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771 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 614 | Votes: 27 | Score: 7.09
Size: 13KB | 2,467 words | Posted:

772 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 242 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.09
Size: 15KB | 2,806 words | Posted:

773 The Small World of M-75 by John Buchan

For all his perfection and magnificence he was but a baby with a new found freedom in a strange and baffling world....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 258 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.09
Size: 28KB | 4,918 words | Posted:

774 The Death-cloud by Nathan Schachner

The epic exploit of one who worked in the dark and alone, behind the enemy lines, in the great Last War.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 356 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.08
Size: 62KB | 11,648 words | Posted:

775 The Radiant Shell by Paul Ernst

The plans for the Ziegler heat ray have been stolen and are presently in the Arvanian embassy, where they are officially off-limits to the Americans. The American Secretary of War expects them to be smuggled out of the country at any moment. Arvania will then develop the weapon and, despite its postage-stamp size, become the most powerful nation on earth. The next logical step will be for it to declare war on the United States, which will lead to its downfall inside of three months!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 222 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.08
Size: 40KB | 7,241 words | Posted:

776 The Brain by Alexander Blade

America's greatest weapon, greater than the Atom Bomb, was its new, gigantic mechanical brain. It filled a whole mountain--and then it came to life...!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 757 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.08
Size: 313KB | 56,692 words | Posted:

777 The Hunters by Joseph Samachson

To all who didn't know him, Curt George was a mighty hunter and actor. But this time he was up against others who could really act, and whose business was the hunting of whole worlds.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 334 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.08
Size: 27KB | 5,246 words | Posted:

778 The Girl in the Golden Atom by Ray Cummings

A man, identified only as the Chemist, discovers a microscopic world inside a golden ring. Soon, he becomes transfixed with a girl he observes there and determines to shrink himself down and find her. He does this by inventing two drugs, one pill to make him smaller and one pill to make him bigger. He then tells this plan to a group of friends, and asks them to safeguard the ring while he is away. Once he returns, he tells them all the story of his adventures inside the world of the ring.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 418 | Votes: 6 | Score: 7.08
Size: 521KB | 96,906 words | Posted:

779 Handyman by Frank Banta

They didn't have to worry about a thing for the rest of their natural lives....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 364 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.08
Size: 5KB | 1,038 words | Posted:

780 Something Will Turn Up by David Mason

Err. maybe it had to do with this being a non-Parity universe, perhaps? Some things can't be simply inverted, after all....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 214 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.08
Size: 11KB | 2,087 words | Posted:
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