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1171 The Hour of Battle by Robert Sheckley

As one of the Guardian ships protecting Earth, the crew had a problem to solve. Just how do you protect a race from an enemy who can take over a man's mind without seeming effort or warning?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 439 Votes: 22 | Score: 6.73
Size: 11KB | 1,984 words | Posted:

1172 The Tree of Life by C.L. Moore

A gripping tale of the planet Mars and the terrible monstrosity that called its victims to it from afar--a tale of Northwest Smith.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 294 Votes: 9 | Score: 6.73
Size: 60KB | 10,981 words | Posted:

1173 The Drug by C.C. MacApp

It could be deadly. It had to be tested. But Sales wanted a new product this very minute.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 292 Votes: 28 | Score: 6.73
Size: 25KB | 4,776 words | Posted:

1174 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: 300 Votes: 9 | Score: 6.73
Size: 35KB | 6,307 words | Posted:

1175 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: 202 Votes: 16 | Score: 6.72
Size: 27KB | 5,230 words | Posted:

1176 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 242 Votes: 11 | Score: 6.72
Size: 30KB | 5,279 words | Posted:

1177 The Piper by Ron Reynolds

Even in space there is pipers and musicians...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 170 Votes: 11 | Score: 6.72
Size: 8KB | 1,486 words | Posted:

1178 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:

1179 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: 413 Votes: 25 | Score: 6.71
Size: 21KB | 3,978 words | Posted:

1180 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
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Downloads: 1045 Votes: 58 | Score: 6.71
Size: 25KB | 4,573 words | Posted:
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