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541 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!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1027 | Votes: 43 | Score: 7.77
Size: 49KB | 8,643 words | Posted:

542 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: 739 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.77
Size: 183KB | 33,988 words | Posted:

543 The Contagion by Ernest Bywater

A deadly virus sweeps the world bringing dead back to life. A Think Tank Group is at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex when the alert is issued. Its senior members join in a conference with the Commander of the United States Northern Command who relays their orders from the Pentagon. Maximilian 'Mad Max' Milton, the 2nd in-charge of the Think Tank gives reason to his nickname, and the war is on with those afflicted with The Contagion. Will they win the war, can they win the war? 11,400 words. / (Reviews)
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Apocalyptic, Pandemic, Politics, Horror, Military, Zombies
Downloads: 1872 | Votes: 107 | Score: 7.76
Size: 59KB | 11,254 words | Posted: Concluded:

544 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:

545 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: 981 | Votes: 72 | Score: 7.75
Size: 10KB | 1,907 words | Posted:

546 Crossroads of Destiny by H. Beam Piper

No wonder he'd been so interested in the talk of whether our people accepted these theories!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 644 | Votes: 46 | Score: 7.75
Size: 24KB | 4,536 words | Posted:

547 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: 369 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.75
Size: 27KB | 5,216 words | Posted:

548 Spacers by Mark Randall

A story in the Asteroid Hunters Universe
In the not to distant future.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Near Future, Melodrama, Politics, Military, Travel
Downloads: 2483 | Votes: 129 | Score: 7.75
Size: 23KB | 4,221 words | Posted:

549 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: 226 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.75
Size: 9KB | 1,897 words | Posted:

550 The Common Man by Mack Reynolds

It would, of course, take a trio of Ivory Tower scientists to conceive of tracking down that statistical entity, the Common Man, and testing out an idea on him. And only the Ivory Tower type would predict that egregiously wrongly!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 555 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.75
Size: 82KB | 15,372 words | Posted:
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