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521 My Shipmate-columbus by Stephen Marlowe

We've been taught from childhood that the earth is round and that Columbus discovered America. But maybe we take too much on faith. This first crossing for instance. Were you there? Did you see Columbus land? Here's the story of a man who can give us the straight facts.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 300 | Votes: 27 | Score: 7.81
Size: 48KB | 9,109 words | Posted:

522 I Like Martian Music by Charles E. Fritch

There have been a number of interesting theories advanced about life on Mars, but the intriguing picture of the world of Longtree and Channeljumper in its infinite variations, tonal and thematic. The Mars of these two is an old culture, old and finite.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 159 | Votes: 6 | Score: 7.78
Size: 14KB | 2,497 words | Posted:

523 Skin Game by Charles E. Fritch

Working on the theory that you can skin a sucker in space as well as on Earth, the con team of Harding and Sheckly operated furtively but profitably among natives of the outer planets. That is--until there was a question of turnabout being fair play in a world where natives took their skinning literally!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 192 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.78
Size: 17KB | 3,160 words | Posted:

524 Disqualified by Charles L. Fontenay

If Saranta wished to qualify as one who loved his fellow man, he should have known that often the most secretive things are the most obvious.
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Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 256 | Votes: 8 | Score: 7.78
Size: 5KB | 983 words | Posted:

525 Wheels Within by Charles V. De Vet

Never ask "Who am I and where do I come from?" The answers may not be what you'd expect!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 298 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.78
Size: 32KB | 5,877 words | Posted:

526 It's a Small Solar System by Allan Howard

Soon the three representatives of Earth were walking shoulder to shoulder, the Captain first to touch soil.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 303 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.78
Size: 6KB | 1,214 words | Posted:

527 Finding Sheila by Sci-Fi Guy 101

In the not-so-far future, an AI Engine struggles with its own existence, while a famous Law Master finally gets his heart's desire.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Futuristic, Robots, AI, Romance, Drama, Tear Jerker
Downloads: 836 | Votes: 48 | Score: 7.78
Size: 16KB | 3,059 words | Posted:

528 Gourmet by Allen Kim Lang

This was the endless problem of all spaceship cooks: He had to feed the men tomorrow on what they had eaten today!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 262 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.78
Size: 25KB | 4,496 words | Posted:

529 George Loves Gistla by James McKimmey

Why don't you find yourself some nice little American girl," his father had often repeated. But George was on Venus. and he loved pale green skin. and globular heads and most of all, George loved Gistla.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 228 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.78
Size: 25KB | 4,808 words | Posted:

530 New Lamps by Robert Moore Williams

Jim Ronson came to the Red Planet on the strangest mission of all.he only knew he wanted to see Les Ro, but he didn't know exactly why. It was because he knew that Les Ro had the answer to something that had never been answered before, if indeed, it had ever been asked! For Les Ro traded new lamps for old--and they were the lamps of life itself!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 338 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.78
Size: 59KB | 11,162 words | Posted:
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