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991 Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore

Neither the vegetation nor people in this book are entirely fictitious. But, reader, no person pictured here is you. With one exception. You, Sir, Miss, or Madam--whatever your country or station--are Albert Weener. As I am Albert Weener.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 435 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 691KB | 120,785 words | Posted:

992 Slave Planet by Laurence M. Janifer

As the space fleets of an outraged Terran Confederation close in on the outlaw planet of Fruyling's World, the destinies of slave and master meet explosively, and from the shock of battle and its aftermath come an unexpected and awesome conclusion.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Slavery, Fantasy, Super Hero, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 829 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.34
Size: 209KB | 39,587 words | Posted:

993 A Journey in Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Earth is effectively a corporate technocracy, with big businesses using incredible advances in science to improve life on the planet as a whole. Seeking other planets habitable for the growing human population, the spaceship Callisto, powered by an antigravitational force known as apergy, embarks on a momentous tour of the solar system. Jupiter proves to be a wilderness paradise, full of threatening beasts and landscapes of inspired beauty...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 333 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 504KB | 89,931 words | Posted:

994 Off on a Comet by Jules Verne

The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 284 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 571KB | 100,283 words | Posted:

995 The Wall of Death by Victor Rousseau

Out of the Antarctic it came--a wall of viscid, grey, half-human jelly, absorbing and destroying all life that it encountered.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 201 | Votes: 8 | Score: 6.34
Size: 55KB | 9,932 words | Posted:

996 The White Invaders by Ray Cummings

Out of their unknown fourth dimensional realm materializes a horde of White Invaders with power invincible.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 247 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 173KB | 31,475 words | Posted:

997 The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'brien

An obsessed amateur scientist steals a diamond (and murders its owner) in order to make a lens for a super-powerful microscope; his experiment succeeds but he is driven mad by what he discovers.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 135 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 51KB | 9,219 words | Posted:

998 In the Year 2889 by Jules Verne

In the year 2889, people "consume food that is compounded and prepared according to scientific principles, and they breathe an atmosphere freed from the micro-organisms that formerly used to swarm in it; hence they live longer than their forefathers and know nothing of the innumerable diseases of olden times.". Rumours has it that nutritive air is yet to be discovered.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 216 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 32KB | 5,568 words | Posted:

999 Poisoned Air by Sterner St. Paul Meek

Again Dr. Bird closes with the evil Saranoff--this time near the Aberdeen Proving Ground, in a deadly, mysterious blanket of fog.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 131 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 56KB | 10,613 words | Posted:

1000 Dr. Heidenhoff's Process by Edward Bellamy

A novel about a doctor who develops a method of eradicating painful memories from people's brains so that they can feel good about life again.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 155 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 175KB | 32,705 words | Posted:
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