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1231 Lease to Doomsday by Lee Archer

The twins were a rare team indeed. They wanted to build a printing plant on a garbage dump. When Muldoon asked them why, their answer was entirely logical: "Because we live here."
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 381 | Votes: 25 | Score: 6.37
Size: 29KB | 5,480 words | Posted:

1232 The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'brien

An obsessed amateur scientist steals a diamond (and murders its owner) in order to make a lens for a super-powerful microscope; his experiment succeeds but he is driven mad by what he discovers.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 139 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 51KB | 9,219 words | Posted:

1233 Extracts for the Galactick Almanack by Laurence M. Janifer

Don't take your eye off music. there is going to be a lot more to it than meets the ear!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 178 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 15KB | 2,711 words | Posted:

1234 Dream World by R. A. Lafferty

It was the awfullest dream in the world, no doubt about it. In fact, it seemed to be the only dream there was!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 151 | Votes: 7 | Score: 6.34
Size: 12KB | 2,382 words | Posted:

1235 The Back of Our Heads by Stephen Barr

She traveled from life to death and back again like a commuter on the 5:15. except each trip brought her nearer the beginning of the line!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 113 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 78KB | 14,958 words | Posted:

1236 The Circuit Riders by R.C. FitzPatrick

On the Board, they were just little lights that glowed. But out there in the night of the city-jungle, they represented human passions-- virulent emotions-- and deadly crimes-to-be.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 164 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 32KB | 6,151 words | Posted:

1237 Raiders Invisible by Anthony Gilmore

Alone and unaided, Pilot Travers copes with the invisible foes who have struck down America's great engine of war.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 226 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.34
Size: 69KB | 12,555 words | Posted:

1238 Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore

Neither the vegetation nor people in this book are entirely fictitious. But, reader, no person pictured here is you. With one exception. You, Sir, Miss, or Madam--whatever your country or station--are Albert Weener. As I am Albert Weener.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 439 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 691KB | 120,785 words | Posted:

1239 Sleeping Beauty and the Mechanical Jungle by Opal

In this broken futuristic world, the princess might have slept for too long, forgotten too much, lost too many limbs, trusted the wrong fairy mechas... and maybe, just maybe done something very wrong. Will she wake up from this nightmare?
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Futuristic, Robots, Violence, Dystopian
Downloads: 294 | Votes: 8 | Score: 6.34
Size: 27KB | 5,165 words | Posted:

1240 Slave Planet by Laurence M. Janifer

As the space fleets of an outraged Terran Confederation close in on the outlaw planet of Fruyling's World, the destinies of slave and master meet explosively, and from the shock of battle and its aftermath come an unexpected and awesome conclusion.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Slavery, Fantasy, Super Hero, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 833 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.34
Size: 209KB | 39,587 words | Posted:
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