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591 The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt

Lalette Asterhax could not escape her destiny. She was a hereditary witch in a world where witchcraft was banned by ecclesiastical and temporal powers. And any man who possessed her would then gain possession of her precious Blue Star...and all the powers it could bestow. Rodvard Bergelin was a reluctant revolutionary. a rogue who had a date with destiny. Although he lusted after a rich baron's daughter, Rodvard was ordered to seduce the saucy witch-maiden...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 876 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 465KB | 88,800 words | Posted:

592 Measure for a Loner by Jim Harmon

You can measure everything these days--heat, light, gravity, reflexes, force-fields, star-drives. And now I know there even is a.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 310 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.37
Size: 25KB | 4,888 words | Posted:

593 The Man Who Hated Mars by Randall Garrett

To escape from Mars, all Clayton had to do was the impossible. Break out of a crack-proof exile camp--get onto a ship that couldn't be boarded--smash through an impenetrable wall of steel. Perhaps he could do all these things, but he discovered that Mars did evil things to men; that he wasn't even Clayton any more. He was only
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 509 | Votes: 26 | Score: 7.37
Size: 27KB | 5,330 words | Posted:

594 A World Apart by Sam Merwin

Most men of middle age would welcome a chance to live their lives a second time. But Coulter did not.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 925 | Votes: 46 | Score: 7.37
Size: 40KB | 7,319 words | Posted:

595 The Secret of Kralitz by Henry Kuttner

A story of the shocking revelation that came to the twenty-first Baron Kralitz.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 252 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.37
Size: 15KB | 2,862 words | Posted:

596 The Invader by Alfred Coppel

Invading Earth was going to be a cinch, the Triomed scout decided. But to make certain he must study its inhabitants--as one of them!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 623 | Votes: 41 | Score: 7.37
Size: 14KB | 2,608 words | Posted:

597 Prelude to Space by Robert W. Haseltine

You're certain to be included in a survey at one time or another. However, there's one you may not recognize as such. Chances are it will be more important than you imagine. It could be man's
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 205 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.37
Size: 6KB | 1,326 words | Posted:

598 A Woman's Place by Mark Clifton

Home is where you hang up your spaceship--that is, if you have any Miss Kitty along!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 403 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.36
Size: 51KB | 9,480 words | Posted:

599 Jamieson by Bill Doede

A Konv cylinder was the key to space--but there was one power it could not match!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 335 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.36
Size: 26KB | 5,015 words | Posted:

600 John Jones's Dollar by Harry Stephen Keeler

Take a board with 64 squares on it. Put a grain of wheat on the first square--two on the second--four on the third. Keep doubling in this manner and you will find there isn't enough wheat in the world to fill the sixty-fourth square. It can be the same with compound interest.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 426 | Votes: 25 | Score: 7.36
Size: 22KB | 3,837 words | Posted:
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