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411 The Stutterer by Reuben Merliss

A man can be killed by a toy gun--he can die of fright, for heart attacks can kill. What, then, is the deadly thing that must be sealed away, forever locked in buried concrete--a thing or an idea?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 231 | Votes: 17 | Score: 8.00
Size: 54KB | 10,202 words | Posted:

412 Prime Difference by Alan Edward Nourse

Being two men rolled out of one would solve my problems--but which one would I be?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 306 | Votes: 22 | Score: 8.00
Size: 26KB | 5,093 words | Posted:

413 When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells

A man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 853 | Votes: 10 | Score: 8.00
Size: 459KB | 82,224 words | Posted:

414 The Last Evolution by John W. Campbell Jr.

"I am the last of my type existing today in all the Solar System. I, too, am the last existing who, in memory, sees the struggle for this System, and in memory I am still close to the Center of Rulers, for mine was the ruling type then. But I will pass soon, and with me will pass the last of my kind, a poor inefficient type, but yet the creators of those who are now, and will be, long after I pass forever..."
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 575 | Votes: 26 | Score: 8.00
Size: 38KB | 6,592 words | Posted:

415 The Seeding Book 1 by Pars001

A simple man trying to eek out a living has an encounter that changes his life forever.
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Futuristic, Nanotechnology, Near Future, Violence, Science, War, Assassins
Downloads: 4937 | Votes: 233 | Score: 8.00
Size: 68KB | 13,442 words | Posted: Concluded:

416 Second Childhood by Clifford D. Simak

Achieving immortality is only half of the problem. The other half is knowing how to live with it once it's been made possible--and inescapable!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 778 | Votes: 27 | Score: 7.99
Size: 34KB | 6,615 words | Posted:

417 The Dwindling Years by Lester Del Rey

He didn't expect to be last-but neither did he anticipate the horror of being the first!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 482 | Votes: 31 | Score: 7.99
Size: 30KB | 5,701 words | Posted:

418 Juju by Murray Leinster

A 1919 pulp-press tale of deepest darkest Africa.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 468 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.99
Size: 139KB | 26,539 words | Posted:

419 A Spaceship Named Mcguire by Randall Garrett

The basic trouble with McGuire was that, though "he" was a robot spaceship, nevertheless "he" had a definite weakness that a man might understand....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 991 | Votes: 58 | Score: 7.99
Size: 85KB | 16,545 words | Posted:

420 My Lady Greensleeves by Frederik Pohl

This guard smelled trouble and it could be counted on to come--for a nose for trouble was one of the many talents bred here!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 512 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.99
Size: 77KB | 14,339 words | Posted:
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