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391 The Gifts of Asti by Andre Norton

Varta, the last of the virgin Maiden of Asti, is watching her world die. The barbarians of Klem have hunted Memphir to its death and even here, in the forgotten mountain retreat of Asti, Varta can smell the stench of the fires of their destruction. It's time to leave.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 819 | Votes: 51 | Score: 7.70
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392 A Stone and a Spear by Raymond F. Jones

Given: The future is probabilities merging into one certainty. Proposition: Can the probabilities be made improbables so that the certainty becomes impossible?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 321 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.70
Size: 42KB | 7,805 words | Posted:

393 Hail to the Chief by Randall Garrett

A great politician need not be a statesman. but it is inherently futile to be a great statesman, and no politician. Except, of course, for a miracle.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 349 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.70
Size: 71KB | 12,910 words | Posted:

394 Shipping Clerk by Joseph Samachson

If Ollie knew the work he was doing, he would have resigned--if resigning were possible!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 641 | Votes: 57 | Score: 7.70
Size: 31KB | 5,977 words | Posted:

395 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: 768 | Votes: 43 | Score: 7.70
Size: 45KB | 8,109 words | Posted:

396 Hall of Mirrors by Fredric Brown

It is a tough decision to make--whether to give up your life so you can live it over again!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 272 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.69
Size: 12KB | 2,448 words | Posted:

397 The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley

When Myles Cabot, inventor of radio transmission of matter, found himself alone on an unknown continent of the planet Venus, he realized that getting back to his old headquarters and his loved ones presented some impossible problems. He'd have to settle a war between primitive natives and an unholy alliance of monsters, dinosaurs and giant insects. He'd have to build an electronic device from raw rocks and untapped resources. And if he succeeded in all that, he'd still have to find his way home
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Futuristic, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 523 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.69
Size: 399KB | 72,734 words | Posted:

398 The Red Hell of Jupiter by Paul Ernst

What is the mystery centered in Jupiter's famous "Red Spot"? Two fighting Earthmen, caught by the "Pipe-men" like their vanished comrades, soon find out.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 232 | Votes: 7 | Score: 7.69
Size: 132KB | 24,169 words | Posted:

399 Time and Time Again by H. Beam Piper

To upset the stable, mighty stream of time would probably take an enormous concentration of energy. And it's not to be expected that a man would get a second chance at life. But an atomic might accomplish both--
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 775 | Votes: 56 | Score: 7.69
Size: 37KB | 6,971 words | Posted:

400 Assassin by Jesse F. Bone

The aliens wooed Earth with gifts, love, patience and peace. Who could resist them? After all, no one shoots Santa Claus!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 649 | Votes: 48 | Score: 7.68
Size: 54KB | 9,623 words | Posted:
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