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611 Sjambak by John Holbrook Vance

Wilbur Murphy sought romance, excitement, and an impossible Horseman of Space. With polite smiles, the planet frustrated him at every turn--until he found them all the hard way!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 184 | Votes: 7 | Score: 7.35
Size: 53KB | 9,493 words | Posted:

612 The Day of the Boomer Dukes by Frederik Pohl

Foraminifera 9-Hart Bailey's Beam is bored. He relieves that boredom by traveling back in time to sometime before the high radiation levels and after the invention of anesthesia-you know, in case of accidents. He's read of the Mafia in New York City of the 1950s. He think that might be a place to start. He finds five you men, all dressed in same color jacket, and asks directions to the recruiting office of the "dread Camorra." He assures them he has plenty of money in his carry-all...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 499 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.35
Size: 42KB | 8,098 words | Posted:

613 Vital Ingredient by Charles V. De Vet

It is man's most precious possession--no living thing can exist without it. But when they gave it to Orville, it killed him.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 310 | Votes: 24 | Score: 7.35
Size: 16KB | 2,928 words | Posted:

614 Deadly City by Paul W. Fairman

You're all alone in a deserted city. You walk down an empty street, yearning for the sight of one living face--one moving figure. Then you see a man on a corner and you know your terror has only begun.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 246 | Votes: 9 | Score: 7.34
Size: 84KB | 16,296 words | Posted:

615 Prospector's Special by Robert Sheckley

Lost in the vast Scorpion Desert of Venus, he needed all the courage a man could own--and every bit of credit he could raise!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 350 | Votes: 26 | Score: 7.34
Size: 46KB | 8,395 words | Posted:

616 Forever by Robert Sheckley

Of all the irksome, frustrating, maddening discoveries--was there no way of keeping it discovered?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 370 | Votes: 24 | Score: 7.34
Size: 19KB | 3,334 words | Posted:

617 To Remember Charlie by Roger D. Aycock

Just a one-eyed dog named Charlie and a crippled boy named Joey--but between them they changed the face of the universe. perhaps.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 328 | Votes: 25 | Score: 7.34
Size: 29KB | 5,934 words | Posted:

618 The Foreign Hand Tie by Randall Garrett

Just because you can "see" something doesn't mean you understand it--and that can mean that even perfect telepathy isn't perfect communication....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 279 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.34
Size: 66KB | 12,086 words | Posted:

619 Suite Mentale by Randall Garrett

Eight students of telepathy go mad and their instructor is a vegetable. That makes the instructor the perfect person to work out the bugs in his system.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 270 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.34
Size: 25KB | 4,651 words | Posted:

620 Rex Ex Machina by Frederic Max

One final lesson--a dying man's last letter to his only son that completes the young man's education.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 356 | Votes: 26 | Score: 7.34
Size: 4KB | 854 words | Posted:
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