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871 Belly Laugh by Randall Garrett

Well, it seems that Ivar Jorgensen has hit on the ultimate engine of destruction: a weapon designed to exploit man's greatest weakness. The blueprint can be found in the next few pages; and as the soldier in the story says, our only hope is to keep a sense of humor!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 444 | Votes: 28 | Score: 7.26
Size: 4KB | 924 words | Posted:

872 General Max Shorter by Kris Neville

To spread Mankind to the stars carries a high cost in lives--and not all of them are human!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 353 | Votes: 17 | Score: 7.26
Size: 40KB | 7,257 words | Posted:

873 Made to Do Completed by Yob

Ttime travel in it's infancy. Megalomaniacs love new technologies. Gives their nefarious plans, a temporary edge! Edges, can cut both ways! .
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Time Travel
Tags: Science Fiction, Apocalyptic, Post Apocalyptic, Time Travel, Alternate Universe, Alternate Timeline, Clones, Nanotechnology, Near Future, Coming of Age, Romance, Humor, Drama, Melodrama, Politics, Military, Assassins, Spies, Anarchism
Downloads: 3479 | Votes: 34 | Score: 7.25
Size: 268KB | 49,151 words | Posted:

874 Jaywalker by Ross Rocklynne

Women may be against progress because it means new pseudo-widowhoods. Space-widowhood, for instance....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 412 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.25
Size: 27KB | 5,055 words | Posted:

875 The Graveyard of Space by Steven Marlowe

Nobody knew very much about the Sargasso area of the void; only one thing was certain: if a ship was caught there it was doomed in
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 777 | Votes: 59 | Score: 7.24
Size: 25KB | 4,769 words | Posted:

876 The Issahar Artifacts by Jesse F. Bone

Lincoln said it eons ago.... It took a speck of one-celled plant life on a world parsecs away to prove it for all the galaxy. / (Reviews)
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 969 | Votes: 54 | Score: 7.24
Size: 20KB | 3,676 words | Posted:

877 Ring Once for Death by Robert Andrew Arthur

The power of the old gods was certainly nothing for Mark and Edith--a modern, twentieth-century couple--to worry about. After all--everybody dies!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 161 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 20KB | 3,956 words | Posted:

878 From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicane's adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a "manned" flight, one man's dream turns into an international space race.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 269 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 232KB | 39,914 words | Posted:

879 How to Make Friends by Jim Harmon

Every lonely man tries to make friends. Manet just didn't know when to stop!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 207 | Votes: 9 | Score: 7.23
Size: 28KB | 5,127 words | Posted:

880 Devil Crystals of Arret by Hal K. Wells

Facing a six-hour deadline of death, young Larry raids a hostile world of rat-men and tinkling Devil Crystals.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 194 | Votes: 9 | Score: 7.23
Size: 50KB | 8,977 words | Posted:
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