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541 Life Sentence by James V. McConnell

"Happy New Year!" she cried. But how often should one hear it said in a single lifetime?
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Downloads: 307 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.45
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542 The Four-faced Visitors of Ezekiel by Arthur W. Orton

Ezekiel, they say, "saw de wheel"--but he saw somewhat more than that. And Orton suggests that what he saw made perfectly good sense. to the understanding!
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543 Make Mine Homogenized by Rick Raphael

Anyone looking for guaranteed sound science will have to look elsewhere. But if it's fun you want. try the world's most potent eggnog!
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Downloads: 354 | Votes: 27 | Score: 7.45
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544 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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Downloads: 290 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.45
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545 The Boats of the "Glen Carrig by William Hope Hodgson

Being an account of their Adventures in the Strange places of the Earth, after the foundering of the good ship Glen Carrig through striking upon a hidden rock in the unknown seas to the Southward. As told by John Winterstraw, Gent., to his Son James Winterstraw, in the year 1757.
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Downloads: 471 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.45
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546 Gods of the North by Robert E. Howard

This story follows a young Conan (still called the Cimmerian during this era) as he pursues a beautiful nymph across a frozen land, making all kinds of enemies along the way.
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Downloads: 437 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.45
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547 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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Downloads: 538 | Votes: 44 | Score: 7.45
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548 The Gravity Business by James E. Gunn

This little alien beggar could dictate his own terms, but how could he--and how could anyone find out what those terms might be?
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Downloads: 303 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.45
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549 Progress Report by Mark Clifton

Progress is relative; Senator O'Noonan's idea of it was not particularly scientific. Which would be too bad, if he had the last word!
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Downloads: 329 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.45
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550 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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Downloads: 377 | Votes: 25 | Score: 7.44
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