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431 Bodyguard by H. L. Gold

When overwhelming danger is constantly present, of course a man is entitled to have a bodyguard. The annoyance was that he had to do it himself. and his body would not cooperate!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 427 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.62
Size: 86KB | 16,276 words | Posted:

432 Mars Is My Destination by Frank Belknap Long

MARS Earth's first colony in Space. Men killed for the coveted ticket that allowed them to go there. And, once there, the killing went on... MARS Ralph Graham's goal since boyhood--and he was Mars-bound with authority that put the whole planet in his pocket--if he could live long enough to assert it! MARS source of incalculable wealth for humanity--and deadly danger for those who tried to get it!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 770 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.61
Size: 337KB | 65,119 words | Posted:

433 Make Me an Offer by Con Blomberg

Fellow City Mgrs., only you can help me--progress has made "Go Fight City Hall" a battle cry!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 171 | Votes: 8 | Score: 7.61
Size: 13KB | 2,663 words | Posted:

434 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: 389 | Votes: 36 | Score: 7.61
Size: 45KB | 7,798 words | Posted:

435 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 316 | Votes: 8 | Score: 7.61
Size: 103KB | 18,919 words | Posted:

436 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 891 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.60
Size: 274KB | 51,105 words | Posted:

437 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 261 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.60
Size: 25KB | 4,696 words | Posted:

438 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: 334 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.60
Size: 24KB | 4,351 words | Posted:

439 The Weather on Mercury by Joseph Samachson

Anyone mad enough (1) to land on that crazy world (2) in order to rescue that screwball explorer should (3) have his head examined!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 296 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.60
Size: 54KB | 10,017 words | Posted:

440 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 339 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.60
Size: 67KB | 12,493 words | Posted:
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