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711 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: 246 Votes: 18 | Score: 7.47
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712 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: 226 Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
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713 Progress Report by Mark Clifton

Progress is relative; Senator O'Noonan's idea of it was not particularly scientific. Which would be too bad, if he had the last word!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 332 Votes: 23 | Score: 7.47
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714 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
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Downloads: 594 Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
Size: 365KB | 67,868 words | Posted:

715 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
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Downloads: 452 Votes: 22 | Score: 7.47
Size: 23KB | 4,348 words | Posted:

716 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: 4032 Votes: 218 | Score: 7.47
Size: 18KB | 3,818 words | Posted:

717 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
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Downloads: 383 Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
Size: 126KB | 23,903 words | Posted:

718 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
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Downloads: 426 Votes: 26 | Score: 7.47
Size: 15KB | 2,728 words | Posted:

719 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
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Downloads: 262 Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
Size: 58KB | 10,112 words | Posted:

720 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
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Downloads: 245 Votes: 7 | Score: 7.47
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