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861 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
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862 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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Downloads: 427 | Votes: 29 | Score: 7.29
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863 Advance Agent by Christopher Anvil

Raveling Porcy's systematized enigma, Dan found himself with a spy's worst break--he was saddled with the guise of a famed man!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 393 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.28
Size: 60KB | 11,188 words | Posted:

864 Modus Vivendi by John Berryman

It's undoubtedly difficult to live with someone who is Different. He must, because he is Different, live by other ways. But what makes it so difficult is that, for some reason he thinks you are Different!
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Downloads: 229 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.28
Size: 56KB | 10,860 words | Posted:

865 The Issahar Artifacts by Jesse F. Bone

Lincoln said it eons ago.... It took a speck of one-celled plant life on a world parsecs away to prove it for all the galaxy. / (Reviews)
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Downloads: 1003 | Votes: 56 | Score: 7.28
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866 Vanishing Point by C.C. Beck

In perspective, theoretically the vanishing point is at infinity, and therefore unattainable. But reality is different; vanishment occurs a lot sooner than theory suggests.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 284 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.28
Size: 9KB | 1,885 words | Posted:

867 Hard Guy by Howard Browne

There will be fine, glittering, streamlined automobiles in 2000 A.D. Possibly they will run themselves while the driver sits back with an old-fashioned in his hands. Perhaps they will carry folks down the highways at ninety miles an hour in perfect safety. But picking up a hitch-hiker will still be as dangerous as it is today.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 211 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.28
Size: 4KB | 896 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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Downloads: 271 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.28
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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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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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Downloads: 173 | Votes: * | Score: *
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