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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: 446 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: 227 Votes: 6 | Score: 7.77
Size: 73KB | 13,036 words | Posted:

543 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: 454 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 562KB | 105,481 words | Posted:

544 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: 456 Votes: 44 | Score: 7.77
Size: 8KB | 1,698 words | Posted:

545 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: 405 Votes: 17 | Score: 7.77
Size: 73KB | 13,073 words | Posted:

546 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: 778 Votes: 20 | Score: 7.77
Size: 183KB | 33,988 words | Posted:

547 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: 292 Votes: 20 | Score: 7.77
Size: 25KB | 4,696 words | Posted:

548 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
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Downloads: 2282 Votes: 176 | Score: 7.76
Size: 23KB | 4,598 words | Posted:

549 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: 320 Votes: 23 | Score: 7.76
Size: 58KB | 10,723 words | Posted:

550 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: 296 Votes: 24 | Score: 7.75
Size: 9KB | 1,906 words | Posted:
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