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531 Meeting of the Minds by Robert Sheckley

What mission had the Quedak been given? Even he couldn't remember any more--but he refused to die till it was completed!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 372 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.46
Size: 72KB | 13,221 words | Posted:

532 Temple Trouble by H. Beam Piper

Miracles to order was a fine way for the paratimers to get mining concessions--but Nature can sometimes pull counter-miracles. And so can men, for that matter....
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Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 571 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.46
Size: 68KB | 12,358 words | Posted:

533 Turning Point by Alfred Coppel

The man is rare who will give his life for what is merely the lesser of two evils. Merrick's decision was even tougher: to save human beings at the expense of humanity, or vice versa?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 243 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.46
Size: 26KB | 4,782 words | Posted:

534 The God Next Door by Bill Doede

The sand-thing was powerful, lonely and strange. No doubt it was a god--but who wasn't?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 289 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.46
Size: 30KB | 5,709 words | Posted:

535 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:

536 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: 435 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.46
Size: 63KB | 11,849 words | Posted:

537 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:

538 Stolen Brains by Captain S.P. Meek

Dr. Bird, scientific sleuth extraordinary, goes after a sinister stealer of brains.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 193 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.46
Size: 55KB | 10,620 words | Posted:

539 Disowned by Victor Endersby

The tragic misadventure of a man to whom the sky became an appalling abyss, drawing him ever upward.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 157 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 41KB | 7,506 words | Posted:

540 The Skull by Phillip K. Dick

Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. He wasn't concerned about getting the wrong man. He knew what the man looked like. There was no way he could make a mistake about his target's identity -- he had the man's skull under his shoulder.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 293 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.45
Size: 42KB | 7,901 words | Posted:
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