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Master of None by Neil Goble

The advantages of specialization are so obvious that, today, we don't even know how to recognize a competent syncretist!
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
4.9k words,  100%,  Author's Average: 100%   More Info

Sight Gag by Laurence M. Janifer

Intelligence is a great help in the evolution-by-survival--but intelligence without muscle is even less useful than muscle without brains. But it's so easy to forget that muscle--plain physical force--is important, too!
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
3.2k words,  100%,  Author's Average: 84%   More Info

The Highest Treason by Randall Garrett

The highest treason of all is not so easy to define--and be it noted carefully that the true traitor in this case was not singular, but very plural.
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
23.0k words,  94%,  Author's Average: 91%   More Info

The Winds of Time by James H. Schmitz

He contracted for a charter trip--but the man who hired his spacer wasn't quite a man, it turned out--and he wanted more than service!
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
12.5k words,  94%,  Author's Average: 94%   More Info

Survival Type by Jesse F. Bone

Score one or one million was not enough for the human race. It had to be all or nothing. with one man doing every bit of scoring!
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
8.4k words,  88%,  Author's Average: 88%   More Info

A Bad Day for Sales by Fritz Leiber

Don't wait to "Get 'em while they're hot." By then, it is too late to get them of all!
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
2.3k words,  87%,  Author's Average: 78%   More Info

Pandemic by Jesse F. Bone

Generally, human beings don't do totally useless things consistently and widely. So--maybe there is something to it.
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
6.8k words,  84%,  Author's Average: 88%   More Info

I'll Kill You Tomorrow by Helen Huber

The entities were utterly, ambitiously evil; their line of defense, apparently, was absolutely impregnable.
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
2.7k words,  77%,  Author's Average: 77%   More Info

Planet of Dreams by James McKimmey

The climate was perfect, the sky was always blue, and--best of all--nobody had to work. What more could anyone want?
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
2.7k words,  77%,  Author's Average: 82%   More Info

Invasion by A Scribe

I originally wrote this back in October 2006 as the precursor to a series. Then I lost it. Now I have found it by chance via the internet wayback machine. The series was 'The Loyndl Incursion' and consisted of this, 'Arbitrary Arbites', 'Shopping with the girlfriend' three separate 'Tobias' stories and a couple of others.
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Fan Fiction
1.0k words,  77%,  Author's Average: 82%   More Info