Welcome to QUARK (Release 1.0), a collection of short stories and various other bits from three new authors. Quark has been called, strangely enough, the Quantum Underground Anarchic Reading Konspiracy. However, it is probably more accurate to describe it as small and moderately interesting, just like the real thing.
Some of the work included is frivolous, some is humorous, some serious, some pretentious and some downright silly; all of the work is in a science fiction vein. We hope there is something here for everyone and we hope that above all you are entertained.
The contents of this directory are freeware in the magnetic media sense of the term. It may not be modified in any aspect. This directory as an entirety may be freely copied and passed on to other people, bulletin boards, shareware libraries etc. However you may not reproduce individual stories for publication purposes without the express permission of the author. The addresses of the three authors involved may be found below. If you compress these files then the archive should be named QUARK1.XXX where XXX is LZH,ZIP,ARC etc.
We would appreciate any feedback on our stories so feel free to write to us and let us know what you think. All correspondees will be informed when our next collection is available which is likely to be on a shareware basis (as we're starving and need the cash), and will include substantially more work. So if you enjoy what you read let us know and we'll see what we can do.
This directory is available as public domain in Atari ST, Amiga, PC and Amstrad CPC formats.
It is possible that it is not entirely clear, from within the program, how to select individual stories. This is how it is done: Simply type in the letter that is adjacent to the story title you want to read. e.g. A or B etc. Note also that there are two pages of story titles which can be accessed with the up and down cursor keys.
Pete Binfield is the originator of the idea for this directory but he refuses to be held accountable. Current interests are in organizing his vast disk collection and thinking deep thoughts (honest). His ideas tend to come to him while it is raining. This is probably Freudian. Pete takes holograms when not thinking of SF.
Pete can be contacted at the following address;
52 Avis Road
Denton
Newhaven
East Sussex
BN9 0PN
ENGLAND
Benedict Walmisley wrote some of the stories, programmed the ST and the PC and made about 80% of the spelling mistakes. He is currently doing an MSc in sunny Manchester, when not programming C++ or drinking gallons of tea. And this is healthy living?
Ben can be contacted at the following address;
Department of Maths and Physics,
John Dalton Extension Building
Manchester Polytechnic
Oxford Road
Manchester
ENGLAND
Martin Young has more hair than sense, an Amiga, accommodation problems and a complete lack of understanding of the English language (like it is wrote). Friendly, cuddly, cosy little comments should be sent to:
