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1341 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: 213 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 64KB | 11,474 words | Posted:

1342 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: 158 Votes: * | Score: *
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1343 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: 257 Votes: 19 | Score: 5.73
Size: 10KB | 2,045 words | Posted:

1344 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: 144 Votes: * | Score: *
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1345 The Amateurs by Alan Cogan

The ultimate show demanded the ultimate in showmanship--now if only Mr. Sims could measure up!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 187 Votes: 7 | Score: 5.73
Size: 16KB | 3,079 words | Posted:

1346 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: 163 Votes: 6 | Score: 5.73
Size: 29KB | 5,368 words | Posted:

1347 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: 208 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 40KB | 7,097 words | Posted:

1348 The Purple Pileous by H. G. Wells

Mr. Coombes was sick of life. He walked away from his unhappy home, and, sick not only of his own existence but of everybody else's, turned aside down Gaswork Lane to avoid the town, and, crossing the wooden bridge that goes over the canal to Starling's Cottages, was presently alone in the damp pine woods and out of sight and sound of human habitation. He would stand it no longer. He repeated aloud with blasphemies unusual to him that he would stand it no longer...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 184 Votes: * | Score: *
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1349 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: 274 Votes: 11 | Score: 5.64
Size: 25KB | 4,865 words | Posted:

1350 The Talkative Tree by H. B. Fyfe

Dang vines! Beats all how some plants have no manners--but what do you expect, when they used to be men!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 185 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 17KB | 3,159 words | Posted:
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