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591 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: 888 | Votes: 95 | Score: 7.67
Size: 15KB | 2,834 words | Posted:

592 Keep Out by Fredric Brown

With no more room left on Earth, and with Mars hanging up there empty of life, somebody hit on the plan of starting a colony on the Red Planet. It meant changing the habits and physical structure of the immigrants, but that worked out fine. In fact, every possible factor was covered--except one of the flaws of human nature....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 341 | Votes: 26 | Score: 7.67
Size: 6KB | 1,290 words | Posted:

593 Let 'Em Breathe Space! by Lester Del Rey

Eighteen men and two women in the closed world of a space ship for five months can only spell tension and trouble--but in this case, the atmosphere was "literally" poisoned.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 361 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.66
Size: 93KB | 18,020 words | Posted:

594 Dead World by Jack Douglas

Out on the ice-buried planet, Commander Red Stone led his Free Companions to almost certain death. They died for a dangerous dream that had only one chance in a thousand trillion to come true. Is there a better reason for dying?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 361 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.66
Size: 28KB | 5,580 words | Posted:

595 Second Sight by Alan Edward Nourse

Amy Ballantine has a talent... and sometimes it lets her know more than she needs to know.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 814 | Votes: 40 | Score: 7.66
Size: 24KB | 4,978 words | Posted:

596 Meeting of the Board by Alan Edward Nourse

This is a parody of corporate management in a world where unions own the means of production and the managers are treated like factory workers.Faced with a corporate system that is breaking down - workers want immediate dividends rather than investments in developing new products - management goes on strike to readjust the power between management and unions.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 331 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.66
Size: 32KB | 5,804 words | Posted:

597 Beyond the Door by Phillip K. Dick

"Did you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead --" wrote the editor of "Fantastic Universe" in January, 1954, blurbing this tale "-- that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood? Philip Dick used that idea for this brief fantasy tale. We're sure that after reading it you'll give cuckoo clocks more respect."
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 330 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.66
Size: 12KB | 2,445 words | Posted:

598 Criminal Negligence by J. Francis McComas

Somebody was going to have to be left behind. and who it would be was perfectly obvious....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 482 | Votes: 31 | Score: 7.65
Size: 37KB | 6,781 words | Posted:

599 The Return by H. Beam Piper

The isolated little group they found were doing fine-- but their religion was most strange--and yet quite logical!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 483 | Votes: 25 | Score: 7.65
Size: 64KB | 11,858 words | Posted:

600 The Repair Man by Harry Harrison

A stellar communications repairman is sent to repair a beacon on a planet, and discovers that its presence had a profound influence on the planet in question. Needing to deal with a locally evolved sentience and a bizarre ritual, the repairman needs to use his best plan to complete his mission and end up alive and whole too.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1294 | Votes: 103 | Score: 7.64
Size: 28KB | 5,467 words | Posted:
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