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871 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
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872 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:

873 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
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Downloads: 173 | Votes: * | Score: *
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874 This World Must Die! by H. B. Fyfe

Social living requires the elimination, or at very best, the modification of many elements necessary to survival in "nature". And when an emergency arises, very often it is the person who would be considered a "criminal", in other situations, who alone is able to cope with the necessities. If we manage to eliminate "violence" from human affairs, what will we find when a need for "violence" arises--a need outside of man's artificial control of his environment?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 268 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.28
Size: 43KB | 7,854 words | Posted:

875 Volpla by Wyman Guin

The only kind of gag worth pulling, I always maintained, was a cosmic one--till I learned the Cosmos has a really nasty sense of humor!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 196 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.28
Size: 44KB | 8,615 words | Posted:

876 Never Come Midnight by H. L. Gold

Across the void came a man who could not ever have been born--from a world that could never have been conceived--to demand his birthright of an Earth that would have to die to pay it!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 334 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.28
Size: 91KB | 16,836 words | Posted:

877 An Extra Man by Jackson Gee

Sealed and vigilantly guarded was "Drayle's Invention, 1932"----for it was a scientific achievement beyond which man dared not go.
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Downloads: 343 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.28
Size: 38KB | 6,980 words | Posted:

878 Werewolves of War by D.W. Hall

The story of the "Torpedo Plan" and of Capt. Lance's heroic part in America's last mighty battle with the United Slavs.
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Downloads: 293 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.28
Size: 61KB | 10,943 words | Posted:

879 Anthem by Ayn Rand

In a future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism have been wiped out. Despite such a restrictive environment, Equality 7-2521 dares to stand apart from the herd--to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love the woman of his choice.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Romance, Violence, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 727 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.27
Size: 95KB | 19,115 words | Posted:

880 A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury

An old woman comes to Mars because a fraudulent travel agent offers a "trip to heaven". She and other members of her traveling group find an extremely battered and derelict rocket which was supposed to be used for the last part of the trip. And it is used for that trip, in a pretty literal sense.
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Downloads: 486 | Votes: 32 | Score: 7.27
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