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361 The Right Time by John Berryman

The trouble with prophets is that if they're accurate, the news won't do you any good, and if they aren't accurate, they're no good. Unless, of course, they're more than just prophets....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 443 | Votes: 32 | Score: 8.14
Size: 61KB | 12,093 words | Posted:

362 The Sensitive Man by Poul Anderson

One man stood between a power-hungry cabal and world mastery-but a man of unusual talents.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 946 | Votes: 31 | Score: 8.14
Size: 115KB | 21,334 words | Posted:

363 The Passing of Ku Sui by Anthony Gilmore

A screaming streak in the night--a cloud of billowing steam--and the climax of Hawk Carse's spectacular "Affair of the Brains" is over.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 284 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 181KB | 32,862 words | Posted:

364 Tight Squeeze by Dean Charles Ing

He knew the theory of repairing the gizmo all right. He had that nicely taped. But there was the little matter of threading a wire through a too-small hole while under zero-g, and working in a spacesuit!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 509 | Votes: 30 | Score: 8.14
Size: 33KB | 6,109 words | Posted:

365 Beyond Lies the Wub by Phillip K. Dick

A ship presumably filling its hold ark-like for a long trip picks up a wub, a filthy creature supposedly tasty but also telepathic and intelligent.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 505 | Votes: 37 | Score: 8.13
Size: 14KB | 2,705 words | Posted:

366 The Fifth Dimension Tube by Murray Leinster

By way of Professor Denham's Tube, Tommy and Evelyn invade the inimical Fifth-Dimensional world of golden cities and tree-fern jungles and Ragged Men.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 621 | Votes: 15 | Score: 8.13
Size: 157KB | 28,459 words | Posted:

367 The Bluff of the Hawk by Anthony Gilmore

"A trick? Carse was famed for them. A trap? But how?"
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 276 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 71KB | 12,712 words | Posted:

368 The Barbarians by Algis Budrys

History was repeating itself; there were moats and nobles in Pennsylvania and vassals in Manhattan and the barbarian hordes were overrunning the land.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 629 | Votes: 42 | Score: 8.11
Size: 52KB | 9,611 words | Posted:

369 Dead Giveaway by Randall Garrett

Logic's a wonderful thing; by logical analysis, one can determine the necessary reason for the existence of a dead city of a very high order on an utterly useless planet. Obviously a shipping transfer point! Necessarily...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 676 | Votes: 54 | Score: 8.11
Size: 51KB | 9,301 words | Posted:

370 The Next Logical Step by Benjamin William Bova

Ordinarily the military least wants to have the others know the final details of their war plans. But, logically, there would be times.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 747 | Votes: 68 | Score: 8.10
Size: 12KB | 2,185 words | Posted:
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