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1211 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: 344 | Votes: 18 | Score: 6.54
Size: 24KB | 4,581 words | Posted:

1212 “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: 229 | Votes: 17 | Score: 6.54
Size: 13KB | 2,247 words | Posted:

1213 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: 182 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.53
Size: 25KB | 4,536 words | Posted:

1214 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: 219 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.53
Size: 20KB | 3,601 words | Posted:

1215 The Parade by A Scribe

A story in the Warhammer 40K Universe
A parade, on a drill square.
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Military
Downloads: 437 | Votes: 23 | Score: 6.53
Size: 14KB | 2,484 words | Posted:

1216 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: 197 | Votes: 12 | Score: 6.53
Size: 7KB | 1,278 words | Posted:

1217 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: 198 | Votes: 6 | Score: 6.49
Size: 16KB | 2,981 words | Posted:

1218 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: 255 | Votes: 12 | Score: 6.49
Size: 23KB | 4,392 words | Posted:

1219 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: 195 | Votes: 12 | Score: 6.48
Size: 42KB | 7,804 words | Posted:

1220 Bad Medicine by Robert Sheckley

Elwood Caswell, a homicidal maniac who wants to murder his best friend. Knowing it was wrong, he stops to buy a therapeutic machine, one made by General Motors. In a hurry, he buys, for cash, the floor model. The clerk learns that the floor model was gauged for Martians, who knows what effect it would have on a human, and the hunt is on.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 378 | Votes: 19 | Score: 6.48
Size: 33KB | 5,814 words | Posted:
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