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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55138554181915096232009-12-11T14:11:01.461-06:00QuasarDragonFinding great free, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, other cool items, with occasional comments and reviews by your semi-humble webmaster.Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.comBlogger1078125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-8673152511697878042009-08-31T19:50:00.003-05:002009-08-31T19:58:01.404-05:00Hiatus 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.

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-23536023306965470202009-08-29T11:49:00.010-05:002009-08-29T18:50:31.888-05:00Spider on the Web and More

More free goodies from many cool sites.E-FictionAt 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

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-53459771949353893042009-08-27T19:19:00.014-05:002009-08-27T20:23:33.917-05:00More Goodies

A few more goodies today.E-FictionAt 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

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-79646319099729043912009-08-27T06:31:00.007-05:002009-08-27T06:57:44.752-05:00A pair of free SF Audio Stories

Audio FictionAt 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

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-65787766846963694092009-08-26T20:09:00.004-05:002009-08-26T20:23:07.589-05:00The Future Fire and More

Quite a bit of cool stuff today.E-FictionThe August issue of The Future Fire is out with:"The Overdue Protocols" by Alexander Burns."The library patrons liked to refer to Taliba as a "her," though there was nothing particularly feminine about the machine’s boxy shape, voice, or disposition.""Neap Tide"by Don Norum."Pham and his mother and father lived on a floating platform along the southern arm

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-49124712756494359532009-08-24T20:43:00.006-05:002009-08-24T20:59:18.029-05:00Astounding, Audio, And More

E-FictionAt Afterburn SF: "Pirates of the Dark Rift" by Jack Hillman."The pirate ship closed on the passenger liner, ignoring the feeble stabs of the liner's energy guns. Boring through the liner's shields, the pirate locked on and spun to match ports." Online HERE.At Fantasy Magazine: "Offerings" by Stephanie Burgis."That Wednesday, the witch found five silver paperclips laid across her

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-14928951426482708032009-08-22T20:49:00.001-05:002009-08-22T20:54:08.046-05:00Saturday Freebies

E-FictionAt Book View Cafe: "Cuckoo" by Madeleine E. Robins, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1984)."The foundling child in the woods was not quite human..."Online HERE.At Munseys: In the Morning of Time by Charles G D Roberts. (1922)"The anxiety in the great eyes was not without reason, for their owner had just arrived in the tepid and teeming waters of this estuary, and the

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-20060840525925228922009-08-21T20:43:00.004-05:002009-08-21T20:51:11.204-05:00Fantasy Fiction and More

Catching up with some very good fiction, a little heavy on fantasy for a change. Comics, gaming , and more catching up this weekend.E-FictionAt The Absent Willow Review: "Kayen's Fortune" by Abby “Merc” Rustad."This was the first part of his initiation into the second level of study. The charms and god-spices hung around his neck chaffed his skin—small tokens to show his devotion and bring him

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-60347387372534228702009-08-20T19:59:00.007-05:002009-08-20T20:51:09.937-05:00Catching Up

Some more goodies as the catching up slowly progresses.E-FictionAt The Absent Willow Review: "The Wavelength of Maybird" by Lucien Spelman."he would turn radios off just by walking past them, and that was just the beginning. It wasn’t a trick or anything, it wasn’t even a choice, they just stopped working when he passed by."Online HERE. [via SF Signal]At Book View Cafe: "Touched by the Bomb" by

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-50217060910530154142009-08-18T18:21:00.029-05:002009-08-19T19:35:56.757-05:00Back

Slowly resuming regular posting with a ton of free stories at Manybooks (with the online versions at Project Gutenberg linked)"The Finding of Haldgreen" by Charles Willard Diffin. SF (from Astounding Stories April 1932)."Chet Ballard answers the pinpoint of light that from the craggy desolation of the moon stabs out man's old call for help." Also online."Hall of Mirrors" by Fredric Brown. SF (

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-72096191014534148252009-08-05T22:49:00.002-05:002009-08-06T00:02:55.933-05:00Back in two weeks.

QuasarDragon will return after a very short, two week, hiatus.

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-14988105477401876802009-08-04T20:10:00.009-05:002009-08-04T21:37:35.623-05:00Classic SF and More

E-FictionAt Manybooks: "Homesick" by Lyn Venable, from Galaxy Science Fiction December 1952."What thrill is there in going out among the stars if coming back means bitter loneliness?"In e-book downloads HERE and online at Project Gutenberg HERE.Also at Manybooks: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930.early pulp SF.In e-book downloads HERE.And "See?" by Edward G. Robles, from Galaxy

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-294737173847017852009-08-04T06:16:00.010-05:002009-08-04T07:29:56.875-05:00E-Zines, Fiction and Gaming, and More

E-FictionBewildering Stories has its latest issue online with fiction and poetry by Ben Bamber, Sandra Y. MacKay, Bertrand Cayzac, Channie Greenberg, Rod Hamon, Arnold Hollander, Alex Moisi, Gabriel S. Timar, Ron Van Sweringen, Julie Wornan, and Danielle L. Parker.Online HERE.At Project Gutenberg: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930. The complete classic pulp SF issue.Online

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-61944089634178330502009-08-03T20:42:00.023-05:002009-08-03T21:29:35.265-05:00A few Goodies

A few cool items tonight.E-FictionAt Kat and Mouse: "Life Goes On" by Abner Senires."I nodded. 10,000 rounds of .45-caliber and 9mm ammunition were heavy."Online HERE.At Book View Cafe: "Revise the World" by Brenda W. Clough."On March 16, 1912, British polar explorer Titus Oates commits suicide by walking out of his tent into an Antarctic blizzard, to save Robert Falcon Scott and the other

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-16745175360912498632009-08-03T07:08:00.006-05:002009-08-03T07:40:11.221-05:00Strange Horizons and More.

A couple for the morning.E-FictionStrange Horizons has a new issue out with:FICTION: Salt's Father, by Eric Gregory.For a moment there was only silence."The old man wondered if the servitor had died of hunger. Then it crawled out of shadow, its head swiveling left and right with a high, hurtful screech of metal on metal. Sensors and little pincers dangled out of its too-wide-open mouth."POETRY:

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-60942905009711404412009-08-02T16:33:00.005-05:002009-08-02T17:18:48.619-05:00Zines and More

More coolness today, including some great e-zines.E-FictionSorcerous Signals has a new issue out with"Fairy Wine" by Rhonda Parrish."We danced / O how we danced / Round and round""Rage of the God Heads" by Robert Keller."After a life of combat, can Tashi Lan at last find peace on his final journey, or will he be tormented by a monstrous warlord?""Runt of the Litter" by Christine Lucas."A seer

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-41687493137350612192009-08-01T16:34:00.006-05:002009-08-01T16:52:42.397-05:00Saturday Pt. 2

Quite a bit of good reading today.E-FictionClarkesworld has its 35th issue out with fiction:"The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew" by Catherynne M. Valente."The first day of fifth year a boy came in with the new eyeshields, a glossy expanse of black with no iris or pupil, and looking at him was like looking into an eclipse.""Advection" by Genevieve Valentine."The first day of fifth year a boy came

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-84319891336641258262009-08-01T11:27:00.002-05:002009-08-01T11:31:10.891-05:00Saturday Part 1

E-FictionAt The Freezine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: "Night Flamers" by Johnny Strike."In San Francisco, they had seen only one other person: a snarling woman dressed and made up as a clown. Rita had gestured wildly and yelled to her, but the angry clown had run off and disappeared behind a mound of burning debris."Online HERE.At Feedbooks: "Worms of the Earth" by Robert Howard (1932)."Bran

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-50108900680588263372009-07-31T21:07:00.000-05:002009-07-31T21:09:00.144-05:00Gaming and E-Fiction

Some very good fiction and gaming items this time.E-FictionAt Manybooks: "Warrior Race" by Robert Sheckley, from Galaxy Science Fiction November 1952"Destroying the spirit of the enemy is the goal of war and the aliens had the best way!"In e-book download HERE and online at Project Gutenberg HERE.Also at Manybooks: Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas by Ethel Mary

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-67989508355205697042009-07-31T06:30:00.013-05:002009-07-31T07:34:45.766-05:00Friday Morning

Good morning. E-FictionAt the Freezine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: "Sky Pirates" by John Shirley concludes with part sixteen.SKY PIRATES:Part16, SKY PIRATES:Part15, SKY PIRATES:Part14, SKY PIRATES:Part13, Farewell Tour, SKY PIRATES:Part12, SKY PIRATES:Part11, SKY PIRATES:Part10, SKY PIRATES:Part 9, A Planet Of Your Own, SKY PIRATES:Part 8, SKY PIRATES:Part 7, SKY PIRATES:Part 6, SKY PIRATES:

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-22177062964697919862009-07-30T18:56:00.018-05:002009-07-30T20:04:32.007-05:00Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Escape Pod, and More

A few more super-cool items.E-FictionAt Beneath Ceaseless Skies:"Blighted Heart" by Aliette de Bodard."For years my city gave the hearts of maidens to the corn-man to awaken him, but on the day I came to him I was no longer untouched by man."And "The Prince's Shadow" by Emily M. Z. Carlyle."The king’s sister visited my dreams for five nights before I was introduced to her in person, but it was

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-30847448733613417922009-07-30T06:45:00.012-05:002009-07-30T07:40:05.713-05:00Poul Anderson and a Lot of Flashing.

Just some good quick reads this morning.E-FictionAt Project Gutenberg: "Valor of Cappen Varra" by Poul Anderson, from Fantastic Universe January 1957."Let little Cappen go," they shouted. "Maybe he can sing the trolls to sleep—"Online HERE.Flash Fiction(Flash) At Book View Cafe: "Learning to Love Your Inner Virago" by Nancy Jane Moore.(Flash) At Project Gutenberg: "The Hands" by Richard Sternbach

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-26477909512369356672009-07-29T19:30:00.024-05:002009-07-29T21:30:33.628-05:00Jusith Tarr, PodCastle, and More

Several gems and one dud (the film)E-FictionAbyss & Apex has a new issue out with"Section III" by Caren Gussoff. "Some lives are like antiques, solidly constructed but obscured by dust, discovered as treasures generations later. Others are like postmodern architecture, the structure emphasizing all the empty space." "Carpe Mañana" by Richard A. Lovett."... while Caddy was still reeling from the

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-38320630734840015872009-07-29T17:52:00.000-05:002009-07-29T17:53:25.071-05:00Wednesday Wadio

Courtesy of the Internet Archive, Dimension X - "The Outer Limit"A test pilot disappears on an experimental high altitude fight and returns with an incredible warning.In MP3 (Right click to save) HERE.(Now be vewy, vewy, quiet. I'm pwaying the wadio.)

Dave Tacketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09939802573223717177david-tackett@hotmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5513855418191509623.post-78407778219579718252009-07-29T06:53:00.001-05:002009-07-29T07:01:25.435-05:00Horror and More

More cool free items.E-FictionAt Innsmouth Free Press: "The Statement of Randolph Carter" by H.P. Lovecraft."As I have said before, the weird studies of Harley Warren were well known to me, and to some extent shared by me. Of his vast collection of strange, rare books on forbidden subjects I have read all that are written in the languages of which I am master; but these are few as compared with

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