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1281 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: 757 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.23
Size: 573KB | 109,930 words | Posted:

1282 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: 432 | Votes: 7 | Score: 6.21
Size: 319KB | 59,602 words | Posted:

1283 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: 294 | Votes: 14 | Score: 6.20
Size: 58KB | 10,821 words | Posted:

1284 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: 323 | Votes: 6 | Score: 6.19
Size: 66KB | 12,614 words | Posted:

1285 Thoughts of the Worldstate by Henry Kuttner

The hideous Mr. Kuttner returns with an equally hideous tale. We absolutely guarantee this story will induce nausea and slight regurgitation. Lead on, McKuttner!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 145 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 3KB | 630 words | Posted:

1286 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: 515 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 500KB | 90,446 words | Posted:

1287 The Beautiful People by Charles Beaumont

Mary was a misfit. She didn't want to be beautiful. And she wasted time doing mad things--like eating and sleeping.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 219 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.14
Size: 30KB | 5,696 words | Posted:

1288 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: 448 | Votes: 14 | Score: 6.14
Size: 42KB | 7,509 words | Posted:

1289 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: 195 | Votes: 9 | Score: 6.14
Size: 45KB | 8,751 words | Posted:

1290 The Cavern World by James P. Olsen

A great oil field had gone dry--and Asher, trapped far under the earth among the revolting Petrolia, learns why.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 178 | Votes: 8 | Score: 6.12
Size: 39KB | 7,104 words | Posted:
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