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1311 With the Night Mail: a Story of 2000 a.D by Rudyard Kipling

By 2000 A.D, airships have replaced aircraft for freight and human travel. Kipling's novella follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling foul weather, while detailing a planet-wide Aerial Board of Control (A.B.C.), which enforces a rigid system of command and control not only in the skies but in world affairs too; they outlaw war in 1967.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 202 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 64KB | 11,474 words | Posted:

1312 The Destroyer by William Merriam Rouse

Slowly, insidiously, there stole over Allen Parker something uncanny. He could no longer control his hands--even his brain!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 144 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 40KB | 7,431 words | Posted:

1313 A Fall of Glass by Stanley R. Lee

The weatherman was always right: Temperature, 59; humidity, 47%; occasional light showers--but of what?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 154 | Votes: 6 | Score: 5.73
Size: 29KB | 5,368 words | Posted:

1314 People's Soup by Alan Arkin

When you took pot luck with this kitchen scientist, not even the poor pot was lucky!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 239 | Votes: 19 | Score: 5.73
Size: 10KB | 2,045 words | Posted:

1315 As Long as You Wish by John O'Keefe

If, somehow, you get trapped in a circular time system. how long is the circumference of an infinitely retraced circle?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 137 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 9KB | 1,702 words | Posted:

1316 Up for Renewal by Lucius Daniel

"I'd give a year off my life to...." Idle talk now, but it was ghastly reality to Kent!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 107 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 8KB | 1,535 words | Posted:

1317 The Sun King by Gaston Derreaux

The people of Par'si'ya forgot their God, and worshipped only murder, and sin. But then the virgin Too-che gave birth to a male child....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 116 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 15KB | 2,993 words | Posted:

1318 The Big Tomorrow by Richard S. Shaver

There are certain rare individuals in this world who seem bereft of all common sense. These are the people who set their eyes upon an objective and immediately all intelligence, logic, good advice, unsolvable problems, and insurmountable obstacles go completely by the boards. The characters we refer to are obviously are just plain stupid. What they want to do, just can't be done.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 175 | Votes: 7 | Score: 5.69
Size: 28KB | 5,433 words | Posted:

1319 Watchbird by Robert Sheckley

Strange how often the Millennium has been at hand. The idea is peace on Earth, see, and the way to do it is by figuring out angles.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 187 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 40KB | 7,097 words | Posted:

1320 Cyber-prod by Jon Fenton

In a Post-Apocalyptic yet hyper-advanced world, Alex notices subtle changes in his thoughts—unbidden ideas that feel familiar and foreign. As he delves deeper, he uncovers a chilling link between technology and human autonomy, forcing him to question the boundaries of control and identity.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Robots, AI, Mind Control, Dystopian, Hackers
Downloads: 219 | Votes: 11 | Score: 5.64
Size: 25KB | 4,865 words | Posted:
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