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1111 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: 289 | Votes: 14 | Score: 6.84
Size: 21KB | 4,003 words | Posted:

1112 Blind Spot by Bascom Jones

Everyone supported the Martian program--until it struck home!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 312 | Votes: 21 | Score: 6.83
Size: 11KB | 2,117 words | Posted:

1113 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: 232 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.83
Size: 57KB | 10,297 words | Posted:

1114 The Invisible Death by Victor Rousseau

With night-rays and darkness-antidote America strikes back at the terrific and destructive Invisible Empire.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 262 | Votes: 7 | Score: 6.83
Size: 169KB | 30,426 words | Posted:

1115 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: 851 | Votes: 58 | Score: 6.83
Size: 38KB | 7,246 words | Posted:

1116 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: 182 | Votes: 11 | Score: 6.82
Size: 26KB | 4,745 words | Posted:

1117 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: 231 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.82
Size: 16KB | 3,053 words | Posted:

1118 The Moon Is Green by Fritz Leiber

Anybody who wanted to escape death could, by paying a very simple price--denial of life!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 262 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.81
Size: 32KB | 6,099 words | Posted:

1119 Millennium by Everett B. Cole

There are devices a high-level culture could produce that simply don't belong in the hands of incompetents of lower cultural evolution. The finest, and most civilized of tools can be made a menace.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 436 | Votes: 13 | Score: 6.81
Size: 101KB | 18,578 words | Posted:

1120 In Search of the Unknown by Robert W. Chambers

In search of fantastic unknown creatures and monsters
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1079 | Votes: 11 | Score: 6.81
Size: 394KB | 71,855 words | Posted:
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