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291 The Black Star Passes by John W. Campbell Jr.

THREE AGAINST THE STARS! A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention... First contact with an alien race dangerous enough to threaten the safety of two planets... The arrival of an unseen dark sun whose attendant marauders aimed at the very end of civilization in this Solar System...
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 37 | Score: 8.30
Size: 413KB / 75,698 words | Downloads: 3247
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292 The Aliens by Murray Leinster

The human race was expanding through the galaxy... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. When two expanding empires meet... war is inevitable. Or is it...?
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 84 | Score: 8.30
Size: 78KB / 13,871 words | Downloads: 1390
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293 The Eyes Have It by James McKimmey

Daylight sometimes hides secrets that darkness will reveal--the Martian's glowing eyes, for instance. But darkness has other dangers....
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 8 | Score: 8.30
Size: 16KB / 2,928 words | Downloads: 203
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294 Gold in the Sky by Alan Edward Nourse

The rock in space was not quite a sphere, being far too tiny a bit of cosmic debris to have sufficient gravity to round off its ragged corners. One side was rough -- like a ragged mountain top that was broken off at the peak and hurled into space by an all-powerful hand. Slowly the Scout Ship edged closer, braking with forward jets. Was this it, at last -- the missing asteroid?
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 138 | Score: 8.30
Size: 206KB / 39,014 words | Downloads: 2552
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295 The Mind's Eye by Pars001

A man retired from a secret government agency, hoped that his time with them was through. Little did he know that an enemy from the past was still on earth.
Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Near Future, Extra Sensory Perception, Crime, Drama, Military, Spies, Secret Agents
Votes: 163 | Score: 8.30
Size: 312KB / 62,761 words | Downloads: 6735
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296 Iqua's Teepe by Pars001

A fledgling magician seeks the help of a powerful Indian Shaman to gain justice and revenge.
Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Extra Sensory Perception, Romance, Drama, Violence, Assassins, Supernatural, Fantasy, Magic
Votes: 25 | Score: 8.30
Size: 144KB / 29,387 words | Downloads: 1581
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297 Windymere Crater by Mark Randall

This is the story of a young man leaving family and friends on Earth for a job. He finds friends, a new family, drama, conflict, and war. He also finds love and a path to a better future.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Near Future, Coming of Age, Drama, Violence
Votes: 142 | Score: 8.29
Size: 91KB / 17,067 words | Downloads: 2453
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298 The Sentient Partnership: A History by Alexander Winston

A story in the The Universe from a future where humans and sentient AIs meet as legal equals and chosen partners
In 2285, college student Janice Frederick receives what appears to be a straightforward assignment: explain how synthetic sentience emerged and transformed civilization. But Professor James Wilson does not want a timeline of inventions and court decisions. He wants the people the timeline forgot. Janice’s search carries her through more than a century of human and technological change—from life-extension research and controlled fusion to optical memory, asteroid mining, artificial intelligence
Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Hard SciFi, Futuristic, AI, Science
Votes: 16 | Score: 8.29
Size: 309KB / 51,805 words | Downloads: 772
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299 The Velvet Glove by Harry Harrison

SF writer and editor Harry Harrison explores a not too distant future where robots--particularly specialist robots who don't know their place--have quite a rough time of it. True, the Robot Equality Act had been passed--but so what?
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 46 | Score: 8.29
Size: 41KB / 7,816 words | Downloads: 785
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300 Doctor by Murray Leinster

Suddenly the biggest thing in the universe was the very tiniest.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 45 | Score: 8.29
Size: 49KB / 8,776 words | Downloads: 644
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