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821 A Bad Day for Sales by Fritz Leiber

Don't wait to "Get 'em while they're hot." By then, it is too late to get them of all!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 385 Votes: 16 | Score: 6.99
Size: 12KB | 2,256 words | Posted:

822 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: 408 Votes: 22 | Score: 6.99
Size: 5KB | 1,038 words | Posted:

823 The Long Voyage by Carl Richard Jacobi

The secret lay hidden at the end of nine landings, and Medusa-dark was one man's search for it--in the strangest journey ever made.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 282 Votes: 15 | Score: 6.99
Size: 32KB | 5,992 words | Posted:

824 My Friend Bobby by Alan Edward Nourse

A five-year-old boy can communicate with his dog via think-talk. The little boy finds another friend, a panda, to make their trio dependent only on themselves, not to include his parents. His mother goes nuts, thinking they can read her mind, his father isn't so sure at first. How independent the little boy, dog, and panda become is the shocking and creepy ending you won't forget.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 520 Votes: 37 | Score: 6.98
Size: 22KB | 4,872 words | Posted:

825 Lost in Translation by Laurence M. Janifer

In language translation, you may get a literally accurate word-for-word translation. but miss the meaning entirely. And in space-type translation. the effect may be the same!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 279 Votes: 18 | Score: 6.97
Size: 23KB | 4,224 words | Posted:

826 Texas Week by Albert Hernhuter

One of the chief purposes of psychiatry is to separate fantasy from reality. It is reasonable to expect that future psychiatrists will know more about this borderline than the most learned doctors of today. Yet now and again even the best of them may encounter situations that defy all logic.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 225 Votes: 14 | Score: 6.97
Size: 7KB | 1,395 words | Posted:

827 Slaves of Mercury by Nathan Schachner

Hilary returns to find alien diskoids in Earth's stratosphere, and out-world lords patrolling her cities.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 303 Votes: 14 | Score: 6.97
Size: 173KB | 30,664 words | Posted:

828 Whiskaboom by Alan Arkin

Jack's blunder was disastrous, but what he worried about was: would Einstein have approved?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 391 Votes: 24 | Score: 6.97
Size: 9KB | 1,835 words | Posted:

829 The Plotters by Alexander Blade

He came from a far planet to find some of the Earth's secrets. But Marko found other things, too--like his love for beautiful Beth.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 254 Votes: 15 | Score: 6.97
Size: 30KB | 6,042 words | Posted:

830 The Protector by Betsy Curtis

There's a fortune in a boxer who feels no pain. This one didn't, except in odd ways....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 204 Votes: 7 | Score: 6.97
Size: 17KB | 3,619 words | Posted:
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