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521 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: 1126 | Votes: 60 | Score: 7.81
Size: 102KB | 18,043 words | Posted:

522 A World Called Crimson by Stephen Marlowe

There was a boy and a girl and a strange new planet; the planet was alive with hideous dangers. But the boy and girl were very young and all Robin wanted to know was: "Who stole my doll?"
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 487 | Votes: 31 | Score: 7.81
Size: 78KB | 14,404 words | Posted:

523 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: 304 | Votes: 27 | Score: 7.81
Size: 48KB | 9,109 words | Posted:

524 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: 4437 | Votes: 70 | Score: 7.79
Size: 330KB | 60,103 words | Posted: in progress Updated:

525 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:

526 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:

527 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:

528 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:

529 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: 840 | Votes: 48 | Score: 7.78
Size: 16KB | 3,059 words | Posted:

530 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:
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