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711 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
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712 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: 589 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
Size: 365KB | 67,868 words | Posted:

713 The Peacemaker by Alfred Coppel

The legends of Jaq Merril are legion--but legends. Hark, ye, then to the true story of the pirate benefactor of Mankind!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 451 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.47
Size: 23KB | 4,348 words | Posted:

714 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: 3969 | Votes: 217 | Score: 7.47
Size: 18KB | 3,818 words | Posted:

715 Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Douglass Brackett

Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city-with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel-ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures-at his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 366 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
Size: 126KB | 23,903 words | Posted:

716 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: 423 | Votes: 26 | Score: 7.47
Size: 15KB | 2,728 words | Posted:

717 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:

718 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:

719 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: 255 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.47
Size: 24KB | 4,417 words | Posted:

720 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
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Downloads: 1057 | Votes: 48 | Score: 7.47
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