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841 Pictures Don't Lie by Katherine MacLean

... Pictures, that is, that one can test and measure. And these pictures positively, absolutely could not lie!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 316 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.30
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842 Pursuit by Lester Del Rey

Fear cut through the unconscious mind of Wilbur Hawkes. With almost physical violence, it tightened his throat and knifed at his heart. It darted into his numbed brain, screaming at him.He was a soft egg in a vast globe of elastic gelatine. Two creatures swam menacingly through the resisting globe toward him. The gelatine fought against them, but they came on. One was near, and made a mystic pass. He screamed at it, and the gelatine grew stronger, throwing them back and away.
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Downloads: 307 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.30
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843 Question of Comfort by Les Cole

The Gravity Gang was a group of geniuses--devoting its brilliance to creating a realistic Solar System for Disneyland. That was the story, anyway. No one would have believed all that stuff about cops and robbers from outer space.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 194 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.30
Size: 38KB | 6,958 words | Posted:

844 The Lost Inheritance by H. G. Wells

"My uncle," said the man with the glass eye, "was what you might call a hemi-semi-demi millionaire. He was worth about a hundred and twenty thousand. Quite. And he left me all his money." I glanced at the shiny sleeve of his coat, and my eye travelled up to the frayed collar. "Every penny," said the man with the glass eye, and I caught the active pupil looking at me with a touch of offence.
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Downloads: 330 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.29
Size: 14KB | 2,768 words | Posted:

845 Project Hush by William Tenn

The biggest job in history and it had to be done with complete secrecy. It was--which was just the trouble!
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Downloads: 423 | Votes: 29 | Score: 7.29
Size: 13KB | 2,428 words | Posted:

846 Chain Reaction by Boyd Ellanby

Would this be the last poker game--with all life at stake and every card a mere deuce?
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Downloads: 262 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.29
Size: 25KB | 4,862 words | Posted:

847 Volpla by Wyman Guin

The only kind of gag worth pulling, I always maintained, was a cosmic one--till I learned the Cosmos has a really nasty sense of humor!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 188 | Votes: 14 | Score: 7.29
Size: 44KB | 8,615 words | Posted:

848 Omega, the Man by Lowell Howard Morrow

Omega, the last human alive, starts out with his wife Thalma and briefly acquires a son-Alpha on a dying Earth.
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Downloads: 272 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.29
Size: 75KB | 13,903 words | Posted:

849 The Good Neighbors by Edgar Pangborn

You can't blame an alien for a little inconvenience--as long as he makes up for it!
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Downloads: 497 | Votes: 28 | Score: 7.29
Size: 10KB | 1,889 words | Posted:

850 Tanks by Murray Leinster

Two miles of American front had gone dead. And on two lone infantrymen, lost in the menace of the fog-gas and the tanks, depended the outcome of the war of 1932.
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Downloads: 680 | Votes: 47 | Score: 7.29
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