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271 Ten From Infinity by Paul W. Fairman

It began when a pedestrian got hit by a cab in New York City. No doubt it was the only motor mishap in the history of creation that reached out among the stars--for far out in space a signal was registered: Something has gone wrong....for the doctors discovered their accident patient had two hearts. It was the beginning of the discovery that the Earth had been invaded by 10 such creatures from Outer Space.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 828 Votes: 21 | Score: 7.95
Size: 222KB | 41,476 words | Posted:

272 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: 493 Votes: 35 | Score: 7.94
Size: 49KB | 8,976 words | Posted:

273 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 926 Votes: 49 | Score: 7.94
Size: 92KB | 16,709 words | Posted:

274 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: 687 Votes: 23 | Score: 7.94
Size: 122KB | 21,628 words | Posted:

275 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: 266 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 125KB | 22,779 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
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Downloads: 369 Votes: 14 | Score: 7.93
Size: 18KB | 3,273 words | Posted:

277 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: 740 Votes: 45 | Score: 7.93
Size: 21KB | 3,750 words | Posted:

278 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: 360 Votes: 20 | Score: 7.93
Size: 19KB | 3,302 words | Posted:

279 Search the Sky by C. M. Kornbluth

Something Was Very Wrong, Out There Among The Stars...The interstellar transport had touched down on six other colony worlds - and all six had been devoid of human life. Where was everybody? It was almost as if humankind, when separated by cosmic distances from Mother Earth, could not survive.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 1342 Votes: 33 | Score: 7.92
Size: 299KB | 54,766 words | Posted:

280 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: 1978 Votes: 66 | Score: 7.92
Size: 254KB | 46,299 words | Posted:
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