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591 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: 339 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.66
Size: 32KB | 5,804 words | Posted:

592 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
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Downloads: 345 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.66
Size: 12KB | 2,445 words | Posted:

593 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
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Downloads: 1315 | Votes: 105 | Score: 7.66
Size: 28KB | 5,467 words | Posted:

594 I Like Martian Music by Charles E. Fritch

There have been a number of interesting theories advanced about life on Mars, but the intriguing picture of the world of Longtree and Channeljumper in its infinite variations, tonal and thematic. The Mars of these two is an old culture, old and finite.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 166 | Votes: 7 | Score: 7.65
Size: 14KB | 2,497 words | Posted:

595 A World Is Born by Leigh Douglass Brackett

The first ripples of blue fire touched Dio's men. Bolts of it fastened on gun-butts, and knuckles. Men screamed and fell. Jill cried out as he tore silver ornaments from her dress.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 396 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.64
Size: 44KB | 8,234 words | Posted:

596 Lighter Than You Think by Nelson Slade Bond

It's possible that you won't agree with us that Pat Pending's latest adventure is a delightful story--possible IF you haven't been used to laughing in recent years. Blue Book printed more than a dozen of these stories by Nelson Bond about the "greatest inventulator of all time".
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 375 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.64
Size: 24KB | 4,351 words | Posted:

597 Stolen Brains by Captain S.P. Meek

Dr. Bird, scientific sleuth extraordinary, goes after a sinister stealer of brains.
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Downloads: 201 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.64
Size: 55KB | 10,620 words | Posted:

598 Falcons of Narabedla by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Mike Kenscott is having a really bad vacation. One minute he's camping in the Sierra Mountains with his brother Andy, and the next minute he's on a different world. Now he's Adric, Lord of the Crimson Tower, of the Rainbow City of Narabedla. He has to cope with his fellow Narabedlans: the Dreamer Rhys, the mysterious veiled Gamine, the dwarf Idris, his brother Evarin the Toymaker (whose Toys are deadly), and Karamy, the golden witch, who is either his lover or his greatest enemy...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 1145 | Votes: 24 | Score: 7.63
Size: 142KB | 26,764 words | Posted:

599 Into Space by Sterner St. Paul Meek

What was the extraordinary connection between Dr. Livermore's sudden disappearance and the coming of a new satellite to the Earth?
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Downloads: 335 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.63
Size: 24KB | 4,739 words | Posted:

600 Giants of the Ray by Tom Curry

Madly the three raced for their lives up the shaft of the radium mine, for behind them poured a stream of hideous monsters--giants of the ray.
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