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401 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 732 | Votes: 53 | Score: 7.68
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402 Keep Out by Fredric Brown

With no more room left on Earth, and with Mars hanging up there empty of life, somebody hit on the plan of starting a colony on the Red Planet. It meant changing the habits and physical structure of the immigrants, but that worked out fine. In fact, every possible factor was covered--except one of the flaws of human nature....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 330 | Votes: 26 | Score: 7.67
Size: 6KB | 1,290 words | Posted:

403 See? by Edward G. Robles

Seeing things? Don't go to an analyst--see the Commission--if it doesn't find you first!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 361 | Votes: 28 | Score: 7.67
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404 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
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Downloads: 381 | Votes: 26 | Score: 7.67
Size: 25KB | 4,815 words | Posted:

405 Asteroid of Fear by Raymond Z. Gallun

All space was electrified as that harsh challenge rang out. but John Endlich hesitated. For he saw beyond his own murder--saw the horror and destruction his death would unleash--and knew he dared not fight back!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 235 | Votes: 9 | Score: 7.67
Size: 77KB | 13,935 words | Posted:

406 Beyond the Door by Phillip K. Dick

"Did you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead --" wrote the editor of "Fantastic Universe" in January, 1954, blurbing this tale "-- that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood? Philip Dick used that idea for this brief fantasy tale. We're sure that after reading it you'll give cuckoo clocks more respect."
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 326 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.66
Size: 12KB | 2,445 words | Posted:

407 Let 'Em Breathe Space! by Lester Del Rey

Eighteen men and two women in the closed world of a space ship for five months can only spell tension and trouble--but in this case, the atmosphere was "literally" poisoned.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 351 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.66
Size: 93KB | 18,020 words | Posted:

408 Dead World by Jack Douglas

Out on the ice-buried planet, Commander Red Stone led his Free Companions to almost certain death. They died for a dangerous dream that had only one chance in a thousand trillion to come true. Is there a better reason for dying?
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Downloads: 358 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.66
Size: 28KB | 5,580 words | Posted:

409 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
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Downloads: 675 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.66
Size: 183KB | 33,988 words | Posted:

410 Criminal Negligence by J. Francis McComas

Somebody was going to have to be left behind. and who it would be was perfectly obvious....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 478 | Votes: 31 | Score: 7.65
Size: 37KB | 6,781 words | Posted:
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