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1101 The Instant of Now by Irving E.Cox

One of the most intriguing of all science fiction patterns is that of the galactic sweep--the story which takes for granted human travel between stars at speeds far faster than the speed of light. In its most successful form, such a story combines cosmic action with a wholly human plot.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 325 | Votes: 17 | Score: 6.86
Size: 90KB | 16,089 words | Posted:

1102 Butterfly 9 by Donald Keith

Jeff needed a job and this man had a job to offer--one where giant economy-size trouble had labels like fakemake, bumsy and peekage!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 318 | Votes: 19 | Score: 6.85
Size: 38KB | 7,236 words | Posted:

1103 Hunger, Hunger, Sister Anne by Haro James

If you found an artifact from the future, what you would bargain for to return it? Gold? Stock tips? A burrito?
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction
Downloads: 709 | Votes: 26 | Score: 6.85
Size: 17KB | 3,152 words | Posted:

1104 What's He Doing in There? by Fritz Leiber

He went where no Martian ever went before--but would he come out--or had he gone for good?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 498 | Votes: 26 | Score: 6.84
Size: 10KB | 1,996 words | Posted:

1105 The Hoofer by Walter M. Miller

A wayfarer's return from a far country to his wife and family may be a shining experience, a kind of second honeymoon. Or it may be so shadowed by Time's relentless tyranny that the changes which have occurred in his absence can lead only to tragedy and despair. This rarely discerning, warmly human story by a brilliant newcomer to the science fantasy field is told with no pulling of punches, and its adroit unfolding will astound you.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 284 | Votes: 14 | Score: 6.84
Size: 21KB | 4,003 words | Posted:

1106 The Eye of Allah by C.D. Willard

On the fatal seventh of September a certain Secret Service man sat in the President's chair and--looked back into the Eye of Allah.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 350 | Votes: 28 | Score: 6.84
Size: 45KB | 8,210 words | Posted:

1107 The Danger From the Deep by Ralph Milne Farley

Marooned on the sea-floor, his hoisting cable cut, young Abbot is left at the mercy of the man-sharks.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 230 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.83
Size: 57KB | 10,297 words | Posted:

1108 Meddle by Jon Fenton

Based on the world, setting, and characters in Philip K Dick’s Second Variety. After Sam Walker's space shuttle was destroyed by a mysterious rocket, he thought he'd gotten lucky when another ship came along to rescue him. But when he finds out his rescuers also have his cargo and are holding him and a few others prisoner, he becomes suspicious about what Celmos Corp has him transporting to Mars.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Apocalyptic, Space, Futuristic, Robots, AI, Violence, Fan Fiction, Military, Mystery, Dystopian, Travel, Pulp Classic, Young Adult
Downloads: 843 | Votes: 58 | Score: 6.83
Size: 38KB | 7,246 words | Posted:

1109 Monkey on His Back by Charles V. De Vet

Under the cloud of cast-off identities lay the shape of another man-- was it himself?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 177 | Votes: 11 | Score: 6.82
Size: 26KB | 4,745 words | Posted:

1110 The Hills of Home by Alfred Coppel

"Normality" is a myth; we're all a little neurotic, and the study of neurosis has been able to classify the general types of disturbance which are most common. And some types (providing the subject is not suffering so extreme a case as to have crossed the border into psychosis) can be not only useful, but perhaps necessary for certain kinds of work....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 229 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.82
Size: 16KB | 3,053 words | Posted:
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