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Space Viking by H. Beam Piper

When his wife is murdered on his wedding day, Lucas Trask launches himself on a quest for revenge. Using his personal fortune, he buys a spaceship and becomes a Space Viking, raiding worlds while hunting for his wife's killer. But raiding is not his destiny, and he gradually becomes a trader, starting to build a galactic empire. Before he can achieve his new goals, however, he must still deal with his wife's killer. A thrilling intergalactic saga!
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
67.6k words,  98%,  Author's average score: 7.98   More Info

Masi'shen Evolution by Graybyrd

Sequel to "Masi'shen Stranded" -- Michael Hawthorne and Dee'rah evolve to become ambassadors seeking to link two worlds across the galaxy. Earth recognizes the chance for global peace, but a corrupt American president threatens them all with nuclear nightmare as a ploy to rule the nation. Old enemies become allies, and old alliances fall apart. Will humankind survive to achieve a future in the stars?
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 13
Tags: Aliens, Space, Politics, Military, Anarchism
167.3k words,  96%,  Author's average score: 8.92   More Info

Time and Time Again by H. Beam Piper

To upset the stable, mighty stream of time would probably take an enormous concentration of energy. And it's not to be expected that a man would get a second chance at life. But an atomic might accomplish both--
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
7.0k words,  93%,  Author's average score: 7.98   More Info

The Plague by Teddy Keller

Suppose a strictly one hundred per cent American plague showed up.... One that attacked only people within the political borders of the United States!
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
4.6k words,  90%,  Author's average score: 7.98   More Info

Darkness and Dawn Book II: Beyond the Great Oblivion by George Allan England

Allan Stern and his secretary Beatrice Kendricks awake in New York City, one thousand years after an asteroid destroys most life on earth. Now they find a bi-plane, that Allan can make run on alcohol and begin the search for other survivors. They encounter a great rent in the earth which they are unable to fly across. They end up in the Abyss and meet up with a tribe of white haired albinos who still speak a type of English.
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
79.4k words,  89%,  Author's average score: 7.33   More Info

Dead Giveaway by Randall Garrett

Logic's a wonderful thing; by logical analysis, one can determine the necessary reason for the existence of a dead city of a very high order on an utterly useless planet. Obviously a shipping transfer point! Necessarily...
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
9.3k words,  89%,  Author's average score: 7.96   More Info

Disqualified by Charles L. Fontenay

If Saranta wished to qualify as one who loved his fellow man, he should have known that often the most secretive things are the most obvious.
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Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
983 words,  88%,  Author's average score: 7.60   More Info

Spacemen Die at Home by Edward W. Ludwig

One man's retreat is another's prison. and it takes a heap of flying to make a hulk a home!
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
4.9k words,  85%,  Author's average score: 7.50   More Info

Tabby by Winston Marks

Tabby was peculiar, of course, but seemed harmless: just a little green fly that couldn't even protect itself from ordinary spiders. So the spiders fed, and grew, and fed, and grew....
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
4.1k words,  81%,  Author's average score: 7.51   More Info

Vampires of Venus by Anthony Pelcher

Leslie Larner, an entomologist borrowed from the Earth, pits himself against the night-flying vampires that are ravaging the inhabitants of Venus.
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
7.8k words,  78%,  Author's average score: 7.14   More Info