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291 Fee of the Frontier by H. B. Fyfe

They didn't think of themselves as pioneers. They simply had a job to do. And if they had to give up money, or power, or love--or life itself
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 273 | Votes: 13 | Score: 8.29
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292 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?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 2268 | Votes: 133 | Score: 8.29
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293 Space Born - a New Realm by Ernest Bywater

Space is huge and governments control as much of the space around and between their systems as they can, but there are still a very small parts of space not claimed by any government. Very few people are born on the ships travelling between the stars, and even fewer are born in the unclaimed areas of space, but that one thousandth of one percent who are so born are called Space Born and have some very odd citizenship rights and duties.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Politics, War
Downloads: 4752 | Votes: 144 | Score: 8.29
Size: 296KB | 54,899 words | Posted: Concluded:

294 If You Was a Moklin by Murray Leinster

You'd love Earthmen to pieces, for they may look pretty bad to themselves, but not to you. You'd even want to be one!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 357 | Votes: 28 | Score: 8.29
Size: 43KB | 8,441 words | Posted:

295 Indirection by Everett B. Cole

The best way to keep a secret is to publish it in a quite unbelievable form--and insist that it is the truth.
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 617 | Votes: 43 | Score: 8.29
Size: 40KB | 7,296 words | Posted:

296 The Runaway Asteroid by Michael D. Cooper

Lurton Zimbardo and his pirates threaten Mars with destruction from outer space and he makes good on his threat. Next he puts Earth in his sights. He operates from deep within the asteroid belt; his headquarters housed in a massive asteroid fashioned into a spacecraft by aliens from ages past. It is invisible to detection.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 683 | Votes: 19 | Score: 8.29
Size: 326KB | 59,950 words | Posted:

297 Doctor by Murray Leinster

Suddenly the biggest thing in the universe was the very tiniest.
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 558 | Votes: 43 | Score: 8.28
Size: 49KB | 8,776 words | Posted:

298 Space Tug (Sequel to Space Platform) by Murray Leinster

Joe had helped launch the first Space Platform--that initial rung in man's ladder to the stars. But the enemies who had ruthlessly tried to destroy the space station before it left Earth were still at work. They were plotting to stop Joe's mission!
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1079 | Votes: 41 | Score: 8.28
Size: 303KB | 55,449 words | Posted:

299 The Birds of Lorrane by Bill Doede

Intelligent birds! They knew a dead-end planet when they visited one!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 328 | Votes: 27 | Score: 8.28
Size: 20KB | 3,839 words | Posted:

300 The Airlords of Han by Philip francis Nowlan

Recovering from a gas that caused him to sleep for five hundred years, Anthony "Buck" Rogers helped an enslaved America strike its first blow for freedom against the alien Han. Now, he and beloved, warrior-woman Wilma Deering, must lead a desperate a battle to the finish against a superior foe -- using futuristic weapons such as disintegrators, jumping belts, inertron, paralysis rays, and atomic torpedoes.
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1103 | Votes: 38 | Score: 8.27
Size: 169KB | 29,934 words | Posted:
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