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801 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: 662 Votes: 43 | Score: 7.37
Size: 22KB | 4,006 words | Posted:

802 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: 639 Votes: 41 | Score: 7.37
Size: 14KB | 2,608 words | Posted:

803 Happy Ending by Fredric Brown

A world had collapsed around this man--a world that would never shout his praises again. The burned-out cities were still and dead, the twisted bodies and twisted souls giving him their last salute in death. And now he was alone, alone surrounded by memories, alone and waiting.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 416 Votes: 20 | Score: 7.36
Size: 28KB | 5,412 words | Posted:

804 A Woman's Place by Mark Clifton

Home is where you hang up your spaceship--that is, if you have any Miss Kitty along!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 429 Votes: 23 | Score: 7.36
Size: 51KB | 9,480 words | Posted:

805 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: 427 Votes: 19 | Score: 7.36
Size: 45KB | 8,828 words | Posted:

806 The Silent Bullet and Other Stories by Arthur B. Reeve

Professor Craig Kennedy and his friend Jamerson solve some of the most difficult of cases employing a range of scientific methodologies...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 433 Votes: 7 | Score: 7.36
Size: 485KB | 90,329 words | Posted:

807 Cold Light by Captain S.P. Meek

How could a human body be found actually splintered--broken into sharp fragments like a shattered glass! Once again Dr. Bird probes deep into an amazing mystery.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 271 Votes: 13 | Score: 7.36
Size: 36KB | 6,999 words | Posted:

808 The Affair of the Brains by Anthony Gilmore

Hawk Carse himself goes to keep Judd the Kite's rendezvous with the sinister genius Ku Sui.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 363 Votes: 6 | Score: 7.36
Size: 135KB | 24,162 words | Posted:

809 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
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Downloads: 345 Votes: 25 | Score: 7.36
Size: 16KB | 2,928 words | Posted:

810 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
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Downloads: 469 Votes: 27 | Score: 7.36
Size: 22KB | 3,837 words | Posted:
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