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21 The Big Time by Fritz Leiber

It's been going on for a billion years and it will last another billion or so. Up and down the timeline, the two sides--"Spiders" and "Snakes"--battle endlessly to change the future and the past. Our lives, our memories, are their battleground. And in the midst of the war is the Place, outside space and time, where Greta Forzane and the other Entertainers provide solace and r-&-r for tired time warriors.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 209KB / 40,093 words | Downloads: 432
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22 The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith

A classic brilliant,scientist, Dick Seaton,is young and hunkish with a gorgeous and high-class girlfriend, Dorothy. Enter the brilliant, mad-scientist villain named Blackie. He kidnaps Dorothy.she tries to kick his butt, kicks the instrument panel of the space ship instead and they're off on a grand tour of outer space with our hero in hot pursuit. The book is climaxed by a double-wedding on an alien planet with an alien race in attendance.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 34 | Score: 8.94
Size: 466KB / 85,827 words | Downloads: 1721
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23 Islands of Space by John W. Campbell Jr.

Islands of Space was written as a sequel to 'The Black Star Passes" 'Arcot, Wade, Morey and their computer, Fuller, put together a ship which will travel faster than light... they give us what may have been the first space-warp drive. With it they hightail it among the stars. They locate the fugitive planets of the Black Star... find a frozen cemetery-world of a lost race... then head out for another galaxy... and wind up in a knock-down-drag-out interplanetary war there.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 46 | Score: 8.91
Size: 340KB / 62,664 words | Downloads: 1725
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24 A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice-Burroughs

John Carter, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, goes prospecting in Arizona immediately after the war's end. Having struck a rich vein of gold, he runs afoul of the Apaches. While attempting to evade pursuit by hiding in a sacred cave, he is mysteriously transported to Mars, called "Barsoom" by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength and superhuman agility in this new environment as a result of its lesser gravity.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Alternate Universe, Romance, Novel-Classic
Votes: 60 | Score: 8.89
Size: 359KB / 67,116 words | Downloads: 1407
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25 The Defiant Agents by Andre Norton

A Time Traders/Ross Murdock Story
Travis Fox, Apache Indian and an expert in time travel, volunteers for a mission to colonize the planet of Topaz. But when he and his fellow Apaches find themselves reverting to the ways of their ancient warrior race, Fox suspects that a dangerous force is responsible--and that there's more at stake than just their lives.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Super Hero, Novel-Classic
Votes: 100 | Score: 8.89
Size: 311KB / 57,578 words | Downloads: 3202
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26 The Asses of Balaam by Randall Garrett

The remarkable characteristic of Balaam's ass was that it was more perceptive than its master. Sometimes a child is more perceptive--because more straightforward and logical--than an adult....
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 23 | Score: 8.89
Size: 45KB / 8,404 words | Downloads: 571
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27 Space Prison by Tom Godwin

a colony ship en route to planet Athena 500 light years away is attacked by the Gerns, an alien race with a deep hatred of humans. The colonists are enslaved and some are taken to work on Athena while others are taken to the prison planet Ragnarok. Ragnarok, however, turns out to be an inhospitable world, populated by deadly, aggressive creatures. The novels follows the stranded humans through several generations as they try to survive there.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 83 | Score: 8.88
Size: 290KB / 54,384 words | Downloads: 1726
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28 First Lensman by E. E. Smith

In the not too distance future, while fleets of commercial space ships travel between the planets of numerous solar systems, a traveler named Virgil Samms visits the planet Arisia. There Samms helps to form the Galactic Patrol, a battalion of Lensmen who are larger than life heroes. These solders are the best of the best, with incredible skills, stealth, and drive.They are dedicated and incorruptible fighters who are willing to die to protect the universe from threats.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 75 | Score: 8.88
Size: 558KB / 98,940 words | Downloads: 4647
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29 A Trace of Memory by Keith Laumer

Foster has hired Legion to help him regain his lost memory. Then both men are suddenly attacked by alien powers. They flee to Stonehenge in England where they discover a strange control chamber deep in the ruins. They succeed in bringing down to earth an alien space ship which has been in orbit for thousands of years. Eventually they both become captives... on another planet.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 60 | Score: 8.83
Size: 353KB / 67,574 words | Downloads: 1955
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30 The Beginning by Henry Hasse

Relentlessly, a narrative as old as time drives forward to a climax as old as man--and points a finger as grim as Death.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 34KB / 6,386 words | Downloads: 213
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