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181 The Planet Strappers by Raymond Z. Gallun

Nelson and Ramos sped on toward Mars in their tiny plastic-bubble spacecraft. They were on the alert it didn't pay to take anything for granted in the Big Vacuum The way between the worlds was mostly empty space except for the outlaws of the void who drifted, patiently and vengefully waiting for a victim, then struck! Nelsen and Ramos tensed blips on the radar screen! Maybe meteors.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 414 | Votes: 9 | Score: 8.52
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182 Eight Keys to Eden by Mark Clifton

Not long after the colonists landed on the uninhabited planet, every human-made artifact -- ship, communicators, tools -- disappeared! Even their clothes!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1216 | Votes: 36 | Score: 8.52
Size: 290KB | 53,913 words | Posted:

183 Normalcy Is Harder Than It Looks by Vincent Berg

A The Catalyst Story (3)
Having wrestled with trying to preserve a 'normal' last few months of high school, Alex faces an even harder time, as not only does he have to explain to those he loves what his life has become, but he faces several people who seem to hate him as much as his followers adore him. What's a confused teenage atheist religious figure to do? In the third book of the series, follow Alex Jennings as he deals with a variety of challenges as he learns about what he's ultimately facing.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Extra Sensory Perception, Coming of Age, Romance, School, Science, Religion, Cults, Young Adult
Downloads: 5966 | Votes: 98 | Score: 8.52
Size: 1290KB | 251,155 words | Posted: Concluded:

184 The Revolt on Venus by Carey Rockwell

Astro has managed to talk Tom and Roger into coming to Venus for summer vacation. He's got perfect summer work for the three of them: he's got a little business hunting down tyrannosauri and selling the carcasses to restaurants. But stranger stuff than dinos is on the horizon: before they even leave the station for Venus, they're caught in a bombing, and it'll lead them into the thick of the Venetian resistance... !
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1044 | Votes: 50 | Score: 8.52
Size: 296KB | 54,233 words | Posted:

185 The Year When Stardust Fell by Raymond F. Jones

A MYSTERIOUS "FALL-OUT" PARALYZES CIVILIZATION! Mayfield was the typical college town. Nothing too unusual ever happened there until a mysterious comet was suddenly observed by the scientists on College Hill. The copper-yellow glow of the comet seemed to have brought the whole world to a grinding halt.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1145 | Votes: 45 | Score: 8.52
Size: 326KB | 61,449 words | Posted:

186 Unwise Child by Randall Garrett

When a super-robot discovers how to build his own superbombs, it becomes obvious that Earth is by no means the safest place for him to be. Dr. Fitzhugh, his designer, and Leda Crannon, a child psychologist acting as Snookums' nursemaid, agree to set up Operation Brainchild, a plan to transport the robot to a far distant planet. Mike the Angel Gabriel, Power Design has devised the power plant that is to propel the space ship Branchell to its secret destination, complete with its unusual cargo.
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 668 | Votes: 30 | Score: 8.52
Size: 282KB | 52,602 words | Posted:

187 Futuria Fantasia, Fall 1939 by Ray Bradbury

A Few Short Stories edited by Ray Bradbury!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 210 | Votes: * | Score: *
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188 The Highest Treason by Randall Garrett

The highest treason of all is not so easy to define--and be it noted carefully that the true traitor in this case was not singular, but very plural.
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Downloads: 578 | Votes: 17 | Score: 8.52
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189 Last Enemy by H. Beam Piper

The last enemy was the toughest of all--and conquering him was in itself almost as dangerous as not conquering. For a strange pattern of beliefs can make assassination an honorable profession!
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 777 | Votes: 22 | Score: 8.52
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190 Warlord of Kor by Terry Gene Carr

"Kor was... is. God. Knowledge." He had tried to convey this to the small creatures who had invaded his world, but they did not heed. Their ill-equipped brains were trying futilely to comprehend the ancient race memory of his people. Now they would attempt further to discover the forbidden directives of Kor. Horng remembered, somewhere far back in the fossil layers of his thoughts, a warning. They must be stopped! If he had to, he would stamp out these creatures who were called "humans."
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 405 | Votes: 13 | Score: 8.52
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