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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: 293 | 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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Downloads: 481 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.45
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733 Spawn of the Stars by Charles Willard Diffin

The Earth lay powerless beneath those loathsome, yellowish monsters that, sheathed in cometlike globes, sprang from the skies to annihilate man and reduce his cities to ashes.
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Downloads: 258 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.45
Size: 67KB | 11,979 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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Downloads: 539 | Votes: 44 | Score: 7.45
Size: 10KB | 1,918 words | Posted:

735 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: 329 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.45
Size: 30KB | 5,461 words | Posted:

736 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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Downloads: 307 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.45
Size: 26KB | 4,898 words | Posted:

737 Unbegotten Child by Winston Marks

If this was true, there ought to be another edition of What Every Young Girl Should Know!
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Downloads: 343 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.45
Size: 17KB | 3,158 words | Posted:

738 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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Downloads: 320 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.45
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739 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: 355 | Votes: 27 | Score: 7.45
Size: 96KB | 17,544 words | Posted:

740 The Putnam Tradition by Sonya Dorman

Through generations the power has descended, now weaker, now stronger. And which way did the power run in the four-year-old in the garden, playing with a pie plate?
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Downloads: 426 | Votes: 35 | Score: 7.44
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