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1201 A Bottle of Old Wine by Richard O. Lewis

A grim tale of a future in which everyone is desperate to escape reality, and a hero who wants to have his wine and drink it, too.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 162 | Votes: 8 | Score: 6.54
Size: 19KB | 3,623 words | Posted:

1202 Fresh Air Fiend by Kris Neville

Sick and helpless, he was very lucky to have a faithful native woman to nurse him. Or was he?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 339 | Votes: 18 | Score: 6.54
Size: 24KB | 4,581 words | Posted:

1203 “the Event Horizon of Life” You Can’t Teleport a Soul by Thomas James

Explores a proof for the nature of life
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Spiritual
Downloads: 228 | Votes: 17 | Score: 6.54
Size: 13KB | 2,247 words | Posted:

1204 The Fourth Invasion by Robert W. Lowndes

Psychopathology has offered possible answers to why, from time to time, people in large quantities "see" strange things in the sky which manage to evade trained scientific observers, or conform to what is known about the behavior of falling or flying bodies. And mass hysteria is by no means a product of the present century. But--what if these human foibles were deliberately being exploited?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 195 | Votes: 12 | Score: 6.53
Size: 7KB | 1,278 words | Posted:

1205 Always a Qurono by Jim Harmon

You too can be a Qurono. All you need do is geoplanct. All you need know is when to stop!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 177 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.53
Size: 25KB | 4,536 words | Posted:

1206 Join Our Gang? by Sterling E. Lanier

They didn't exactly hold a gun at anybody's head; all they offered was help. Of course, they did sort of encourage people to ask for help....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 218 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.53
Size: 20KB | 3,601 words | Posted:

1207 Small World by William F. Nolan

What will happen when the alien ships strike Earth? And later? Who will survive? What will life be like in that latter-day jungle? William F. Nolan, well known in SF circles on the West Coast, returns with this grim story of the days and the nights of Lewis Stillman--survivor.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 587 | Votes: 30 | Score: 6.53
Size: 20KB | 3,682 words | Posted:

1208 Blueblood by Jim Harmon

There were two varieties of aliens--blue and bluer--but not as blue as the Earthmen!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 249 | Votes: 12 | Score: 6.49
Size: 23KB | 4,392 words | Posted:

1209 The Apple by H. G. Wells

Mr. Hinchcliff looked up, hearing imperfectly. He had been lost in the rapt contemplation of the college cap tied by a string to his portmanteau handles-the outward and visible sign of his newly-gained pedagogic position-in the rapt appreciation of the college cap and the pleasant anticipations it excited. For Mr. Hinchcliff had just matriculated at London University, and was going to be junior assistant at the Holmwood Grammar School-a very enviable position.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 193 | Votes: 6 | Score: 6.49
Size: 16KB | 2,981 words | Posted:

1210 Ambition by William L. Bade

To the men of the future, the scientific goals of today were as incomprehensible as the ancient quest for the Holy Grail!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 187 | Votes: 12 | Score: 6.48
Size: 42KB | 7,804 words | Posted:
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