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861 The Cave of Horror by Captain S.P. Meek

Screaming, the guardsman was jerked through the air. An unearthly screech rang through the cavern. The unseen horror of Mammoth Cave had struck again.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 234 Votes: 9 | Score: 7.31
Size: 46KB | 8,456 words | Posted:

862 Out of the Dreadful Depths by C.D. Willard

Robert Thorpe seeks out the nameless horror that is sucking all human life out of ships in the South Pacific.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 220 Votes: 11 | Score: 7.31
Size: 56KB | 10,441 words | Posted:

863 The Planetoid of Peril by Paul Ernst

Undaunted by crazy tales of an indestructible presence on Asteroid Z-40, Harley 2Q14N20 sets out alone to face and master it.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 187 Votes: 11 | Score: 7.31
Size: 47KB | 8,679 words | Posted:

864 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: 646 Votes: 37 | Score: 7.30
Size: 20KB | 3,615 words | Posted:

865 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: 210 Votes: 10 | Score: 7.30
Size: 43KB | 8,123 words | Posted:

866 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: 252 Votes: 12 | Score: 7.30
Size: 51KB | 9,410 words | Posted:

867 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: 517 Votes: 38 | Score: 7.30
Size: 15KB | 2,813 words | Posted:

868 Sales Talk by Con Blomberg

To live different and exciting lives, all I had to do was sign here--and give up my own life!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 230 Votes: 11 | Score: 7.30
Size: 23KB | 4,476 words | Posted:

869 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
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Downloads: 344 Votes: 21 | Score: 7.30
Size: 37KB | 6,758 words | Posted:

870 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
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Downloads: 323 Votes: 10 | Score: 7.30
Size: 99KB | 18,912 words | Posted:
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