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651 Pictures Don't Lie by Katherine MacLean

... Pictures, that is, that one can test and measure. And these pictures positively, absolutely could not lie!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 322 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.30
Size: 37KB | 6,758 words | Posted:

652 Pursuit by Lester Del Rey

Fear cut through the unconscious mind of Wilbur Hawkes. With almost physical violence, it tightened his throat and knifed at his heart. It darted into his numbed brain, screaming at him.He was a soft egg in a vast globe of elastic gelatine. Two creatures swam menacingly through the resisting globe toward him. The gelatine fought against them, but they came on. One was near, and made a mystic pass. He screamed at it, and the gelatine grew stronger, throwing them back and away.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 308 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.30
Size: 99KB | 18,912 words | Posted:

653 Question of Comfort by Les Cole

The Gravity Gang was a group of geniuses--devoting its brilliance to creating a realistic Solar System for Disneyland. That was the story, anyway. No one would have believed all that stuff about cops and robbers from outer space.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 200 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.30
Size: 38KB | 6,958 words | Posted:

654 Shepherd of the Planets by Alan Mattox

Renner had a purpose in life. And the Purpose in Life had Renner.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 339 | Votes: 25 | Score: 7.30
Size: 17KB | 3,365 words | Posted:

655 Omega, the Man by Lowell Howard Morrow

Omega, the last human alive, starts out with his wife Thalma and briefly acquires a son-Alpha on a dying Earth.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 280 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.29
Size: 75KB | 13,903 words | Posted:

656 The Good Neighbors by Edgar Pangborn

You can't blame an alien for a little inconvenience--as long as he makes up for it!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 501 | Votes: 28 | Score: 7.29
Size: 10KB | 1,889 words | Posted:

657 Tanks by Murray Leinster

Two miles of American front had gone dead. And on two lone infantrymen, lost in the menace of the fog-gas and the tanks, depended the outcome of the war of 1932.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 688 | Votes: 47 | Score: 7.29
Size: 56KB | 9,905 words | Posted:

658 The Lost Inheritance by H. G. Wells

"My uncle," said the man with the glass eye, "was what you might call a hemi-semi-demi millionaire. He was worth about a hundred and twenty thousand. Quite. And he left me all his money." I glanced at the shiny sleeve of his coat, and my eye travelled up to the frayed collar. "Every penny," said the man with the glass eye, and I caught the active pupil looking at me with a touch of offence.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 332 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.29
Size: 14KB | 2,768 words | Posted:

659 Project Hush by William Tenn

The biggest job in history and it had to be done with complete secrecy. It was--which was just the trouble!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 424 | Votes: 29 | Score: 7.29
Size: 13KB | 2,428 words | Posted:

660 Chain Reaction by Boyd Ellanby

Would this be the last poker game--with all life at stake and every card a mere deuce?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 265 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.29
Size: 25KB | 4,862 words | Posted:
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