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981 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: 577 | Votes: 47 | Score: 7.10
Size: 10KB | 1,856 words | Posted:

982 A Gift From Earth by Manly Banister

Except for transportation, it was absolutely free. but how much would the freight cost?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 276 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.10
Size: 29KB | 5,423 words | Posted:

983 The Waker Dreams by Richard Matheson

There's nothing like exciting fantasy to escape boredom. The problem is to know whether it's actually a fantasy.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 156 | Votes: 8 | Score: 7.10
Size: 27KB | 4,895 words | Posted:

984 The Small World of M-75 by John Buchan

For all his perfection and magnificence he was but a baby with a new found freedom in a strange and baffling world....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 258 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.09
Size: 28KB | 4,918 words | Posted:

985 Reel Life Films by Sam Merwin

At least a contributing factor to the current cycle of science fiction movies being made in Hollywood is the touchiness of minorities having their nationals being portrayed as villains. Cinema-makers are now trying to avoid further boycotts by using space aliens for villains. But suppose some of our Extraterrestrial neighbors are also a bit touchy?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 249 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.09
Size: 15KB | 2,806 words | Posted:

986 Oops by Chaon

How does the world end? Not with a bang or a whimper but with an oops.
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Apocalyptic, Near Future
Downloads: 851 | Votes: 64 | Score: 7.09
Size: 13KB | 2,475 words | Posted:

987 Two Weeks in August by Frank M. Robinson

The humblest events sometimes result from the most grandiose beginnings. You'd never imagine space travel starting this way, for instance!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 618 | Votes: 27 | Score: 7.09
Size: 13KB | 2,467 words | Posted:

988 Fallibly Human by Jon Fenton

Orson Walters is an Andriod (who prefers the term "mechanical human) is going for his first job and needs to stand out among the other robot applicants. Will his creator Joe's advice help him?
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Robots, AI, Coming of Age, Drama, Parable
Downloads: 632 | Votes: 34 | Score: 7.09
Size: 3KB | 755 words | Posted:

989 The Brain by Alexander Blade

America's greatest weapon, greater than the Atom Bomb, was its new, gigantic mechanical brain. It filled a whole mountain--and then it came to life...!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 769 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.08
Size: 313KB | 56,692 words | Posted:

990 The Girl in the Golden Atom by Ray Cummings

A man, identified only as the Chemist, discovers a microscopic world inside a golden ring. Soon, he becomes transfixed with a girl he observes there and determines to shrink himself down and find her. He does this by inventing two drugs, one pill to make him smaller and one pill to make him bigger. He then tells this plan to a group of friends, and asks them to safeguard the ring while he is away. Once he returns, he tells them all the story of his adventures inside the world of the ring.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 441 | Votes: 6 | Score: 7.08
Size: 521KB | 96,906 words | Posted:
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