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1211 Contagion by Katherine MacLean

Minos was such a lovely planet. Not a thing seemed wrong with it. Excepting the food, perhaps. And a disease that wasn't really.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 211 | Votes: 8 | Score: 6.54
Size: 61KB | 11,203 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: 234 | Votes: 17 | Score: 6.54
Size: 13KB | 2,247 words | Posted:

1213 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: 166 | Votes: 8 | Score: 6.54
Size: 19KB | 3,623 words | Posted:

1214 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: 348 | Votes: 18 | Score: 6.54
Size: 24KB | 4,581 words | Posted:

1215 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:

1216 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:

1217 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: 441 | Votes: 23 | Score: 6.53
Size: 14KB | 2,484 words | Posted:

1218 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:

1219 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:

1220 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:
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