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681 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: 232 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.50
Size: 16KB | 2,979 words | Posted:

682 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: 784 | Votes: 40 | Score: 7.50
Size: 53KB | 9,940 words | Posted:

683 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: 405 | Votes: 28 | Score: 7.50
Size: 7KB | 1,307 words | Posted:

684 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: 311 | Votes: 23 | Score: 7.50
Size: 30KB | 5,555 words | Posted:

685 Pandemic by Jesse F. Bone

Generally, human beings don't do totally useless things consistently and widely. So--maybe there is something to it.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 519 | Votes: 31 | Score: 7.50
Size: 37KB | 6,799 words | Posted:

686 The Piebald Hippogriff by Karen Anderson

Because this is a masculine world, the author of this fairytale is usually identified as the wife of Poul Anderson. But a few more incisive cameos of fantasy such as this, and Mr. Anderson may come to be identified as Karen's husband.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 304 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.49
Size: 9KB | 1,753 words | Posted:

687 The Machine That Floats by Joe Gibson

What if you invented a space ship? Would you give it to the world? And what if you decide NOT to! Are you a criminal to be hunted down?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1000 | Votes: 47 | Score: 7.49
Size: 156KB | 27,732 words | Posted:

688 Charley De Milo by Laurence M. Janifer

It isn't at all obvious--at first thought--that having two perfectly good, usable arms could be a real handicap to a man....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 223 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.49
Size: 53KB | 10,087 words | Posted:

689 Killing Time by Pars001

A story in the Time Travel Adventures Universe
Out of his time, his memory gone what's a man to do? Alavis thought all was lost then he met the perfect woman, problem was she was family!
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Time Travel
Tags: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Aliens, Futuristic, Romance, Assassins
Downloads: 3799 | Votes: 207 | Score: 7.49
Size: 18KB | 3,818 words | Posted:

690 Spawn of the Stars by Charles Willard Diffin

The Earth lay powerless beneath those loathsome, yellowish monsters that, sheathed in cometlike globes, sprang from the skies to annihilate man and reduce his cities to ashes.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 248 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.49
Size: 67KB | 11,979 words | Posted:
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