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201 The Water Eater by Winston Marks

Most experiments were dropped because they failed--and some because they worked too well!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 407 | Votes: 27 | Score: 8.17
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202 Null-abc by H. Beam Piper

There's some reaction these days that holds scientists responsible for war. Take it one step further: What happens if "book-learnin'" is held responsible.?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 524 | Votes: 11 | Score: 8.17
Size: 198KB | 35,645 words | Posted:

203 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
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Downloads: 412 | Votes: 29 | Score: 8.16
Size: 29KB | 5,916 words | Posted:

204 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: 1237 | Votes: 97 | Score: 8.16
Size: 14KB | 2,731 words | Posted:

205 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:

206 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: 203 | Votes: 12 | Score: 8.15
Size: 24KB | 4,570 words | Posted:

207 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:

208 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:

209 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: 940 | Votes: 31 | Score: 8.14
Size: 115KB | 21,334 words | Posted:

210 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: *
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