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831 Forsyte's Retreat by Winston Marks

Sextus Rollo Forsyte had his trouble with the bottle, but nothing out of a bottle ever produced such a hotel as the Mahoney-Plaza: only 260 rooms. only two guests to a room. but accommodating 5200 guests--all at the same time!... Floor please?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 286 | Votes: 19 | Score: 6.95
Size: 28KB | 5,075 words | Posted:

832 And All the Earth a Grave by C.C. MacApp

There's nothing wrong with dying--it just hasn't ever had the proper sales pitch!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 233 | Votes: 13 | Score: 6.95
Size: 13KB | 2,377 words | Posted:

833 Brown John's Body by Winston Marks

Erd Neff wanted as little to do with his fellow men as possible. So he lived alone in his big cash-vault. Alone, except for John....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 327 | Votes: 19 | Score: 6.95
Size: 23KB | 4,463 words | Posted:

834 If the Sun Died by R.F. Starzl

Tens of millenniums after the Death of the Sun there comes a young man who dares to open the Frozen Gate of Subterranea.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 340 | Votes: 19 | Score: 6.95
Size: 49KB | 8,972 words | Posted:

835 The Angel of the Revolution: a Tale of the Coming Terror by George Chetwynd Griffith

Richard Arnold, a young man in England at the beginning of the 20th century who devotes his life to creating the world's first fully functional airship. After years of effort, he finally succeeds, but at the expense of everything else in his life, to the point that he finds himself broke and about to be thrown out of his home.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 613 | Votes: 6 | Score: 6.94
Size: 787KB | 144,444 words | Posted:

836 Junior Achievement by William M. Lee

Fallout is, of course, always disastrous-- one way or another
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 161 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.94
Size: 26KB | 4,945 words | Posted:

837 Picture Bride by Joseph Samachson

As pretty as a picture? Yes, because that was all she was. or would become some day!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 210 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.94
Size: 8KB | 1,820 words | Posted:

838 Solander's Radio Tomb by Ellis Parker Butler

"Pigs Is Pigs" Butler quite surpasses himself in this story. The intricacies in radio are so great, and the changes occur so quickly that no one can afford to make a will wherein a radio provision figures. Once we thought of having a radio loud speaker installed in our coffin to keep us company and make it less lonesome. After reading this story we quickly changed our mind. The possibilities are too various.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 173 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.94
Size: 15KB | 3,020 words | Posted:

839 The Air of Castor Oil by Jim Harmon

Let the dead past bury its dead? Not while I am alive, it won't!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 248 | Votes: 7 | Score: 6.94
Size: 28KB | 5,371 words | Posted:

840 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: 361 | Votes: 23 | Score: 6.93
Size: 9KB | 1,835 words | Posted:
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