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251 Med Ship Man by Murray Leinster

His work was healing the sick--but this planet was already dead!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1249 | Votes: 77 | Score: 8.36
Size: 82KB | 14,699 words | Posted:

252 Oomphel in the Sky by H. Beam Piper

Since Logic derives from postulates, it never has, and never will, change a postulate. And a religious belief is a system of postulates. so how can a man fight a native superstition with logic? Or anything else...?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 426 | Votes: 18 | Score: 8.36
Size: 96KB | 17,826 words | Posted:

253 Chandler's Ride by Lazlo Zalezac

A story in the Damsels In Distress Universe
Malcolm Charles Chandler is a rather quiet man and good neighbor who occasionally takes a trip through a portal to another world -- Crossroads. His caretaker, Alice, sends him on an adventure to rescue a Damsel in Distress. The rescue goes fine, but the ride home takes a long time.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Violence
Downloads: 2736 | Votes: 90 | Score: 8.36
Size: 141KB | 27,086 words | Posted: Concluded:

254 Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet by Harold L. Goodwin

Freshly graduated and commissioned Planeteer Lt. Rip Foster is tasked with retrieving an asteroid made of pure thorium from the asteroid belt and bringing it to Earth for use as fissionable material. But the totalitarian Connies have their own plans for the asteroid...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 598 | Votes: 33 | Score: 8.36
Size: 283KB | 52,374 words | Posted:

255 A Justice Provider's Tale by Vanessa Ravencroft

There is no hunger, no social hard ship and thus the core reasons for crime eroded. That is the official opinion and beleive of most. One percent of a population, that is counted in Centillions is still a very big number. The shiny, mighty Union is not perfect. Some say a free society can never be.
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Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Futuristic, Clones, Nanotechnology, Robots, Extra Sensory Perception, Crime, Mystery, Bounty Hunters, Young Adult
Downloads: 2794 | Votes: 67 | Score: 8.35
Size: 209KB | 39,536 words | Posted:

256 Greylorn by Keith Laumer

Commander Greylorn leads humanity's last hope, one spaceship racing through the voids of the universe. The Red Tide has all but engulfed the Earth, just enough time to find planet Omega, colonized long ago and vanished. After four years, food stores are destroyed by meteor, crew set to mutiny, and alien ship with cargo of human bodies.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 888 | Votes: 38 | Score: 8.35
Size: 104KB | 19,759 words | Posted:

257 Clinging to Hope as the World Falters by Vincent Berg

A Great Death Story
A man and his daughter encounter a massive meteor shower which disrupts their lives, but it's only the beginning. It's the beginning of the end, or is it? An Apocalyptic tale that focuses on individuals trying to maintain love, hope and family amongst death and dying. This is a pre-Post-Apocalyptic tale, asking what happened to all the people before most PA stories even begin. Previously published as "Love and Family During the Great Death".
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Apocalyptic, Near Future, Pandemic, Romance, Science
Downloads: 8038 | Votes: 139 | Score: 8.35
Size: 1175KB | 226,103 words | Posted: Concluded:

258 The Mission by Pars001

A story in the Time Travel Adventures Universe
For years Charles had hid as far from women as he could, then a chance encounter with trouble brought her to him. Now he had to not only save her and her kingdom but his self as well. Problem is her Kingdom is thousands of years in the past!
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Time Travel
Tags: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Aliens, Space, Futuristic, Alternate Timeline, Clones, AI, Romance, Humor, Politics, Violence, War, Military, Assassins, Pirates, Spies
Downloads: 9705 | Votes: 316 | Score: 8.35
Size: 189KB | 36,111 words | Posted: Concluded:

259 The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft

A Providence, Rhode Island resident teams up with his beloved, antiquarian uncle in studying why a decrepit 18th century house has been left vacant for so long. It appears that anyone who lives in the house long enough goes crazy and/or wastes to death. Of course, our protagonists decide to spend an evening in the cellar of the house...
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 364 | Votes: 8 | Score: 8.35
Size: 61KB | 10,663 words | Posted:

260 Plague Ship by Andre Norton

Lured by exotic gems and valuable oils, the crew of the space trader Solar Queen landed on the newly discovered planet Sargol, only to find their most ruthless competitor there ahead of them. Still they tried for fair trade, even according to the sly rules of the feline natives-- whose beauty and grace were equalled only by their determination to drive a hard bargain.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1527 | Votes: 51 | Score: 8.35
Size: 327KB | 60,943 words | Posted:
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