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871 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:

872 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 195 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.28
Size: 44KB | 8,615 words | Posted:

873 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 330 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.28
Size: 91KB | 16,836 words | Posted:

874 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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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 343 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.28
Size: 38KB | 6,980 words | Posted:

875 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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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 293 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.28
Size: 61KB | 10,943 words | Posted:

876 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: 725 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.27
Size: 95KB | 19,115 words | Posted:

877 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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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 486 | Votes: 32 | Score: 7.27
Size: 13KB | 2,595 words | Posted:

878 The Day Time Stopped Moving by Ed Earl Repp

All Dave Miller wanted to do was commit suicide in peace. He tried, but the things that happened after he'd pulled the trigger were all wrong. Like everyone standing around like statues. No St. Peter, no pearly gate, no pitchforks or halos. He might just as well have saved the bullet!
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 624 | Votes: 47 | Score: 7.27
Size: 32KB | 5,973 words | Posted:

879 The Terror of Air-level Six by Harl Vincent

From some far reach of leagueless Space came a great pillar of flame to lay waste and terrorize the Earth.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 278 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.26
Size: 88KB | 16,128 words | Posted:

880 Belly Laugh by Randall Garrett

Well, it seems that Ivar Jorgensen has hit on the ultimate engine of destruction: a weapon designed to exploit man's greatest weakness. The blueprint can be found in the next few pages; and as the soldier in the story says, our only hope is to keep a sense of humor!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 463 | Votes: 28 | Score: 7.26
Size: 4KB | 924 words | Posted:
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