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991 Piper in the Woods by Phillip K. Dick

"Well, Corporal Westerburg," Doctor Henry Harris said gently, "just why do you think you're a plant?" As he spoke, Harris glanced down again at the card on his desk. It was from the Base Commander himself, made out in Cox's heavy scrawl: Doc, this is the lad I told you about. Talk to him and try to find out how he got this delusion. He's from the new Garrison, the new check-station on Asteroid Y-3, and we don't want anything to go wrong there. Especially a silly damn thing like this!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 467 Votes: 32 | Score: 7.12
Size: 39KB | 7,416 words | Posted:

992 The Hyborian Age by Robert E. Howard

In the Hyborian age, the major events of Howard's pseudohistorical prehistory, both period before and after the time of the Conan stories. In describing the cataclysmic end of the Thurian Age, the period described in his Kull stories, Howard links both sequences of stories into one shared universe.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 389 Votes: 7 | Score: 7.11
Size: 51KB | 8,568 words | Posted:

993 The Thief of Time by Captain S.P. Meek

The teller turned to the stacked pile of bills. They were gone! And no one had been near!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 410 Votes: 28 | Score: 7.11
Size: 43KB | 8,210 words | Posted:

994 Remember the Alamo! by T. R. Fehrenbach

This Is, I Think, One of the Most Powerful Comments on the Modern Social Philosophy I Have Seen--a Really Blood-Chilling Little Tale....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 417 Votes: 22 | Score: 7.11
Size: 22KB | 4,241 words | Posted:

995 New Hire by Dave Dryfoos

Very admirable rule: Never do tomorrow what you can put off until after the age of forty!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 288 Votes: 16 | Score: 7.11
Size: 11KB | 2,179 words | Posted:

996 World in a Bottle by Allen Kim Lang

Star-crossed? Worse than that! Even Earth itself was hopelessly out of reach for these landlocked space-travelers who lived in a--
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 291 Votes: 15 | Score: 7.11
Size: 73KB | 13,328 words | Posted:

997 Oops by Chaon

How does the world end? Not with a bang or a whimper but with an oops.
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Apocalyptic, Near Future
Downloads: 898 Votes: 66 | Score: 7.11
Size: 13KB | 2,475 words | Posted:

998 Hunt the Hunter by Kris Neville

Of course using live bait is the best way to lure dangerous alien animals. unless it turns out that you are the bait!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 463 Votes: 22 | Score: 7.11
Size: 30KB | 5,686 words | Posted:

999 Warrior Race by Robert Sheckley

Destroying the spirit of the enemy is the goal of war and the aliens had the best way!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 383 Votes: 24 | Score: 7.11
Size: 22KB | 3,967 words | Posted:

1000 The Anglers of Arz by Roger D. Aycock

In order to make Izaak Walton's sport complete, there must be an angler, a fish, and some bait. All three existed on Arz but there was a question as to which was which.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 248 Votes: 16 | Score: 7.11
Size: 17KB | 3,063 words | Posted:
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