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1261 Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow

Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in a bohemian neighborhood. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings--wings, moreover, which grow back after each attempt to cut them off.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 818 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.23
Size: 573KB | 109,930 words | Posted:

1262 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: 230 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.23
Size: 69KB | 12,555 words | Posted:

1263 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: 561 | Votes: 43 | Score: 6.22
Size: 7KB | 1,249 words | Posted:

1264 A Crystal Age by W. H. Hudson

A young man is transported into the future, to a changed earth where men live in peace with each other and in harmony with the planet. As he struggles to come to grips with the contrast with his old life, he falls in love with one of the women of the family who have 'adopted' him.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 490 | Votes: 7 | Score: 6.21
Size: 319KB | 59,602 words | Posted:

1265 Voyage to Far N'Jurd by Kris Neville

They would never live to see the trip's end. So they made a few changes in their way of life--and many in their way of death!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 340 | Votes: 7 | Score: 6.20
Size: 66KB | 12,614 words | Posted:

1266 When the Mountain Came to Miramar by Charles Willard Diffin

It is magic against magic as Garry Connell bluffs for his life with a prehistoric savage in the heart of Sentinel Mountain.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 307 | Votes: 14 | Score: 6.20
Size: 58KB | 10,821 words | Posted:

1267 Oberheim (Voices): a Chronicle of War by Christopher Leadem

A war in space between existing and evolving world powers.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 543 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 500KB | 90,446 words | Posted:

1268 The Starless Domain by Jon Fenton

A crew from the Astral Horizons Initiative encounters a rogue planet drifting in the empty darkness between galaxies, with no sun or source of light. As they descend to explore, they find themselves trapped by an unnatural blackness that absorbs all energy, rendering their ship and equipment useless. When engineer Jamal travels to the surface with a team they realize they may be unable to escape. Strange shadows and visions invade their minds, revealing that the planet is a sentient void feeding
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Horror
Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Futuristic, Alternate Universe, Mind Control
Downloads: 162 | Votes: 8 | Score: 6.16
Size: 35KB | 7,039 words | Posted:

1269 Beyond Bedlam by Wyman Guin

However fantastic it may seem, the society so elaborately described in this story has its seeds in ours. Just check the data....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 277 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 119KB | 21,841 words | Posted:

1270 Shadow of the Mothaship by Cory Doctorow

Childhood rebellion? Rebellion against conforming? Rebellion against expectations? Rebellion against the state? All of the above.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 200 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.14
Size: 45KB | 8,751 words | Posted:
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