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521 Out of This World Convention by Forrest J. Ackerman

An eye-witness account of the 14th World Science Fiction Convention in session.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 217 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
Size: 3KB | 560 words | Posted:

522 The Fire People by Ray Cummings

The first of the new meteors landed on the earth in November, 1940. It was discovered by a farmer in his field near Brookline, Massachusetts, shortly after daybreak on the morning of the 11th. Astronomically, the event was recorded by the observatory at Harvard as the sudden appearance of what apparently was a new star, increasing in the short space of a few hours from invisibility to a power beyond that of the first magnitude, and then as rapidly fading again to invisibility.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 581 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
Size: 365KB | 67,868 words | Posted:

523 The Chasers by Daniel F. Galouye

Civilizations must make sense somehow. But was this one the gaudy, impossible exception?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 255 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.47
Size: 24KB | 4,417 words | Posted:

524 The First One by Herbert D. Kastle

The first man to return from beyond the Great Frontier may be welcomed. but will it be as a curiosity, rather than as a hero...?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 256 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.47
Size: 23KB | 4,496 words | Posted:

525 The Wizzard by Laurence M. Janifer

This novel presents timeless themes of faith, redemption, civil conflict, and betrayal. Set in the lost world of central Africa in the 1890's, the Children of Fire and their fatefull visit from " Messenger", a missionary named Thomas Owen. Tribal mysticism and culture clash with Victorian era values of Christianity , with some intrigue, adventure and epic battles.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 245 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.47
Size: 39KB | 7,339 words | Posted:

526 Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Douglass Brackett

Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city-with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel-ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures-at his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 366 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
Size: 126KB | 23,903 words | Posted:

527 Ask a Foolish Question by Robert Sheckley

"It's well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you'll get, but the type of answer possible. So. a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations."
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 414 | Votes: 26 | Score: 7.47
Size: 15KB | 2,728 words | Posted:

528 The Scarlet Plague by Jack London

It has been 60 years since the great Red Death wiped out mankind, and the handful of survivors from all walks of life have established their own civilization and their own hierarchy in a savage world. Art, science, and all learning has been lost, and the young descendants of the healthy know nothing of the world that was-nothing but myths and make-believe. The old man is the only one who can convey the wonders of that bygone age, and the horrors of the plague that brought about its end.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 391 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.46
Size: 108KB | 20,211 words | Posted:

529 Survival Kit by Frederik Pohl

An alien soldier tries to get a guide to take him to his rescue point, but he has managed to pick a con-man. The guide repeatedly tries to steal the alien's pack of goodies, which he recognizes as the titular survival kit, in the hopes of selling it off as advanced tech.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 429 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.46
Size: 63KB | 11,849 words | Posted:

530 Mad Music by Anthony Pelcher

The sixty stories of the perfectly constructed Colossus building had mysteriously crashed! What was the connection between this catastrophe and the weird strains of the Mad Musician's violin?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 192 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.46
Size: 33KB | 6,174 words | Posted:
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