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331 Missing Link by Frank Herbert

The Romantics used to say that the eyes were the windows of the Soul. A good Alien Xenologist might not put it quite so poetically. but he can, if he's sharp, read a lot in the look of an eye!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 379 | Votes: 25 | Score: 7.84
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332 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
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Downloads: 614 | Votes: 9 | Score: 7.84
Size: 172KB | 33,477 words | Posted:

333 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
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Downloads: 410 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.83
Size: 76KB | 14,149 words | Posted:

334 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
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Downloads: 624 | Votes: 34 | Score: 7.83
Size: 65KB | 12,433 words | Posted:

335 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:

336 Salvage in Space by Jack Williamson

To Thad Allen, meteor miner, comes the dangerous bonanza of a derelict rocket-flier manned by death invisible.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1157 | Votes: 92 | Score: 7.82
Size: 47KB | 8,617 words | Posted:

337 Falcons of Narabedla by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Mike Kenscott is having a really bad vacation. One minute he's camping in the Sierra Mountains with his brother Andy, and the next minute he's on a different world. Now he's Adric, Lord of the Crimson Tower, of the Rainbow City of Narabedla. He has to cope with his fellow Narabedlans: the Dreamer Rhys, the mysterious veiled Gamine, the dwarf Idris, his brother Evarin the Toymaker (whose Toys are deadly), and Karamy, the golden witch, who is either his lover or his greatest enemy...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 1138 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.82
Size: 142KB | 26,764 words | Posted:

338 The Ghost World by Sewell Peaslee Wright

Commander John Hanson records another of his thrilling interplanetary adventures with the Special Patrol Service.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 423 | Votes: 27 | Score: 7.82
Size: 52KB | 9,644 words | Posted:

339 The Native Soil by Alan Edward Nourse

Explore a Venus that never was. This is Venus as science fiction imagined it, as it might have been. Explore the hot, humid, muddy planet and meet the aliens that populate it.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 352 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.82
Size: 40KB | 7,209 words | Posted:

340 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
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Downloads: 242 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.82
Size: 7KB | 1,331 words | Posted:
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