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561 The King of the City by Keith Laumer

He was a sort of taxi-driver, delivering a commuter to the city. The tank traps and armored cars were the hazards of the trade!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 606 | Votes: 38 | Score: 7.70
Size: 52KB | 10,279 words | Posted:

562 Armageddon-2419 a.D by Philip francis Nowlan

Buck, a victim of accidental suspended animation, awakens five hundred years later to discover America groaning under the tyranny of the villainous Han, ruling from the safety of their armored machine-cities. Falling in love with one of America's new warrior-women, Wilma Deering, Rogers soon become a central figure in using newly-developed scientific weapons, to revolt against the Han.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Futuristic, Romance, Fantasy, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1979 | Votes: 94 | Score: 7.70
Size: 151KB | 27,261 words | Posted:

563 Pellucidar by Edgar Rice-Burroughs

A Sequel To At the Earth's Core. American David Innes narrates return to exotic, savage land below the Earth crust, old pal Abner Perry, female Mahar, an untamed wilderness where the sun never sets. He seeks beloved Beautiful Dian, torn away by trickery. He crosses the Pellucidar, the Land of Awful Shadow under a pendant moon, encounters prehistoric beasts & strange peoples.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 370 | Votes: 9 | Score: 7.70
Size: 303KB | 57,439 words | Posted:

564 The Gifts of Asti by Andre Norton

Varta, the last of the virgin Maiden of Asti, is watching her world die. The barbarians of Klem have hunted Memphir to its death and even here, in the forgotten mountain retreat of Asti, Varta can smell the stench of the fires of their destruction. It's time to leave.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 804 | Votes: 51 | Score: 7.70
Size: 30KB | 5,771 words | Posted:

565 A Transmutation of Muddles by H. B. Fyfe

An experienced horse-trader, bargain-haggler, and general swapper has a very special talent for turning two headaches into one aspirin pill....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 286 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.70
Size: 33KB | 6,195 words | Posted:

566 A Stone and a Spear by Raymond F. Jones

Given: The future is probabilities merging into one certainty. Proposition: Can the probabilities be made improbables so that the certainty becomes impossible?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 315 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.70
Size: 42KB | 7,805 words | Posted:

567 Hail to the Chief by Randall Garrett

A great politician need not be a statesman. but it is inherently futile to be a great statesman, and no politician. Except, of course, for a miracle.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 343 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.70
Size: 71KB | 12,910 words | Posted:

568 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: 429 | Votes: 43 | Score: 7.70
Size: 8KB | 1,698 words | Posted:

569 Shipping Clerk by Joseph Samachson

If Ollie knew the work he was doing, he would have resigned--if resigning were possible!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 638 | Votes: 57 | Score: 7.70
Size: 31KB | 5,977 words | Posted:

570 Wind by Charles L. Fontenay

When you have an engine with no fuel, and fuel without an engine, and a life-and-death deadline to meet, you have a problem indeed. Unless you are a stubborn Dutchman--and Jan Van Artevelde was the stubbornest Dutchman on Venus.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 387 | Votes: 34 | Score: 7.69
Size: 31KB | 5,789 words | Posted:
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