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721 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
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 332 Votes: 23 | Score: 7.47
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722 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: 597 Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
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723 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
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724 The Adventures of Tim Bodge by T Hodge1945

Tim is recovered from the escape pod and starts a new life as the captain of an Alien spaceship. Which is controlled by an AI. He travels and builts his crew of sexies females Aliens.
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Clones, Robots, Shapeshifters, AI, Violence, Science, War, Military, Assassins, Pirates, Travel, Gothic, Demons, Monsters, Elves
Downloads: 16452 Votes: 137 | Score: 7.47
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725 The Chasers by Daniel F. Galouye

Civilizations must make sense somehow. But was this one the gaudy, impossible exception?
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Downloads: 277 Votes: 12 | Score: 7.47
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726 Satellite System by H. B. Fyfe

Fyfe's quite right. there's nothing like a satellite system for a cold storage arrangement. Keeps things handy, but out of the way....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 301 Votes: 19 | Score: 7.46
Size: 26KB | 4,977 words | Posted:

727 The Man Who Played to Lose by Laurence M. Janifer

Sometimes the very best thing you can do is to lose. The cholera germ, for instance, asks nothing better than that it be swallowed alive....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 281 Votes: 21 | Score: 7.46
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728 He Walked Around the Horses by H. Beam Piper

A man vanished--right out of this world. And where he went--
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Downloads: 995 Votes: 37 | Score: 7.46
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729 Meeting of the Minds by Robert Sheckley

What mission had the Quedak been given? Even he couldn't remember any more--but he refused to die till it was completed!
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Downloads: 377 Votes: 15 | Score: 7.46
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730 Temple Trouble by H. Beam Piper

Miracles to order was a fine way for the paratimers to get mining concessions--but Nature can sometimes pull counter-miracles. And so can men, for that matter....
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Downloads: 615 Votes: 23 | Score: 7.46
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