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371 Mimsy Were the Borogoves by Lewis Padgett

Millions of years in the distant future, a posthuman scientist is attempting to build a time machine and tests it by sending two boxes with a hastily gathered batch of educational toys into the past. When the boxes fails to return, he believes the entire experiment to be a failure, he discontinues his efforts. One box arrives in the middle of the 20th century and the second in the latter part of the 19th century. Both have had their time-travel circuitry irreparably damaged by the journey.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1246 Votes: 65 | Score: 7.74
Size: 64KB | 11,428 words | Posted:

372 The Alternate Plan by Gerry Maddren

The operation was a very serious one and Bart Neely was willing to put himself into Dr. Morton's hands. But if things turned out badly, Bart was going to teach them a lesson. He was going to refuse to die.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 434 Votes: 21 | Score: 7.74
Size: 10KB | 1,931 words | Posted:

373 Toy Shop by Harry Harrison

The gadget was strictly, beyond any question, a toy. Not a real, workable device. Except for the way it could work under a man's mental skin....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1001 Votes: 73 | Score: 7.74
Size: 10KB | 1,907 words | Posted:

374 The Radio Man by Ralph Milne Farley

The exciting first novel in the "Radio Man" series of stories starring Myles Cabot. Read about his advent on the planet Venus, his encounter with the Ant-Men and the Cupians (human-like beings).
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Futuristic, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 569 Votes: 14 | Score: 7.72
Size: 257KB | 48,002 words | Posted:

375 The Crystal Crypt by Phillip K. Dick

Stark terror ruled the Inner-Flight ship on that last Mars-Terra run. For the black-clad Leiters were on the prowl. and the grim red planet was not far behind. First published in 1954.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 338 Votes: 26 | Score: 7.72
Size: 40KB | 7,412 words | Posted:

376 Breakaway by Stanley Gimble

She surely got her wish. but there was some question about getting what she wanted.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 249 Votes: 13 | Score: 7.72
Size: 11KB | 2,203 words | Posted:

377 The Hohokam Dig by Theodore Pratt

From_ where _had these attacking Indians come? Out of a long forgotten and dim past? Had their medicine man seen the one supreme vision?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 477 Votes: 49 | Score: 7.72
Size: 24KB | 4,538 words | Posted:

378 The Trouble With Telstar by John Berryman

The real trouble with communications satellites is the enormous difficulty of repairing even the simplest little trouble. You need such a loooong screwdriver.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 569 Votes: 47 | Score: 7.72
Size: 71KB | 13,898 words | Posted:

379 Pagan Passions by Randall Garrett

Earth has transformed overnight: The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece and Rome have returned to Earth with all their awesome powers intact. War on any scale was outlawed, along with boom-and-bust economic cycles, and prudery but no change was more startling than the face of New York, where the Empire State Building has become the Tower of Zeus...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 607 Votes: 13 | Score: 7.72
Size: 245KB | 44,928 words | Posted:

380 Hunter Patrol by John Joseph McGuire

Many men have dreamed of world peace, but none have been able to achieve it. If one man did have that power, could mankind afford to pay the price?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 412 Votes: 18 | Score: 7.71
Size: 63KB | 11,303 words | Posted:
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