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641 Shadows in Zamboula by Robert E. Howard

Despite a warning received in the Suq by a nomad, Conan stays the night in a cheap tavern in Zamboula, run by Aram Baksh. As night falls, a black Darfarian cannibal enters Conan's small chamber by means of a trick lock to drag him away to be eaten. The Darfarian slaves in the city are cannibals who prey on travelers, the people of the city tolerate this and stay locked securely in their homes, while nomads and beggars make sure to sure to spend the night at a comfortable distance from its walls.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 377 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.58
Size: 66KB | 12,210 words | Posted:

642 B. C. 30,000 by Sterner St. Paul Meek

Back in the dim dawn of civilization Anak the Hunter stands in his might before the encroaching Neanderthal men.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 531 | Votes: 29 | Score: 7.58
Size: 45KB | 8,428 words | Posted:

643 Creatures of Vibration by Harl Vincent

The Vagabonds of Space are cast into the hands of the vibration-maddened natives of Titan, satellite of Saturn.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 166 | Votes: 8 | Score: 7.58
Size: 52KB | 9,513 words | Posted:

644 Regeneration by Charles Dye

So long as there are men and women alive, in a livable environment, then a new beginning is possible.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 289 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.57
Size: 20KB | 3,844 words | Posted:

645 A Honeymoon in Space by George Chetwynd Griffith

Lenox, the Earl of Redgrave, has made the greatest scientific discovery in the history of the world: a flying ship with the power to break free of Earth's gravity and take to the stars. But before he uses it to expand humanity's understanding of the universe, he has some personal business to attend to-namely, wooing an old flame.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 600 | Votes: 8 | Score: 7.57
Size: 349KB | 64,853 words | Posted:

646 Mars Is My Destination by Frank Belknap Long

MARS Earth's first colony in Space. Men killed for the coveted ticket that allowed them to go there. And, once there, the killing went on... MARS Ralph Graham's goal since boyhood--and he was Mars-bound with authority that put the whole planet in his pocket--if he could live long enough to assert it! MARS source of incalculable wealth for humanity--and deadly danger for those who tried to get it!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 789 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.57
Size: 337KB | 65,119 words | Posted:

647 We're Civilized! by Mark Clifton

Naturally, the superior race should win. but superior by which standards. and whose?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 270 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.57
Size: 23KB | 4,052 words | Posted:

648 Programmed Evolution by Rodriac Copen

In the distant future, the interstellar starship Calypso and its human crew encounter a gigantic megastructure inhabited by ancient robots known as the Custodians. As the humans, led by Lieutenant Brenda Ivanova, attempt to restore ancient data to uncover the robots’ origins, they face ethical dilemmas about the nature of self-awareness and the evolution of these machines. Amidst philosophical debates and crucial decisions, leading the humans to rethink how to aid these robots in their evolution
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Futuristic, Robots, AI
Downloads: 623 | Votes: 40 | Score: 7.57
Size: 56KB | 9,664 words | Posted:

649 Asteroid of Fear by Raymond Z. Gallun

All space was electrified as that harsh challenge rang out. but John Endlich hesitated. For he saw beyond his own murder--saw the horror and destruction his death would unleash--and knew he dared not fight back!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 249 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.56
Size: 77KB | 13,935 words | Posted:

650 There Is a Reaper by Charles V. De Vet

Doctors had given him just one month to live. A month to wonder, what comes afterward? There was one way to find out--ask a dead man!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 286 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.56
Size: 8KB | 1,596 words | Posted:
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