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831 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...
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 14 | Score: 7.35
Size: 42KB / 8,098 words | Downloads: 538
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832 On the Fourth Planet by Jesse F. Bone

To Kworn the object was a roadblock, threatening his life. But it was also a high road to a magnificent future!
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 21 | Score: 7.35
Size: 35KB / 6,547 words | Downloads: 398
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833 Pandemic by Jesse F. Bone

Generally, human beings don't do totally useless things consistently and widely. So--maybe there is something to it.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 33 | Score: 7.35
Size: 37KB / 6,799 words | Downloads: 563
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834 The God Next Door by Bill Doede

The sand-thing was powerful, lonely and strange. No doubt it was a god--but who wasn't?
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 23 | Score: 7.35
Size: 30KB / 5,709 words | Downloads: 324
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835 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.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 22 | Score: 7.35
Size: 26KB / 4,869 words | Downloads: 424
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836 The Problem Makers by Robert Hoskins

They had only one mission in the Galaxy, with its infinite problems--make more of 'em!
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 7 | Score: 7.35
Size: 71KB / 13,133 words | Downloads: 218
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837 The Syndic by C. M. Kornbluth

West of the Mississippi was Mob territory, a society whose entire system of values was totally opposed to the Syndic. Here morality ruled with an iron hand. When a wave of assassinations broke out in New Your, it was clealy time to take action against the Mob!
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 14 | Score: 7.35
Size: 269KB / 50,015 words | Downloads: 687
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838 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.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 17 | Score: 7.35
Size: 17KB / 2,810 words | Downloads: 448
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839 Breeder Ships by Ernest Bywater

A story in the Breeder World Universe
A breeder male joins a cruise ship for his regular cruise, but slightly out of his normal cycle. He encounters some difficulties which require him to make known some things he'd previously kept quiet as he starts to make some significant changes in his life while dealing with the difficulties he encounters. - To understand the background to this story, please read Breeder World first.
Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Futuristic, Violence
Votes: 86 | Score: 7.35
Size: 233KB / 45,399 words | Downloads: 2585
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840 Anthem by Ayn Rand

In a future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism have been wiped out. Despite such a restrictive environment, Equality 7-2521 dares to stand apart from the herd--to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love the woman of his choice.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Romance, Violence, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Votes: 21 | Score: 7.35
Size: 95KB / 19,115 words | Downloads: 777
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