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1251 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:

1252 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: 446 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 691KB | 120,785 words | Posted:

1253 Waste Not, Want by Dave Dryfoos

Eat your spinach, little man! It's good for you. Stuff yourself with it. Be a good little consumer, or the cops will get you.... For such is the law of supply and demand!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 212 | Votes: 12 | Score: 6.33
Size: 14KB | 2,612 words | Posted:

1254 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:

1255 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: 138 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 56KB | 10,613 words | Posted:

1256 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:

1257 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: 395 | Votes: 15 | Score: 6.28
Size: 15KB | 2,936 words | Posted:

1258 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: 474 | Votes: 15 | Score: 6.28
Size: 42KB | 7,509 words | Posted:

1259 Red Storm by Rodriac Copen

During an expedition to Mars astronauts Brenda Ivanova and Ralph Brown become trapped in a fierce dust storm. Seeking shelter, they discover a structure buried in the sand that leads to a dark corridor with sealed doors and unknown symbols. They soon realize that someone—or something—is waiting for them. As they try to unravel the mystery, they wonder if what they experienced was really just an illusion. What secrets does the mysterious corridor on Mars hold what is it trying to warn them about?
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Futuristic, Alternate Universe, Alternate Timeline
Downloads: 691 | Votes: 43 | Score: 6.28
Size: 7KB | 1,249 words | Posted:

1260 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:
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