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821 A Filbert Is a Nut by Rick Raphael

That the gentleman in question was a nut was beyond question. He was an institutionalized psychotic. He was nutty enough to think he could make an atom bomb out of modeling clay!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 468 Votes: 41 | Score: 7.34
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822 Deadly City by Paul W. Fairman

You're all alone in a deserted city. You walk down an empty street, yearning for the sight of one living face--one moving figure. Then you see a man on a corner and you know your terror has only begun.
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Downloads: 255 Votes: 9 | Score: 7.34
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823 Forever by Robert Sheckley

Of all the irksome, frustrating, maddening discoveries--was there no way of keeping it discovered?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 377 Votes: 24 | Score: 7.34
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824 The Other Now by Murray Leinster

He knew his wife was dead, because he'd seen her buried. But it was only one possibility out of infinitely many!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 432 Votes: 27 | Score: 7.33
Size: 25KB | 4,812 words | Posted:

825 Postmark Ganymede by Robert Silverberg

Consider the poor mailman of the future. To "sleet and snow and dead of night"--things that must not keep him from his appointed rounds--will be added, sub-zero void, meteors, and planets that won't stay put. Maybe he'll decide that for six cents an ounce it just ain't worth it.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 382 Votes: 32 | Score: 7.33
Size: 15KB | 2,713 words | Posted:

826 Sales Talk by Con Blomberg

To live different and exciting lives, all I had to do was sign here--and give up my own life!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 219 Votes: 10 | Score: 7.33
Size: 23KB | 4,476 words | Posted:

827 The Flying Cuspidors by V. R. Francis

This was love, and what could be done about it? It's been happening to guys for a long time, now.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 184 Votes: 8 | Score: 7.33
Size: 22KB | 4,393 words | Posted:

828 The Sword and the Atopen by Taylor H. Greenfield

The conversion of light into electricity by spectrum is an interesting possibility. The idea of using foreign proteins on the human system to repel enemies, is also interesting. Do you get it? We didn't either until we read the story. Read the yarn and you'll get it too.
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Downloads: 316 Votes: 23 | Score: 7.33
Size: 19KB | 3,516 words | Posted:

829 A Scientist Rises by Anthony Gilmore

"The face of the giant was indeed that of a god...."
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Downloads: 243 Votes: 15 | Score: 7.33
Size: 14KB | 2,646 words | Posted:

830 Satisfaction Guaranteed by Joy Leache

Interstellar trouble-shooting is the easiest work there is. All you need is brains, energy--and a steno with nice legs!
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Downloads: 428 Votes: 27 | Score: 7.33
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