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791 Prelude to Space by Robert W. Haseltine

You're certain to be included in a survey at one time or another. However, there's one you may not recognize as such. Chances are it will be more important than you imagine. It could be man's
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 214 Votes: 18 | Score: 7.37
Size: 6KB | 1,326 words | Posted:

792 John Jones's Dollar by Harry Stephen Keeler

Take a board with 64 squares on it. Put a grain of wheat on the first square--two on the second--four on the third. Keep doubling in this manner and you will find there isn't enough wheat in the world to fill the sixty-fourth square. It can be the same with compound interest.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 452 Votes: 26 | Score: 7.37
Size: 22KB | 3,837 words | Posted:

793 The Man Who Hated Mars by Randall Garrett

To escape from Mars, all Clayton had to do was the impossible. Break out of a crack-proof exile camp--get onto a ship that couldn't be boarded--smash through an impenetrable wall of steel. Perhaps he could do all these things, but he discovered that Mars did evil things to men; that he wasn't even Clayton any more. He was only
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 520 Votes: 26 | Score: 7.37
Size: 27KB | 5,330 words | Posted:

794 A World Apart by Sam Merwin

Most men of middle age would welcome a chance to live their lives a second time. But Coulter did not.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 936 Votes: 46 | Score: 7.37
Size: 40KB | 7,319 words | Posted:

795 The Secret of Kralitz by Henry Kuttner

A story of the shocking revelation that came to the twenty-first Baron Kralitz.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 256 Votes: 13 | Score: 7.37
Size: 15KB | 2,862 words | Posted:

796 Security Risk by Ed M. Clinton

General David Walker looked up again at the seamed face of the Chief of Staff, General Marcus Meriwether. "This could be serious," he said slowly, with a sick sense of the statement's inadequacy. An old tic suddenly returned, tugging at the left corner of his mouth. The deadly, unsmiling expression on Meriwether's face did not change as he slid more tightly into his chair. "You know as well as I that it means the Interplanetary Confederation is ready to go to war with us."
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 643 Votes: 43 | Score: 7.37
Size: 22KB | 4,006 words | Posted:

797 The Invader by Alfred Coppel

Invading Earth was going to be a cinch, the Triomed scout decided. But to make certain he must study its inhabitants--as one of them!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 631 Votes: 41 | Score: 7.37
Size: 14KB | 2,608 words | Posted:

798 The Blind Gods by Wau

Spaceships. Orbital stations. Virtual worlds. Incomprehensible aliens. A pan-galactic society where humanity is a minority. Humanoid robots. Artificial intelligences. Journeys beyond the universe. Time travel. Psi powers. Space battles. Distant gods. Video games. Servers where one can live their afterlife. Utopian societies. The Blind Gods have all this and more.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Aliens, Space, Futuristic, Alternate Universe, Clones, Nanotechnology, Robots, AI, Extra Sensory Perception, Mind Control, Coming of Age, Romance, Humor, Parable, Politics, Science, Religion, Cults, War, Military, Body Swap, Assassins, Detective, Pirates, Drugs, Hackers, Spies, Secret Agents, Travel, Anarchism
Downloads: 9751 Votes: 54 | Score: 7.37
Size: 1262KB | 225,968 words | Posted: Concluded:

799 The Rosen Bridge Chronicles - Story 2: Timelock by Jon Fenton

The Rosen Bridge Chronicles is a anthology series I started last year and plan to continue adding more stories periodically. Each will be its own story, taking place in a new universe and covering different aspects of time travel theory. A brilliant but disillusioned scientist named Dr. ELena Wright, who works as a physicist for JDL Institute, has discovered a way to travel through time through a tiny rift in the fabric of reality. She, however, can only travel back 24 hours. Then one day....
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Time Travel
Tags: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Futuristic, Alternate Timeline, Crime, Drama, Science, Mystery
Downloads: 400 Votes: 19 | Score: 7.36
Size: 45KB | 8,828 words | Posted:

800 To Sail Into Sunset by Alex Vic

Born on a long lost outpost of humanity, that only recently was reconnected to the wider galaxy, Leonora is at the end the rope. Her body is slowly succumbing to an incurable disease when she is given a chance at... something. A mysterious Traveler is offering her a future but warns that it comes at a risk. Welcome to Circe, an aboriginal world at outskirts of the known galaxy, where strange mists hide something with the power to upend the fragile balance that preserves the civilization.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Alternate Universe, Extra Sensory Perception, Drama, Travel, Supernatural, Fantasy, Magic
Downloads: 677 Votes: 23 | Score: 7.36
Size: 33KB | 6,204 words | Posted:
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