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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: 237 | 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 483 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.50
Size: 16KB | 3,273 words | Posted:

503 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: 413 | Votes: 28 | Score: 7.50
Size: 7KB | 1,307 words | Posted:

504 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:

505 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: 524 | Votes: 31 | Score: 7.50
Size: 37KB | 6,799 words | Posted:

506 No Strings Attached by Lester Del Rey

Poor Henry was an unhappy husband whose wife had a habit of using bad clichès. Alféar was a genii who was, quite like most humans, a creature of habit. Their murder compact was absolutely perfect, with--
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 397 | Votes: 26 | Score: 7.49
Size: 25KB | 4,745 words | Posted:

507 The K-factor by Harry Harrison

Speed never hurt anybody--it's the sudden stop at the end. It's not how much change that signals danger, but how fast it's changing....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 811 | Votes: 41 | Score: 7.49
Size: 53KB | 9,940 words | Posted:

508 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 313 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.49
Size: 9KB | 1,753 words | Posted:

509 Breeder Reaction by Winston Marks

The remarkable thing about Atummyc Afterbath Dusting Powder was that it gave you that lovely, radiant, atomic look--just the way the advertisements said it would. In fact, it also gave you a little something more!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 616 | Votes: 52 | Score: 7.49
Size: 22KB | 4,220 words | Posted:

510 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 318 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.49
Size: 93KB | 17,079 words | Posted:
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