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821 Dogfight-1973 by Mack Reynolds

Flying at 1600 m.p.h. you act with split-second timing after you sight the enemy. And you're allowed only one mistake--your last!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 962 | Votes: 50 | Score: 7.00
Size: 4KB | 961 words | Posted:

822 The Laughing Girl by Robert W. Chambers

He who grins in clown's disguise Often hides an aching heart- Sadness, sometimes worldly-wise, Dresses for a motley part- Cap, and bells to cheat the ears, Chalk and paint to hide the tears Lest the world, divining pain, Turn to gape and stare again.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 238 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 388KB | 71,732 words | Posted:

823 Next Door, Next World by Robert Donald Locke

Almost any phenomenon can be used--or act--for good or ill. Mutation usually brings ill--but it also brings greatness. Change can go any direction.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 240 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.00
Size: 59KB | 10,877 words | Posted:

824 The Street That Wasn't There by Carl Richard Jacobi

Mr. Chambers, once a professor of metaphysics, had for the twenty years since his dismissal lived a reclusive, solitary life, only venturing outside his room for his daily walk and cigar. Then one day, inexplicably, he forgot to buy the cigar, the walk took fifteen minutes less.Determined to make sure he doesn't make the same mistake again and miss the street where he buys his daily cigar he sets out the next day. Then the truth hits him - the street isn't there anymore.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 551 | Votes: 30 | Score: 6.99
Size: 32KB | 5,887 words | Posted:

825 The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer Lytton

A young, independently wealthy traveller (the narrator), who accidentally finds his way into a subterranean, strange world occupied by beings who seem to resemble angels and call themselves Vril-ya.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 363 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 292KB | 52,451 words | Posted:

826 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: 244 | Votes: 15 | Score: 6.99
Size: 32KB | 5,992 words | Posted:

827 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: 213 | Votes: 14 | Score: 6.97
Size: 7KB | 1,395 words | Posted:

828 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
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Downloads: 269 | Votes: 14 | Score: 6.97
Size: 173KB | 30,664 words | Posted:

829 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
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Downloads: 375 | Votes: 24 | Score: 6.97
Size: 9KB | 1,835 words | Posted:

830 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: 382 | Votes: 21 | Score: 6.97
Size: 5KB | 1,038 words | Posted:
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