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201 A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber

The loss of solar heating has caused the Earth's atmosphere to freeze into thick layers of "snow". The boy's father had worked with a group of other scientists to construct a large shelter, but the earthquakes accompanying the disaster had destroyed it and killed the others. He managed to construct a smaller, makeshift shelter called the "Nest" for his family, where they maintain a breathable atmosphere by periodically retrieving pails of frozen oxygen to thaw over a fire.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 406 | Votes: 29 | Score: 8.16
Size: 29KB | 5,916 words | Posted:

202 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
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Downloads: 1229 | Votes: 97 | Score: 8.16
Size: 14KB | 2,731 words | Posted:

203 Common Denominator by John D. MacDonald

Advanced races generally are eager to share their knowledge with primitive ones. In this case. with Earthmen!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 585 | Votes: 26 | Score: 8.16
Size: 18KB | 3,355 words | Posted:

204 What Do You Read? by Boyd Ellanby

Writers have long dreamed of a plot machine, but the machines in Script-Lab did much more than plot the story--they wrote it. Why bother with human writers when the machines did the job so much faster and better?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 200 | Votes: 12 | Score: 8.15
Size: 24KB | 4,570 words | Posted:

205 Diagnosis by Ray Palmer

Take two men and one girl--the eternal triangle--and mix well with an oscilloscope gone haywire. What comes out? With ingredients like these, the result is adventure, terror and, of course, romance.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 243 | Votes: 12 | Score: 8.15
Size: 21KB | 4,078 words | Posted:

206 The Sea Riders by H. G. Wells

Until the extraordinary affair at Sidmouth, the peculiar species Haploteuthis ferox was known to science only generically, on the strength of a half-digested tentacle obtained near the Azores, and a decaying body pecked by birds and nibbled by fish, found early in 1896 by Mr. Jennings, near Land's End.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 198 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 22KB | 4,006 words | Posted:

207 The Sensitive Man by Poul Anderson

One man stood between a power-hungry cabal and world mastery-but a man of unusual talents.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 929 | Votes: 31 | Score: 8.14
Size: 115KB | 21,334 words | Posted:

208 The Passing of Ku Sui by Anthony Gilmore

A screaming streak in the night--a cloud of billowing steam--and the climax of Hawk Carse's spectacular "Affair of the Brains" is over.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 278 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 181KB | 32,862 words | Posted:

209 The Right Time by John Berryman

The trouble with prophets is that if they're accurate, the news won't do you any good, and if they aren't accurate, they're no good. Unless, of course, they're more than just prophets....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 413 | Votes: 30 | Score: 8.14
Size: 61KB | 12,093 words | Posted:

210 Tight Squeeze by Dean Charles Ing

He knew the theory of repairing the gizmo all right. He had that nicely taped. But there was the little matter of threading a wire through a too-small hole while under zero-g, and working in a spacesuit!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 489 | Votes: 30 | Score: 8.14
Size: 33KB | 6,109 words | Posted:
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