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681 Sight Gag by Laurence M. Janifer

Intelligence is a great help in the evolution-by-survival--but intelligence without muscle is even less useful than muscle without brains. But it's so easy to forget that muscle--plain physical force--is important, too!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 268 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.50
Size: 17KB | 3,177 words | Posted:

682 Beach Scene by Marshall King

It was a fine day at the beach for Purnie's game--but his new friends played very rough!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 213 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.50
Size: 28KB | 5,345 words | Posted:

683 The Syndic by C. M. Kornbluth

West of the Mississippi was Mob territory, a society whose entire system of values was totally opposed to the Syndic. Here morality ruled with an iron hand. When a wave of assassinations broke out in New Your, it was clealy time to take action against the Mob!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 618 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.50
Size: 269KB | 50,015 words | Posted:

684 The White Feather Hex by Don Peterson

A misterious man seeks the truth behind the tales of a so-called white feather hex but carries a very different purpose.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 235 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.50
Size: 26KB | 4,905 words | Posted:

685 The Fire and the Sword by Frank M. Robinson

Nothing could have seemed pleasanter than that peaceful planet. Then why was a non-suicidal man driven to suicide there? Yet it made sense.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 408 | Votes: 15 | Score: 7.50
Size: 58KB | 10,919 words | Posted:

686 Zen by Jerome Bixby

Because they were so likable and intelligent and adaptable--they were vastly dangerous!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 235 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.50
Size: 16KB | 2,979 words | Posted:

687 Accidental Death by Peter Baily

The most dangerous of weapons is the one you don't know is loaded.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 470 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.50
Size: 16KB | 3,273 words | Posted:

688 The K-factor by Harry Harrison

Speed never hurt anybody--it's the sudden stop at the end. It's not how much change that signals danger, but how fast it's changing....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 797 | Votes: 40 | Score: 7.50
Size: 53KB | 9,940 words | Posted:

689 Beside Still Waters by Robert Sheckley

When people talk about getting away from it all, they are usually thinking about our great open spaces out west. But to science fiction writers, that would be practically in the heart of Times Square. When a man of the future wants solitude he picks a slab of rock floating in space four light years east of Andromeda. Here is a gentle little story about a man who sought the solitude of such a location. And who did he take along for company? Charles the Robot.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 409 | Votes: 28 | Score: 7.50
Size: 7KB | 1,307 words | Posted:

690 What Is Posat? by Phyllis Sterling Smith

A scientist, an unemployed man and a cat lady read an advertisement about a secret society from a magazine. They all answer it for various, but different, reasons and get somewhat different return mailings. It turns out that there really IS a real ancient secret society with scientific secrets, and it is drafting new researchers.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 313 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.50
Size: 30KB | 5,555 words | Posted:
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