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11 Meeting of the Board

This is a parody of corporate management in a world where unions own the means of production and the managers are treated like factory workers.Faced with a corporate system that is breaking down - workers want immediate dividends rather than investments in developing new products - management goes on strike to readjust the power between management and unions.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 294 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.18
Size: 32KB | 5,804 words | Posted:

12 My Friend Bobby

A five-year-old boy can communicate with his dog via think-talk. The little boy finds another friend, a panda, to make their trio dependent only on themselves, not to include his parents. His mother goes nuts, thinking they can read her mind, his father isn't so sure at first. How independent the little boy, dog, and panda become is the shocking and creepy ending you won't forget.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 465 | Votes: 31 | Score: 6.75
Size: 22KB | 4,872 words | Posted:

13 The Native Soil

Explore a Venus that never was. This is Venus as science fiction imagined it, as it might have been. Explore the hot, humid, muddy planet and meet the aliens that populate it.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 301 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.49
Size: 40KB | 7,209 words | Posted:

14 An Ounce of Cure

First published in "The Counterfeit Man: More Science Fiction Stories published in 1963.
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Downloads: 324 | Votes: 21 | Score: 6.90
Size: 7KB | 1,400 words | Posted:

15 Prime Difference

Being two men rolled out of one would solve my problems--but which one would I be?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 277 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.83
Size: 26KB | 5,093 words | Posted:

16 Problem

In exchange for the promise of an almost limitless fuel, earth agrees to allow the alien Grdnzth people to gather on earth for transit to a planet as their is going to be destroyed. The Grdnzth are ugly, looking rather like reptiles. They also pop in anywhere, anytime unannounced. It's the job of PR men Pete Greenwood and Tommy Heinz to get the public to accept the Grdnzth and the inconvenience...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 278 | Votes: 20 | Score: 6.91
Size: 26KB | 4,883 words | Posted:

17 Second Sight

Amy Ballantine has a talent... and sometimes it lets her know more than she needs to know.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 746 | Votes: 35 | Score: 7.53
Size: 24KB | 4,978 words | Posted:

18 Star Surgeon

Dal Timgar had always wanted to be a doctor. As a Garvian and the first non-human to study medicine on Hospital Earth, he must face enormous adversity from classmates, professors, and some of the highest ranking physicians on all of Earth. Will his efforts be enough to earn him the Silver Star of a Star Surgeon.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 1139 | Votes: 78 | Score: 8.52
Size: 280KB | 51,621 words | Posted:
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