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341 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: 521 | Votes: 42 | Score: 7.82
Size: 71KB | 13,898 words | Posted:

342 A World Called Crimson by Stephen Marlowe

There was a boy and a girl and a strange new planet; the planet was alive with hideous dangers. But the boy and girl were very young and all Robin wanted to know was: "Who stole my doll?"
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 476 | Votes: 31 | Score: 7.81
Size: 78KB | 14,404 words | Posted:

343 The Runaway Skyscraper by Murray Leinster

Highly entertaining story of a New York skyscraper being drawn into the past by a change in its fourth dimension. The building arrives in a time before Columbus's discovery of America. An enterprising engineer, a bank manager, and a office assistant save the people and the building.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 949 | Votes: 56 | Score: 7.81
Size: 89KB | 16,439 words | Posted:

344 My Shipmate-columbus by Stephen Marlowe

We've been taught from childhood that the earth is round and that Columbus discovered America. But maybe we take too much on faith. This first crossing for instance. Were you there? Did you see Columbus land? Here's the story of a man who can give us the straight facts.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 289 | Votes: 27 | Score: 7.81
Size: 48KB | 9,109 words | Posted:

345 Sorry: Wrong Dimension by Ross Rocklynne

So the baby had a pet monster. And so nobody but baby could see it. And so a couple of men dropped out of thin air to check and see if the monster was licensed or not. So what's strange about that?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 683 | Votes: 72 | Score: 7.80
Size: 16KB | 3,087 words | Posted:

346 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: 1519 | Votes: 41 | Score: 7.80
Size: 278KB | 51,111 words | Posted:

347 The Mercenaries by H. Beam Piper

Once, wars were won by maneuvering hired fighting men; now wars are different--and the hired experts are different. But the human problems remain!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1004 | Votes: 41 | Score: 7.80
Size: 49KB | 8,643 words | Posted:

348 Flight From Tomorrow by H. Beam Piper

Hunted and hated in two worlds, Hradzka dreamed of a monomaniac's glory, stranded in the past with his knowledge of the future. But he didn't know the past quite well enough....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 743 | Votes: 41 | Score: 7.80
Size: 45KB | 8,109 words | Posted:

349 The Space Rover by Edwin K. Sloat

Young Winford heads a desperate escape from the prison mines of Mercury.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 468 | Votes: 35 | Score: 7.80
Size: 50KB | 9,135 words | Posted:

350 The Terrible Tentacles of L-472 by Sewell Peaslee Wright

Commander John Hanson of the Special Patrol Service records another of his thrilling interplanetary assignments.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 268 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.78
Size: 45KB | 8,080 words | Posted:
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