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631 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: 404 | Votes: 36 | Score: 7.59
Size: 31KB | 5,789 words | Posted:

632 This One Problem by M.C. Pease

The shortest distance between two points may be the long way around--and a path of dishonor may well turn into the high road to virtue.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 367 | Votes: 29 | Score: 7.59
Size: 17KB | 3,446 words | Posted:

633 Darkness and Dawn Book III: the Afterglow by George Allan England

Allan Stern and his secretary Beatrice Kendricks after they awake in New York City, one thousand years after an asteroid destroys most life on earth. In the third book, Allan marries Beatrice (they finally have sex after two years) and with the people of the Abyss set off to build a new civilization on the surface. Yes they run into a few problems along the way (mostly a tribe of semi-human flesh eaters), but Allan is always able to work things out, with Beatrice by his side.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 619 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.59
Size: 367KB | 66,365 words | Posted:

634 Service With a Smile by Charles L. Fontenay

Herbert was truly a gentleman robot. The ladies' slightest wish was his command....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 336 | Votes: 24 | Score: 7.58
Size: 6KB | 1,135 words | Posted:

635 The Professional Approach by Charles L. Harness and Theodore Lockhard Thomas

The trials of a patent lawyer are usually highly technical tribulations--and among the greatest is the fact that Inventors are only slightly less predictable than their Inventions!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 265 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.58
Size: 42KB | 8,038 words | Posted:

636 The Beast of Space by F. E. Hardart

A tale of the prospectors of the starways--of dangers--
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 352 | Votes: 24 | Score: 7.58
Size: 25KB | 4,638 words | Posted:

637 The Knights of Arthur by Frederik Pohl

With one suitcase as his domain, Arthur was desperately in need of armed henchmen. for his keys to a kingdom were typewriter keys!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 521 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.58
Size: 78KB | 15,193 words | Posted:

638 Decision by Frank M. Robinson

The captain had learned to hate. It was his profession--and his personal reason for going on. But even hatred has to be channeled for its maximum use, and no truths exist forever.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 379 | Votes: 28 | Score: 7.58
Size: 25KB | 4,725 words | Posted:

639 The Captain by QM

In a space war, the ultimate test can be facing a foe knowing you simply cannot win, yet never flinching from your duty.
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Space, War
Downloads: 1096 | Votes: 118 | Score: 7.58
Size: 15KB | 2,772 words | Posted:

640 Collisions by Gordon Johnson

Collisions in space have consequences. This is a tale of such an event in another solar system, and what happened to a planet-bound race as a result.
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, AI, Science
Downloads: 1677 | Votes: 78 | Score: 7.58
Size: 48KB | 8,727 words | Posted:
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