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1001 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: 217 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 32KB | 5,568 words | Posted:

1002 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: 134 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 56KB | 10,613 words | Posted:

1003 The Rag and Bone Men by Algis Budrys

Unfortunate castaway! Marooned far from home--with nothing to share his loneliness but humans!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 378 | Votes: 15 | Score: 6.28
Size: 15KB | 2,936 words | Posted:

1004 The Leader by Murray Leinster

The trouble with being a Superman, with Super powers, and knowing it, is it's so easy to overlook the unpleasant possibility of a super-superman!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 470 | Votes: 15 | Score: 6.28
Size: 42KB | 7,509 words | Posted:

1005 The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley

Will Barrent had no memory of his crime... but he found himself shipped across space to a brutal prison-planet. On Omega, his only chance to advance himself -- and stay alive -- is to commit an endless series of violent crimes. The average inmate's life expectancy from time of arrival is three years. Can Barrett survive, escape, and return to Earth to clear his name?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 603 | Votes: 13 | Score: 6.27
Size: 254KB | 45,665 words | Posted:

1006 The Jilting of Jane by H. G. Wells

A little tale about a maid whose fiance leaves her for a woman of higher standing and how that maid deals with her jilting.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 297 | Votes: 14 | Score: 6.27
Size: 14KB | 2,684 words | Posted:

1007 The Revolt of the Machines by Nathan Schachner

Something in the many-faceted mind of the master machine spurs it to diabolical revolt against the authority of its human masters.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 203 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.24
Size: 64KB | 11,734 words | Posted:

1008 Martians Never Die by Lucius Daniel

It was a wonderful bodyguard: no bark, no bite, no sting. just conversion of the enemy!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 242 | Votes: 18 | Score: 6.24
Size: 25KB | 4,766 words | Posted:

1009 Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow

Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in a bohemian neighborhood. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings--wings, moreover, which grow back after each attempt to cut them off.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 785 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.23
Size: 573KB | 109,930 words | Posted:

1010 Raiders Invisible by Anthony Gilmore

Alone and unaided, Pilot Travers copes with the invisible foes who have struck down America's great engine of war.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 230 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.23
Size: 69KB | 12,555 words | Posted:
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