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941 Slingshot by Irving W. Lande

The slingshot was, I believe, one of the few weapons of history that wasn't used in the last war. That doesn't mean it won't be used in the next!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 430 | Votes: 26 | Score: 7.17
Size: 25KB | 4,811 words | Posted:

942 The Earthman's Burden by R.F. Starzl

There is foul play on Mercury--until Denny Olear of the Interplanetary Flying Police gets after his man.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 314 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.16
Size: 33KB | 6,093 words | Posted:

943 A Bad Day for Vermin by Keith Laumer

They came In friendship and love. They couldn't help the way they looked!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 480 | Votes: 32 | Score: 7.16
Size: 11KB | 2,079 words | Posted:

944 A Martian Odyssey by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

In the 21st century mankind has landed on Mars via atomic powered spaceships. Jarvis sets out across the Martian landscape in a rocket to take photographs of the famed canals. Unfortunately, his rocket crashes and he is forced to set out on foot back to Ares's landing area where the rest of the multi-national crew (French, German, etc) is waiting. He makes friends with an alien named Tweel whom he rescues from a disturbing creature that lures its prey by taking on the appearance of loved ones
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 307 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.16
Size: 55KB | 10,353 words | Posted:

945 Love Story by Irving E.Cox

Everything was aimed at satisfying the whims of women. The popular cliches, the pretty romances, the catchwords of advertising became realities; and the compound kept the men enslaved. George knew what he had to do....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 230 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.16
Size: 33KB | 6,208 words | Posted:

946 Growing Up on Big Muddy by Charles V. De Vet

An intrepid interplanetary explorer named Kaiser suddenly comes to his senses after a scouting mission has gone horribly awry -- only to discover that his messages back to the mother ship have become garbled and incoherent, as if someone else was sending them. Who is this mysterious interloper?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 303 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.16
Size: 30KB | 5,540 words | Posted:

947 The Mantooth by Christopher Leadem

Ten thousand years after nuclear holocaust, Earth has reverted to the savage garden, and Man to his Neanderthal roots. Yet a man-child is born, fully human, and a young woman wakes to find the world she knew is gone.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1120 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.16
Size: 486KB | 90,863 words | Posted:

948 Exile by H. B. Fyfe

The Dome of Eyes made it almost impossible for Terrans to reach the world of Tepokt. For those who did land there, there was no returning--only the bitterness of respect--and justice!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 243 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.15
Size: 26KB | 4,785 words | Posted:

949 Never Come Midnight by H. L. Gold

Across the void came a man who could not ever have been born--from a world that could never have been conceived--to demand his birthright of an Earth that would have to die to pay it!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 317 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.15
Size: 91KB | 16,836 words | Posted:

950 Hunter Patrol by H. Beam Piper

Many men have dreamed of world peace, but none have been able to achieve it. If one man did have that power, could mankind afford to pay the price?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 786 | Votes: 26 | Score: 7.15
Size: 63KB | 11,303 words | Posted:
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