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471 Preferred Risk by Edson McCann

The Company was a powerful, efficient, and monstrous insurance organization that controlled the entire world, scientifically regulating everything in life: war, epidemics, one-a-day food pills and test-tube sex...all through the use of its patented, terrifying human deep-freeze vault. Claims Adjuster Wills, a great believer in the Company, begins to have second thoughts when he meets beautiful and sorrowful Rena, whose radical father lies in a frozen subterranean vault.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 410 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.53
Size: 316KB | 59,504 words | Posted:

472 The Man Who Was Dead by Thomas H. Knight

Set in the backwoods of the United States during a cold dark night, a stranger has a horrid tale to tell.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 179 | Votes: 6 | Score: 7.53
Size: 30KB | 6,043 words | Posted:

473 The Shining Cow by Alex James

Robbie whined and acted like his eyes were burning, as if he'd gotten dust or something even stranger into them....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 273 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.53
Size: 18KB | 3,423 words | Posted:

474 The Music Master of Babylon by Edgar Pangborn

What more fitting place for the last man on Earth to live in than a museum? Now if only he could avoid becoming an exhibit himself!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 313 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.53
Size: 58KB | 10,554 words | Posted:

475 She Knew He Was Coming by Kris Neville

Mary might have learned a more ladylike trade, but one thing is certain: she had a shining faith in that space guy from Earth. Now, about that cake she baked.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 464 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.53
Size: 26KB | 4,921 words | Posted:

476 Dead Ringer by Lester Del Rey

There was nothing, especially on Earth, which could set him free--the truth least of all!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 371 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.53
Size: 21KB | 4,078 words | Posted:

477 Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940 by Ray Bradbury

Short stories edited by Ray Bradbury!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 161 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 27KB | 4,921 words | Posted:

478 Sentry of the Sky by Evelyn E. Smith

There had to be a way for Sub-Archivist Clarey to get up in the world--but this way was right out of the tri-di dramas.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 350 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.53
Size: 115KB | 21,381 words | Posted:

479 Temple Trouble by H. Beam Piper

Miracles to order was a fine way for the paratimers to get mining concessions--but Nature can sometimes pull counter-miracles. And so can men, for that matter....
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Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 557 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.53
Size: 68KB | 12,358 words | Posted:

480 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: 909 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.53
Size: 274KB | 51,105 words | Posted:
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