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361 Genesis by H. Beam Piper

Was this ill-fated expedition the end of a proud, old race--or the beginning of a new one? There are strange gaps in our records of the past. We find traces of man-like things--but, suddenly, man appears, far too much developed to be the "next step" in a well-linked chain of evolutionary evidence. Perhaps something like the events of this story furnishes the answer to the riddle.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 896 | Votes: 52 | Score: 7.78
Size: 45KB | 8,514 words | Posted:

362 A Coffin for Jacob by Edward W. Ludwig

With never a moment to rest, the pursuit through space felt like a game of hounds and hares. or was it follow the leader?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 298 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.76
Size: 58KB | 10,723 words | Posted:

363 Diplomatic Immunity by Robert Sheckley

He said he wasn't immortal--but nothing could kill him. Still, if the Earth was to live as a free world, he had to die.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 568 | Votes: 37 | Score: 7.75
Size: 36KB | 6,467 words | Posted:

364 He Walked Around the Horses by H. Beam Piper

A man vanished--right out of this world. And where he went--
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 938 | Votes: 32 | Score: 7.75
Size: 44KB | 8,141 words | Posted:

365 Sense From Thought Divide by Mark Clifton

What is a "phony"? Someone who believes he can do X, when he can't, however sincerely he believes it? Or someone who can do X, believes he can't, and believes he is pretending he can?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 209 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.75
Size: 72KB | 13,363 words | Posted:

366 Pythias by Frederik Pohl

Sure, Larry Connaught saved my life--but it was how he did it that forced me to murder him!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 219 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.75
Size: 9KB | 1,897 words | Posted:

367 The Common Man by Mack Reynolds

It would, of course, take a trio of Ivory Tower scientists to conceive of tracking down that statistical entity, the Common Man, and testing out an idea on him. And only the Ivory Tower type would predict that egregiously wrongly!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 537 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.75
Size: 82KB | 15,372 words | Posted:

368 Pushbutton War by Joseph Paul Martino

In one place, a descendant of the Vikings rode a ship such as Lief never dreamed of; from another, one of the descendants of the Caesars, and here an Apache rode a steed such as never roamed the plains. But they were warriors all.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 492 | Votes: 26 | Score: 7.75
Size: 41KB | 7,494 words | Posted:

369 The Hohokam Dig by Theodore Pratt

From_ where _had these attacking Indians come? Out of a long forgotten and dim past? Had their medicine man seen the one supreme vision?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 453 | Votes: 48 | Score: 7.75
Size: 24KB | 4,538 words | Posted:

370 Heist Job on Thizar by Randall Garrett

In the future, we may discover new planets; our ships may rocket to new worlds; robots may be smarter than people. But we'll still have slick characters willing and able to turn a fast buck--even though they have to be smarter than Einstein to do it.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 294 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.74
Size: 23KB | 4,456 words | Posted:
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