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291 Ultima Thule by Mack Reynolds

Ronny Bronston has dreamed all his life of getting a United Planets job that would take him off-world. He finally gets the opportunity when he is given a provisional assignment with Bureau of Investigation, Section G. But will he be able to complete his assignment and find the elusive Tommy Paine?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 872 Votes: 41 | Score: 8.30
Size: 147KB | 26,798 words | Posted:

292 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: 904 Votes: 39 | Score: 8.30
Size: 104KB | 19,759 words | Posted:

293 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?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 772 Votes: 46 | Score: 8.29
Size: 41KB | 7,816 words | Posted:

294 Doctor by Murray Leinster

Suddenly the biggest thing in the universe was the very tiniest.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 631 Votes: 45 | Score: 8.29
Size: 49KB | 8,776 words | Posted:

295 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: 754 Votes: 19 | Score: 8.29
Size: 326KB | 59,950 words | Posted:

296 Arkadia by SunSeeker

A story INSPIRED by, but not part of, the Swarm Universe. The Confederacy is found culpable in the deaths of his parents because of an AI withholding information, resulting in a whole new world opening up for our MC, DeDeus Sanderson. Read of his encounters with the Confederacy and others as he gathers colonists.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, AI
Downloads: 9083 Votes: 141 | Score: 8.29
Size: 796KB | 156,403 words | Posted: Concluded:

297 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: 326 Votes: 13 | Score: 8.29
Size: 29KB | 5,564 words | Posted:

298 Angel's Egg by Edgar Pangborn

When adopting a pet, choose the species that is most intelligent, obedient, loyal, fun to play with, yet a shrewd, fearless protector. For the best in pets--choose a human being!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 768 Votes: 31 | Score: 8.29
Size: 74KB | 13,942 words | Posted:

299 Anything You Can Do by Randall Garrett

What do you do when an alien with exceptional physical abilities crash lands on Earth and leaves a path of death and destruction in its wake? You use biological modification to create an enhanced human able to match the alien in strength and speed. But is the result still human? Find the answer to this question in Randall Garrett's novel Anything You Can Do...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 1771 Votes: 36 | Score: 8.28
Size: 298KB | 54,902 words | Posted:

300 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: 2420 Votes: 136 | Score: 8.28
Size: 206KB | 39,014 words | Posted:
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