers such as How to Survive a Robot Uprising and World War Z, The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame is an illuminating, instructive and comical behind-the-scenes look at the minds of history's brainy villains and heroes, mixing both real and fictional scientists, from Nikolai Tesla to Dr. Evil. In an entertaining and informative style, The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame features 21 hand-picked mad scientists, psychoanalysing their earliest fixations and deconstructing their diabolical inventions.