Hiatus but...

QuasarDragon will be going on hiatus for an indeterminate amount of time. However, I will still be sending links to SF Signal so please check them out for free fiction links (e-fiction, audio fiction, comics, etc) as well as all the other cool stuff they regularly post.

Spider on the Web and More

More free goodies from many cool sites.


E-Fiction
At Book View Cafe: "Changing Meanings" by Seanan McGuire.

"Mayra is a vampire. Her roommate is a lingomancer—a word-witch who can change the world with words. She sure changes Mayra's world..."

Online HERE.




Hub has its 96th issue out with fiction "Obsession" by Jo Thomas.

‘Our studies have revealed that the plant we call pine-bramble is a modified strain of the Norway Spruce. We don’t know what its creator intended, but the fact that it’s spread so far in under a year indicates that it is incredibly invasive and therefore dangerous.’

In PDF and Mobi Downloads HERE.




At Manybooks: "Rescue Squad" by Thomas J. O'Hara, from Fantastic Universe September 1955.

"Stark disaster to a brave lad in space may—to the mind that loves—be a tragedy pridefully concealed."

In e-book formats HERE and online at Project Gutenberg HERE.

And "Second Sight" by Basil Eugene Wells, from Fantastic Universe September 1957.
"Then his hand caught an arm and he exerted his full strength. The entire arm tore away from its shoulder...."

In e-book formats HERE and online at Project Gutenberg HERE.





Audio Fiction
At Spider on the Web: "A Saucer of Loneliness and Suicide" by Theodore Sturgeon, read by Spider Robinson.


In Mp3 download HERE.






At Pseudopod: "Wave Goodbye" by Felicity Bloomfield, read by Donna Lynch.

"Before she finished her cutting I stood behind her, and circled her arms with my arms. As she sliced a carrot, I shoved at her hand. The knife slid into her wrist, and she swore. Blood dripped onto the neat pile of chopped beans."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.




At Escape Pod: "A Monkey Will Never Get Rid of Its Black Hands" by Rachel Swirsky, read by Alasdair Stuart.

"Papa and Uncle Fomba told me if I didn’t join the army, they’d kill me. They didn’t. They cut off my hands."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.



At Cthulhu: "Three Drink Memory" by Dafydd Nicklin-Dunbar.

"mixes and matches a detective story with well known elements of the mythos and comes up with a story that'll be fun for all Lovecraft fans."


In MP3 download HERE.





At The Classic Tales Podcast: Part seven of Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, read by B. J. Harrison.

Streaming and in Mp3 download HERE.



At Dunesteef: "Time In A Rice Bowl" by Rick Kennett.
"Ernie Pine’s niece, Christine, has become tangled up in an hundred-year-old Chinese spell. Now, Ernie is caught in a mad dash to save her from an evil force that is trying to steal that ancient magic. But is Christine even alive anymore?"

And "Lost In Memory" by Matt Kluchar.
"Peter has grown old. He’s outlived all the people who love him, and all he has left is his memories. But might reliving his memories be dangerous? Even deadly?"



At Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast: "Space-Time for Springers" by Fritz Leiber.

"which is one of those that will hopefully make you check yourself in the mirror and pucker your nose in search of a stray whisker."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.


At Maria Lectrix: "Morale" by Murray Leinster, read by Maureen O'Brien. In eight parts. Streaming and in MP3 downloads.

"'Morale' is another military sf story by Murray Leinster. This one first appeared in the December 1931 issue of Astounding, and is set ten years later than “Tanks”, though apparently in the same universe."

Part one is HERE and part two is HERE.





At Well Told Tales: "Can't Keep a Dead Man Down" by Randee Dawn, read by Uke Jackson.

"A man awakes to find himself trapped, in the dark and unable to move."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.



At PodCastle: PC Miniature 37: "Hall of Mirrors" by Bruce Holland Rogers, read by Barry Deutsch.

"One afternoon during his lunch hour, Emory wasn’t feeling particularly hungry. It was the monthly free-admission day at the art museum, so instead of getting a sandwich he went in to look at paintings."

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.





Gaming
At RPGNow: Book of Classes: Elementalist Playtest for D&D 4th Edition.

"This playtest encompasses the first few levels of the class as well as 6 Paragon paths and a variety of class feats."


In PDF download HERE. (free membership required).






At RPGNow: Free For A Limited Time! The complete bundle of Dawn of Legends support from Daring Entertainment, for the Savage Worlds License.



For download HERE (free membership required).




Comics
At The Horrors of It All: "Payment in Full!" from the December 1954 issue of Amazing Ghost Stories #15


Online HERE.






At Grantbridge Street & Other Misadventures: "No Escape" from Adventures into Terror #44.



Online HERE.





At The Bronze Age of Blogs: "Detour" written by Rick Marschall and illustrated by Alfred Alcala.



Online HERE.





At Golden Age Comics: Issues One and Two of This Magazine is Haunted in CBZ format.


Issue one is HERE and issue two is HERE.








Other Coolness
(Art) At Golden Age Comics: A cover gallery of Satellite Science Fiction.
(Comic Book Art) At Diversions of the Groovy Kind: Comic book covers from 1974.
(Serial) At Book View Cafe: Fool’s War by Chapter Twelve — Bodies Sarah Zettel.

More Goodies

A few more goodies today.

E-Fiction
At Manybooks: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930. Including stories by Murray Leinster, Ray Cummings, and other authors.




In e-book downloads HERE and online at Project Gutenberg HERE.








At Book View Cafe: "Touched by the Bomb" by Sarah Smith, from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1995).

“Akiko hibak’sha.” Tami looked at my Akiko like the other characters in Dracula looked at Bela Lugosi. As if she were a monster.

Online HERE.


Audio Fiction
At PodCastle: "Kissing Frogs" by Jaye Lawrence, read by Phoebe Harris.

“I loved your ad,” I said after we’d finished our introductions. Sharon, meet Jerry. Frog, meet human. ”But I have to admit I wasn’t expecting an actual amphibian.

Streaming and in MP3 HERE.




At Well Told Tales: "The Graduate Student" by Daniel W. Powell, read by Bryan A. Robinson.

"A college professor shares the grisly secret behind his academic success."

Streaming and in MP3 HERE.



At Transmissions From Beyond:

"The Waters of Meribah" by Tony Ballantyne, read by David Rees-Thomas. From Interzone 189, May & June 2003. Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.

And "That Thing Over There" by Dominic Green, read by the author. From Interzone 132, June 1998. Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.


Other Coolness
At Book View Cafe: "King Dog: A Movie for the Mind’s Eye" part one by Ursula K. Le Guin.

A pair of free SF Audio Stories

Audio Fiction
At Maria Lectrix: "Tanks" by Murray Leinster, read by Maureen O'Brien. (First published in the January 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science.). In three parts, streaming and in MP3 downloads.

"It has the Leinster sense that ordinary people with their ordinary habits and ordinary weaknesses, are still strong and capable of doing big things, and what is important often goes unnoticed by the eye."

Part one is HERE, Part two is HERE, and Part three is HERE.


And StarShipSofa has up the 97th issue of Aural Delights featuring

Poetry: "Half-Way Home" by G.O Clark.
Fact: "FilmTalk" by Rod Barnett
Main Fiction: "Flowers of Aulit Prison" by Nancy Kress

Narrators: Amy H Sturgis Ray Sizmore.

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE. [via SF Signal]