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271 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 444 Votes: 34 | Score: 7.95
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272 One Out of Ten by J. Anthony Ferlaine

There may be a town called Mars in Montana. But little Mrs. Freda Dunny didn't come from there!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 476 Votes: 44 | Score: 7.95
Size: 7KB | 1,420 words | Posted:

273 Spillthrough by Daniel F. Galouye

Ships switching from hyper to normal space had to do it in a micro-second--if the crews were to live. But it would take Brad suicidal minutes!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 487 Votes: 35 | Score: 7.94
Size: 49KB | 8,976 words | Posted:

274 Industrial Revolution by Poul Anderson

A good adventure story about the first "armed" resistance of the asteroid miners against an arrogant Earth.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 898 Votes: 47 | Score: 7.94
Size: 92KB | 16,709 words | Posted:

275 The Dueling Machine by Benjamin William Bova

Dueling as a means of settling disputes has been revived by the invention of the dueling machine, which allows two adversaries to have at each other in the imaginary world of their choosing, with no danger to either other than humiliation and the loss of the point in dispute, until the Kerak Worlds found a way to kill with the machine. Unless a young Star Watchman can solve the mystery, the warlike Kerak Worlds will gobble up the planets.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 650 Votes: 23 | Score: 7.94
Size: 122KB | 21,628 words | Posted:

276 Lords of the Stratosphere by Arthur J. Burks

High into air are the great New York buildings lifted by a ray whose source no telescope can find.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 257 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 125KB | 22,779 words | Posted:

277 Kreativity for Kats by Fritz Leiber

They are the aliens among us--and their ways and wonders are stranger than extraterrestrials!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 361 Votes: 14 | Score: 7.93
Size: 18KB | 3,273 words | Posted:

278 Stamped Caution by Raymond Z. Gallun

It's a funny thing, but most monsters seem to be of the opinion that it's men who are the monsters. You know, they have a point.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 245 Votes: 14 | Score: 7.93
Size: 63KB | 11,770 words | Posted:

279 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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Downloads: 728 Votes: 45 | Score: 7.93
Size: 21KB | 3,750 words | Posted:

280 License to Steal by Louis Newman

The history of man becomes fearfully and wonderfully confusing with the advent of interstellar travel. Of special interest to the legally inclined student is the famous Skrrgck Affair, which began before the Galactic Tribunal with the case of _Citizens vs. Skrrgck_.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 350 Votes: 20 | Score: 7.93
Size: 19KB | 3,302 words | Posted:
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