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491 The White Feather Hex by Don Peterson

A misterious man seeks the truth behind the tales of a so-called white feather hex but carries a very different purpose.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 227 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.50
Size: 26KB | 4,905 words | Posted:

492 The Problem Makers by Robert Hoskins

They had only one mission in the Galaxy, with its infinite problems--make more of 'em!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 184 | Votes: 6 | Score: 7.50
Size: 71KB | 13,133 words | Posted:

493 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
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Downloads: 857 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.50
Size: 135KB | 23,931 words | Posted:

494 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: 253 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.50
Size: 17KB | 3,177 words | Posted:

495 A Prize for Edie by Jesse F. Bone

The Committee had, unquestionably, made a mistake. There was no doubt that Edie had achieved the long-sought cancer cure. but awarding the Nobel Prize was, nonetheless, a mistake.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 443 | Votes: 32 | Score: 7.49
Size: 9KB | 1,621 words | Posted:

496 The Piebald Hippogriff by Karen Anderson

Because this is a masculine world, the author of this fairytale is usually identified as the wife of Poul Anderson. But a few more incisive cameos of fantasy such as this, and Mr. Anderson may come to be identified as Karen's husband.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 304 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.49
Size: 9KB | 1,753 words | Posted:

497 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: 800 | Votes: 54 | Score: 7.49
Size: 12KB | 2,472 words | Posted:

498 The Hands of Aten by H.G. Winter

Out of solid ice Craig hews three long-frozen Egyptians--and is at once caught up into amazing adventure.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 344 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.49
Size: 81KB | 14,929 words | Posted:

499 The Sargasso of Space by Edmond Hamilton

Helpless, doomed, into the graveyard of space floats the wrecked freighter Pallas.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 943 | Votes: 60 | Score: 7.49
Size: 49KB | 8,987 words | Posted:

500 The Bramble Bush by Randall Garrett

Usually, if a man's gotten into bad trouble by getting into something, he's a fool to go back. But there are times.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 385 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.49
Size: 39KB | 7,397 words | Posted:
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