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821 The Flying City by H. Thompson Rich

From Space came Cor's disc-city of Vada--its mighty, age-old engines weakening--its horde of dwarfs hungry for the Earth!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 234 | Votes: 7 | Score: 7.33
Size: 58KB | 10,112 words | Posted:

822 The Hanging Stranger by Phillip K. Dick

At five o'clock Ed Loyce washed up, tossed on his hat and coat, got his car out and headed across town toward his TV sales store. He was tired. His back and shoulders ached from digging dirt out of the basement and wheeling it into the back yard. But for a forty-year-old man he had done okay. Janet could get a new vase with the money he had saved; and he liked the idea of repairing the foundations himself.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 595 | Votes: 40 | Score: 7.32
Size: 28KB | 5,316 words | Posted:

823 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
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Downloads: 477 | Votes: 30 | Score: 7.32
Size: 13KB | 2,595 words | Posted:

824 Marooned Under the Sea by Paul Ernst

Three men stick out a strange and desperate adventure among the incredible monsters of the dark sea floor.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 275 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.32
Size: 110KB | 19,855 words | Posted:

825 Acid Bath by Bill Garson

The starways' Lone Watcher had expected some odd developments in his singular, nerve-fraught job on the asteroid. But nothing like the weird twenty-one-day liquid test devised by the invading Steel-Blues.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 371 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.32
Size: 26KB | 4,869 words | Posted:

826 The Holes Around Mars by Jerome Bixby

Science said it could not be, but there it was. And whoosh--look out--here it is again!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 375 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.32
Size: 31KB | 5,707 words | Posted:

827 Darkness and Dawn Book II: Beyond the Great Oblivion by George Allan England

Allan Stern and his secretary Beatrice Kendricks awake in New York City, one thousand years after an asteroid destroys most life on earth. Now they find a bi-plane, that Allan can make run on alcohol and begin the search for other survivors. They encounter a great rent in the earth which they are unable to fly across. They end up in the Abyss and meet up with a tribe of white haired albinos who still speak a type of English.
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Downloads: 924 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.32
Size: 434KB | 79,369 words | Posted:

828 Birds of a Feather by Robert Silverberg

Getting specimens for the interstellar zoo was no problem--they battled for the honor--but now I had to fight like a wildcat to keep a display from making a monkey of me!
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Downloads: 281 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.31
Size: 41KB | 7,813 words | Posted:

829 A Mixture of Genius by Arnold Castle

Who, but the imaginative young, shall inherit the stars?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 340 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.31
Size: 33KB | 6,093 words | Posted:

830 The Ultimate Experiment by Thornton DeKy

No living soul breathed upon the earth. Only robots, carrying on the last great order.
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Downloads: 362 | Votes: 32 | Score: 7.31
Size: 7KB | 1,400 words | Posted:
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