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1101 Spacewrecked on Venus by Neil R. Jones

Interplanetary commerce, if and when it begins, will be fraught with all of the dangers that accompany pioneering expeditions. There will be the terrible climatic conditions on other worlds to be faced, strange beasts and plants; and perhaps desperate and greedy men. That was the case when every new land was opened on Earth and it may be expected to be true when we conquer the solar planets.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 230 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.87
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1102 Oh, Rats! by Miriam Allen DeFord

Orthedrin, maxiton and glutamic acid--they were the prescription that made him king of his world!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 220 | Votes: 13 | Score: 6.87
Size: 18KB | 3,466 words | Posted:

1103 Master of Life and Death by Robert Silverberg

By the 23rd century Earth's population had reached seven billion.Mankind was in danger of perishing for lack of elbow room, unless prompt measures were taken. Roy Walton had the power to enforce those measures. But though his job was in the service of humanity, he soon found himself the most hated man in the world.For it was his job to tell parents their children were unfit to live; he had to uproot people from their homes and send them to remote areas of the world.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 487 | Votes: 10 | Score: 6.86
Size: 252KB | 45,258 words | Posted:

1104 From an Unseen Censor by Rosel George Brown

You can't beat my Uncle Isadore--he's dead but he's quick--yet that is just what he was daring me to try and do!
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Downloads: 246 | Votes: 18 | Score: 6.86
Size: 43KB | 8,592 words | Posted:

1105 The Instant of Now by Irving E.Cox

One of the most intriguing of all science fiction patterns is that of the galactic sweep--the story which takes for granted human travel between stars at speeds far faster than the speed of light. In its most successful form, such a story combines cosmic action with a wholly human plot.
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Downloads: 325 | Votes: 17 | Score: 6.86
Size: 90KB | 16,089 words | Posted:

1106 The Circuit Riders by R.C. FitzPatrick

On the Board, they were just little lights that glowed. But out there in the night of the city-jungle, they represented human passions-- virulent emotions-- and deadly crimes-to-be.
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Downloads: 171 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 32KB | 6,151 words | Posted:

1107 The Addicts by Joseph Samachson

Wives always try to cure husbands of bad habits, even on lonely asteroids!
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Downloads: 411 | Votes: 16 | Score: 6.86
Size: 19KB | 3,657 words | Posted:

1108 Butterfly 9 by Donald Keith

Jeff needed a job and this man had a job to offer--one where giant economy-size trouble had labels like fakemake, bumsy and peekage!
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Downloads: 320 | Votes: 19 | Score: 6.85
Size: 38KB | 7,236 words | Posted:

1109 Hunger, Hunger, Sister Anne by Haro James

If you found an artifact from the future, what you would bargain for to return it? Gold? Stock tips? A burrito?
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 710 | Votes: 26 | Score: 6.85
Size: 17KB | 3,152 words | Posted:

1110 Compensation by C.V. Tench

Professor Wroxton had disappeared--but in the bottom of the mysterious crystal cage lay the diamond from his ring.
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Downloads: 359 | Votes: 24 | Score: 6.85
Size: 24KB | 4,592 words | Posted:
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