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851 Question of Comfort by Les Cole

The Gravity Gang was a group of geniuses--devoting its brilliance to creating a realistic Solar System for Disneyland. That was the story, anyway. No one would have believed all that stuff about cops and robbers from outer space.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 200 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.30
Size: 38KB | 6,958 words | Posted:

852 Shepherd of the Planets by Alan Mattox

Renner had a purpose in life. And the Purpose in Life had Renner.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 348 | Votes: 25 | Score: 7.30
Size: 17KB | 3,365 words | Posted:

853 The Big Trip Up Yonder by Kurt Vonnegut

The story is set in 2158 A.D., after the invention of a medicine called Anti-Gerasone, which is made from mud and dandelions and is thus inexpensive and widely available. Anti-Gerasone halts the aging process and prevents people from dying of old age as long as they keep taking it; as a result, America now suffers from severe overpopulation and shortages of food and resources.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Science, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 638 | Votes: 37 | Score: 7.30
Size: 20KB | 3,615 words | Posted:

854 The Ray of Madness by Captain S.P. Meek

Dr. Bird Uncovers a Dastardly Plot, Amazing in its Mechanical Ingenuity, Behind the Apparently Trivial Eye Trouble of the President.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 195 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.30
Size: 43KB | 8,123 words | Posted:

855 The Pygmy Planet by Jack Williamson

Down into the infinitely small goes Larry on his mission to the Pygmy Planet.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 239 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.30
Size: 51KB | 9,410 words | Posted:

856 Shipwreck in the Sky by Eando Binder

The flight into space that made Pilot-Capt. Dan Barstow famous. He was one of the very first astronauts to leave the earth -- and what he found surprised even him. "Another world." Small and too dark to see from the earth -- but large enough to capture his spacecraft. Large enough to get trapped on it.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 499 | Votes: 38 | Score: 7.30
Size: 15KB | 2,813 words | Posted:

857 Tanks by Murray Leinster

Two miles of American front had gone dead. And on two lone infantrymen, lost in the menace of the fog-gas and the tanks, depended the outcome of the war of 1932.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 688 | Votes: 47 | Score: 7.29
Size: 56KB | 9,905 words | Posted:

858 Omega, the Man by Lowell Howard Morrow

Omega, the last human alive, starts out with his wife Thalma and briefly acquires a son-Alpha on a dying Earth.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 280 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.29
Size: 75KB | 13,903 words | Posted:

859 The Good Neighbors by Edgar Pangborn

You can't blame an alien for a little inconvenience--as long as he makes up for it!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 511 | Votes: 28 | Score: 7.29
Size: 10KB | 1,889 words | Posted:

860 Made to Do Completed by Yob

Ttime travel in it's infancy. Megalomaniacs love new technologies. Gives their nefarious plans, a temporary edge! Edges, can cut both ways! .
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Time Travel
Tags: Science Fiction, Apocalyptic, Post Apocalyptic, Time Travel, Alternate Universe, Alternate Timeline, Clones, Nanotechnology, Near Future, Coming of Age, Romance, Humor, Drama, Melodrama, Politics, Military, Assassins, Spies, Anarchism
Downloads: 3550 | Votes: 35 | Score: 7.29
Size: 268KB | 49,151 words | Posted:
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