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711 Ask a Foolish Question by Robert Sheckley

"It's well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you'll get, but the type of answer possible. So. a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations."
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 425 | Votes: 26 | Score: 7.47
Size: 15KB | 2,728 words | Posted:

712 The Flying City by H. Thompson Rich

From Space came Cor's disc-city of Vada--its mighty, age-old engines weakening--its horde of dwarfs hungry for the Earth!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 257 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
Size: 58KB | 10,112 words | Posted:

713 A Problem in Communication by Miles J. Breuer

The Delivery of His Country into the Clutches of a Merciless, Ultra-Modern Religion Can Be Prevented Only by Dr. Hagstrom's Deciphering an Extraordinary Code.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 241 | Votes: 7 | Score: 7.47
Size: 50KB | 9,209 words | Posted:

714 The Chasers by Daniel F. Galouye

Civilizations must make sense somehow. But was this one the gaudy, impossible exception?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 260 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.47
Size: 24KB | 4,417 words | Posted:

715 The Wizzard by Laurence M. Janifer

This novel presents timeless themes of faith, redemption, civil conflict, and betrayal. Set in the lost world of central Africa in the 1890's, the Children of Fire and their fatefull visit from " Messenger", a missionary named Thomas Owen. Tribal mysticism and culture clash with Victorian era values of Christianity , with some intrigue, adventure and epic battles.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 258 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.47
Size: 39KB | 7,339 words | Posted:

716 2 Pallas by SweetSandy

Hard Science Fiction mixed with Romantic Love and Sex. What more is there? (Sorry, no war here!) -- Two teens starting a universe shifting life. Simple beginning, Grandiose ending. ;-)
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Coming of Age
Downloads: 2105 | Votes: 47 | Score: 7.47
Size: 127KB | 22,897 words | Posted:

717 Card Trick by John Berryman

The PSI Lodge had their ways and means of applying pressure, when pressure was needed. But the peculiar talent this fellow showed was one that even they'd never heard of...!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 705 | Votes: 50 | Score: 7.47
Size: 60KB | 11,912 words | Posted:

718 The Sound of Silence by Barbara Constant

Most people, when asked to define the ultimate in loneliness, say it's being alone in a crowd. And it takes only one slight difference to make one forever alone in the crowd....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 245 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.47
Size: 32KB | 5,961 words | Posted:

719 Out of This World Convention by Forrest J. Ackerman

An eye-witness account of the 14th World Science Fiction Convention in session.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 217 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
Size: 3KB | 560 words | Posted:

720 The Fire People by Ray Cummings

The first of the new meteors landed on the earth in November, 1940. It was discovered by a farmer in his field near Brookline, Massachusetts, shortly after daybreak on the morning of the 11th. Astronomically, the event was recorded by the observatory at Harvard as the sudden appearance of what apparently was a new star, increasing in the short space of a few hours from invisibility to a power beyond that of the first magnitude, and then as rapidly fading again to invisibility.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 593 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
Size: 365KB | 67,868 words | Posted:
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