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511 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!
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 45 | Score: 7.84
Size: 49KB / 8,643 words | Downloads: 1106
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512 Diplomatic Immunity by Robert Sheckley

He said he wasn't immortal--but nothing could kill him. Still, if the Earth was to live as a free world, he had to die.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 39 | Score: 7.84
Size: 36KB / 6,467 words | Downloads: 612
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513 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.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 21 | Score: 7.84
Size: 23KB / 4,456 words | Downloads: 355
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514 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?
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 47 | Score: 7.84
Size: 41KB / 7,775 words | Downloads: 488
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515 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!
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 21 | Score: 7.83
Size: 76KB / 14,149 words | Downloads: 437
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516 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.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Futuristic, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Votes: 61 | Score: 7.83
Size: 102KB / 18,043 words | Downloads: 1189
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517 Alien by Harry Carton

An alien from the 'local' group of planets comes to Earth seeking help in contacting a mysterious inter-galactic alien ship. Chapters will be about a few weeks. SciFi. NoSex.
Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens
Votes: 59 | Score: 7.83
Size: 170KB / 29,560 words | Downloads: 2620
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518 The Ghost World by Sewell Peaslee Wright

Commander John Hanson records another of his thrilling interplanetary adventures with the Special Patrol Service.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 27 | Score: 7.82
Size: 52KB / 9,644 words | Downloads: 461
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519 Clean Break by Roger D. Aycock

A veteran veterinarian might have vamoosed--but Watts had to help any sick animal....
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 37 | Score: 7.82
Size: 32KB / 5,476 words | Downloads: 530
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520 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!
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Votes: 20 | Score: 7.82
Size: 23KB / 4,344 words | Downloads: 314
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