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671 Preferred Risk by Edson McCann

The Company was a powerful, efficient, and monstrous insurance organization that controlled the entire world, scientifically regulating everything in life: war, epidemics, one-a-day food pills and test-tube sex...all through the use of its patented, terrifying human deep-freeze vault. Claims Adjuster Wills, a great believer in the Company, begins to have second thoughts when he meets beautiful and sorrowful Rena, whose radical father lies in a frozen subterranean vault.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 412 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.53
Size: 316KB | 59,504 words | Posted:

672 The Man Who Was Dead by Thomas H. Knight

Set in the backwoods of the United States during a cold dark night, a stranger has a horrid tale to tell.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 181 | Votes: 6 | Score: 7.53
Size: 30KB | 6,043 words | Posted:

673 Holocaust by Charles Willard Diffin

The extraordinary story of "Paul," who for thirty days was Dictator of the World.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 248 | Votes: 9 | Score: 7.52
Size: 60KB | 11,307 words | Posted:

674 Spawn of the Comet by H. Thompson Rich

A swarm of huge, fiery ants, brood of a mystery comet, burst from their shells to threaten the unsuspecting world.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 161 | Votes: 6 | Score: 7.52
Size: 49KB | 8,772 words | Posted:

675 A Traveler in Time by August Derleth

He threw open the thick-walled door of his time-machine and pulled it shut behind him. He sat down before the controls and began to chart his course for 1650.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Time Travel
Tags: Science Fiction, Time Travel
Downloads: 1702 | Votes: 66 | Score: 7.51
Size: 26KB | 5,103 words | Posted:

676 Red Nails by Robert E. Howard

Death! Decay! Red Nails really is something special. It's classic Conan! Conan lovers consider Red Nails to be one of the best, and you know, they make a point
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 558 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.51
Size: 171KB | 31,331 words | Posted:

677 Foundling on Venus by Dorothy De Courcy and John De Courcy

Venus was the most miserable planet in the system, peopled by miserable excuses for human beings. And somewhere among this conglomeration of boiling protoplasm there was a being unlike the others, a being who walked and talked like the others but who was different--and afraid the difference would be discovered. You'll remember this short story.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 352 | Votes: 25 | Score: 7.51
Size: 16KB | 3,163 words | Posted:

678 Craphound by Cory Doctorow

An antiques collector in a peculiar post-contact world where exccentric aliens do strange deeds.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 332 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.51
Size: 38KB | 7,199 words | Posted:

679 Circus by Alan Edward Nourse

Alien space explorer traveling via warps is now trapped on Earth. And he can't convince anyone he isn't human
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 841 | Votes: 55 | Score: 7.51
Size: 12KB | 2,472 words | Posted:

680 Breeder Reaction by Winston Marks

The remarkable thing about Atummyc Afterbath Dusting Powder was that it gave you that lovely, radiant, atomic look--just the way the advertisements said it would. In fact, it also gave you a little something more!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 615 | Votes: 52 | Score: 7.50
Size: 22KB | 4,220 words | Posted:
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