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731 The Skull by Phillip K. Dick

Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. He wasn't concerned about getting the wrong man. He knew what the man looked like. There was no way he could make a mistake about his target's identity -- he had the man's skull under his shoulder.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 290 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.45
Size: 42KB | 7,901 words | Posted:

732 The Boats of the "Glen Carrig by William Hope Hodgson

Being an account of their Adventures in the Strange places of the Earth, after the foundering of the good ship Glen Carrig through striking upon a hidden rock in the unknown seas to the Southward. As told by John Winterstraw, Gent., to his Son James Winterstraw, in the year 1757.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 471 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.45
Size: 303KB | 60,459 words | Posted:

733 Gods of the North by Robert E. Howard

This story follows a young Conan (still called the Cimmerian during this era) as he pursues a beautiful nymph across a frozen land, making all kinds of enemies along the way.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 437 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.45
Size: 17KB | 3,213 words | Posted:

734 Holes, Incorporated by L. Major Reynolds

Would you like to see all hell break loose? Just make a few holes in nothing at all--push some steel beams through the holes--and then head for the hills. But first, read what happened to some people who really did it.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 538 | Votes: 44 | Score: 7.45
Size: 10KB | 1,918 words | Posted:

735 The Gravity Business by James E. Gunn

This little alien beggar could dictate his own terms, but how could he--and how could anyone find out what those terms might be?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 303 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.45
Size: 38KB | 6,952 words | Posted:

736 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: 329 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.45
Size: 30KB | 5,461 words | Posted:

737 Power Tool by Ernest Bywater

A man is killed at work. His company use him in their cyborg project. He comes home to realise his niece and friends are young women, not girls. He has human emotions and inhuman skills. Her sixteenth birthday party is a two week sleep over pool party starting soon. His killers try again and he objects. A new life of teaching and learning. He wonders which is his most powerful tool, his body, his mind, or his heart. Which tool has the most effect on his life and those around him? - Graphic sex.
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Extra Sensory Perception, Violence
Downloads: 7361 | Votes: 67 | Score: 7.45
Size: 1398KB | 278,302 words | Posted:

738 Life Sentence by James V. McConnell

"Happy New Year!" she cried. But how often should one hear it said in a single lifetime?
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 307 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.45
Size: 26KB | 4,898 words | Posted:

739 The Four-faced Visitors of Ezekiel by Arthur W. Orton

Ezekiel, they say, "saw de wheel"--but he saw somewhat more than that. And Orton suggests that what he saw made perfectly good sense. to the understanding!
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Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 317 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.45
Size: 37KB | 6,985 words | Posted:

740 Make Mine Homogenized by Rick Raphael

Anyone looking for guaranteed sound science will have to look elsewhere. But if it's fun you want. try the world's most potent eggnog!
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Downloads: 354 | Votes: 27 | Score: 7.45
Size: 96KB | 17,544 words | Posted:
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