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481 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 976 Votes: 51 | Score: 7.52
Size: 109KB | 19,667 words | Posted:

482 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: 879 Votes: 56 | Score: 7.52
Size: 12KB | 2,472 words | Posted:

483 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
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Downloads: 258 Votes: 9 | Score: 7.52
Size: 60KB | 11,307 words | Posted:

484 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
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Downloads: 411 Votes: 22 | Score: 7.52
Size: 42KB | 7,763 words | Posted:

485 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
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Downloads: 171 Votes: 6 | Score: 7.52
Size: 49KB | 8,772 words | Posted:

486 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
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Downloads: 359 Votes: 20 | Score: 7.51
Size: 38KB | 7,199 words | Posted:

487 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
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Downloads: 419 Votes: 28 | Score: 7.50
Size: 7KB | 1,307 words | Posted:

488 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
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Downloads: 539 Votes: 31 | Score: 7.50
Size: 37KB | 6,799 words | Posted:

489 The Machine That Floats by Joe Gibson

What if you invented a space ship? Would you give it to the world? And what if you decide NOT to! Are you a criminal to be hunted down?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 1096 Votes: 51 | Score: 7.50
Size: 156KB | 27,732 words | Posted:

490 Sight Gag by Laurence M. Janifer

Intelligence is a great help in the evolution-by-survival--but intelligence without muscle is even less useful than muscle without brains. But it's so easy to forget that muscle--plain physical force--is important, too!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 274 Votes: 16 | Score: 7.50
Size: 17KB | 3,177 words | Posted:
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