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411 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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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 361 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.66
Size: 28KB | 5,580 words | Posted:

412 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 330 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.66
Size: 12KB | 2,445 words | Posted:

413 Second Sight by Alan Edward Nourse

Amy Ballantine has a talent... and sometimes it lets her know more than she needs to know.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 814 | Votes: 40 | Score: 7.66
Size: 24KB | 4,978 words | Posted:

414 Meeting of the Board by Alan Edward Nourse

This is a parody of corporate management in a world where unions own the means of production and the managers are treated like factory workers.Faced with a corporate system that is breaking down - workers want immediate dividends rather than investments in developing new products - management goes on strike to readjust the power between management and unions.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 331 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.66
Size: 32KB | 5,804 words | Posted:

415 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 482 | Votes: 31 | Score: 7.65
Size: 37KB | 6,781 words | Posted:

416 The Return by H. Beam Piper

The isolated little group they found were doing fine-- but their religion was most strange--and yet quite logical!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 483 | Votes: 25 | Score: 7.65
Size: 64KB | 11,858 words | Posted:

417 A World Is Born by Leigh Douglass Brackett

The first ripples of blue fire touched Dio's men. Bolts of it fastened on gun-butts, and knuckles. Men screamed and fell. Jill cried out as he tore silver ornaments from her dress.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 390 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.64
Size: 44KB | 8,234 words | Posted:

418 Lighter Than You Think by Nelson Slade Bond

It's possible that you won't agree with us that Pat Pending's latest adventure is a delightful story--possible IF you haven't been used to laughing in recent years. Blue Book printed more than a dozen of these stories by Nelson Bond about the "greatest inventulator of all time".
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 368 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.64
Size: 24KB | 4,351 words | Posted:

419 The Repair Man by Harry Harrison

A stellar communications repairman is sent to repair a beacon on a planet, and discovers that its presence had a profound influence on the planet in question. Needing to deal with a locally evolved sentience and a bizarre ritual, the repairman needs to use his best plan to complete his mission and end up alive and whole too.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1294 | Votes: 103 | Score: 7.64
Size: 28KB | 5,467 words | Posted:

420 The Vortex Blaster by E. E. Smith

Neal ("Storm") Cloud, nucleonic genius, set out in his spaceship *Vortex Blaster* to track and destroy the vortices. What he finds extends far beyond any threat of nature.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 861 | Votes: 41 | Score: 7.64
Size: 45KB | 8,129 words | Posted:
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