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471 The Girls From Earth by Frank M. Robinson

Problem: How can you arrange marriages with men in one solar system, women in another--and neither willing to leave his own world?
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Downloads: 406 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.90
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472 Problem on Balak by Roger D. Aycock

Sometimes you can solve your problem by running out on it!
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Downloads: 208 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.89
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473 Home Again, Home Again by Cory Doctorow

The customs officer isn't even human, so it feels like just another R&R, another halting conversation carried on in ugly trade-speak, another bewilderment of queues and luggage carousels. Outside: another spaceport, surrounded by the variegated hostels for the variegated tourists, and bipeds are in bare majority. The thing he can't think of it is, is a homecoming.
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Downloads: 268 | Votes: 7 | Score: 7.89
Size: 56KB | 10,925 words | Posted:

474 Lex by W. T. Haggert

Nothing in the world could be happier and mere serene than a man who loves his work--but what happens when it loves him back?
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Downloads: 456 | Votes: 44 | Score: 7.89
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475 The Coffin Cure by Alan Edward Nourse

Doctor Coffin, in collaboration with other doctors, discovers a cure, but it has a surprisingly strong side effect.
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Downloads: 510 | Votes: 33 | Score: 7.89
Size: 30KB | 5,545 words | Posted:

476 The Snowball Effect by Katherine MacLean

Tack power drives on a sewing circle and you can needle the world into the darndest mess!
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Downloads: 220 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.89
Size: 27KB | 4,925 words | Posted:

477 I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Mack Reynolds

One can't be too cautious about the people one meets in Tangier. They're all weirdies of one kind or another. Me? Oh, I'm A Stranger Here Myself
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Downloads: 401 | Votes: 30 | Score: 7.89
Size: 10KB | 1,907 words | Posted:

478 The Quantum Jump by Robert Wicks

Captain Brandon was a pioneer. He explored the far reaches of space and reported back on how things were out there. So it was pretty disquieting to find out that the "far reaches of space" knew more about what went on at home than he did.
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Downloads: 617 | Votes: 47 | Score: 7.89
Size: 19KB | 3,657 words | Posted:

479 The Runaway Skyscraper by Murray Leinster

Highly entertaining story of a New York skyscraper being drawn into the past by a change in its fourth dimension. The building arrives in a time before Columbus's discovery of America. An enterprising engineer, a bank manager, and a office assistant save the people and the building.
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Downloads: 1015 | Votes: 58 | Score: 7.89
Size: 89KB | 16,439 words | Posted:

480 Traders Risk by Roger D. Aycock

Keeping this cargo meant death--to jettison it meant to make flotsam and jetsam of a world!
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Downloads: 390 | Votes: 29 | Score: 7.89
Size: 28KB | 4,892 words | Posted:
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