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351 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: 270 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.78
Size: 45KB | 8,080 words | Posted:

352 The Nothing Equation by Tom Godwin

The space ships were miracles of power and precision; the men who manned them, rich in endurance and courage. Every detail had been checked and double checked; every detail except--
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 871 | Votes: 57 | Score: 7.78
Size: 15KB | 2,942 words | Posted:

353 Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne

A daring adventure with huge dollops of geographical, technological, and scientific information, touches of humor, and a slow build-up followed by one exciting incident after another.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 248 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 509KB | 91,288 words | Posted:

354 Skin Game by Charles E. Fritch

Working on the theory that you can skin a sucker in space as well as on Earth, the con team of Harding and Sheckly operated furtively but profitably among natives of the outer planets. That is--until there was a question of turnabout being fair play in a world where natives took their skinning literally!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 192 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.78
Size: 17KB | 3,160 words | Posted:

355 Disqualified by Charles L. Fontenay

If Saranta wished to qualify as one who loved his fellow man, he should have known that often the most secretive things are the most obvious.
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Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 256 | Votes: 8 | Score: 7.78
Size: 5KB | 983 words | Posted:

356 Quest of the Golden Ape by Randall Garrett

How could this man awaken with no past--no childhood--no recollection except of a vague world of terror from which his mother cried out for vengeance and the slaughter of his own people stood as a monument of infamy?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 747 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.77
Size: 183KB | 33,988 words | Posted:

357 The Blind Spot by Homer Eon Flint

A room in San Francisco where strange things happened -- or a doorway into another cosmos, a different world, or perhaps the key to the past or future?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 426 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 562KB | 105,481 words | Posted:

358 We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, Hardly by Roger Kuykendall

After all--they only borrowed it a little while, just to fix it--
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 441 | Votes: 44 | Score: 7.77
Size: 8KB | 1,698 words | Posted:

359 One -shot by James Blish

Computers are increasingly important, and public companies are often taking over roles reserved for government agencies in the 50's. Even the comments about not really understanding how hard it is to produce really random data is all spot on. What was missed of course was the fact computer prices would drop as fast as they grew more powerful, union/mob style gangsters would go out of fashion and ESP wouldn't pan out at all.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 417 | Votes: 30 | Score: 7.77
Size: 25KB | 4,815 words | Posted:

360 Monsters of Mars by Edmond Hamilton

Three Martian-duped Earth-men swing open the gates of space that for so long had barred the greedy hordes of the Red Planet.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 209 | Votes: 6 | Score: 7.77
Size: 73KB | 13,036 words | Posted:
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