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481 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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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 511 | Votes: 34 | Score: 7.52
Size: 52KB | 9,379 words | Posted:

482 The Ambassador by Sam Merwin

All Earth needed was a good stiff dose of common sense, but its rulers preferred to depend on the highly fallible computers instead. As a consequence, interplanetary diplomatic relations were somewhat strained--until a nimble-witted young man from Mars came up with the answer to the "sixty-four dollar" question.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 956 | Votes: 51 | Score: 7.52
Size: 109KB | 19,667 words | Posted:

483 Circus by Alan Edward Nourse

Alien space explorer traveling via warps is now trapped on Earth. And he can't convince anyone he isn't human
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 866 | Votes: 56 | Score: 7.52
Size: 12KB | 2,472 words | Posted:

484 Holocaust by Charles Willard Diffin

The extraordinary story of "Paul," who for thirty days was Dictator of the World.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 254 | Votes: 9 | Score: 7.52
Size: 60KB | 11,307 words | Posted:

485 The Meteor Girl by Jack Williamson

Through the complicated space-time of the fourth dimension goes Charlie King in an attempt to rescue the Meteor Girl.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 405 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.52
Size: 42KB | 7,763 words | Posted:

486 Spawn of the Comet by H. Thompson Rich

A swarm of huge, fiery ants, brood of a mystery comet, burst from their shells to threaten the unsuspecting world.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 167 | Votes: 6 | Score: 7.52
Size: 49KB | 8,772 words | Posted:

487 Craphound by Cory Doctorow

An antiques collector in a peculiar post-contact world where exccentric aliens do strange deeds.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 341 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.51
Size: 38KB | 7,199 words | Posted:

488 Beside Still Waters by Robert Sheckley

When people talk about getting away from it all, they are usually thinking about our great open spaces out west. But to science fiction writers, that would be practically in the heart of Times Square. When a man of the future wants solitude he picks a slab of rock floating in space four light years east of Andromeda. Here is a gentle little story about a man who sought the solitude of such a location. And who did he take along for company? Charles the Robot.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 417 | Votes: 28 | Score: 7.50
Size: 7KB | 1,307 words | Posted:

489 What Is Posat? by Phyllis Sterling Smith

A scientist, an unemployed man and a cat lady read an advertisement about a secret society from a magazine. They all answer it for various, but different, reasons and get somewhat different return mailings. It turns out that there really IS a real ancient secret society with scientific secrets, and it is drafting new researchers.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 314 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.50
Size: 30KB | 5,555 words | Posted:

490 Pandemic by Jesse F. Bone

Generally, human beings don't do totally useless things consistently and widely. So--maybe there is something to it.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 532 | Votes: 31 | Score: 7.50
Size: 37KB | 6,799 words | Posted:
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