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481 Empire by Clifford D. Simak

In a future time, the solar system is powered by one energy source, controlled by one huge organisation, which has plans to use this control to dominate the planets. Unknown to them, a couple of maverick scientists accidentally develop a completely new form of energy supply and threaten the corporation's monopoly. Naturally, the corporation can't allow this to happen... A stunning story about the manipulation of pure energy, climaxing in interstellar conflict.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1686 Votes: 43 | Score: 7.89
Size: 278KB | 51,111 words | Posted:

482 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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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 224 Votes: 17 | Score: 7.89
Size: 27KB | 4,925 words | Posted:

483 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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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 404 Votes: 30 | Score: 7.89
Size: 10KB | 1,907 words | Posted:

484 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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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 643 Votes: 47 | Score: 7.89
Size: 19KB | 3,657 words | Posted:

485 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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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 394 Votes: 29 | Score: 7.89
Size: 28KB | 4,892 words | Posted:

486 Sunrunner by K. P. Sweeney

The gods have long since left and magic has gone along with them. Might is found at the trigger of a gun and adventure is found in the stars. Sunrunner is a fast-paced, sci-fi adventure with a tinge of eldritch horror. Follow a motley crew of mercenaries as they are swept up in a tale of corporate overreach gone awry.
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Futuristic, Nanotechnology, Robots, Drama, Violence, Horror, Bounty Hunters, Drugs, Fantasy, Elves
Downloads: 5235 Votes: 74 | Score: 7.89
Size: 397KB | 72,157 words | Posted: in progress Updated:

487 Salvage in Space by Jack Williamson

To Thad Allen, meteor miner, comes the dangerous bonanza of a derelict rocket-flier manned by death invisible.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1189 Votes: 94 | Score: 7.88
Size: 47KB | 8,617 words | Posted:

488 The Defenders by Phillip K. Dick

He knew what she was thinking. Once in the very first weeks of the war, before everyone had been evacuated from the surface, they had seen a hospital train discharging the wounded, people who had been showered with sleet. He remembered the way they had looked, the expression on their faces, or as much of their faces as was left. It had not been a pleasant sight. There had been a lot of that at first, in the early days before the transfer to undersurface was complete.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 583 Votes: 35 | Score: 7.88
Size: 47KB | 8,686 words | Posted:

489 Revenge by Arthur Porges

Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but the fury of a biochemist scorned is just as great --and much more fiendish.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 652 Votes: 49 | Score: 7.88
Size: 15KB | 2,935 words | Posted:

490 The Sword by Frank Quattrocchi

There were but three days in which to decipher the most cryptic message ever delivered to earth.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 856 Votes: 70 | Score: 7.88
Size: 21KB | 3,817 words | Posted:
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