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971 The Importance of the User Manual by Rodriac Copen

The famous technology company Luxtronic launches its line of "Sentient Pleasure" companion robots, designed to be the perfect companions, both emotionally and physically. Thomas, a single man and lover of technology, decides to buy one to save himself the complicated task of human dating. Choose the Sarah model, a sophisticated robot with emotionally adaptable artificial intelligence, which promises to learn from your tastes and be the perfect partner.
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Humor, Parody
Downloads: 337 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.16
Size: 21KB | 3,721 words | Posted:

972 Growing Up on Big Muddy by Charles V. De Vet

An intrepid interplanetary explorer named Kaiser suddenly comes to his senses after a scouting mission has gone horribly awry -- only to discover that his messages back to the mother ship have become garbled and incoherent, as if someone else was sending them. Who is this mysterious interloper?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 303 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.16
Size: 30KB | 5,540 words | Posted:

973 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: 184 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.16
Size: 44KB | 8,615 words | Posted:

974 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: 306 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.15
Size: 91KB | 16,836 words | Posted:

975 Made in Tanganyika by Carl Richard Jacobi

See what happens when two conchologists get caught in a necromantic nightmare of their own.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 180 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.15
Size: 24KB | 4,478 words | Posted:

976 Exile by H. B. Fyfe

The Dome of Eyes made it almost impossible for Terrans to reach the world of Tepokt. For those who did land there, there was no returning--only the bitterness of respect--and justice!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 243 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.15
Size: 26KB | 4,785 words | Posted:

977 Home Is Where You Left It by Stephen Marlowe

How black is the blackest treachery? Is the most callous traitor entitled to mercy? Steve pondered these questions. His decision? That at times the villain should possibly be spoken of as a hero.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 300 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.14
Size: 23KB | 4,408 words | Posted:

978 Navy Day by Harry Harrison

The Army had a new theme song: "Anything you can do, we can do better!" And they meant _anything_, including up-to-date hornpipes!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 558 | Votes: 46 | Score: 7.14
Size: 10KB | 1,856 words | Posted:

979 One Man's Poison by Robert Sheckley

They could eat a horse, only luckily there was none. it might have eaten them first!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 237 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.14
Size: 25KB | 4,554 words | Posted:

980 The Feeling by Roger D. Aycock

If this story holds true in real practice, it may reveal something about us that we've never known.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 209 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.14
Size: 10KB | 1,998 words | Posted:
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