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1051 One Martian Afternoon by Tom Leahy

She was sweet, gentle, kind--a sort of Martian Old Mother Hubbard. But when she went to her cupboard.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 137 | Votes: * | Score: *
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1052 Heil by Lyle Monroe

The Leader is suffering from a fatal illness of pituitary gland. Technology is available for transplant of the gland from a human donor. But there is a glitch. Dr Lans, the only surgeon capable of performing the surgery, is in concentration camp...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 118 | Votes: * | Score: *
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1053 The Semantic War by Bill Clothier

Perhaps there have been causes for slaughter just as silly as this was--but try to find one!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 180 | Votes: 12 | Score: 5.74
Size: 15KB | 2,845 words | Posted:

1054 The Amateurs by Alan Cogan

The ultimate show demanded the ultimate in showmanship--now if only Mr. Sims could measure up!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 156 | Votes: 6 | Score: 5.74
Size: 16KB | 3,079 words | Posted:

1055 With the Night Mail: a Story of 2000 a.D by Rudyard Kipling

By 2000 A.D, airships have replaced aircraft for freight and human travel. Kipling's novella follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling foul weather, while detailing a planet-wide Aerial Board of Control (A.B.C.), which enforces a rigid system of command and control not only in the skies but in world affairs too; they outlaw war in 1967.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 202 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 64KB | 11,474 words | Posted:

1056 The Destroyer by William Merriam Rouse

Slowly, insidiously, there stole over Allen Parker something uncanny. He could no longer control his hands--even his brain!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 144 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 40KB | 7,431 words | Posted:

1057 A Fall of Glass by Stanley R. Lee

The weatherman was always right: Temperature, 59; humidity, 47%; occasional light showers--but of what?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 154 | Votes: 6 | Score: 5.73
Size: 29KB | 5,368 words | Posted:

1058 People's Soup by Alan Arkin

When you took pot luck with this kitchen scientist, not even the poor pot was lucky!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 239 | Votes: 19 | Score: 5.73
Size: 10KB | 2,045 words | Posted:

1059 As Long as You Wish by John O'Keefe

If, somehow, you get trapped in a circular time system. how long is the circumference of an infinitely retraced circle?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 136 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 9KB | 1,702 words | Posted:

1060 Up for Renewal by Lucius Daniel

"I'd give a year off my life to...." Idle talk now, but it was ghastly reality to Kent!
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Downloads: 107 | Votes: * | Score: *
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