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831 Operation R.S.v.P by H. Beam Piper

A gem of short story in the form of correspondence between the leaders of two opposing Political Blocs whose escalation of hostilities is rapidly suppressed from a surprise third party.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 414 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.33
Size: 17KB | 2,810 words | Posted:

832 Acid Bath by Bill Garson

The starways' Lone Watcher had expected some odd developments in his singular, nerve-fraught job on the asteroid. But nothing like the weird twenty-one-day liquid test devised by the invading Steel-Blues.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 387 | Votes: 20 | Score: 7.32
Size: 26KB | 4,869 words | Posted:

833 Tobias by A Scribe

A story in the Warhammer 40K Universe
A little bit of space piracy.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, War, Military, Pirates
Downloads: 693 | Votes: 44 | Score: 7.32
Size: 18KB | 3,475 words | Posted:

834 Sjambak by John Holbrook Vance

Wilbur Murphy sought romance, excitement, and an impossible Horseman of Space. With polite smiles, the planet frustrated him at every turn--until he found them all the hard way!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 190 | Votes: 8 | Score: 7.32
Size: 53KB | 9,493 words | Posted:

835 The Holes Around Mars by Jerome Bixby

Science said it could not be, but there it was. And whoosh--look out--here it is again!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 386 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.32
Size: 31KB | 5,707 words | Posted:

836 Darkness and Dawn Book II: Beyond the Great Oblivion by George Allan England

Allan Stern and his secretary Beatrice Kendricks awake in New York City, one thousand years after an asteroid destroys most life on earth. Now they find a bi-plane, that Allan can make run on alcohol and begin the search for other survivors. They encounter a great rent in the earth which they are unable to fly across. They end up in the Abyss and meet up with a tribe of white haired albinos who still speak a type of English.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 960 | Votes: 18 | Score: 7.32
Size: 434KB | 79,369 words | Posted:

837 After a Few Words by Randall Garrett

This is a science-fiction story. History is a science; the other part is, as all Americans know, the most fictional field we have today.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 593 | Votes: 25 | Score: 7.32
Size: 15KB | 2,904 words | Posted:

838 Marooned Under the Sea by Paul Ernst

Three men stick out a strange and desperate adventure among the incredible monsters of the dark sea floor.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 284 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.32
Size: 110KB | 19,855 words | Posted:

839 The Black Lamp by Captain S.P. Meek

Dr. Bird and his friend Carnes unravel another criminal web of scientific mystery.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 281 | Votes: 16 | Score: 7.32
Size: 53KB | 10,091 words | Posted:

840 The Cave of Horror by Captain S.P. Meek

Screaming, the guardsman was jerked through the air. An unearthly screech rang through the cavern. The unseen horror of Mammoth Cave had struck again.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 216 | Votes: 9 | Score: 7.31
Size: 46KB | 8,456 words | Posted:
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