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531 Hellhounds of the Cosmos by Clifford D. Simak

Weird are the conditions of the interdimensional struggle faced by Dr. White's ninety-nine men.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 376 Votes: 14 | Score: 7.46
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532 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: 162 Votes: * | Score: *
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533 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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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 304 Votes: 19 | Score: 7.46
Size: 26KB | 4,977 words | Posted:

534 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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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 282 Votes: 21 | Score: 7.46
Size: 36KB | 7,189 words | Posted:

535 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
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Downloads: 379 Votes: 15 | Score: 7.46
Size: 72KB | 13,221 words | Posted:

536 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: 615 Votes: 23 | Score: 7.46
Size: 68KB | 12,358 words | Posted:

537 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: 252 Votes: 14 | Score: 7.46
Size: 26KB | 4,782 words | Posted:

538 Holes, Incorporated by L. Major Reynolds

Would you like to see all hell break loose? Just make a few holes in nothing at all--push some steel beams through the holes--and then head for the hills. But first, read what happened to some people who really did it.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 550 Votes: 44 | Score: 7.45
Size: 10KB | 1,918 words | Posted:

539 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
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Downloads: 840 Votes: 44 | Score: 7.45
Size: 53KB | 9,940 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
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Downloads: 301 Votes: 22 | Score: 7.45
Size: 42KB | 7,901 words | Posted:
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