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721 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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722 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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723 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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724 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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725 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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Downloads: 249 Votes: 18 | Score: 7.47
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726 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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Downloads: 226 Votes: 10 | Score: 7.47
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727 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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Downloads: 336 Votes: 23 | Score: 7.47
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728 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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729 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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730 The Chasers by Daniel F. Galouye

Civilizations must make sense somehow. But was this one the gaudy, impossible exception?
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