Classic and recent text and audio and an announcement.

"The Destroyers" by Randall Garrett. From Astounding, De. 1959. Approx. 11,020 words.

Any war is made up of a horde of personal tragedies--but the greater picture is the tragedy of the death of a way of life. For a way of life--good, bad, or indifferent--exists because it is dearly loved....

Available at Manybooks.net and Project Gutenberg.

"All Day September" by Roger Kuykendall. Approx. 6,624 words. From Astounding Science Fiction June 1959.

Some men just haven't got good sense. They just can't seem to learn the most fundamental things. Like when there's no use trying—when it's time to give up because it's hopeless....


Available at Manybooks.net and Project Gutenberg.





Also available from Manybooks.net is a C.M. Kornbluth short story "The Cosmic Expense Account" available here. This story is from the anthology The Best From Fantasy And Science Fiction Sixth Series (1957) edited by Anthony Boucher. The complete anthology is available in various e-book formats here (Highly recommended!). Manybooks.net also has a Victorian era ghost story "The Screaming Skull" by F. Marion Crawford available here.

And for more good reading, check out The Town Drunk's January issue for "Panko" by Zdravka Evtimova ( A man, his donkey, elusive love, and magic realism with an Eastern European flair.) and Naked Revenge by Sonya M. Sipes ( An upscale community’s worst nightmare is about to begin.)

For listening pleasure Escape Pod has "Acephalous Dreams" by Neal Asher, read by Stephen Eley available here. (Caution 'R' rated). Pseudopod has Joel Arnold's "The intrusion" read by Ben Phillips available here. (also 'R' rated). And Beam Me Up has "Tall Tales on the Iron Horse" by Colin P. Davies available here.

*Announcement* This is the last "daily" posting of QuasarDragon for the foreseeable future. However, QD will continue as a weekly, with one large weekend post. Time problems make it impossible for me to continue this as a daily. Be sure to visit SF Signal and SFF Audio for their daily posts which often have great free stuff!