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91 The Universe - or Nothing by Meyer Moldeven

This book speaks about the over utilization and depletion of natural resources by mankind and the exploration of outer space.
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 458 | Votes: * | Score: *
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92 Hanging by a Thread by Randall Garrett

It's seldom that the fate of a shipful of men literally hangs by a thread--but it's also seldom that a device, every part of which has been thoroughly tested, won't work....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 448 | Votes: 31 | Score: 8.52
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93 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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94 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
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Downloads: 1830 | Votes: 83 | Score: 8.50
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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: 2026 | Votes: 64 | Score: 8.50
Size: 320KB | 57,664 words | Posted:

96 Alien Minds by E. Everett Evans

The ability to read minds isn't an unmixed blessing, so learns George Hanlon, Secret Operative of the Inter-Stellar Corps. His unique gift helps him with his assignments, of course -- except that he has a lot of trouble with alien minds. He encounters a whole planet full of alien minds on Estrella when the semi-human inhabitants of this Earth-like world of another sun decide that they want nothing to do with the Federation Planets.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 1523 | Votes: 36 | Score: 8.48
Size: 369KB | 68,689 words | Posted:

97 The Year When Stardust Fell by Raymond F. Jones

A MYSTERIOUS "FALL-OUT" PARALYZES CIVILIZATION! Mayfield was the typical college town. Nothing too unusual ever happened there until a mysterious comet was suddenly observed by the scientists on College Hill. The copper-yellow glow of the comet seemed to have brought the whole world to a grinding halt.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 1137 | Votes: 44 | Score: 8.48
Size: 326KB | 61,449 words | Posted:

98 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: 977 | Votes: 30 | Score: 8.48
Size: 172KB | 30,720 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: 3074 | Votes: 81 | Score: 8.48
Size: 306KB | 57,187 words | Posted:

100 Uller Uprising by H. Beam Piper

So the Ulleran challenge begins, with the rantings of a prophet and a seemingly incidental street riot. Only when a dose of poison lands in the governor-general's whiskey does it become clear that the "geeks" have had it up to their double-lidded eyeballs with the imperialist Terran Federation's Chartered Uller Company. Then, overnight, war is everywhere.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 1279 | Votes: 30 | Score: 8.47
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