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701 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: 239 Votes: 13 | Score: 7.50
Size: 16KB | 2,979 words | Posted:

702 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: 419 Votes: 28 | Score: 7.50
Size: 7KB | 1,307 words | Posted:

703 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
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Downloads: 543 Votes: 31 | Score: 7.50
Size: 37KB | 6,799 words | Posted:

704 Business for the Lawyers by Ralph Robin

Bump-Arch had to complete his experiment or spend five more years as an apprentice Scientist--and if successful, his feat would provide plenty of BUSINESS for the LAWYERS.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 424 Votes: 29 | Score: 7.50
Size: 32KB | 5,618 words | Posted:

705 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: 421 Votes: 15 | Score: 7.50
Size: 58KB | 10,919 words | Posted:

706 The Hands of Aten by H.G. Winter

Out of solid ice Craig hews three long-frozen Egyptians--and is at once caught up into amazing adventure.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 366 Votes: 14 | Score: 7.49
Size: 81KB | 14,929 words | Posted:

707 The Gate to Xoran by Hal K. Wells

A strange man of metal comes to Earth on a dreadful mission.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 211 Votes: 10 | Score: 7.49
Size: 39KB | 7,084 words | Posted:

708 The Sargasso of Space by Edmond Hamilton

Helpless, doomed, into the graveyard of space floats the wrecked freighter Pallas.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 980 Votes: 64 | Score: 7.49
Size: 49KB | 8,987 words | Posted:

709 Cubs of the Wolf by Raymond F. Jones

It may be that there is a weapon that, from the viewpoint of the one it's used on, is worse than lethal. You might say that death multiplies you by zero; what would multiplication by minus one do?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 325 Votes: 17 | Score: 7.49
Size: 93KB | 17,079 words | Posted:

710 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
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Downloads: 239 Votes: 10 | Score: 7.49
Size: 53KB | 10,087 words | Posted:
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