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861 City of Endless Night by Milo Hastings

When but a child of seven my uncle placed me in a private school in which one of the so-called redeemed sub-sailors was a teacher of the German language. As I look back now, in the light of my present knowledge, I better comprehend the docile humility and carefully nurtured ignorance of this man.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 354 | Votes: 8 | Score: 6.89
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862 The Worshippers by Damon Knight

Destiny reached out a hand to Algernon Weaver--but he was a timid man, at first. But on the strange world of Terranova, there was much to be learned--of destiny, and other things....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 290 | Votes: 8 | Score: 6.89
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863 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
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Downloads: 266 | Votes: 18 | Score: 6.88
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864 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
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Downloads: 226 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.88
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865 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
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Downloads: 150 | Votes: * | Score: *
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866 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
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Downloads: 253 | Votes: 8 | Score: 6.88
Size: 28KB | 5,371 words | Posted:

867 Creatures of the Light by Sophie Wenzel Ellis

He had striven to perfect the faultless man of the future, and had succeeded--too well. For in the pitilessly cold eyes of Adam, his super-human creation, Dr. Mundson saw only contempt--and annihilation--for the human race.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 173 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 79KB | 14,346 words | Posted:

868 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
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Downloads: 536 | Votes: 28 | Score: 6.88
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869 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
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Downloads: 230 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.87
Size: 46KB | 8,319 words | Posted:

870 Oh, Rats! by Miriam Allen DeFord

Orthedrin, maxiton and glutamic acid--they were the prescription that made him king of his world!
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Downloads: 217 | Votes: 13 | Score: 6.87
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