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481 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: 337 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.53
Size: 58KB | 10,554 words | Posted:

482 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: 472 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.53
Size: 26KB | 4,921 words | Posted:

483 The Return by H. Beam Piper

The isolated little group they found were doing fine-- but their religion was most strange--and yet quite logical!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 510 | Votes: 26 | Score: 7.53
Size: 64KB | 11,858 words | Posted:

484 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 865 | Votes: 56 | Score: 7.52
Size: 12KB | 2,472 words | Posted:

485 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: 253 | Votes: 9 | Score: 7.52
Size: 60KB | 11,307 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: 163 | Votes: 6 | Score: 7.52
Size: 49KB | 8,772 words | Posted:

487 Red Nails by Robert E. Howard

Death! Decay! Red Nails really is something special. It's classic Conan! Conan lovers consider Red Nails to be one of the best, and you know, they make a point
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 558 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.51
Size: 171KB | 31,331 words | Posted:

488 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: 339 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.51
Size: 38KB | 7,199 words | Posted:

489 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:

490 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:
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