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1211 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: 373 | Votes: 19 | Score: 6.48
Size: 33KB | 5,814 words | Posted:

1212 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: 251 | Votes: 6 | Score: 6.48
Size: 169KB | 30,426 words | Posted:

1213 Someone to Watch Over Me by Christopher Grimm

Len Mattern is a space merchant, seasoned from decades of meandering from star to star in a tramp freighter. His obsession is the high-class prostitute, Lyddy, and Len has spent his entire adult life amassing sufficient wealth to wed her, which he does at the story's beginning. The rest of the tale is told mostly in flashback.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 408 | Votes: 6 | Score: 6.47
Size: 116KB | 22,031 words | Posted:

1214 Nice Girl With 5 Husbands by Fritz Leiber

Adventure is relative to one's previous experience. Sometimes, in fact, you can't even be sure you're having or not having one!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 239 | Votes: 7 | Score: 6.47
Size: 24KB | 4,448 words | Posted:

1215 The Slip by Jon Fenton

Abby Wright is a reporter for the local news station KRT whose husband Ellis disappeared a week ago. She's good friends with an engineer from the station named Cole and has dinner with him. Later they go out on a walk on a woods trail in a park where strange alterations in reality start taking place.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Alternate Universe, Alternate Timeline, Crime, Drama, Spiritual, Mystery
Downloads: 789 | Votes: 44 | Score: 6.47
Size: 34KB | 7,128 words | Posted:

1216 The Dark Door by Alan Edward Nourse

Harry Scott is being pursued by some things. They're not human. They're not-men. A door bangs. Footsteps tread heavy. A phone ringing. Can Doctor Webber help poor, delusional Harry?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 267 | Votes: 13 | Score: 6.47
Size: 47KB | 8,844 words | Posted:

1217 Shopping With the Girlfriend by A Scribe

A story in the Warhammer 40K Universe
A young couple out shopping. What could possibly go wrong...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, War
Downloads: 429 | Votes: 32 | Score: 6.46
Size: 21KB | 3,951 words | Posted:

1218 The Rat Race by Jay Franklin

Lieutenant Commander Frank Jacklin is blown up in a thorium bomb explosion while on the battleship Alaska. He awakens in the body of Winnie Tompkins who had perpetrated the explosion. As Tompkins, he learns of a plot by German agents to poison Franklin D. Roosevelt and he tries to warn the authorities. He continues to become involved in intrigue until another accident restores Tompkins to his body, leaving Jacklin in the body of a dog.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 283 | Votes: 7 | Score: 6.46
Size: 429KB | 82,604 words | Posted:

1219 The Gray Plague by L. A. Eshbach

Maimed and captive, in the depths of an interplanetary meteor-craft, lay the only possible savior of plague-ridden Earth.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 233 | Votes: 8 | Score: 6.45
Size: 66KB | 11,699 words | Posted:

1220 The Weakling by Everett B. Cole

A strong man can, of course, be dangerous, but he doesn't approach the vicious deadliness of a weakling--with a weapon!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 391 | Votes: 15 | Score: 6.45
Size: 92KB | 17,131 words | Posted:
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