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531 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: 199 Votes: 10 | Score: 7.78
Size: 17KB | 3,160 words | Posted:

532 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: 270 Votes: 8 | Score: 7.78
Size: 5KB | 983 words | Posted:

533 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: 848 Votes: 48 | Score: 7.78
Size: 16KB | 3,059 words | Posted:

534 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: 270 Votes: 17 | Score: 7.78
Size: 25KB | 4,496 words | Posted:

535 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: 235 Votes: 14 | Score: 7.78
Size: 25KB | 4,808 words | Posted:

536 The Blind Spot by Homer Eon Flint

A room in San Francisco where strange things happened -- or a doorway into another cosmos, a different world, or perhaps the key to the past or future?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 445 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 562KB | 105,481 words | Posted:

537 We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, Hardly by Roger Kuykendall

After all--they only borrowed it a little while, just to fix it--
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 452 Votes: 44 | Score: 7.77
Size: 8KB | 1,698 words | Posted:

538 The Door Into Infinity by Edmond Hamilton

An amazing weird mystery story, packed with thrills, danger and startling events.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 396 Votes: 17 | Score: 7.77
Size: 73KB | 13,073 words | Posted:

539 Quest of the Golden Ape by Randall Garrett

How could this man awaken with no past--no childhood--no recollection except of a vague world of terror from which his mother cried out for vengeance and the slaughter of his own people stood as a monument of infamy?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 754 Votes: 20 | Score: 7.77
Size: 183KB | 33,988 words | Posted:

540 The Kenzie Report by Mark Clifton

If this story has a moral, it is: "Leave well enough alone." Just look what happened to Kenzie "mad-about-ants" MacKenzie, who didn't....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 274 Votes: 20 | Score: 7.77
Size: 25KB | 4,696 words | Posted:
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