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201 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 583 | Votes: 26 | Score: 8.16
Size: 18KB | 3,355 words | Posted:

202 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 196 | Votes: 12 | Score: 8.15
Size: 24KB | 4,570 words | Posted:

203 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 243 | Votes: 12 | Score: 8.15
Size: 21KB | 4,078 words | Posted:

204 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:

205 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 929 | Votes: 31 | Score: 8.14
Size: 115KB | 21,334 words | Posted:

206 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 277 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 181KB | 32,862 words | Posted:

207 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 413 | Votes: 30 | Score: 8.14
Size: 61KB | 12,093 words | Posted:

208 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 485 | Votes: 30 | Score: 8.14
Size: 33KB | 6,109 words | Posted:

209 Beyond Lies the Wub by Phillip K. Dick

A ship presumably filling its hold ark-like for a long trip picks up a wub, a filthy creature supposedly tasty but also telepathic and intelligent.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 492 | Votes: 37 | Score: 8.13
Size: 14KB | 2,705 words | Posted:

210 The Fifth Dimension Tube by Murray Leinster

By way of Professor Denham's Tube, Tommy and Evelyn invade the inimical Fifth-Dimensional world of golden cities and tree-fern jungles and Ragged Men.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 612 | Votes: 15 | Score: 8.13
Size: 157KB | 28,459 words | Posted:
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