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791 The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt

Lalette Asterhax could not escape her destiny. She was a hereditary witch in a world where witchcraft was banned by ecclesiastical and temporal powers. And any man who possessed her would then gain possession of her precious Blue Star...and all the powers it could bestow. Rodvard Bergelin was a reluctant revolutionary. a rogue who had a date with destiny. Although he lusted after a rich baron's daughter, Rodvard was ordered to seduce the saucy witch-maiden...
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792 Prelude to Space by Robert W. Haseltine

You're certain to be included in a survey at one time or another. However, there's one you may not recognize as such. Chances are it will be more important than you imagine. It could be man's
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793 John Jones's Dollar by Harry Stephen Keeler

Take a board with 64 squares on it. Put a grain of wheat on the first square--two on the second--four on the third. Keep doubling in this manner and you will find there isn't enough wheat in the world to fill the sixty-fourth square. It can be the same with compound interest.
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794 The Man Who Hated Mars by Randall Garrett

To escape from Mars, all Clayton had to do was the impossible. Break out of a crack-proof exile camp--get onto a ship that couldn't be boarded--smash through an impenetrable wall of steel. Perhaps he could do all these things, but he discovered that Mars did evil things to men; that he wasn't even Clayton any more. He was only
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795 A World Apart by Sam Merwin

Most men of middle age would welcome a chance to live their lives a second time. But Coulter did not.
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796 The Secret of Kralitz by Henry Kuttner

A story of the shocking revelation that came to the twenty-first Baron Kralitz.
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797 Security Risk by Ed M. Clinton

General David Walker looked up again at the seamed face of the Chief of Staff, General Marcus Meriwether. "This could be serious," he said slowly, with a sick sense of the statement's inadequacy. An old tic suddenly returned, tugging at the left corner of his mouth. The deadly, unsmiling expression on Meriwether's face did not change as he slid more tightly into his chair. "You know as well as I that it means the Interplanetary Confederation is ready to go to war with us."
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798 The Invader by Alfred Coppel

Invading Earth was going to be a cinch, the Triomed scout decided. But to make certain he must study its inhabitants--as one of them!
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799 A Woman's Place by Mark Clifton

Home is where you hang up your spaceship--that is, if you have any Miss Kitty along!
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800 Vital Ingredient by Charles V. De Vet

It is man's most precious possession--no living thing can exist without it. But when they gave it to Orville, it killed him.
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