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401 Now We Are Three by Joe L. Hensley

Where are we going? What will the world be like in the days--perhaps not too distant--when we have tested and tested the bombs to the finite degree? Joe L. Hensley, attorney in Madison, Indiana, and increasingly well known in SF, returns with this challenging story of that Tomorrow.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 249 | Votes: 17 | Score: 8.07
Size: 19KB | 3,637 words | Posted:

402 The Unnecessary Man by Randall Garrett

Sometimes an organizational setup grows, sets its ways, and becomes so traditional that once-necessary jobs become unnecessary. But it is sometimes quite hard to spot just which man is the unnecessary one. In this case. not the one you think!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 608 | Votes: 36 | Score: 8.07
Size: 43KB | 8,117 words | Posted:

403 All Day September by Roger Kuykendall

Some men just haven't got good sense. They just can't seem to learn the most fundamental things. Like when there's no use trying--when it's time to give up because it's hopeless....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 288 | Votes: 25 | Score: 8.07
Size: 30KB | 5,643 words | Posted:

404 The Judas Valley by Randall Garrett

Why did everybody step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment? It was a mystery Peter and Sherri had to solve. If they could live long enough!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 718 | Votes: 49 | Score: 8.06
Size: 67KB | 12,278 words | Posted:

405 Rough Beast by Roger D. Aycock

The most dangerous, utterly vicious carnivorous animal the Galactics knew had escaped. to Earth! Because contact with Earth was forbidden, they knew little of Earth. which led to certain false conclusions.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 662 | Votes: 42 | Score: 8.05
Size: 21KB | 3,750 words | Posted:

406 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: 691 | Votes: 63 | Score: 8.05
Size: 12KB | 2,185 words | Posted:

407 Wanted-7 Fearless Engineers! by Frederick Orlin Tremaine

A great civilization's fate lay in Dick Barrow's hands as he led his courageous fellow engineers into a strange and unknown land. None of them knew what lay ahead--what dangers awaited them--or what rewards. But they did not hesitate because the first question asked them had been: "Are you a brave man?"
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 856 | Votes: 57 | Score: 8.05
Size: 101KB | 18,712 words | Posted:

408 Letter of the Law by Alan Edward Nourse

Zeckler was a con-man, a human con-man. But he had no idea what he was up against when he decided to try to outwit the Altairians, an alien race that believes telling the truth is a weakness. Really he never had a chance.
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Downloads: 409 | Votes: 24 | Score: 8.05
Size: 31KB | 5,733 words | Posted:

409 Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster

On the Earth of the future, cities are overcrowded and the elite have nothing to do but buy fame from people who really do the work. A faster than light drive is invented and Jed Cochrane, a television producer, seizes the chance to change the course of history and free the people who are willing to work for themselves and not be faceless proles.
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Downloads: 1338 | Votes: 44 | Score: 8.04
Size: 332KB | 59,696 words | Posted:

410 A Spaceship Named Mcguire by Randall Garrett

The basic trouble with McGuire was that, though "he" was a robot spaceship, nevertheless "he" had a definite weakness that a man might understand....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 947 | Votes: 56 | Score: 8.03
Size: 85KB | 16,545 words | Posted:
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