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141 Gold in the Sky by Alan Edward Nourse

The rock in space was not quite a sphere, being far too tiny a bit of cosmic debris to have sufficient gravity to round off its ragged corners. One side was rough -- like a ragged mountain top that was broken off at the peak and hurled into space by an all-powerful hand. Slowly the Scout Ship edged closer, braking with forward jets. Was this it, at last -- the missing asteroid?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 2236 | Votes: 132 | Score: 8.33
Size: 206KB | 39,014 words | Posted:

142 Vulcan's Workshop by Harl Vincent

Mighty Luke Fenton swaggers defiantly in Vulcan's Workshop, most frightful of Martian prisons.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 292 | Votes: 24 | Score: 8.32
Size: 51KB | 9,425 words | Posted:

143 The Aliens by Murray Leinster

The human race was expanding through the galaxy... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. When two expanding empires meet... war is inevitable. Or is it...?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1301 | Votes: 81 | Score: 8.32
Size: 78KB | 13,871 words | Posted:

144 The Impossibles by Randall Garrett

Kenneth j Malone of the FBI(that's right and from the queen's own FBI!) is back and late model red Cadillacs are being stolen, no suspects are ever seen and it's his job to figure out who, why and how.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 940 | Votes: 31 | Score: 8.32
Size: 278KB | 52,338 words | Posted:

145 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
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Downloads: 1612 | Votes: 37 | Score: 8.31
Size: 432KB | 78,381 words | Posted:

146 Wailing Wall by Roger D. Aycock

An enormous weapon is forcing people to keep their troubles to themselves--it's dynamite!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 157 | Votes: 7 | Score: 8.31
Size: 29KB | 5,212 words | Posted:

147 Angel's Egg by Edgar Pangborn

When adopting a pet, choose the species that is most intelligent, obedient, loyal, fun to play with, yet a shrewd, fearless protector. For the best in pets--choose a human being!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 714 | Votes: 30 | Score: 8.31
Size: 74KB | 13,942 words | Posted:

148 Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper

Earth scientists investigating the remains of a Martian city.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 1129 | Votes: 70 | Score: 8.31
Size: 91KB | 16,483 words | Posted:

149 The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison

Slippery Jim diGriz--a.k.a. The Stainless Steel Rat--is back in this classic adventure, originally published in the April, 1960 issue of Astounding Science Fiction! It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship. but interstellar space is on a different scale of magnitude. But a misplaced battleship--in the wrong hands!--can be most dangerous.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 2334 | Votes: 167 | Score: 8.30
Size: 59KB | 11,278 words | Posted:

150 A Question of Courage by Jesse F. Bone

I smelled the trouble the moment I stepped on the lift and took the long ride up the side of the "Lachesis." There was something wrong. I couldn't put my finger on it but
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 819 | Votes: 73 | Score: 8.30
Size: 45KB | 8,436 words | Posted:
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