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801 Sjambak by John Holbrook Vance

Wilbur Murphy sought romance, excitement, and an impossible Horseman of Space. With polite smiles, the planet frustrated him at every turn--until he found them all the hard way!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 183 | Votes: 7 | Score: 7.35
Size: 53KB | 9,493 words | Posted:

802 The Day of the Boomer Dukes by Frederik Pohl

Foraminifera 9-Hart Bailey's Beam is bored. He relieves that boredom by traveling back in time to sometime before the high radiation levels and after the invention of anesthesia-you know, in case of accidents. He's read of the Mafia in New York City of the 1950s. He think that might be a place to start. He finds five you men, all dressed in same color jacket, and asks directions to the recruiting office of the "dread Camorra." He assures them he has plenty of money in his carry-all...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 498 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.35
Size: 42KB | 8,098 words | Posted:

803 Vital Ingredient by Charles V. De Vet

It is man's most precious possession--no living thing can exist without it. But when they gave it to Orville, it killed him.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 302 | Votes: 24 | Score: 7.35
Size: 16KB | 2,928 words | Posted:

804 The Problem Makers by Robert Hoskins

They had only one mission in the Galaxy, with its infinite problems--make more of 'em!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 192 | Votes: 7 | Score: 7.35
Size: 71KB | 13,133 words | Posted:

805 The Last Letter by Fritz Leiber

Who or what was the scoundrel that kept these couriers from the swift completion of their handsomely appointed rondos?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 271 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.35
Size: 22KB | 3,903 words | Posted:

806 Operation R.S.v.P by H. Beam Piper

A gem of short story in the form of correspondence between the leaders of two opposing Political Blocs whose escalation of hostilities is rapidly suppressed from a surprise third party.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 396 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.35
Size: 17KB | 2,810 words | Posted:

807 Kali by Pars001

A man on a dig in India discovers more than he thought he would
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Shapeshifters, Extra Sensory Perception, Violence, Religion, Supernatural, Fantasy
Downloads: 5547 | Votes: 158 | Score: 7.35
Size: 270KB | 54,422 words | Posted: Concluded:

808 R/red63tennis by Gerald Armitage

A writing prompt that I decided to build out into a story. I was thinking of the old twist at the end pulp stories in terms of the genre with a bit of a supra-normal element. A Reddit subreddit called r/red63tennis has some strange coincidences until one of its users seeks some help. It's a short piece but I had fun writing it.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction
Downloads: 338 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.35
Size: 15KB | 2,875 words | Posted:

809 A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury

An old woman comes to Mars because a fraudulent travel agent offers a "trip to heaven". She and other members of her traveling group find an extremely battered and derelict rocket which was supposed to be used for the last part of the trip. And it is used for that trip, in a pretty literal sense.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 480 | Votes: 31 | Score: 7.35
Size: 13KB | 2,595 words | Posted:

810 After London, Wild England by Richard Jefferies

After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. The first part, The Relapse into Barbarism, is the account by some later historian of the fall of civilisation and its consequences, with a loving description of nature reclaiming England. The second part, Wild England, is an adventure set many years later in the wild landscape and society.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1183 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.35
Size: 454KB | 84,075 words | Posted:
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