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471 Yesterday House by Fritz Leiber

Meeting someone who's been dead for twenty years is shocking enough for anyone with a belief in ghosts--worse for one with none!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 363 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.90
Size: 50KB | 9,369 words | Posted:

472 Mate in Two Moves by Winston Marks

Murt's Virus was catastrophically lethal, but it killed in a way no disease had ever thought of--it loved its victims to death!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 313 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.90
Size: 49KB | 8,737 words | Posted:

473 The Test Colony by Winston Marks

Benson did his best to keep his colony from going native, but what can you do when the Natives have a rare human intelligence and know all about the facts of life?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 656 | Votes: 39 | Score: 7.90
Size: 71KB | 13,087 words | Posted:

474 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: 407 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.90
Size: 39KB | 7,404 words | Posted:

475 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
Size: 25KB | 4,802 words | Posted:

476 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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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 268 | Votes: 7 | Score: 7.89
Size: 56KB | 10,925 words | Posted:

477 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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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 456 | Votes: 44 | Score: 7.89
Size: 41KB | 7,775 words | Posted:

478 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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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 512 | Votes: 33 | Score: 7.89
Size: 30KB | 5,545 words | Posted:

479 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:

480 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:
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