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851 Later Than You Think by Fritz Leiber

It's much later. The question is. how late?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 273 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.30
Size: 14KB | 2,513 words | Posted:

852 Pictures Don't Lie by Katherine MacLean

... Pictures, that is, that one can test and measure. And these pictures positively, absolutely could not lie!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 323 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.30
Size: 37KB | 6,758 words | Posted:

853 Pursuit by Lester Del Rey

Fear cut through the unconscious mind of Wilbur Hawkes. With almost physical violence, it tightened his throat and knifed at his heart. It darted into his numbed brain, screaming at him.He was a soft egg in a vast globe of elastic gelatine. Two creatures swam menacingly through the resisting globe toward him. The gelatine fought against them, but they came on. One was near, and made a mystic pass. He screamed at it, and the gelatine grew stronger, throwing them back and away.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 308 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.30
Size: 99KB | 18,912 words | Posted:

854 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:

855 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:

856 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: 196 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.30
Size: 43KB | 8,123 words | Posted:

857 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: 240 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.30
Size: 51KB | 9,410 words | Posted:

858 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
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Downloads: 499 | Votes: 38 | Score: 7.30
Size: 15KB | 2,813 words | Posted:

859 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: 349 | Votes: 25 | Score: 7.30
Size: 17KB | 3,365 words | Posted:

860 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
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Downloads: 280 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.29
Size: 75KB | 13,903 words | Posted:
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