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411 The Last Evolution by John W. Campbell Jr.

"I am the last of my type existing today in all the Solar System. I, too, am the last existing who, in memory, sees the struggle for this System, and in memory I am still close to the Center of Rulers, for mine was the ruling type then. But I will pass soon, and with me will pass the last of my kind, a poor inefficient type, but yet the creators of those who are now, and will be, long after I pass forever..."
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 575 | Votes: 26 | Score: 8.00
Size: 38KB | 6,592 words | Posted:

412 The Seeding Book 1 by Pars001

A simple man trying to eek out a living has an encounter that changes his life forever.
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Futuristic, Nanotechnology, Near Future, Violence, Science, War, Assassins
Downloads: 4959 | Votes: 235 | Score: 8.00
Size: 68KB | 13,442 words | Posted: Concluded:

413 A World by the Tale by Randall Garrett

This is about the best-hated author on Earth. Who was necessarily pampered and petted because of his crime against humanity....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 369 | Votes: 35 | Score: 8.00
Size: 16KB | 3,014 words | Posted:

414 The Stutterer by Reuben Merliss

A man can be killed by a toy gun--he can die of fright, for heart attacks can kill. What, then, is the deadly thing that must be sealed away, forever locked in buried concrete--a thing or an idea?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 232 | Votes: 17 | Score: 8.00
Size: 54KB | 10,202 words | Posted:

415 Prime Difference by Alan Edward Nourse

Being two men rolled out of one would solve my problems--but which one would I be?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 309 | Votes: 23 | Score: 8.00
Size: 26KB | 5,093 words | Posted:

416 My Lady Greensleeves by Frederik Pohl

This guard smelled trouble and it could be counted on to come--for a nose for trouble was one of the many talents bred here!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 512 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.99
Size: 77KB | 14,339 words | Posted:

417 Second Childhood by Clifford D. Simak

Achieving immortality is only half of the problem. The other half is knowing how to live with it once it's been made possible--and inescapable!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 778 | Votes: 27 | Score: 7.99
Size: 34KB | 6,615 words | Posted:

418 The Dwindling Years by Lester Del Rey

He didn't expect to be last-but neither did he anticipate the horror of being the first!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 486 | Votes: 31 | Score: 7.99
Size: 30KB | 5,701 words | Posted:

419 Juju by Murray Leinster

A 1919 pulp-press tale of deepest darkest Africa.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 469 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.99
Size: 139KB | 26,539 words | Posted:

420 Ten From Infinity by Paul W. Fairman

It began when a pedestrian got hit by a cab in New York City. No doubt it was the only motor mishap in the history of creation that reached out among the stars--for far out in space a signal was registered: Something has gone wrong....for the doctors discovered their accident patient had two hearts. It was the beginning of the discovery that the Earth had been invaded by 10 such creatures from Outer Space.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 752 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.98
Size: 222KB | 41,476 words | Posted:
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