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301 Empire by Clifford D. Simak

In a future time, the solar system is powered by one energy source, controlled by one huge organisation, which has plans to use this control to dominate the planets. Unknown to them, a couple of maverick scientists accidentally develop a completely new form of energy supply and threaten the corporation's monopoly. Naturally, the corporation can't allow this to happen... A stunning story about the manipulation of pure energy, climaxing in interstellar conflict.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1686 Votes: 43 | Score: 7.89
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302 The Snowball Effect by Katherine MacLean

Tack power drives on a sewing circle and you can needle the world into the darndest mess!
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Downloads: 224 Votes: 17 | Score: 7.89
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303 I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Mack Reynolds

One can't be too cautious about the people one meets in Tangier. They're all weirdies of one kind or another. Me? Oh, I'm A Stranger Here Myself
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 404 Votes: 30 | Score: 7.89
Size: 10KB | 1,907 words | Posted:

304 The Quantum Jump by Robert Wicks

Captain Brandon was a pioneer. He explored the far reaches of space and reported back on how things were out there. So it was pretty disquieting to find out that the "far reaches of space" knew more about what went on at home than he did.
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Downloads: 643 Votes: 47 | Score: 7.89
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305 Traders Risk by Roger D. Aycock

Keeping this cargo meant death--to jettison it meant to make flotsam and jetsam of a world!
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Downloads: 394 Votes: 29 | Score: 7.89
Size: 28KB | 4,892 words | Posted:

306 Problem on Balak by Roger D. Aycock

Sometimes you can solve your problem by running out on it!
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Downloads: 209 Votes: 14 | Score: 7.89
Size: 25KB | 4,802 words | Posted:

307 Home Again, Home Again by Cory Doctorow

The customs officer isn't even human, so it feels like just another R&R, another halting conversation carried on in ugly trade-speak, another bewilderment of queues and luggage carousels. Outside: another spaceport, surrounded by the variegated hostels for the variegated tourists, and bipeds are in bare majority. The thing he can't think of it is, is a homecoming.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 277 Votes: 7 | Score: 7.89
Size: 56KB | 10,925 words | Posted:

308 The Coffin Cure by Alan Edward Nourse

Doctor Coffin, in collaboration with other doctors, discovers a cure, but it has a surprisingly strong side effect.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 513 Votes: 33 | Score: 7.89
Size: 30KB | 5,545 words | Posted:

309 Revenge by Arthur Porges

Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but the fury of a biochemist scorned is just as great --and much more fiendish.
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Downloads: 651 Votes: 49 | Score: 7.88
Size: 15KB | 2,935 words | Posted:

310 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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Downloads: 856 Votes: 70 | Score: 7.88
Size: 21KB | 3,817 words | Posted:
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