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921 The Untouchable by Stephen A. Kallis

You can see it--you can watch it--but mustn't touch!" And what could possibly be more frustrating. when you need, most violently, to get your hands on it for just one second....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 147 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.73
Size: 9KB | 1,827 words | Posted:

922 Get Out of Our Skies! by E. K. Jarvis

The long-suffering public went along with billboards and singing commercials; they tolerated half a dozen sales pitches in a half-hour radio or TV show; they suffered stoically through the "hard-sell" and the "soft-sell." But when the hucksters turned the wild blue yonder into a vast television screen, they howled.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 215 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.73
Size: 58KB | 10,627 words | Posted:

923 The Hour of Battle by Robert Sheckley

As one of the Guardian ships protecting Earth, the crew had a problem to solve. Just how do you protect a race from an enemy who can take over a man's mind without seeming effort or warning?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 428 | Votes: 22 | Score: 6.73
Size: 11KB | 1,984 words | Posted:

924 The Tree of Life by C.L. Moore

A gripping tale of the planet Mars and the terrible monstrosity that called its victims to it from afar--a tale of Northwest Smith.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 274 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.73
Size: 60KB | 10,981 words | Posted:

925 Not a Creature Was Stirring by Dean Evans

This could be a Christmas story. If it is, it shows one way peace on Earth can be attained!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 195 | Votes: 16 | Score: 6.72
Size: 27KB | 5,230 words | Posted:

926 The Cool War by Andrew Fetler

Here's what happens when two Master Spies tangle. and stay that way
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 224 | Votes: 11 | Score: 6.72
Size: 30KB | 5,279 words | Posted:

927 The Answer by H. Beam Piper

Lee Richardson and Alexis Pitov, two nuclear scientists, are participating in a thermonuclear test involving a rocket and negamatter. The test is decidedly not a test to develop into weapons-grade materials. However, Pitov and Richardson cannot help but consider the fate of Auburn, NY fifteen years ago when the nuclear event shocked the world. It had to be the Soviets. But the Soviets thought it was the Americans. Maybe it was the Australians? This new experimental test provides the answer.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 984 | Votes: 56 | Score: 6.72
Size: 25KB | 4,573 words | Posted:

928 The Spicy Sound of Success by Jim Harmon

Now was the captain's chance to prove he knew less than the crew--all their lives hung upon it!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 221 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.71
Size: 30KB | 5,709 words | Posted:

929 Danger! and Other Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

As Arthur writes in the preface that.The Title story of this volume was written about eighteen months before the outbreak of the war and was intended to direct public attention to the great danger which threatened their country. It is a matter of history how fully this warning has been justified and how, even down to the smallest details, the prediction has been fulfilled.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 539 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 308KB | 58,109 words | Posted:

930 The Weirdest World by R. A. Lafferty

Odd planet! The bipeds talked from their heads and saw only what lay before them. In short, they were pathetic--and deadly!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 455 | Votes: 20 | Score: 6.68
Size: 29KB | 5,719 words | Posted:
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