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271 The Measure of a Man by Randall Garrett

What is desirable is not always necessary, while that which is necessary may be most undesirable. Perhaps the measure of a man is the ability to tell one from the other. and act on it.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 499 | Votes: 40 | Score: 7.96
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272 The Sword by Frank Quattrocchi

There were but three days in which to decipher the most cryptic message ever delivered to earth.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 816 | Votes: 67 | Score: 7.96
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273 The Man the Martians Made by Frank Belknap Long

No mortal had ever seen the Martians, but they had heard their whisperings--without knowing the terrible secret they kept hidden.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 512 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.95
Size: 39KB | 7,657 words | Posted:

274 The Ambulance Made Two Trips by Murray Leinster

If you should set a thief to catch a thief, what does it take to stop a racketeer...?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 682 | Votes: 54 | Score: 7.95
Size: 43KB | 7,893 words | Posted:

275 Subspace Survivors by E. E. Smith

There has always been, and will always be, the problem of surviving the experience that any trained expert can handle. when there hasn't been any first survivor to be an expert! When no one has ever gotten back to explain what happened....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1166 | Votes: 66 | Score: 7.95
Size: 72KB | 13,296 words | Posted:

276 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 332 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.95
Size: 18KB | 3,273 words | Posted:

277 And Devious the Line of Duty by Tom Godwin

Sometimes the most diligent and loyal thing an old man can do is fumble, drink beer, and let a young man get into trouble....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 532 | Votes: 40 | Score: 7.95
Size: 72KB | 13,524 words | Posted:

278 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 454 | Votes: 35 | Score: 7.94
Size: 49KB | 8,976 words | Posted:

279 Sabotage in Space by Carey Rockwell

It starts with cadet Roger, urm, nicking a study spool for use in a competitive exam -- but that leads all of our cadets into a fight, and when they're caught at that, a trial. In the midst of the trial they get assigned to duty on a Top Secret Projectile Project, and things go wrong there in ways at once related and impossible to connect. Someone is causing real menace to roost in the cadets' lives, and the worst is still ahead...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1867 | Votes: 65 | Score: 7.94
Size: 254KB | 46,299 words | Posted:

280 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 221 | Votes: * | Score: *
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