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501 Printcrime by Cory Doctorow

A man goes to prison for illegal printing.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 425 | Votes: 28 | Score: 7.84
Size: 3KB | 753 words | Posted:

502 The Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber

They were two desperate scavengers in a no-man's land of radiation and death. Living in a kill or be killed world. Can they fin a new life and hope? A grim, grisly post-apocalypse story.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 614 | Votes: 9 | Score: 7.84
Size: 172KB | 33,477 words | Posted:

503 Where Stars Sleep in a Calm Black Stream by Haro James

Sometimes you do find what you were looking for in high school - then have to decide if it is a good thing or not. ~ 4300 words.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction
Downloads: 493 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.84
Size: 23KB | 4,366 words | Posted:

504 Morale - a Story of the War of 1941-43 by Murray Leinster

The Wabbly, uncombatable engine of war, spreads unparalleled death and destruction--until Sergeant Walpole "strikes at the morale" of its crew.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 448 | Votes: 29 | Score: 7.84
Size: 57KB | 10,305 words | Posted:

505 Missing Link by Frank Herbert

The Romantics used to say that the eyes were the windows of the Soul. A good Alien Xenologist might not put it quite so poetically. but he can, if he's sharp, read a lot in the look of an eye!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 379 | Votes: 25 | Score: 7.84
Size: 32KB | 5,877 words | Posted:

506 The Troublemakers by George O.Smith

A young woman objects to being sedated into placidity, as is the norm in the overcrowded, genetically optimized future.She also refuses to be paired with a somnolent drip of a fellow, who needs medication to act at an even minimal level of energy. Then you've got the young spacer, who believes he has discovered an efficient hyperdrive that could open the stars to humanity. He is told to cool his heels in a dead-end assignment until he discovers the error in his mathematics.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Futuristic, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1110 | Votes: 59 | Score: 7.83
Size: 102KB | 18,043 words | Posted:

507 Alarm Clock by Everett B. Cole

Most useful high explosives, like ammonium nitrate, are enormously violent. once they're triggered. But they will remain seemingly inert when beaten, burned, variously punished--until the particular shock required comes along....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 624 | Votes: 34 | Score: 7.83
Size: 65KB | 12,433 words | Posted:

508 Spacers by Mark Randall

A story in the Asteroid Hunters Universe
In the not to distant future.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Near Future, Melodrama, Politics, Military, Travel
Downloads: 2393 | Votes: 125 | Score: 7.83
Size: 23KB | 4,221 words | Posted:

509 Sea Legs by Frank Quattrocchi

Rootless and footloose, a man in space can't help but dream of coming home. But something nobody should do is bet on the validity of a homesick dream!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 410 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.83
Size: 76KB | 14,149 words | Posted:

510 East in the Morning by David E. Fisher

Natural laws are cliches--"what must be must be," for instance--and what must be in this case was, of all people, Dr. Talbot!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 289 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.82
Size: 23KB | 4,344 words | Posted:
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