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331 The Trouble With Telstar by John Berryman

The real trouble with communications satellites is the enormous difficulty of repairing even the simplest little trouble. You need such a loooong screwdriver.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 545 | Votes: 43 | Score: 7.84
Size: 71KB | 13,898 words | Posted:

332 Clean Break by Roger D. Aycock

A veteran veterinarian might have vamoosed--but Watts had to help any sick animal....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 475 | Votes: 37 | Score: 7.84
Size: 32KB | 5,476 words | Posted:

333 Printcrime by Cory Doctorow

A man goes to prison for illegal printing.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 425 | Votes: 28 | Score: 7.84
Size: 3KB | 753 words | Posted:

334 The Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber

They were two desperate scavengers in a no-man's land of radiation and death. Living in a kill or be killed world. Can they fin a new life and hope? A grim, grisly post-apocalypse story.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 614 | Votes: 9 | Score: 7.84
Size: 172KB | 33,477 words | Posted:

335 Sea Legs by Frank Quattrocchi

Rootless and footloose, a man in space can't help but dream of coming home. But something nobody should do is bet on the validity of a homesick dream!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 410 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.83
Size: 76KB | 14,149 words | Posted:

336 The Troublemakers by George O.Smith

A young woman objects to being sedated into placidity, as is the norm in the overcrowded, genetically optimized future.She also refuses to be paired with a somnolent drip of a fellow, who needs medication to act at an even minimal level of energy. Then you've got the young spacer, who believes he has discovered an efficient hyperdrive that could open the stars to humanity. He is told to cool his heels in a dead-end assignment until he discovers the error in his mathematics.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Futuristic, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1110 | Votes: 59 | Score: 7.83
Size: 102KB | 18,043 words | Posted:

337 Alarm Clock by Everett B. Cole

Most useful high explosives, like ammonium nitrate, are enormously violent. once they're triggered. But they will remain seemingly inert when beaten, burned, variously punished--until the particular shock required comes along....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 625 | Votes: 34 | Score: 7.83
Size: 65KB | 12,433 words | Posted:

338 The Troubadour by Robert W. Lowndes

There was something odd about the guest attraction, Mr. Fayliss, and something odder still about his songs.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 242 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.82
Size: 7KB | 1,331 words | Posted:

339 East in the Morning by David E. Fisher

Natural laws are cliches--"what must be must be," for instance--and what must be in this case was, of all people, Dr. Talbot!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 289 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.82
Size: 23KB | 4,344 words | Posted:

340 Goodbye, Dead Man! by Tom W. Harris

Mattup had killed a man, so it was logical he should be punished. It was Danny who came up with the idea of leaving him with the prophecy
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 275 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.82
Size: 9KB | 1,906 words | Posted:
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