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421 Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper

Lane Fleming was a prominent collector of antique firearms. One night when he was working in his gunroom on a new acquisition, a shot rang out and he was found dead on the floor. The coroner somewhat hastily ruled that the death was an accident; more sober heads assumed it was suicide, but that the truth was hushed up for fear of scuppering a major takeover deal involving Fleming's company.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1178 | Votes: 35 | Score: 7.63
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422 Into Space by Sterner St. Paul Meek

What was the extraordinary connection between Dr. Livermore's sudden disappearance and the coming of a new satellite to the Earth?
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Downloads: 335 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.63
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423 Giants of the Ray by Tom Curry

Madly the three raced for their lives up the shaft of the radium mine, for behind them poured a stream of hideous monsters--giants of the ray.
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Downloads: 145 | Votes: * | Score: *
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424 The Pilot and the Bushman by Sylvia Jacobs

Technological upheavals caused by inventions of our own are bad enough, but this was the ultimate depression, caused by the ultimate alien invention--which no Earthman ever saw!
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Downloads: 507 | Votes: 33 | Score: 7.63
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425 So They Baked a Cake by Winston Marks

He was tired of people--a "human interest" columnist, who specializes in glamorizations of the commonplace and sordid is likely to get that way. So. this starship seemed to offer the ideal escape from it all
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Downloads: 442 | Votes: 40 | Score: 7.63
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426 Space Station 1 by Frank Belknap Long

Tremendous and glittering, the Space Station floated up out of the Big Dark. Lieutenant Corriston had come to see its marvels, but he soon found himself entrapped in its unsuspected terrors. For the grim reality was that some deadly outer-space power had usurped control of the great artificial moon. A lovely woman had disappeared; passengers were being fleeced and enslaved; and, using fantastic disguises, imposters were using the Station for their own mysterious ends...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 922 | Votes: 24 | Score: 7.63
Size: 274KB | 51,105 words | Posted:

427 The Players by Everett B. Cole

A Playboy is someone with power, too much time on his hands, and too little sense of a goal worth achieving. And if the Playboy happens to belong to a highly advanced culture....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 264 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.63
Size: 104KB | 19,217 words | Posted:

428 The Long, Silvery Day by Magnus Ludens

It was one of those days--perhaps you've had them--when everything went right!
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Downloads: 248 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.62
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429 In the Orbit of Saturn by Roman Frederick Starzl

Disguised as a voluntary prisoner on a pirate space ship, an I. F. P. man penetrates the mystery of the dreaded "Solar Scourge.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 266 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.62
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430 The Bramble Bush by Randall Garrett

Usually, if a man's gotten into bad trouble by getting into something, he's a fool to go back. But there are times.
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Downloads: 398 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.62
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