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231 Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster

On the Earth of the future, cities are overcrowded and the elite have nothing to do but buy fame from people who really do the work. A faster than light drive is invented and Jed Cochrane, a television producer, seizes the chance to change the course of history and free the people who are willing to work for themselves and not be faceless proles.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1358 | Votes: 45 | Score: 8.04
Size: 332KB | 59,696 words | Posted:

232 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
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Downloads: 711 | Votes: 65 | Score: 8.04
Size: 12KB | 2,185 words | Posted:

233 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
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Downloads: 312 | Votes: 23 | Score: 8.03
Size: 43KB | 7,905 words | Posted:

234 Despoilers of the Golden Empire by Randall Garrett

A handful of men, and an incredible adventure--a few super-men, led by a fanatic, seeking to conquer a new world!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 452 | Votes: 15 | Score: 8.03
Size: 78KB | 14,365 words | Posted:

235 Round the Moon(Sequel to Trip to the Moon) by Jules Verne

Having been fired out of the giant Columbiad space gun, the Baltimore Gun Club's bullet-shaped projectile, along with its three passengers, Barbicane, Nicholl and Michael Ardan, begins the five-day trip to the moon. A few minutes into the journey, a small, bright asteroid passes within a few hundred yards of them, but does not collide with the projectile. The asteroid had been captured by the Earth's gravity and had become a second moon.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 197 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 289KB | 50,064 words | Posted:

236 The Perfectionists by Arnold Castle

Is there something wrong with you? Do you fail to fit in with your group? Nervous, anxious, ill-at-ease? Happy about it? Lucky you!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 185 | Votes: 9 | Score: 8.03
Size: 25KB | 4,791 words | Posted:

237 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: 275 | Votes: 9 | Score: 8.03
Size: 96KB | 19,017 words | Posted:

238 Wanted-7 Fearless Engineers! by Frederick Orlin Tremaine

A great civilization's fate lay in Dick Barrow's hands as he led his courageous fellow engineers into a strange and unknown land. None of them knew what lay ahead--what dangers awaited them--or what rewards. But they did not hesitate because the first question asked them had been: "Are you a brave man?"
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 868 | Votes: 57 | Score: 8.02
Size: 101KB | 18,712 words | Posted:

239 Summer Snow Storm by Stephen Marlowe

Snow in summer is of course impossible. Any weather expert will tell you so. Weather Bureau Chief Botts was certain no such absurdity could occur. And he would have been right except for one thing. It snowed that summer.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 400 | Votes: 31 | Score: 8.01
Size: 25KB | 4,527 words | Posted:

240 Survival Type by Jesse F. Bone

Score one or one million was not enough for the human race. It had to be all or nothing. with one man doing every bit of scoring!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 485 | Votes: 34 | Score: 8.01
Size: 47KB | 8,390 words | Posted:
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