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221 The Judas Valley by Randall Garrett

Why did everybody step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment? It was a mystery Peter and Sherri had to solve. If they could live long enough!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 735 | Votes: 50 | Score: 8.09
Size: 67KB | 12,278 words | Posted:

222 The Carnivore by Katherine MacLean

Why were they apologetic? It wasn't their fault that they came to Earth much too late.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 367 | Votes: 22 | Score: 8.08
Size: 11KB | 2,093 words | Posted:

223 Now We Are Three by Joe L. Hensley

Where are we going? What will the world be like in the days--perhaps not too distant--when we have tested and tested the bombs to the finite degree? Joe L. Hensley, attorney in Madison, Indiana, and increasingly well known in SF, returns with this challenging story of that Tomorrow.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 267 | Votes: 17 | Score: 8.07
Size: 19KB | 3,637 words | Posted:

224 All Day September by Roger Kuykendall

Some men just haven't got good sense. They just can't seem to learn the most fundamental things. Like when there's no use trying--when it's time to give up because it's hopeless....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 304 | Votes: 25 | Score: 8.07
Size: 30KB | 5,643 words | Posted:

225 The Next Logical Step by Benjamin William Bova

Ordinarily the military least wants to have the others know the final details of their war plans. But, logically, there would be times.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 731 | Votes: 67 | Score: 8.06
Size: 12KB | 2,185 words | Posted:

226 Two Timer by Fredric Brown

Two Timer in the February 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Here is a brace of vignettes by the Old Vignette Master. short and sharp. like a hypodermic! - Experiment - Sentry
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 269 | Votes: 16 | Score: 8.06
Size: 3KB | 708 words | Posted:

227 Old Crompton's Secret by Harl Vincent

Tom's extraordinary machine glowed--and the years were banished from Old Crompton's body. But there still remained, deep-seated in his century-old mind, the memory of his crime.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 328 | Votes: 24 | Score: 8.05
Size: 43KB | 7,905 words | Posted:

228 The World With a Thousand Moons by Edmond Hamilton

Grim death was the only romance to be found on this world that boasted a thousand moons
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 341 | Votes: 13 | Score: 8.05
Size: 93KB | 16,734 words | Posted:

229 A Place So Foreign by Cory Doctorow

In the title tale, narrator James 14 returns home with Mama to 1898 village when his father Les, time-traveller Ambassador to aliens, vanishes from 1975 jet-pack city. When the "mothaship" takes the anointed few into the brave new world, those left behind are angry. "0wnz0red" asks - what happens when hackers hack the human body?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 292 | Votes: 10 | Score: 8.05
Size: 96KB | 19,017 words | Posted:

230 Cum Grano Salis by Randall Garrett

Just because a man can do something others can't does not, unfortunately, mean he knows how to do it. One man could eat the native fruit and live. but how?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 502 | Votes: 33 | Score: 8.05
Size: 45KB | 8,324 words | Posted:
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