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661 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: 507 | Votes: 28 | Score: 7.29
Size: 10KB | 1,889 words | Posted:

662 The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life by Homer Eon Flint

In The Lord of Death, four scientists, aided by reverse-magnetism, travel to a dead planet where they discover that one human's lust for power destroyed all life there-except for him. In suspended animation, he awaits the newcomers. In The Queen of Life, (considered a feminist tale) the scientists (one has revealed herself as a woman) travel to a planet encased in a glass sphere to protect the overpopulated planet from the sun's radiation. Conflict leads to a riot.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 173 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 257KB | 47,514 words | Posted:

663 This World Must Die! by H. B. Fyfe

Social living requires the elimination, or at very best, the modification of many elements necessary to survival in "nature". And when an emergency arises, very often it is the person who would be considered a "criminal", in other situations, who alone is able to cope with the necessities. If we manage to eliminate "violence" from human affairs, what will we find when a need for "violence" arises--a need outside of man's artificial control of his environment?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 258 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.28
Size: 43KB | 7,854 words | Posted:

664 Volpla by Wyman Guin

The only kind of gag worth pulling, I always maintained, was a cosmic one--till I learned the Cosmos has a really nasty sense of humor!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 195 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.28
Size: 44KB | 8,615 words | Posted:

665 Never Come Midnight by H. L. Gold

Across the void came a man who could not ever have been born--from a world that could never have been conceived--to demand his birthright of an Earth that would have to die to pay it!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 329 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.28
Size: 91KB | 16,836 words | Posted:

666 Modus Vivendi by John Berryman

It's undoubtedly difficult to live with someone who is Different. He must, because he is Different, live by other ways. But what makes it so difficult is that, for some reason he thinks you are Different!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 229 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.28
Size: 56KB | 10,860 words | Posted:

667 The Issahar Artifacts by Jesse F. Bone

Lincoln said it eons ago.... It took a speck of one-celled plant life on a world parsecs away to prove it for all the galaxy. / (Reviews)
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 992 | Votes: 55 | Score: 7.28
Size: 20KB | 3,676 words | Posted:

668 Vanishing Point by C.C. Beck

In perspective, theoretically the vanishing point is at infinity, and therefore unattainable. But reality is different; vanishment occurs a lot sooner than theory suggests.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 284 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.28
Size: 9KB | 1,885 words | Posted:

669 Hard Guy by Howard Browne

There will be fine, glittering, streamlined automobiles in 2000 A.D. Possibly they will run themselves while the driver sits back with an old-fashioned in his hands. Perhaps they will carry folks down the highways at ninety miles an hour in perfect safety. But picking up a hitch-hiker will still be as dangerous as it is today.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 208 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.28
Size: 4KB | 896 words | Posted:

670 The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix by Homer Eon Flint

Bringing proofs which will satisfy the most skeptical Dr. William G. Kinney G. Van Emmon E. Williams Jackson and John W. Smith who left the earth on December 9 in a powerful sky-car of the doctor's design returned on the 23rd after having explored the two planets which lie between the earth and the sun.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 193 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 365KB | 66,466 words | Posted:
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