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131 Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet by Harold L. Goodwin

Freshly graduated and commissioned Planeteer Lt. Rip Foster is tasked with retrieving an asteroid made of pure thorium from the asteroid belt and bringing it to Earth for use as fissionable material. But the totalitarian Connies have their own plans for the asteroid...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 586 | Votes: 33 | Score: 8.36
Size: 283KB | 52,374 words | Posted:

132 Oomphel in the Sky by H. Beam Piper

Since Logic derives from postulates, it never has, and never will, change a postulate. And a religious belief is a system of postulates. so how can a man fight a native superstition with logic? Or anything else...?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 416 | Votes: 18 | Score: 8.36
Size: 96KB | 17,826 words | Posted:

133 Legacy by James H. Schmitz

Consider the plasmoids...Ancient living machines that after millennia of stillness suddenly begin to move under their own power, for reasons that remain a mystery to men. Holati Tate discovered them - then disappeared. Trigger Argee was his closet associate - she means to find him. She's brilliant, beautiful, and skilled in every known martial art. She's worth plenty - dead or alive - to more than one faction in this obscure battle.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1758 | Votes: 40 | Score: 8.35
Size: 432KB | 78,381 words | Posted:

134 The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft

A Providence, Rhode Island resident teams up with his beloved, antiquarian uncle in studying why a decrepit 18th century house has been left vacant for so long. It appears that anyone who lives in the house long enough goes crazy and/or wastes to death. Of course, our protagonists decide to spend an evening in the cellar of the house...
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 361 | Votes: 8 | Score: 8.35
Size: 61KB | 10,663 words | Posted:

135 Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton

The story is described as a "duel of the cosmic magicians." It involves two witch doctors who conjure up ghosts and demons against each other and might appear to be fantasy. But Norton bases the wizards' magic on the use of mildly hallucinogenic drugs, psychological manipulation and latent telepathy, which place the story within the realm of science fiction.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 588 | Votes: 19 | Score: 8.35
Size: 127KB | 23,534 words | Posted:

136 The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Planet Savers, introduces the reader to the now legendary world of Gotten IV., and it reveals the awesome and terrifying powers of the infamous Sharra Matrix.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1025 | Votes: 42 | Score: 8.35
Size: 147KB | 27,339 words | Posted:

137 Vampires of Space by Sewell Peaslee Wright

Commander John Hanson recounts his harrowing adventure with the Electites of space.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 223 | Votes: 8 | Score: 8.34
Size: 43KB | 7,819 words | Posted:

138 Address: Centauri by F.L. Wallace

Earth was too perfect for these extraordinary exiles--to belong to it, they had to flee it!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1098 | Votes: 30 | Score: 8.34
Size: 377KB | 70,834 words | Posted:

139 Planet of Dread by Murray Leinster

Moran cut apart the yard-long monstrosity with a slash of flame. The thing presumably died, but it continued to writhe senselessly. He turned to see other horrors crawling toward him. Then he knew he was being marooned on a planet of endless terrors.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 481 | Votes: 27 | Score: 8.34
Size: 105KB | 19,008 words | Posted:

140 Med Ship Man by Murray Leinster

His work was healing the sick--but this planet was already dead!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1209 | Votes: 73 | Score: 8.33
Size: 82KB | 14,699 words | Posted:
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