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511 Heist Job on Thizar by Randall Garrett

In the future, we may discover new planets; our ships may rocket to new worlds; robots may be smarter than people. But we'll still have slick characters willing and able to turn a fast buck--even though they have to be smarter than Einstein to do it.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 321 Votes: 20 | Score: 7.84
Size: 23KB | 4,456 words | Posted:

512 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: 428 Votes: 21 | Score: 7.83
Size: 76KB | 14,149 words | Posted:

513 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: 1162 Votes: 61 | Score: 7.83
Size: 102KB | 18,043 words | Posted:

514 Destiny Interlude: a Summer Cruise by Lumpy

A Destiny Saga Story
A Destiny Saga Short Story. After a long year Caspian and his family decide to take a relaxing summer cruise through the Caribbean. Sadly, it seems things never go as they are planned for Caspian. His summer vacation is interrupted when some new friends need a helping hand.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Coming of Age, Romance, Violence, Travel
Downloads: 2446 Votes: 95 | Score: 7.83
Size: 77KB | 15,473 words | Posted: Concluded:

515 The Mercenaries by H. Beam Piper

Once, wars were won by maneuvering hired fighting men; now wars are different--and the hired experts are different. But the human problems remain!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1057 Votes: 44 | Score: 7.83
Size: 49KB | 8,643 words | Posted:

516 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: 647 Votes: 34 | Score: 7.83
Size: 65KB | 12,433 words | Posted:

517 Gladiator by Philip Wylie

Hugo Danner, a man endowed from birth with extraodinary strength and speed. But Danner is no altruist. He spends his life trying to cope with his abilities, becoming a sports hero in college, later a sideshow act, a war hero, never truly finding peace with himself.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1334 Votes: 37 | Score: 7.82
Size: 407KB | 75,710 words | Posted:

518 The Troubadour by Robert W. Lowndes

There was something odd about the guest attraction, Mr. Fayliss, and something odder still about his songs.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 244 Votes: 17 | Score: 7.82
Size: 7KB | 1,331 words | Posted:

519 The Ghost World by Sewell Peaslee Wright

Commander John Hanson records another of his thrilling interplanetary adventures with the Special Patrol Service.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 446 Votes: 27 | Score: 7.82
Size: 52KB | 9,644 words | Posted:

520 Clean Break by Roger D. Aycock

A veteran veterinarian might have vamoosed--but Watts had to help any sick animal....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 499 Votes: 37 | Score: 7.82
Size: 32KB | 5,476 words | Posted:
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