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1171 The Planet of Dread by R.F. Starzl

A stupid blunder--and Mark Forepaugh faces a life of castaway loneliness in the savage welter of the planet Inra's monster-ridden jungles.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 298 Votes: 9 | Score: 6.73
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1172 Not a Creature Was Stirring by Dean Evans

This could be a Christmas story. If it is, it shows one way peace on Earth can be attained!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 199 Votes: 16 | Score: 6.72
Size: 27KB | 5,230 words | Posted:

1173 The Cool War by Andrew Fetler

Here's what happens when two Master Spies tangle. and stay that way
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 238 Votes: 11 | Score: 6.72
Size: 30KB | 5,279 words | Posted:

1174 The Piper by Ron Reynolds

Even in space there is pipers and musicians...
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Downloads: 170 Votes: 11 | Score: 6.72
Size: 8KB | 1,486 words | Posted:

1175 Earthbound by Lester Del Rey

He wanted above anything else to go into space. He had been waiting for it--a long time!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 522 Votes: 34 | Score: 6.72
Size: 3KB | 615 words | Posted:

1176 Mcilvaine's Star by August Derleth

Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own. Thus he inherited a dark destiny--or did he?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 410 Votes: 25 | Score: 6.71
Size: 21KB | 3,978 words | Posted:

1177 The Answer by H. Beam Piper

Lee Richardson and Alexis Pitov, two nuclear scientists, are participating in a thermonuclear test involving a rocket and negamatter. The test is decidedly not a test to develop into weapons-grade materials. However, Pitov and Richardson cannot help but consider the fate of Auburn, NY fifteen years ago when the nuclear event shocked the world. It had to be the Soviets. But the Soviets thought it was the Americans. Maybe it was the Australians? This new experimental test provides the answer.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1038 Votes: 58 | Score: 6.71
Size: 25KB | 4,573 words | Posted:

1178 The Spicy Sound of Success by Jim Harmon

Now was the captain's chance to prove he knew less than the crew--all their lives hung upon it!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 226 Votes: 9 | Score: 6.71
Size: 30KB | 5,709 words | Posted:

1179 Get Out of Our Skies! by E. K. Jarvis

The long-suffering public went along with billboards and singing commercials; they tolerated half a dozen sales pitches in a half-hour radio or TV show; they suffered stoically through the "hard-sell" and the "soft-sell." But when the hucksters turned the wild blue yonder into a vast television screen, they howled.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 223 Votes: 10 | Score: 6.71
Size: 58KB | 10,627 words | Posted:

1180 Name Your Symptom by Jim Harmon

Anybody who shunned a Cure needed his head examined--assuming he had one left!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 209 Votes: 12 | Score: 6.69
Size: 27KB | 5,067 words | Posted:
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