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281 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: 887 | Votes: 47 | Score: 7.94
Size: 92KB | 16,709 words | Posted:

282 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: 224 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 125KB | 22,779 words | Posted:

283 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: 463 | Votes: 35 | Score: 7.94
Size: 49KB | 8,976 words | Posted:

284 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 237 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.93
Size: 63KB | 11,770 words | Posted:

285 When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard

An Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 708 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 632KB | 120,194 words | Posted:

286 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1250 | Votes: 33 | Score: 7.92
Size: 299KB | 54,766 words | Posted:

287 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: 1917 | Votes: 66 | Score: 7.92
Size: 254KB | 46,299 words | Posted:

288 The Devil in Iron by Robert E. Howard

Premium-sized adventure short featuring Conan. While one could say a lot against some of the sexist fantasies in Conan stories, Howard's stories always are crisp and satisfying through their completeness. Don't miss yet another from the master of adventure pulp!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 541 | Votes: 25 | Score: 7.92
Size: 67KB | 12,323 words | Posted:

289 The Second Satellite by Edmond Hamilton

Earth-men war on frog-vampires for the emancipation of the human cows of Earth's second satellite.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 272 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.92
Size: 58KB | 10,471 words | Posted:

290 Sense From Thought Divide by Mark Clifton

What is a "phony"? Someone who believes he can do X, when he can't, however sincerely he believes it? Or someone who can do X, believes he can't, and believes he is pretending he can?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 217 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.91
Size: 72KB | 13,363 words | Posted:
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