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181 The Star Lord by Ed M. Clinton

To some passengers a maiden voyage was a pleasure cruise; to others it meant a hope for new life. Only the Captain knew of its danger! The _Star Lord_ waited, poised for her maiden voyage. The gigantic silvery spindle, still cradled in its scaffoldings, towered upwards against the artificial sky of Satellite Y.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 631 | Votes: 28 | Score: 8.24
Size: 114KB | 21,245 words | Posted:

182 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: 1710 | Votes: 39 | Score: 8.23
Size: 432KB | 78,381 words | Posted:

183 Operation Distress by Lester Del Rey

Explorers who dread spiders and snakes prove that heroism is always more heroic to outsiders. Then there's the case of the first space pilot to Mars who developed the itch
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 261 | Votes: 16 | Score: 8.22
Size: 22KB | 4,291 words | Posted:

184 The Stoker and the Stars by Algis Budrys

When you've had your ears pinned back in a bowknot, it's sometimes hard to remember that an intelligent people has no respect for a whipped enemy. but does for a fairly beaten enemy.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 307 | Votes: 27 | Score: 8.22
Size: 22KB | 4,404 words | Posted:

185 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...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 673 | Votes: 53 | Score: 8.22
Size: 51KB | 9,301 words | Posted:

186 The Winged Men of Orcon by David R. Sparks

Far out at the edge of the Universe two scientists play a game of wits--Earth to the winner.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 239 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 79KB | 14,943 words | Posted:

187 The Ape-men of Xlotli by David R. Sparks

Kirby did not know what mountains they were. He did know that the Mannlicher bullets of eleven bad Mexicans were whining over his head and whizzing past the hoofs of his galloping, stolen horse. The shots were mingled with yelps which pretty well curdled his spine. In the circumstances, the unknown range of snow mountains towering blue and white beyond the arid, windy plateau, offering he could not tell what dangers, seemed a paradise.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 602 | Votes: 23 | Score: 8.22
Size: 170KB | 31,104 words | Posted:

188 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 580 | Votes: 37 | Score: 8.21
Size: 45KB | 8,201 words | Posted:

189 Such Blooming Talk by L. Major Reynolds

Henderson's lovely flowers were going to bring him fame--until they walked and talked too much.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 363 | Votes: 21 | Score: 8.21
Size: 4KB | 835 words | Posted:

190 Broken Boundaries by SciFurz

During the Earth-Silth conflicts, two commanders of opposing warships played a game of chicken at one of the outer known solar systems, the result being a head-on collision and two ships fused together at the bows. After the cease fire agreement plans were made to salvage what they could from the ships and Alain from Earth was sent as part of a two man crew to recover components from the Earth vessel while a team from the Silth would handle theirs. Nothing turned out to be as expected.
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Alternate Universe, Romance, Drama, Violence, War, Military, Workplace, Pirates, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 6248 | Votes: 214 | Score: 8.21
Size: 331KB | 63,146 words | Posted: Concluded:
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