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1251 In the Year 2889 by Jules Verne

In the year 2889, people "consume food that is compounded and prepared according to scientific principles, and they breathe an atmosphere freed from the micro-organisms that formerly used to swarm in it; hence they live longer than their forefathers and know nothing of the innumerable diseases of olden times.". Rumours has it that nutritive air is yet to be discovered.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 217 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 32KB | 5,568 words | Posted:

1252 Poisoned Air by Sterner St. Paul Meek

Again Dr. Bird closes with the evil Saranoff--this time near the Aberdeen Proving Ground, in a deadly, mysterious blanket of fog.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 134 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 56KB | 10,613 words | Posted:

1253 Dr. Heidenhoff's Process by Edward Bellamy

A novel about a doctor who develops a method of eradicating painful memories from people's brains so that they can feel good about life again.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 159 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 175KB | 32,705 words | Posted:

1254 Breeder World by Ernest Bywater

A story in the Breeder World Universe
World War Three has come and gone, most of the world population are dead. The survival of the race is now at grave risk and society has changed beyond recognition. Learn what happened and what was done to keep the human race alive. - This short story sets the background for the rest of the stories in the universe.
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Futuristic, Politics, Violence
Downloads: 2583 | Votes: 120 | Score: 6.30
Size: 14KB | 2,648 words | Posted:

1255 The Rag and Bone Men by Algis Budrys

Unfortunate castaway! Marooned far from home--with nothing to share his loneliness but humans!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 386 | Votes: 15 | Score: 6.28
Size: 15KB | 2,936 words | Posted:

1256 The Leader by Murray Leinster

The trouble with being a Superman, with Super powers, and knowing it, is it's so easy to overlook the unpleasant possibility of a super-superman!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 470 | Votes: 15 | Score: 6.28
Size: 42KB | 7,509 words | Posted:

1257 The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley

Will Barrent had no memory of his crime... but he found himself shipped across space to a brutal prison-planet. On Omega, his only chance to advance himself -- and stay alive -- is to commit an endless series of violent crimes. The average inmate's life expectancy from time of arrival is three years. Can Barrett survive, escape, and return to Earth to clear his name?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 603 | Votes: 13 | Score: 6.27
Size: 254KB | 45,665 words | Posted:

1258 The Jilting of Jane by H. G. Wells

A little tale about a maid whose fiance leaves her for a woman of higher standing and how that maid deals with her jilting.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 297 | Votes: 14 | Score: 6.27
Size: 14KB | 2,684 words | Posted:

1259 Martians Never Die by Lucius Daniel

It was a wonderful bodyguard: no bark, no bite, no sting. just conversion of the enemy!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 242 | Votes: 18 | Score: 6.24
Size: 25KB | 4,766 words | Posted:

1260 The Revolt of the Machines by Nathan Schachner

Something in the many-faceted mind of the master machine spurs it to diabolical revolt against the authority of its human masters.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 203 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.24
Size: 64KB | 11,734 words | Posted:
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