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211 Backlash by Winston Marks

They were the perfect servants--they were willing to do everything for nothing. The obvious question is: How much is nothing?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 374 | Votes: 26 | Score: 8.15
Size: 50KB | 9,191 words | Posted:

212 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: 265 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 181KB | 32,862 words | Posted:

213 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: 575 | Votes: 25 | Score: 8.13
Size: 18KB | 3,355 words | Posted:

214 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
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Downloads: 602 | Votes: 15 | Score: 8.13
Size: 157KB | 28,459 words | Posted:

215 The Bluff of the Hawk by Anthony Gilmore

"A trick? Carse was famed for them. A trap? But how?"
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 274 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 71KB | 12,712 words | Posted:

216 Third Planet by Murray Leinster

It was, as usual, a decision on which the question of peace or atomic war depended. The Council of the Western Defense Alliance, as usual, had made the decision. And, as usual, the WDA Coordinator had to tell the Com Ambassador that the Coms had won again. The WDA would not risk atomic war over a minor boundary. Some hundreds of light-years away, the Survey ship Lotus floated in space over the third planet of the system, a planet exactly like Earth, only there was absolutely NO life on it.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Science, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1338 | Votes: 92 | Score: 8.12
Size: 53KB | 9,548 words | Posted:

217 Space Tug (Sequel to Space Platform) by Murray Leinster

Joe had helped launch the first Space Platform--that initial rung in man's ladder to the stars. But the enemies who had ruthlessly tried to destroy the space station before it left Earth were still at work. They were plotting to stop Joe's mission!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 1043 | Votes: 39 | Score: 8.12
Size: 303KB | 55,449 words | Posted:

218 Insidekick by Jesse F. Bone

Johnson had two secrets--one he knew and would die rather than reveal--and one he didn't know that meant to save him over his own dead body!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 633 | Votes: 53 | Score: 8.12
Size: 71KB | 12,786 words | Posted:

219 With No Strings Attached by Randall Garrett

A man will always be willing to buy something he wants, and believes in, even if it is impossible, rather than something he believes is impossible. So. sell him what he thinks he wants!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 350 | Votes: 24 | Score: 8.12
Size: 34KB | 6,392 words | Posted:

220 The Final Figure by Sam Merwin

Was it a wild talent that MacReedy had, or was it just prophetic genius that led him to figure out new, improved ordnance weapons and make models of them--before the armed forces had them? Whichever it was, MacReedy was both valuable and dangerous--and when the general saw MacReedy's final figure, the weapons following the mobile rocket A-missile launcher....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1087 | Votes: 76 | Score: 8.10
Size: 43KB | 7,701 words | Posted:
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