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1061 A Bad Day for Sales by Fritz Leiber

Don't wait to "Get 'em while they're hot." By then, it is too late to get them of all!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 385 Votes: 16 | Score: 6.99
Size: 12KB | 2,256 words | Posted:

1062 Handyman by Frank Banta

They didn't have to worry about a thing for the rest of their natural lives....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 408 Votes: 22 | Score: 6.99
Size: 5KB | 1,038 words | Posted:

1063 My Friend Bobby by Alan Edward Nourse

A five-year-old boy can communicate with his dog via think-talk. The little boy finds another friend, a panda, to make their trio dependent only on themselves, not to include his parents. His mother goes nuts, thinking they can read her mind, his father isn't so sure at first. How independent the little boy, dog, and panda become is the shocking and creepy ending you won't forget.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 520 Votes: 37 | Score: 6.98
Size: 22KB | 4,872 words | Posted:

1064 A City Near Centaurus by Bill Doede

The city was sacred, but not to its gods. Michaelson was a god--but far from sacred!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 283 Votes: 15 | Score: 6.97
Size: 27KB | 5,026 words | Posted:

1065 Lost in Translation by Laurence M. Janifer

In language translation, you may get a literally accurate word-for-word translation. but miss the meaning entirely. And in space-type translation. the effect may be the same!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 279 Votes: 18 | Score: 6.97
Size: 23KB | 4,224 words | Posted:

1066 Texas Week by Albert Hernhuter

One of the chief purposes of psychiatry is to separate fantasy from reality. It is reasonable to expect that future psychiatrists will know more about this borderline than the most learned doctors of today. Yet now and again even the best of them may encounter situations that defy all logic.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 225 Votes: 14 | Score: 6.97
Size: 7KB | 1,395 words | Posted:

1067 Lemarchand by A Scribe

A story in the Warhammer 40K Universe
An attempt at a darker side of 40K. Some day I wouldn't mind going back to this and adding more chapters.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Horror, Cults, War, Military, Supernatural
Downloads: 415 Votes: 16 | Score: 6.97
Size: 24KB | 4,492 words | Posted:

1068 Fallibly Human by Jon Fenton

Orson Walters is an Andriod (who prefers the term "mechanical human) is going for his first job and needs to stand out among the other robot applicants. Will his creator Joe's advice help him?
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Robots, AI, Coming of Age, Drama, Parable
Downloads: 671 Votes: 35 | Score: 6.97
Size: 3KB | 755 words | Posted:

1069 Slaves of Mercury by Nathan Schachner

Hilary returns to find alien diskoids in Earth's stratosphere, and out-world lords patrolling her cities.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 303 Votes: 14 | Score: 6.97
Size: 173KB | 30,664 words | Posted:

1070 Whiskaboom by Alan Arkin

Jack's blunder was disastrous, but what he worried about was: would Einstein have approved?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 391 Votes: 24 | Score: 6.97
Size: 9KB | 1,835 words | Posted:
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