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421 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: 748 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.98
Size: 222KB | 41,476 words | Posted:

422 Stopover by William Gerken

What will the world be like, the day after Tomorrow, for the lonely ones who will have talents that others will half fear, half envy? William Gerken describes this strange world in which young and old will have to find new values and pursue new dreams, as they search for the answer....
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Downloads: 225 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.98
Size: 17KB | 3,465 words | Posted:

423 Divinity by Joseph Samachson

Bradley had one fear in his life. He had to escape regeneration. To do that, he was willing to take any chance, coward though he was--even if it meant that he had to become a god!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 420 | Votes: 24 | Score: 7.98
Size: 35KB | 6,693 words | Posted:

424 Consignment by Alan Edward Nourse

In the jungle the vicious man-killer is king, but what chance would a tiger have in the Times Square traffic.
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Downloads: 363 | Votes: 32 | Score: 7.98
Size: 21KB | 3,991 words | Posted:

425 The Chapter Ends by Poul Anderson

What will the end of the Earth's lifespan look like? What will happen to the humans left on the planet when it fades into obsolescence? These are just a few of the profound questions at the center of science fiction master Poul Anderson's thought-provoking tale The Chapter Ends.
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Downloads: 616 | Votes: 32 | Score: 7.98
Size: 47KB | 8,833 words | Posted:

426 Innocent at Large by Poul Anderson

A hayseed Martian among big-planet slickers. of course he would get into trouble. But that was nothing compared to the trouble he would be in if he did not get into trouble!
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Downloads: 616 | Votes: 30 | Score: 7.98
Size: 38KB | 7,168 words | Posted:

427 The Dueling Machine by Benjamin William Bova

Dueling as a means of settling disputes has been revived by the invention of the dueling machine, which allows two adversaries to have at each other in the imaginary world of their choosing, with no danger to either other than humiliation and the loss of the point in dispute, until the Kerak Worlds found a way to kill with the machine. Unless a young Star Watchman can solve the mystery, the warlike Kerak Worlds will gobble up the planets.
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Downloads: 616 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.98
Size: 122KB | 21,628 words | Posted:

428 Shadows in the Moonlight by Robert E. Howard

Revenging himself brutally upon the sadistic Hyrkanian lord who vanquished his current band of mercenaries, Conan also rescues his misused mistress, Olivia, a princess of Ophir. Escaping across the seas that separate eastern Hyrkania from western Turan, they come across a seemingly uninhabited island, in which resides the ruins of court lined with life-like bronze statues of a race unknown to the barbarian.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 402 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.97
Size: 67KB | 12,201 words | Posted:

429 The Moons of Mars by Dean Evans

Every boy should be able to whistle, except, of course, Martians. But this one did!
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Downloads: 252 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.97
Size: 32KB | 6,469 words | Posted:

430 Ministry of Disturbance by H. Beam Piper

Sometimes getting a job is harder than the job after you get it--and sometimes getting out of a job is harder than either!
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Downloads: 659 | Votes: 30 | Score: 7.97
Size: 92KB | 16,415 words | Posted:
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