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181 The Raid on the Termites by Paul Ernst

Armed with splinters of steel, two ant-sized men dare the formidable mysteries of a termitary.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 210 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 144KB | 25,998 words | Posted:

182 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: 232 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 79KB | 14,943 words | Posted:

183 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: 568 | Votes: 23 | Score: 8.22
Size: 170KB | 31,104 words | Posted:

184 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: 655 | Votes: 53 | Score: 8.22
Size: 51KB | 9,301 words | Posted:

185 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: 6194 | Votes: 210 | Score: 8.22
Size: 331KB | 63,146 words | Posted: Concluded:

186 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: 259 | Votes: 16 | Score: 8.22
Size: 22KB | 4,291 words | Posted:

187 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: 299 | Votes: 27 | Score: 8.22
Size: 22KB | 4,404 words | Posted:

188 The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Fangs of the Wolf World. Across half a Galaxy, the Terran Empire maintains its sovereignty with the consent of the governed. It is a peaceful reign, held by compact and not by conquest. Again and again, when rebellion threatens the Terran Peace, the natives of the rebellious world have turned against their own people and sided with the men of Terra; not from fear, but from a sense of dedication.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1137 | Votes: 42 | Score: 8.21
Size: 224KB | 42,297 words | Posted:

189 All Cats Are Gray by Andre Norton

Under normal conditions a whole person has a decided advantage over a handicapped one. But out in deep space the normal may be reversed--for humans at any rate.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1191 | Votes: 95 | Score: 8.21
Size: 14KB | 2,731 words | Posted:

190 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: 352 | Votes: 21 | Score: 8.21
Size: 4KB | 835 words | Posted:
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