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351 Wheels Within by Charles V. De Vet

Never ask "Who am I and where do I come from?" The answers may not be what you'd expect!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 298 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.78
Size: 32KB | 5,877 words | Posted:

352 It's a Small Solar System by Allan Howard

Soon the three representatives of Earth were walking shoulder to shoulder, the Captain first to touch soil.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 303 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.78
Size: 6KB | 1,214 words | Posted:

353 Gourmet by Allen Kim Lang

This was the endless problem of all spaceship cooks: He had to feed the men tomorrow on what they had eaten today!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 263 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.78
Size: 25KB | 4,496 words | Posted:

354 George Loves Gistla by James McKimmey

Why don't you find yourself some nice little American girl," his father had often repeated. But George was on Venus. and he loved pale green skin. and globular heads and most of all, George loved Gistla.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 228 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.78
Size: 25KB | 4,808 words | Posted:

355 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:

356 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:

357 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:

358 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: 743 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.77
Size: 183KB | 33,988 words | Posted:

359 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:

360 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: 414 | Votes: 30 | Score: 7.77
Size: 25KB | 4,815 words | Posted:
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