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231 Rough Beast by Roger D. Aycock

The most dangerous, utterly vicious carnivorous animal the Galactics knew had escaped. to Earth! Because contact with Earth was forbidden, they knew little of Earth. which led to certain false conclusions.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 662 | Votes: 42 | Score: 8.05
Size: 21KB | 3,750 words | Posted:

232 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: 1338 | Votes: 44 | Score: 8.04
Size: 332KB | 59,696 words | Posted:

233 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 267 | Votes: 9 | Score: 8.03
Size: 96KB | 19,017 words | Posted:

234 A Spaceship Named Mcguire by Randall Garrett

The basic trouble with McGuire was that, though "he" was a robot spaceship, nevertheless "he" had a definite weakness that a man might understand....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 939 | Votes: 56 | Score: 8.03
Size: 85KB | 16,545 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 181 | Votes: 9 | Score: 8.03
Size: 25KB | 4,791 words | Posted:

237 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: 303 | Votes: 23 | Score: 8.03
Size: 43KB | 7,905 words | Posted:

238 Second Childhood by Clifford D. Simak

Achieving immortality is only half of the problem. The other half is knowing how to live with it once it's been made possible--and inescapable!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 756 | Votes: 26 | Score: 8.03
Size: 34KB | 6,615 words | Posted:

239 The Chapter Ends by Poul Anderson

What will the end of the Earth's lifespan look like? What will happen to the humans left on the planet when it fades into obsolescence? These are just a few of the profound questions at the center of science fiction master Poul Anderson's thought-provoking tale The Chapter Ends.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 584 | Votes: 31 | Score: 8.02
Size: 47KB | 8,833 words | Posted:

240 Survival Tactics by Al Sevcik

The robots were built to serve Man; to do his work, see to his comforts, make smooth his way. Then the robots figured out an additional service--putting Man out of his misery.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 407 | Votes: 29 | Score: 8.01
Size: 22KB | 4,067 words | Posted:
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