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431 Swenson, Dispatcher by R. De Witt Miller

There were no vacuums in Space Regulations, so Swenson--well, you might say he knew how to plot courses through sub-ether legality!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 394 | Votes: 36 | Score: 7.61
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432 Adaptation by Mack Reynolds

When a man has a great deal of knowledge, it becomes extremely easy for him to confuse "knowledge" with "wisdom". and forget that the antonym of "wisdom" is not "ignorance" but "folly."
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 923 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.61
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433 Project Mastodon by Clifford D. Simak

Hudson lay in his sleeping bag, staring at the sky. It bothered him a lot. There was not one familiar constellation, not one star that he could name with any certainty. This juggling of the stars, he thought, emphasized more than anything else in this ancient land the vast gulf of years which lay between him and the Earth where he had been-or would be-born.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 1204 | Votes: 51 | Score: 7.61
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434 Rastignac the Devil by Philip José Farmer

Enslaved by a triangular powered despotism--one lone man sets his sights to the Six Bright Stars and eventual freedom of his world.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 325 | Votes: 8 | Score: 7.61
Size: 103KB | 18,919 words | Posted:

435 Silver Dome by Harl Vincent

In her deep-buried kingdom of Theros, Phaestra reveals the amazing secret of the Silver Dome.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 268 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.60
Size: 59KB | 10,736 words | Posted:

436 Pirates of the Gorm by Nathan Schachner

The trail of vanished space ships leads Grant Pemberton to a marvellous lake of fire.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 464 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.60
Size: 55KB | 9,970 words | Posted:

437 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: 972 | Votes: 35 | Score: 7.60
Size: 44KB | 8,141 words | Posted:

438 D-99 by H. B. Fyfe

Just missing the tall, gaunt man who dodged down the stairs of the Earth Embassy. A figure loomed in a doorway and he snapped off a quick blaster shot at it--missed. He'd killed one man, wounded others--and was carrying papers stolen from the secret Embassy files. They had to stop him--but they couldn't! And, worlds away, the men of Department 99 watched on their galaxy-spanning view-screen. knowing they were responsible for this disaster--and powerless to do anything about it!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 993 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.60
Size: 313KB | 57,836 words | Posted:

439 Conditionally Human by Walter M. Miller

They were such cute synthetic creatures, it was impossible not to love them. Of course, that was precisely why they were dangerous!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 368 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.60
Size: 67KB | 12,493 words | Posted:

440 The Kenzie Report by Mark Clifton

If this story has a moral, it is: "Leave well enough alone." Just look what happened to Kenzie "mad-about-ants" MacKenzie, who didn't....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 267 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.60
Size: 25KB | 4,696 words | Posted:
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