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601 The Pilot and the Bushman by Sylvia Jacobs

Technological upheavals caused by inventions of our own are bad enough, but this was the ultimate depression, caused by the ultimate alien invention--which no Earthman ever saw!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 503 | Votes: 33 | Score: 7.63
Size: 52KB | 9,379 words | Posted:

602 So They Baked a Cake by Winston Marks

He was tired of people--a "human interest" columnist, who specializes in glamorizations of the commonplace and sordid is likely to get that way. So. this starship seemed to offer the ideal escape from it all
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 436 | Votes: 40 | Score: 7.63
Size: 22KB | 4,142 words | Posted:

603 The Bramble Bush by Randall Garrett

Usually, if a man's gotten into bad trouble by getting into something, he's a fool to go back. But there are times.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 393 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.62
Size: 39KB | 7,397 words | Posted:

604 Bodyguard by H. L. Gold

When overwhelming danger is constantly present, of course a man is entitled to have a bodyguard. The annoyance was that he had to do it himself. and his body would not cooperate!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 427 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.62
Size: 86KB | 16,276 words | Posted:

605 Rocky Roads by Mark Randall

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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Near Future, Melodrama
Downloads: 2097 | Votes: 113 | Score: 7.62
Size: 13KB | 2,498 words | Posted:

606 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: 322 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.62
Size: 32KB | 5,804 words | Posted:

607 The Long, Silvery Day by Magnus Ludens

It was one of those days--perhaps you've had them--when everything went right!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 231 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.62
Size: 6KB | 1,063 words | Posted:

608 Project Mastodon by Clifford D. Simak

Hudson lay in his sleeping bag, staring at the sky. It bothered him a lot. There was not one familiar constellation, not one star that he could name with any certainty. This juggling of the stars, he thought, emphasized more than anything else in this ancient land the vast gulf of years which lay between him and the Earth where he had been-or would be-born.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1160 | Votes: 51 | Score: 7.62
Size: 61KB | 11,671 words | Posted:

609 Ask a Foolish Question by Robert Sheckley

"It's well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you'll get, but the type of answer possible. So. a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations."
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 400 | Votes: 25 | Score: 7.62
Size: 15KB | 2,728 words | Posted:

610 In the Orbit of Saturn by Roman Frederick Starzl

Disguised as a voluntary prisoner on a pirate space ship, an I. F. P. man penetrates the mystery of the dreaded "Solar Scourge.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 264 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.62
Size: 51KB | 9,630 words | Posted:
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