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1001 Problem by Alan Edward Nourse

In exchange for the promise of an almost limitless fuel, earth agrees to allow the alien Grdnzth people to gather on earth for transit to a planet as their is going to be destroyed. The Grdnzth are ugly, looking rather like reptiles. They also pop in anywhere, anytime unannounced. It's the job of PR men Pete Greenwood and Tommy Heinz to get the public to accept the Grdnzth and the inconvenience...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 296 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.10
Size: 26KB | 4,883 words | Posted:

1002 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: 833 | Votes: 64 | Score: 7.09
Size: 13KB | 2,475 words | Posted:

1003 Reel Life Films by Sam Merwin

At least a contributing factor to the current cycle of science fiction movies being made in Hollywood is the touchiness of minorities having their nationals being portrayed as villains. Cinema-makers are now trying to avoid further boycotts by using space aliens for villains. But suppose some of our Extraterrestrial neighbors are also a bit touchy?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 242 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.09
Size: 15KB | 2,806 words | Posted:

1004 The Small World of M-75 by John Buchan

For all his perfection and magnificence he was but a baby with a new found freedom in a strange and baffling world....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 258 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.09
Size: 28KB | 4,918 words | Posted:

1005 Two Weeks in August by Frank M. Robinson

The humblest events sometimes result from the most grandiose beginnings. You'd never imagine space travel starting this way, for instance!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 614 | Votes: 27 | Score: 7.09
Size: 13KB | 2,467 words | Posted:

1006 The Push I by A Scribe

A story in the Warhammer 40K Universe
A bit of assault action.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, War, Military
Downloads: 886 | Votes: 57 | Score: 7.09
Size: 18KB | 3,319 words | Posted:

1007 The Death-cloud by Nathan Schachner

The epic exploit of one who worked in the dark and alone, behind the enemy lines, in the great Last War.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 360 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.08
Size: 62KB | 11,648 words | Posted:

1008 Doorstep by Keith Laumer

The general was bucking for his other star--and this miserable contraption bucked right back!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 646 | Votes: 40 | Score: 7.08
Size: 10KB | 1,973 words | Posted:

1009 Something Will Turn Up by David Mason

Err. maybe it had to do with this being a non-Parity universe, perhaps? Some things can't be simply inverted, after all....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 214 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.08
Size: 11KB | 2,087 words | Posted:

1010 Felony by James Causey

Vogel started with crossword puzzles. and worked his way up to Man's greatest enigma!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 247 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.08
Size: 16KB | 2,926 words | Posted:
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