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91 Or Your Money Back by Randall Garrett

There are lots of things that are considered perfectly acceptable. provided they don't work. And of course everyone knows they really don't, which is why they're acceptable....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 521 | Votes: 33 | Score: 8.51
Size: 41KB | 7,881 words | Posted:

92 Big Pill by Raymond Z. Gallun

Child, it was, of the now ancient H-bomb. New. Untested. Would its terrible power sweep the stark Saturnian moon of Titan from space. or miraculously create a flourishing paradise-colony?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 374 | Votes: 26 | Score: 8.51
Size: 43KB | 7,831 words | Posted:

93 The Secret of the Ninth Planet by Donald A. Wollheim

On the day that the theft of the solar system's light begins, Burl Denning is with an archaeological expedition in the Andes. Within hours the U.S. Air Force has ordered the expedition to investigate the strange phenomenon that is causing a dimness and a drop in temperature throughout the world. This is the start of a fantastic adventure that takes Burl on the first circumnavigation of the solar system on the Magellan. Each planet-fall brings unexpected hazards, as the ship draws closer.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 699 | Votes: 29 | Score: 8.51
Size: 251KB | 45,714 words | Posted:

94 The Green Odyssey by Philip José Farmer

Alan Green was not exactly a hero. In fact he liked peace just as well as the next man. Not that he was really afraid of that crazy, hot-blooded hound-dog Alzo, or even of the hound's gorgeous owner, the Duchess Zuni--who was also hot-blooded (to say nothing of the Duke). After all, these things were understood on this backward, violent planet, and a man could manage, provided he was alert twenty-four hours a day.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 969 | Votes: 27 | Score: 8.51
Size: 312KB | 59,260 words | Posted:

95 The Alien by Raymond F. Jones

Just speculate for a moment on the enormous challenge to archeology when interplanetary flight is possible. and relics are found of a race extinct for half a million years! A race, incidentally, that was scientifically so far in advance of ours that they held the secret of the restoration of life! One member of that race can be brought back after 500,000 years of death....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 2046 | Votes: 65 | Score: 8.51
Size: 320KB | 57,664 words | Posted:

96 The Mind Master by Arthur J. Burks

Once more Lee Bentley is caught up in the marvelous machinations of the mad genius Barter.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 186 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 153KB | 28,362 words | Posted:

97 The Pirates of Ersatz by Murray Leinster

Bron is the offspring of infamous space pirates but instead of following in the family footsteps he decides to become an electronic engineer. Unfortunately, every time he tries to get out, something pulls him back in.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1861 | Votes: 83 | Score: 8.50
Size: 332KB | 59,950 words | Posted:

98 The Black Star Passes by John W. Campbell Jr.

THREE AGAINST THE STARS! A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention... First contact with an alien race dangerous enough to threaten the safety of two planets... The arrival of an unseen dark sun whose attendant marauders aimed at the very end of civilization in this Solar System...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 2881 | Votes: 34 | Score: 8.50
Size: 413KB | 75,698 words | Posted:

99 Key Out of Time by Andre Norton

A Time Traders/Ross Murdock Story
Key Out of Time -the fourth book in the Time Traders series, following The Time Traders, Galactic Derelict, and The Defiant Agents- again features Ross Murdock as the hero. Accompanying a group of settlers to the now-empty water-planet Hawaika, he is sent back in time through a Time Gate... and must learn to survive ten thousand years in the past!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 3100 | Votes: 82 | Score: 8.49
Size: 306KB | 57,187 words | Posted:

100 The Ultimate Weapon by John W. Campbell Jr.

The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little warmth on its many planets. Gresth Gkae, leader of the Mirans, was seeking a better star, one to which his "people" could migrate. That star had to be steady, reliable, with a good planetary system. And in his astronomical searching, he found Sol.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 988 | Votes: 30 | Score: 8.48
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