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1181 Blind Man's Lantern by Allen Kim Lang

Successful colonies among the stars require interstellar ships--but they require, also, a very special kind of man. A kind you might not think to look for....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 535 | Votes: 32 | Score: 6.63
Size: 67KB | 12,289 words | Posted:

1182 Lost in the Future by John Victor Peterson

Did you ever wonder what might happen if mankind ever exceeded the speed of light? Here is a profound story based on that thought--a story which may well forecast one of the problems to be encountered in space travel.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 548 | Votes: 28 | Score: 6.63
Size: 5KB | 920 words | Posted:

1183 The Cuckoo Clock by Wesley Barefoot

You know a murderer preys on your household--lives with you--depends on you--and you have no defence!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 123 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 15KB | 2,851 words | Posted:

1184 The Mightiest Man by Patrick Fahy

He had betrayed mankind, but he was not afraid of the consequences--ever!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 253 | Votes: 12 | Score: 6.63
Size: 9KB | 1,790 words | Posted:

1185 The Piper by Ron Reynolds

Even in space there is pipers and musicians...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 158 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.62
Size: 8KB | 1,486 words | Posted:

1186 The Incident by Rodriac Copen

Upon arrival at Proxima Centauri, the Exodus-9 crew detects a mysterious object floating in space. They believe it is an alien threat and are panicked. What follows is a chain of absurd misunderstandings, extreme paranoia, and catastrophic decisions that almost spark an interplanetary conflict... against a piece of human junk. Only a stroke of luck prevents a thermonuclear conflict.
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Futuristic, AI, Humor, Parody
Downloads: 312 | Votes: 16 | Score: 6.62
Size: 4KB | 687 words | Posted:

1187 Flamedown by H. B. Fyfe

It was, of course, one Hell of an ending for a trip to Mars--
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 281 | Votes: 15 | Score: 6.62
Size: 7KB | 1,411 words | Posted:

1188 But, I Don't Think by Randall Garrett

As every thinking man knows, every slave always yearns for the freedom his master denies him...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 366 | Votes: 19 | Score: 6.62
Size: 62KB | 11,595 words | Posted:

1189 Name Your Symptom by Jim Harmon

Anybody who shunned a Cure needed his head examined--assuming he had one left!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 199 | Votes: 12 | Score: 6.62
Size: 27KB | 5,067 words | Posted:

1190 Invasion by A Scribe

A story in the Warhammer 40K Universe
I originally wrote this back in October 2006 as the precursor to a series. Then I lost it. Now I have found it by chance via the internet wayback machine. The series was 'The Loyndl Incursion' and consisted of this, 'Arbitrary Arbites', 'Shopping with the girlfriend' three separate 'Tobias' stories and a couple of others.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Fan Fiction
Downloads: 513 | Votes: 26 | Score: 6.62
Size: 5KB | 1,030 words | Posted:
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