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161 Confidence Game by James McKimmey

Cutter demanded more and more and more efficiency--and got it! But, as in anything, enough is enough, and too much is...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 307 | Votes: 14 | Score: 8.27
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162 Operation Haystack by Frank Herbert

It's hard to ferret out a gang of fanatics; it would, obviously, be even harder to spot a genetic line of dedicated men. But the problem Orne had was one step tougher than that!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 547 | Votes: 36 | Score: 8.26
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163 The Copper-clad World by Harl Vincent

Blaine comes out of the hypnosis of the pink gas to find himself deep within Io, the copper-clad second satellite of Jupiter.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 365 | Votes: 11 | Score: 8.26
Size: 147KB | 26,572 words | Posted:

164 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
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Downloads: 454 | Votes: 26 | Score: 8.26
Size: 105KB | 19,008 words | Posted:

165 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
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Downloads: 404 | Votes: 17 | Score: 8.26
Size: 96KB | 17,826 words | Posted:

166 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: 933 | Votes: 30 | Score: 8.26
Size: 278KB | 52,338 words | Posted:

167 The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice-Burroughs

The Lost Continent is one of the least-known of Burroughs' thrilling science-fiction tales. In the year 2137, civilization has been in decline for nearly two centuries, and war-torn Europe is but a distant memory to the inhabitants of the isolated United States. But an American adventurer rediscovers the Old World, which has become a strange and savage land.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 1050 | Votes: 36 | Score: 8.25
Size: 203KB | 38,028 words | Posted:

168 The Forgotten Planet by Sewell Peaslee Wright

The authentic account of why cosmic man damned an outlaw world to be, forever, a leper of Space.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 609 | Votes: 29 | Score: 8.25
Size: 49KB | 8,915 words | Posted:

169 The Edge of the Knife by H. Beam Piper

In the distant future of 1973, Professor Chalmers of Blanley University is having a little trouble with his history class. He knows the subject and all his facts are true, the only problem is none of them have happened yet. After a disastrous lesson where he accidently revealed foreknowledge of an assassination yet to happen, Professor Chalmers has to face down against a dean threatening to fire him in spite of tenure.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 812 | Votes: 54 | Score: 8.25
Size: 90KB | 16,506 words | Posted:

170 Ultima Thule by Mack Reynolds

Ronny Bronston has dreamed all his life of getting a United Planets job that would take him off-world. He finally gets the opportunity when he is given a provisional assignment with Bureau of Investigation, Section G. But will he be able to complete his assignment and find the elusive Tommy Paine?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 768 | Votes: 37 | Score: 8.25
Size: 147KB | 26,798 words | Posted:
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