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861 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:

862 The Lost Inheritance by H. G. Wells

"My uncle," said the man with the glass eye, "was what you might call a hemi-semi-demi millionaire. He was worth about a hundred and twenty thousand. Quite. And he left me all his money." I glanced at the shiny sleeve of his coat, and my eye travelled up to the frayed collar. "Every penny," said the man with the glass eye, and I caught the active pupil looking at me with a touch of offence.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 332 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.29
Size: 14KB | 2,768 words | Posted:

863 Project Hush by William Tenn

The biggest job in history and it had to be done with complete secrecy. It was--which was just the trouble!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 432 | Votes: 29 | Score: 7.29
Size: 13KB | 2,428 words | Posted:

864 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:

865 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: 281 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.29
Size: 75KB | 13,903 words | Posted:

866 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: 514 | Votes: 28 | Score: 7.29
Size: 10KB | 1,889 words | Posted:

867 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: 3583 | Votes: 35 | Score: 7.29
Size: 268KB | 49,151 words | Posted:

868 Chain Reaction by Boyd Ellanby

Would this be the last poker game--with all life at stake and every card a mere deuce?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 271 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.28
Size: 25KB | 4,862 words | Posted:

869 The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix by Homer Eon Flint

Bringing proofs which will satisfy the most skeptical Dr. William G. Kinney G. Van Emmon E. Williams Jackson and John W. Smith who left the earth on December 9 in a powerful sky-car of the doctor's design returned on the 23rd after having explored the two planets which lie between the earth and the sun.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 193 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 365KB | 66,466 words | Posted:

870 The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life by Homer Eon Flint

In The Lord of Death, four scientists, aided by reverse-magnetism, travel to a dead planet where they discover that one human's lust for power destroyed all life there-except for him. In suspended animation, he awaits the newcomers. In The Queen of Life, (considered a feminist tale) the scientists (one has revealed herself as a woman) travel to a planet encased in a glass sphere to protect the overpopulated planet from the sun's radiation. Conflict leads to a riot.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 173 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 257KB | 47,514 words | Posted:
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