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1331 The Red Room by H. G. Wells

A young man volunteers to go and stay overnight in the Red Room? The room is known to be haunted and there are many myths and legends about death that are brought up during the story.... when his fear has taken his sense of reasoning and he tries to leave the room and accidently knocks him out. When he finally wakes up the next morning he realises that there was nothing supernatural about the room but only peoples fear of the unknown.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 174 | Votes: * | Score: *
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1332 Under the Knife by H. G. Wells

"What if I die under it?" The thought recurred again and again, as I walked home from Haddon's. It was a purely personal question. I was spared the deep anxieties of a married man, and I knew there were few of my intimate friends but would find my death troublesome chiefly on account of their duty of regret. I was surprised indeed, and perhaps a little humiliated, as I turned the matter over, to think how few could possibly exceed the conventional requirement.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 156 | Votes: * | Score: *
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1333 On Handling the Data by M. I. Mayfield

Sometimes a story is best told by omission--!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 169 | Votes: * | Score: *
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1334 Operation Earthworm by Joe Archibald

Here he is again, the irrepressible Septimus Spink, in a tale as rollicking as an elder giant juggling the stars and the planets in his great, golden hands and laughing mirthfully as one tiny world--our own--goes spinning away from him into caverns measureless to man.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 130 | Votes: * | Score: *
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1335 The Face and the Mask by Robert Barr

These four-and-twenty stories, though not by any means of equal merit, reach, on the whole, a good level of excellence. "The Chemistry of Anarchy" is in particular a capital tale. A young man entangles himself in some Anarchist plots, and is delivered by a scientific friend who finally frightens the revolu- tionists out of their wits. Somewhat resembling this is "A New Explosive." The recipient of a terrible secret thinks it best that secret and inventor should disappear together...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 171 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 376KB | 71,524 words | Posted:

1336 Transfer Point by Anthony Boucher

It was a nasty plot Vyrko was involved in. The worst part was that he constructed it himself--and didn't get the end right!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 158 | Votes: 6 | Score: 5.45
Size: 43KB | 7,889 words | Posted:

1337 The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad

Arthur Granger, an aristocratic and unsuccessful novelist, betrays the ideals he prides himself on for the unrequited love of a young woman. And no ordinary woman, she, but an ethereal, goddess-like, nameless agent from a strange world.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 276 | Votes: * | Score: *
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1338 Mizora: a Prophecy by Mary E. Bradley Lane

a Message Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch;Being a true and faithful account of her Journey to the Interior of the Earth, with a careful description of the Country and its Inhabitants,their Customs, Manners and Government.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 180 | Votes: * | Score: *
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1339 Timeline by Rodriac Copen

A theoretical physicist and a programmer-turned-writer debate the nature of time. Through an imaginative conversation, the physicist explains to his friend that time does not flow, but is an illusion. Fascinated by the idea that the future already exists but he cannot remember it, the writer decides to capture this revelation in a story… although, in some “now” of the universe, he may have already written it.
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Alternate Timeline, Near Future
Downloads: 156 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 8KB | 1,537 words | Posted:

1340 World's Policeman by Thomas James

Readers are presented with the Project summary for global wide suppression of military assets by means of AI controlled alien technology
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Politics
Downloads: 193 | Votes: 7 | Score: 5.43
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