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771 New Hire by Dave Dryfoos

Very admirable rule: Never do tomorrow what you can put off until after the age of forty!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 276 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.11
Size: 11KB | 2,179 words | Posted:

772 The Waker Dreams by Richard Matheson

There's nothing like exciting fantasy to escape boredom. The problem is to know whether it's actually a fantasy.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 167 | Votes: 8 | Score: 7.10
Size: 27KB | 4,895 words | Posted:

773 Piper in the Woods by Phillip K. Dick

"Well, Corporal Westerburg," Doctor Henry Harris said gently, "just why do you think you're a plant?" As he spoke, Harris glanced down again at the card on his desk. It was from the Base Commander himself, made out in Cox's heavy scrawl: Doc, this is the lad I told you about. Talk to him and try to find out how he got this delusion. He's from the new Garrison, the new check-station on Asteroid Y-3, and we don't want anything to go wrong there. Especially a silly damn thing like this!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 455 | Votes: 31 | Score: 7.10
Size: 39KB | 7,416 words | Posted:

774 The Midget From the Island by H.G. Winter

Garth Howard, prey to half the animals of the forest, fights valiantly to regain his lost five feet of size.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 151 | Votes: 8 | Score: 7.10
Size: 66KB | 12,283 words | Posted:

775 Year of the Big Thaw by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Mr. Emmett did his duty by the visitor from another world--never doubting the right of it.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 597 | Votes: 42 | Score: 7.10
Size: 14KB | 3,060 words | Posted:

776 Viewpoint by Randall Garrett

A fearsome thing is a thing you're afraid of--and it has nothing whatever to do with whether others are afraid, nor with whether it is in fact dangerous. It's your view of the matter that counts!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 262 | Votes: 8 | Score: 7.10
Size: 21KB | 3,971 words | Posted:

777 Problem by Alan Edward Nourse

In exchange for the promise of an almost limitless fuel, earth agrees to allow the alien Grdnzth people to gather on earth for transit to a planet as their is going to be destroyed. The Grdnzth are ugly, looking rather like reptiles. They also pop in anywhere, anytime unannounced. It's the job of PR men Pete Greenwood and Tommy Heinz to get the public to accept the Grdnzth and the inconvenience...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 304 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.10
Size: 26KB | 4,883 words | Posted:

778 Judas Ram by Sam Merwin

The house was furnished with all luxuries, including women. If it only had a lease that could be broken
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 414 | Votes: 24 | Score: 7.09
Size: 37KB | 6,909 words | Posted:

779 Reel Life Films by Sam Merwin

At least a contributing factor to the current cycle of science fiction movies being made in Hollywood is the touchiness of minorities having their nationals being portrayed as villains. Cinema-makers are now trying to avoid further boycotts by using space aliens for villains. But suppose some of our Extraterrestrial neighbors are also a bit touchy?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 255 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.09
Size: 15KB | 2,806 words | Posted:

780 Two Weeks in August by Frank M. Robinson

The humblest events sometimes result from the most grandiose beginnings. You'd never imagine space travel starting this way, for instance!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 622 | Votes: 27 | Score: 7.09
Size: 13KB | 2,467 words | Posted:
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