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861 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: 535 | Votes: 28 | Score: 6.88
Size: 32KB | 5,887 words | Posted:

862 I Am a Nucleus by Stephen Barr

No doubt whatever about it, I had the Indian sign on me. my comfortably untidy world had suddenly turned into a monstrosity of order!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 222 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.88
Size: 60KB | 11,669 words | Posted:

863 Weak on Square Roots by Russell Burton

Does your wife call you Pumpkinhead? Well, maybe it's _not_ an insult; it might be a pet name. Ah--but _whose_ pet name?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 143 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 14KB | 2,693 words | Posted:

864 Beyond Pandora by Robert J. Martin

The ideal way to deal with a pest--any menace--is, of course, to make it useful to you....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 263 | Votes: 18 | Score: 6.88
Size: 4KB | 779 words | Posted:

865 Spacewrecked on Venus by Neil R. Jones

Interplanetary commerce, if and when it begins, will be fraught with all of the dangers that accompany pioneering expeditions. There will be the terrible climatic conditions on other worlds to be faced, strange beasts and plants; and perhaps desperate and greedy men. That was the case when every new land was opened on Earth and it may be expected to be true when we conquer the solar planets.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 225 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.87
Size: 46KB | 8,319 words | Posted:

866 Stopover Planet by Robert E. Gilbert

Early morning deliveries were part of the Honeychile Bakery Service. But on this particular morning the service was reversed!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 177 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.87
Size: 14KB | 2,477 words | Posted:

867 Master of Life and Death by Robert Silverberg

By the 23rd century Earth's population had reached seven billion.Mankind was in danger of perishing for lack of elbow room, unless prompt measures were taken. Roy Walton had the power to enforce those measures. But though his job was in the service of humanity, he soon found himself the most hated man in the world.For it was his job to tell parents their children were unfit to live; he had to uproot people from their homes and send them to remote areas of the world.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 468 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.86
Size: 252KB | 45,258 words | Posted:

868 From an Unseen Censor by Rosel George Brown

You can't beat my Uncle Isadore--he's dead but he's quick--yet that is just what he was daring me to try and do!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 244 | Votes: 18 | Score: 6.86
Size: 43KB | 8,592 words | Posted:

869 The Instant of Now by Irving E.Cox

One of the most intriguing of all science fiction patterns is that of the galactic sweep--the story which takes for granted human travel between stars at speeds far faster than the speed of light. In its most successful form, such a story combines cosmic action with a wholly human plot.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 318 | Votes: 17 | Score: 6.86
Size: 90KB | 16,089 words | Posted:

870 Butterfly 9 by Donald Keith

Jeff needed a job and this man had a job to offer--one where giant economy-size trouble had labels like fakemake, bumsy and peekage!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 316 | Votes: 19 | Score: 6.85
Size: 38KB | 7,236 words | Posted:
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