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431 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 931 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.61
Size: 135KB | 23,931 words | Posted:

432 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: 325 | Votes: 8 | Score: 7.61
Size: 103KB | 18,919 words | Posted:

433 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:

434 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: 468 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.60
Size: 55KB | 9,970 words | Posted:

435 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: 981 | Votes: 35 | Score: 7.60
Size: 44KB | 8,141 words | Posted:

436 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1015 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.60
Size: 313KB | 57,836 words | Posted:

437 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: 368 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.60
Size: 67KB | 12,493 words | Posted:

438 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: 270 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.60
Size: 25KB | 4,696 words | Posted:

439 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 291 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.60
Size: 104KB | 19,217 words | Posted:

440 Metamorphosis by Charles V. De Vet

The man I searched for could be anybody at all. If I didn't find him, there'd be nobody at all.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 243 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.60
Size: 25KB | 4,776 words | Posted:
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