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541 One -shot by James Blish

Computers are increasingly important, and public companies are often taking over roles reserved for government agencies in the 50's. Even the comments about not really understanding how hard it is to produce really random data is all spot on. What was missed of course was the fact computer prices would drop as fast as they grew more powerful, union/mob style gangsters would go out of fashion and ESP wouldn't pan out at all.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 417 | Votes: 30 | Score: 7.77
Size: 25KB | 4,815 words | Posted:

542 Monsters of Mars by Edmond Hamilton

Three Martian-duped Earth-men swing open the gates of space that for so long had barred the greedy hordes of the Red Planet.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 209 | Votes: 6 | Score: 7.77
Size: 73KB | 13,036 words | Posted:

543 A Coffin for Jacob by Edward W. Ludwig

With never a moment to rest, the pursuit through space felt like a game of hounds and hares. or was it follow the leader?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 308 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.76
Size: 58KB | 10,723 words | Posted:

544 Queen's Special Magister by Ka Hmnd

My family taken and being bitten by a blood drinker changes my life. Now I walk the night to enforce the laws and convents of the kingdom and the councils. Some times it is just to show my presences and others it is my judgement dark creatures seek. And then there are those that would bring chaos and I must take a life to make a final judgement.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction
Downloads: 2197 | Votes: 172 | Score: 7.76
Size: 23KB | 4,598 words | Posted:

545 Hasta La Vista, Nana! by Rodriac Copen

When Rudy bought a recycled robot to help his grandmother, he was expecting a home assistant, not a combat android with ninja reflexes and a killer instinct. Doña Nilda sees in her new companion the perfect opportunity to become the most feared vigilante in the area. Between extreme training, debt collectors fleeing in terror, and a flamethrower “standard for night operations,” Grandma and her robot take neighborhood security to a completely illegal level.
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Futuristic, Near Future, Robots, Humor, Parody
Downloads: 1136 | Votes: 108 | Score: 7.76
Size: 15KB | 2,834 words | Posted:

546 Toy Shop by Harry Harrison

The gadget was strictly, beyond any question, a toy. Not a real, workable device. Except for the way it could work under a man's mental skin....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 985 | Votes: 72 | Score: 7.75
Size: 10KB | 1,907 words | Posted:

547 Rebels of the Red Planet by Charles L. Fontenay

Dark Kensington had been dead for twenty-five years. It was a fact; everyone knew it. Then suddenly he reappeared, youthful, brilliant,ready to take over the Phoenix, the rebel group that worked to overthrow the tyranny that gripped the settlers on Mars.The Phoenix had been destroyed not once, not twice, but three times! But this time the resurrected Dark had new plans, plans which involved dangerous experiments in mutation and psionics. And now the rebels realized they were in double jeopardy..
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 450 | Votes: 8 | Score: 7.75
Size: 256KB | 47,120 words | Posted:

548 Goodbye, Dead Man! by Tom W. Harris

Mattup had killed a man, so it was logical he should be punished. It was Danny who came up with the idea of leaving him with the prophecy
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 281 | Votes: 24 | Score: 7.75
Size: 9KB | 1,906 words | Posted:

549 Black Eyes and the Daily Grind by Stephen Marlowe

The little house pet from Venus didn't like New York, so New York had to change.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 378 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.75
Size: 27KB | 5,216 words | Posted:

550 Pythias by Frederik Pohl

Sure, Larry Connaught saved my life--but it was how he did it that forced me to murder him!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 229 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.75
Size: 9KB | 1,897 words | Posted:
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