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321 The Edge of the Knife by H. Beam Piper

In the distant future of 1973, Professor Chalmers of Blanley University is having a little trouble with his history class. He knows the subject and all his facts are true, the only problem is none of them have happened yet. After a disastrous lesson where he accidently revealed foreknowledge of an assassination yet to happen, Professor Chalmers has to face down against a dean threatening to fire him in spite of tenure.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 830 | Votes: 54 | Score: 8.24
Size: 90KB | 16,506 words | Posted:

322 The Star Lord by Ed M. Clinton

To some passengers a maiden voyage was a pleasure cruise; to others it meant a hope for new life. Only the Captain knew of its danger! The _Star Lord_ waited, poised for her maiden voyage. The gigantic silvery spindle, still cradled in its scaffoldings, towered upwards against the artificial sky of Satellite Y.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 627 | Votes: 28 | Score: 8.24
Size: 114KB | 21,245 words | Posted:

323 Little Rock in the Belt by Mark Randall

Gideon and Martha Sawyer return from their 5 year trip to the asteroid belt. They have a family with children and are looking for a home.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Futuristic, Near Future, Drama
Downloads: 1540 | Votes: 99 | Score: 8.24
Size: 82KB | 15,956 words | Posted: Concluded:

324 The Raid on the Termites by Paul Ernst

Armed with splinters of steel, two ant-sized men dare the formidable mysteries of a termitary.
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 221 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 144KB | 25,998 words | Posted:

325 Lost With Nothing to Lose by Vincent Berg

A Not-Quite Human Story (2)
Unable to find a home and acceptance on Earth, an intrepid band of misplaced youth seek their ancestral home among the stars. Unfortunately, their reception is not what they hoped. The home they discover is a hostile environment, involved in a huge interstellar war with a hostile alien species. Viewed as untrusted interlopers, they search for a place in a universe with no use for them, and no place turn for assistance. One chapter has some explicit interspecies sex, but it's part of the plot.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Nanotechnology, AI, Extra Sensory Perception, Romance, Science, Dystopian
Downloads: 10241 | Votes: 208 | Score: 8.23
Size: 642KB | 115,608 words | Posted: Concluded:

326 Legacy by James H. Schmitz

Consider the plasmoids...Ancient living machines that after millennia of stillness suddenly begin to move under their own power, for reasons that remain a mystery to men. Holati Tate discovered them - then disappeared. Trigger Argee was his closet associate - she means to find him. She's brilliant, beautiful, and skilled in every known martial art. She's worth plenty - dead or alive - to more than one faction in this obscure battle.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1708 | Votes: 39 | Score: 8.23
Size: 432KB | 78,381 words | Posted:

327 Operation Distress by Lester Del Rey

Explorers who dread spiders and snakes prove that heroism is always more heroic to outsiders. Then there's the case of the first space pilot to Mars who developed the itch
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Downloads: 261 | Votes: 16 | Score: 8.22
Size: 22KB | 4,291 words | Posted:

328 The Stoker and the Stars by Algis Budrys

When you've had your ears pinned back in a bowknot, it's sometimes hard to remember that an intelligent people has no respect for a whipped enemy. but does for a fairly beaten enemy.
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 307 | Votes: 27 | Score: 8.22
Size: 22KB | 4,404 words | Posted:

329 The Ape-men of Xlotli by David R. Sparks

Kirby did not know what mountains they were. He did know that the Mannlicher bullets of eleven bad Mexicans were whining over his head and whizzing past the hoofs of his galloping, stolen horse. The shots were mingled with yelps which pretty well curdled his spine. In the circumstances, the unknown range of snow mountains towering blue and white beyond the arid, windy plateau, offering he could not tell what dangers, seemed a paradise.
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 592 | Votes: 23 | Score: 8.22
Size: 170KB | 31,104 words | Posted:

330 The Winged Men of Orcon by David R. Sparks

Far out at the edge of the Universe two scientists play a game of wits--Earth to the winner.
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Downloads: 239 | Votes: * | Score: *
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