item: #1 of 26
          id: 23509
      author: Hardart, F. E.
       title: The Beast of Space
        date: None
       words: 4745
      flesch: 86
     summary: He burned his way through the swarm on to ship after ship. Here he'd found a honeycomb of caves, all leading from one large main tunnel.
    keywords: cave; digger; door; globes; heat; nat; room
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        item: #2 of 26
          id: 50022
      author: Leinster, Murray
       title: The Wailing Asteroid
        date: None
       words: 58551
      flesch: 86
     summary: Burke slept in the office of Burke Development, Inc. They telephoned protests at delays, verified shipments, scolded shipping-clerks, argued with transportation-system expediters, wrote letters, answered letters, compared invoices with orders, sternly battled with negligence and delays of all kinds, and in between kept the books of Burke Development, Inc., up to date so that at any instant Burke could find out how much money he'd spent and how little remained.
    keywords: air; asteroid; broadcast; burke; course; cube; door; dream; earth; enemy; fortress; globes; gravity; hand; holmes; joe; keller; left; light; man; matter; men; message; metal; miles; new; pam; people; place; room; sandy; second; ship; signals; sounds; space; things; time; voice; way; work; world; years
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        item: #3 of 26
          id: 51240
      author: Samachson, Joseph
       title: The Addicts
        date: None
       words: 3738
      flesch: 88
     summary: It was a paragon among drugs, and it was one of the mysteries of his existence that anybody should object to his using it. Their chronometer functioned perfectly, and they still regulated their living habits by it, using Greenwich Earth time.
    keywords: drug; louise; marak; thought; way
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        item: #4 of 26
          id: 58748
      author: Fontenay, Charles L.
       title: Escape Velocity
        date: None
       words: 9295
      flesch: 90
     summary: At last Jonner stopped. A miracle? I don't feel like talking about it now, said Jonner warily.
    keywords: gun; heat; jonner; kraag; ship; sphere; stein; time
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        item: #5 of 26
          id: 60809
      author: Galouye, Daniel F.
       title: Gravy Train
        date: None
       words: 7471
      flesch: 77
     summary: So he dispatched this tight-beamed message to the packet order department of Rear-Sobucks and Company in the West Cluster Federation's Hub City: Dear Sir: Please send one automatic bather with back-scrubbing attachment and toy boat docks, as listed in your videolog under order No. 4678-25C. Charge same to credit account No. W414754-B24D. Sincerely yours, Titus McWorther, Potentate McWorther's World Respectfully yours, Titus McWorther, Potentate Hoverly tossed the message on his desk, punched the audio-com button and called for his assistant.
    keywords: aid; cluster; edna; emperor; mcworther; netath; potentate; president; roswell; space; titus; way; western; world
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        item: #6 of 26
          id: 61766
      author: Walton, Harry
       title: Asteroid H277—Plus
        date: None
       words: 4565
      flesch: 87
     summary: He watched sharply as Jordan meekly obeyed and climbed into the stiff canvas garment. Box Jordan _was_ part of his plan; in a way, he had a star role.
    keywords: akars; cinnabar; fuel; jordan; navigator; ship; space; tender
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        item: #7 of 26
          id: 61810
      author: Cummings, Ray
       title: Revolt in the Ice Empire
        date: None
       words: 16518
      flesch: 88
     summary: Little Dr. Livingston was bending over me, gripping me. Poor little Tara.
    keywords: alan; carruthers; duroh; earth; face; feet; ice; john; livingston; planeteer; tara; white; world; xalite; zura
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        item: #8 of 26
          id: 61843
      author: James, D. L. (Daniel Lewis)
       title: Exit From Asteroid 60
        date: None
       words: 5770
      flesch: 82
     summary: Destiny had indeed provided them both with a strange exit from Echo, for in that split second Bormon realized that he was being hurled squarely into the gaping orifice of the cyclotron. But when Calbur failed to show up in time for a return voyage to Earth, Bormon had taken up the search.
    keywords: basket; bormon; calbur; echo; mars; martian; ore; space
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        item: #9 of 26
          id: 61855
      author: Cummings, Ray
       title: Phantom of the Seven Stars
        date: None
       words: 14417
      flesch: 88
     summary: And then I saw, here in the turret walls, in the dome and in the center of each of the bull's-eyes, little holes through which a tiny segment of the starfield still was apparent--windows like dull little eyes puncturing our barrage of invisibility so that we could see outward through them. And then from the patrolship, little blobs were popping out.
    keywords: air; asteroid-9; brenda; captain; carson; earth; jerome; moment; phantom; philip; pressure; rollins; room; ship; space; stars
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        item: #10 of 26
          id: 61919
      author: Winterbotham, R. R. (Russell Robert)
       title: Dead Man's Planet
        date: None
       words: 4819
      flesch: 89
     summary: You're a strange man, Ghor, Mick said. Mick supposed that Ghor was unused to talking and his brain worked slowly in the matter of words.
    keywords: alf; asteroid; ghor; man; mick; planet; plants; space
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        item: #11 of 26
          id: 61967
      author: Hasse, Henry
       title: The Star of Satan
        date: None
       words: 8346
      flesch: 93
     summary: Prokle only lived for the time when he'd get back to Chicago, and Garth knew he never would. The two men stepped from their sleeping quarters out onto the metal platform which had been Garth's world for twenty-three years, Prokle's for two.
    keywords: chiswell; garth; hype; light; men; prokle; rock; time
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        item: #12 of 26
          id: 62040
      author: Cummings, Ray
       title: Monster of the Asteroid
        date: None
       words: 11372
      flesch: 89
     summary: Darting little Physicals, with popping, commanding voices. And Torkine himself dropped back on the bench and murmured: Do not be surprised little Dora, if the Master decides not to give you to this fellow Ralston-- He leered at me, and his arms went around Dora, drawing her to him.
    keywords: bragg; dora; earth; humans; johnny; men; monster; physicals; supreme; thing; torkine; voice
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        item: #13 of 26
          id: 62075
      author: Cummings, Ray
       title: Gods of Space
        date: None
       words: 9371
      flesch: 90
     summary: Dr. Atwood, ten years ago, had propounded the theory that it was a sub-microscopic spore so small that even the giant electro-microscopes could not detect it. But, then, Dr. Atwood had discovered, in the ore of Xarium, which existed in very small quantities on Earth, a product which he had named _Xarite_.
    keywords: atwood; bohr; earth; feet; girl; glow; god; marlans; xarite
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        item: #14 of 26
          id: 62109
      author: Brown, Fredric
       title: The Star Mouse
        date: None
       words: 7865
      flesch: 85
     summary: No? Loogk, this is der original Mitkey Mouse, by Valt Dissney. Paul Bunyan; the story of their adventures is nothing compared to the Saga of Mitkey.
    keywords: bemj; der; earth; herr; iss; minnie; mitkey; mouse; professor; rocket; und
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        item: #15 of 26
          id: 62168
      author: Pohl, Frederik
       title: Asteroid of the Damned
        date: None
       words: 7578
      flesch: 87
     summary: Mac just had time to think of the possibility that the Kiddie had made a getaway when he was back again, holding MacCauley's billfold. He was in the native quarter, at the planetoid's core, where the asterites were as thick as red dust on Mars--and for the first time Mac saw a Kiddie policeman.
    keywords: eyes; kiddie; kittrell; law; mac; maccauley; man; metal; money; pallas; time
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        item: #16 of 26
          id: 62186
      author: Gallun, Raymond Z.
       title: Space Oasis
        date: None
       words: 9932
      flesch: 89
     summary: I swaggered into the pay office, where a couple of stenogs clicked typewriters, and where Norman Haynes, acting head of the Haynes Shipping Company, sat at his desk, under the painted portrait of his uncle, that grizzled old veteran, Art Haynes, who had retired years ago, and who now lived on Earth. At sight of me, Norman Haynes arose from his chair.
    keywords: asteroid; chet; earth; geedeh; gravity; haynes; irene; mavrocordatus; men; nick; norman; ships; space; water
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        item: #17 of 26
          id: 62313
      author: Winterbotham, R. R. (Russell Robert)
       title: Oridin's Formula
        date: None
       words: 2591
      flesch: 86
     summary: Caddo removed his helmet and holstered his blaster, but Oridin noted that the terrestrial giant did not move the firing button to safety. Caddo halted Oridin.
    keywords: caddo; certainty; formula; oridin
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        item: #18 of 26
          id: 62324
      author: Gold, H. L. (Horace Leonard)
       title: Grifters' Asteroid
        date: None
       words: 5926
      flesch: 84
     summary: GRIFTERS' ASTEROID By H. L. GOLD Harvey and Joe were the slickest con-men ever to gyp a space-lane sucker. Joe reeled aside, and Harvey saw what had upset his partner.
    keywords: buckos; harvey; joe; johnson; joseph; man; mayor; right; water
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        item: #19 of 26
          id: 62416
      author: Cummings, Ray
       title: Juggernaut of Space
        date: None
       words: 17232
      flesch: 92
     summary: In my hand the pot bellied little Radak gun, so unfamiliar, gave me an uneasy feeling. Grim, stealthy events creeping upon us--little things here on Earth just involving me and those few others; and with them, giant events mysteriously taking place out in the great vault of the stars.
    keywords: blaine; crimson; earth; head; lei; mack; mind; radak; ratan; red; shorty; space; tahn; taro; vivian
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        item: #20 of 26
          id: 62569
      author: Bradbury, Ray
       title: The Monster Maker
        date: None
       words: 5745
      flesch: 94
     summary: Hathaway only knew he was picked up and hurled against a lever-bank, and that Marnagan wasn't long in following, swearing loud words. Hathaway felt himself grabbed; he and Marnagan rattled around--human dice in a croupier's cup.
    keywords: air; camera; click; film; gunther; hathaway; irish; marnagan
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        item: #21 of 26
          id: 62915
      author: Brown, Fredric
       title: And the Gods Laughed
        date: None
       words: 6242
      flesch: 92
     summary: They didn't explain the details of how they propagate, but I gathered that there wouldn't be any shortage of earrings to go around, on Earth. Earrings or bracelets or, however, they'd attach themselves. Hank was spinning quite a space lie--something about earrings wearing their owners.
    keywords: blake; charlie; earrings; haynes; lecky; ship; trip
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        item: #22 of 26
          id: 63130
      author: Simak, Clifford D.
       title: Mr. Meek Plays Polo
        date: None
       words: 10532
      flesch: 94
     summary: Mr. Meek Plays Polo By CLIFFORD D. SIMAK Mr. Meek was having his troubles. Mr. Meek said.
    keywords: bugs; game; gus; mechanic; meek; moe; play; polo; ring; rock; ship; space
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        item: #23 of 26
          id: 63150
      author: Conover, William
       title: The Soul Eaters
        date: None
       words: 14351
      flesch: 82
     summary: Inside the liner, Captain Dennis Brooke had finished making a detailed survey. Koerber's wide set eyes, were dark, brilliant, and just now had a sort of incredulous amusement, as if the spectacle of Captain Dennis Brooke come to parley with him were something quite too fantastic to believe.
    keywords: atom; brooke; captain; cruiser; dallas; dennis; eyes; i.s.p; jeffery; koerber; like; men; randall; scotty; ship; space; spheres
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        item: #24 of 26
          id: 63401
      author: McDowell, Robert Emmett
       title: The Happy Castaway
        date: None
       words: 4497
      flesch: 96
     summary: ] Jonathan Fawkes opened his eyes. He said, My name's Jonathan Fawkes.
    keywords: ann; eyes; girl; jonathan; man; space
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        item: #25 of 26
          id: 63527
      author: Rocklynne, Ross
       title: Cosmic Yo-Yo
        date: None
       words: 7080
      flesch: 88
     summary: Bob watched a pointer which moved slowly up and up--past tungsten, past iridium, past gold-- Bob Parker said, in astonishment, Hell! And finally, when Bob tore the ship and prisoned asteroid from their orbit, sent them into Earth's atmosphere, Queazy could make nothing of that either.
    keywords: asteroid; bob; girl; parker; queazy; saylor; ship; starre
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        item: #26 of 26
          id: 63633
      author: Anderson, Poul
       title: Out of the Iron Womb!
        date: None
       words: 12889
      flesch: 90
     summary: Bo went at his share of the job doggedly, checking and re-checking before giving the problem to the machine; Lundgard breezed through it and spent his time while waiting for Bo in swapping dirty limericks with the tech. Bo could imagine Lundgard's grin.
    keywords: asteroid; earth; eyes; face; head; johnny; lundgard; man; orbit; right; ship; stars; thought; time; valeria; way
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