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521 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
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Downloads: 584 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
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522 The Peacemaker by Alfred Coppel

The legends of Jaq Merril are legion--but legends. Hark, ye, then to the true story of the pirate benefactor of Mankind!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 447 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.47
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523 The Chasers by Daniel F. Galouye

Civilizations must make sense somehow. But was this one the gaudy, impossible exception?
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Downloads: 255 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.47
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524 The Machine That Floats by Joe Gibson

What if you invented a space ship? Would you give it to the world? And what if you decide NOT to! Are you a criminal to be hunted down?
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Downloads: 1045 | Votes: 48 | Score: 7.47
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525 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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Downloads: 366 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
Size: 126KB | 23,903 words | Posted:

526 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
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Downloads: 423 | Votes: 26 | Score: 7.47
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527 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
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Downloads: 269 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.47
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528 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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Downloads: 246 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.47
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529 Satellite System by H. B. Fyfe

Fyfe's quite right. there's nothing like a satellite system for a cold storage arrangement. Keeps things handy, but out of the way....
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Downloads: 284 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.46
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530 The Man Who Played to Lose by Laurence M. Janifer

Sometimes the very best thing you can do is to lose. The cholera germ, for instance, asks nothing better than that it be swallowed alive....
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Downloads: 273 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.46
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