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501 Zen by Jerome Bixby

Because they were so likable and intelligent and adaptable--they were vastly dangerous!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 235 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.50
Size: 16KB | 2,979 words | Posted:

502 Accidental Death by Peter Baily

The most dangerous of weapons is the one you don't know is loaded.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 470 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.50
Size: 16KB | 3,273 words | Posted:

503 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: 268 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.50
Size: 17KB | 3,177 words | Posted:

504 Beach Scene by Marshall King

It was a fine day at the beach for Purnie's game--but his new friends played very rough!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 213 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.50
Size: 28KB | 5,345 words | Posted:

505 The Syndic by C. M. Kornbluth

West of the Mississippi was Mob territory, a society whose entire system of values was totally opposed to the Syndic. Here morality ruled with an iron hand. When a wave of assassinations broke out in New Your, it was clealy time to take action against the Mob!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 617 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.50
Size: 269KB | 50,015 words | Posted:

506 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: 235 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.50
Size: 26KB | 4,905 words | Posted:

507 The Fire and the Sword by Frank M. Robinson

Nothing could have seemed pleasanter than that peaceful planet. Then why was a non-suicidal man driven to suicide there? Yet it made sense.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 408 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.50
Size: 58KB | 10,919 words | Posted:

508 Cubs of the Wolf by Raymond F. Jones

It may be that there is a weapon that, from the viewpoint of the one it's used on, is worse than lethal. You might say that death multiplies you by zero; what would multiplication by minus one do?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 312 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.49
Size: 93KB | 17,079 words | Posted:

509 Charley De Milo by Laurence M. Janifer

It isn't at all obvious--at first thought--that having two perfectly good, usable arms could be a real handicap to a man....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 225 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.49
Size: 53KB | 10,087 words | Posted:

510 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: 313 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.49
Size: 9KB | 1,753 words | Posted:
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