item: #1 of 29 id: 50827 author: Shaara, Michael title: Orphans of the Void date: None words: 7184 flesch: 85 summary: Nothing alive but robots, he thought, _robots_. But could a bunch of robots be called a race? keywords: aliencon; arms; ball; black; brain; buildings; coming; contact; crew; dead; deep; earthmen; elb; factory; god; great; hand; head; idea; knowledge; life; little; long; makers; mass; metal; mind; near; old; pain; picture; planet; race; radiation; robots; sand; screen; ship; skiff; space; steffens; thing; thinking; thought; time; tyban; voice; war; way; years cache: 50827.txt plain text: 50827.txt item: #2 of 29 id: 50889 author: Colvin, Donald title: Half past Alligator date: None words: 4760 flesch: 90 summary: As it came fatly over the plate, Bill swung angrily. Bill Bradley shooed away the group of Quxas that had surged over the first-base line. keywords: adlaa; arm; ball; baseball; bat; bill; billbrad; bradley; broad; camp; candy; culture; day; direction; game; girl; good; group; half; hand; head; help; horals; hut; king; left; life; look; man; mathews; moahlo; montgomery; natives; old; planet; play; pussycats; quxas; race; ratakka; reed; right; settlement; subjects; sure; team; things; thought; thrag; throw; want; way; work cache: 50889.txt plain text: 50889.txt item: #3 of 29 id: 50890 author: Doede, William R. title: The Birds of Lorrane date: None words: 3902 flesch: 93 summary: Now, they said, which one of us is Pisces I and which is Pisces II? Puzzled, Ingomar studied them carefully. Ingomar chuckled, senses returning, thinking through his pain of Pisces I or Pisces II laying an egg. keywords: birds; bubble; course; eyes; feet; head; help; home; ingomar; intelligent; life; long; man; pisces; pisces ii; planet; right; sand; ship; sky; storm; sun; thought; time; universe; way cache: 50890.txt plain text: 50890.txt item: #4 of 29 id: 50923 author: Wilcox, Don title: The Serpent River date: None words: 13925 flesch: 92 summary: Split Campbell gave me a look as if to say, Sir, you don't even know what sort of animal he is, actually, much less whether he's friendly or murderous. Omosla, the pretty attendant and companion of Vauna, was always glad, I noticed, to be sent on an errand to Split Campbell, wherever he was. keywords: air; animal; arms; baby; beautiful; benzendella; campbell; captain; child; close; clubs; code; coming; crowd; danger; darkness; days; deep; distance; earth; eggwe; elbows; eyes; father; fire; friend; girl; gravgak; great; guard; hand; hours; jim; kao; knife; land; leader; leeger; life; light; like; linden; little; long; look; low; man; mate; miles; moment; muscular; new; news; omosla; ones; orders; party; people; planet; radio; ready; river; rope; savages; scales; serpent; ship; sir; siren; sleep; soft; sort; space; split; sponge; strange; sure; surface; talk; tall; telescope; thing; thought; time; tomboldo; trees; tribe; vauna; view; voice; wagwattl; walk; warning; way; words; world cache: 50923.txt plain text: 50923.txt item: #5 of 29 id: 51072 author: Neville, Kris title: Shamar's War date: None words: 13324 flesch: 89 summary: Capt. Merle S. Shaeffer became Shamar the Worker. Shamar the Worker seated himself, put on his oxygen mask and signaled his readiness. keywords: afraid; bad; base; better; cabin; candy; capt; captain; case; coffee; committee; counselor; course; damn; day; defense; dollars; door; drink; earth; end; eyes; face; factories; feet; following; food; foot; force; freemason; general; germadpoldlt; god; good; government; hand; head; hope; important; interested; itra; itraian; job; judge; kind; later; leader; leave; left; life; little; long; man; merle; mind; miss; moment; money; months; need; new; office; old; oxygen; papers; party; pay; people; planet; point; pounds; program; responsible; reuter; right; room; secretary; shaeffer; shamar; ship; sir; speech; stutsman; sure; things; time; today; tom; von; vote; way; week; worker; world; xxla; year cache: 51072.txt plain text: 51072.txt item: #6 of 29 id: 51126 author: Smith, Evelyn E. title: The Princess and the Physicist date: None words: 7879 flesch: 83 summary: Zen the Omnipotent longed for supernatural powers--for he was also Zen the All-Put-Upon, a galactic sucker! Zen the Terrible lay quiescent in the secret retreat which housed his corporeal being, all the aspects of his personality wallowing in the luxury of a day off. keywords: almighty; aspects; course; day; days; divine; divinity; earth; earthlings; earthmen; ego; father; galaxy; god; good; guj; hammond; head; help; highness; housework; incense; iximi; kendrick; king; kitchen; language; little; long; majesty; man; menial; minister; moolai; need; new; old; palace; personality; peter; physicist; planet; prime; princess; professor; refuse; religious; removal; researches; right; robot; royal; science; scientists; servants; sir; speak; sure; thought; time; tobacco; uxen; uxenach; uxlu; voice; way; work; years; zen cache: 51126.txt plain text: 51126.txt item: #7 of 29 id: 51129 author: Banister, Manly title: A Gift from Earth date: None words: 5525 flesch: 85 summary: * * All the chill recriminations and arguments Zotul had stored for this occasion were dissipated in the warmth of the Earthman's manner. It is an outrage, said Koltan of the House of Masur, that the Earthmen land among the Thorabians! Zotul, youngest of the Masur brothers, stirred uneasily. keywords: better; broderick; brothers; business; ceramic; city; clay; company; concrete; council; course; day; earthmen; father; fortune; freight; gas; good; government; governor; great; house; kalrab; koltan; man; masur; merchandise; metal; money; new; news; old; ones; people; plant; pots; pottery; radio; set; ship; stove; sure; terrestrial; things; tile; time; trade; way; world; years; zotul; zur; zurians cache: 51129.txt plain text: 51129.txt item: #8 of 29 id: 51170 author: Robinson, Frank M. title: The Fire and the Sword date: None words: 11042 flesch: 90 summary: Just what reactions and emotions he would display, Eckert wasn't sure, nor how Templin's psychology, so similar to Pendleton's, would help solve the problem. Eckert and Templin took a quick tour of the few rooms. keywords: air; better; black; box; circle; cloth; course; culture; dangerous; day; different; door; earth; eckert; enemies; eyes; face; far; footsteps; friends; gas; good; hard; head; help; house; information; jathong; kids; kind; left; little; long; look; lot; man; menshar; mind; moment; months; mud; native; nayova; night; nodded; old; ones; open; pack; paradise; pendleton; people; perfect; place; pleasant; primitive; ray; reason; service; simple; small; suicide; sun; sunlight; sure; ted; templin; thin; things; thought; time; tunic; tunpesh; type; warm; warmth; watch; way; white; years cache: 51170.txt plain text: 51170.txt item: #9 of 29 id: 51185 author: Galouye, Daniel F. title: All Jackson's Children date: None words: 5302 flesch: 88 summary: Drummond, following hesitantly, shook his head. Oh, Drummond said comprehendingly, stumbling to keep pace. keywords: angus; arms; art; banks; beliefs; cave; cliff; clunkers; compulsion; converters; drummond; fingers; function; god; group; hand; head; horde; hours; jackson; ledge; left; long; man; mcintosh; metal; mouth; plain; primary; ra-204; religion; right; robots; sense; ship; shoulders; supervisor; test; thou; time; watch; way; years; younger cache: 51185.txt plain text: 51185.txt item: #10 of 29 id: 51273 author: Anvil, Christopher title: Advance Agent date: None words: 11422 flesch: 90 summary: Dan lay, heaving in deep breaths, then rolled over and sat up. Beside Dan, Milbun stood up, still struggling for breath, and pulled his wife and Mavis to their feet. keywords: agent; air; apartment; base; big; blue; boy; brass; building; cape; center; charge; city; co.; crowd; dan; devisement; dog; door; end; eyes; face; galactic; glanced; good; gym; hall; hand; head; high; inside; kielgaard; life; lion; little; long; look; low; man; massive; mataform; mavis; men; middle; milbun; moment; near; nearby; old; open; orange; orders; page; people; place; planet; point; population; porcyns; rejuvenation; right; road; room; rope; set; sign; sir; sky; small; sound; space; statue; store; street; strong; sure; sweepers; swish; things; thought; time; tomorrow; trans; truth; vacation; voice; water; way; wind; wrong cache: 51273.txt plain text: 51273.txt item: #11 of 29 id: 51395 author: Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) title: Survival Type date: None words: 8564 flesch: 81 summary: It could have been either, but Lanceford clung to the belief that the contact was genuine. Kron, Lanceford reflected, was a good example of the manner in which Nature adapts the humanoid form for survival on different worlds. keywords: alien; bad; base; bee; better; body; breath; business; civilization; class; confederation; contact; course; darkness; day; drug; earthman; exploration; eyed; eyes; face; fact; feet; fire; firepit; flash; galaxy; gerontin; good; hands; head; help; human; hunters; hunthouse; implications; important; insect; job; know; kron; lanceford; life; little; long; meal; mind; moment; mud; natives; niobe; niobian; pack; pain; people; place; planet; protection; race; rain; reason; repellent; right; shelter; sims; sir; sith; sleeping; smell; sort; species; strange; stuff; suit; surface; survival; thing; thought; time; trail; trek; understanding; vorkum; water; way; ways; world; worse; years cache: 51395.txt plain text: 51395.txt item: #12 of 29 id: 51398 author: De Vet, Charles V. title: Growing up on Big Muddy date: None words: 5653 flesch: 84 summary: At last Kaiser could bear the futility of his efforts no longer. His mind was as crippled as his body and he took an unhealthy delight in helping his sister torment Kaiser. keywords: able; baby; bank; best; better; big; body; certain; communicator; day; earlier; equipment; hands; hours; information; kaiser; like; little; long; message; metal; mind; muddy; natives; new; people; planet; plastic; rain; read; repair; report; return; river; sam; scout; seal; second; ship; sleep; small; smoky; soscites; symbiote; talk; tape; tent; thought; time; water; way; weed; work cache: 51398.txt plain text: 51398.txt item: #13 of 29 id: 51413 author: Smith, Evelyn E. title: The Ignoble Savages date: None words: 11569 flesch: 81 summary: Bbulas groaned, but Skkiru didn't care about that. I am sorry, Skkiru, Bbulas intoned. keywords: air; antennae; bad; bbulas; beggar; better; boy; case; certain; chief; chocolate; civilization; color; control; course; cultural; culture; cyril; dance; dilettante; door; earthmen; effect; eyes; face; fact; feel; feet; field; fish; form; galaxy; girl; good; great; hand; head; hearts; high; humanoid; hut; idea; kind; large; larhgan; later; library; life; little; long; look; love; luccar; magic; man; matter; metal; moment; mud; natives; new; nice; old; outside; people; person; planet; priestess; primitive; question; rain; raoul; right; rope; school; self; skkiru; smile; snaddra; snaddrath; society; spite; stop; sure; system; terran; terrestrial; thing; thought; time; trick; voice; way; weather; work; young cache: 51413.txt plain text: 51413.txt item: #14 of 29 id: 51449 author: Neville, Kris title: Moral Equivalent date: None words: 7931 flesch: 91 summary: It's okay by me if it's okay by you, kid, Kelly blurted out, in a tone that made Beliakoff shudder and made Nob smile in outright hero-worship. Now here, Nob said, opening the volume, it seems to imply-- Wait, Beliakoff broke in. keywords: beliakoff; better; books; cities; corporal; course; culture; dear; dictatorship; drak; earth; earthlike; earthmen; empress; enemy; eyes; fact; freighter; general; girl; good; hand; heavy; job; jusa; kelly; know; kyne; little; look; majesty; mala; malans; man; means; military; minister; nob; order; people; planet; policeman; possible; prime; propendium; read; real; right; salesman; secret; set; ship; sir; small; soldiers; sorry; space; spy; store; supreme; sure; terran; thing; thought; thrang; time; voice; war; warfare; way; wife; work; wrong; zipper cache: 51449.txt plain text: 51449.txt item: #15 of 29 id: 51498 author: Fahy, Patrick title: Bad Memory date: None words: 2667 flesch: 82 summary: I think we can suit you, Commander--er--Mr. Channing, he said, though what we have in mind mightn't be quite as large as you wish. Not bad payment, Mr. Channing, for five years of life! keywords: agent; bad; beta; big; channing; ckm; credits; crop; dyk; enterprises; executive; figures; folan; great; head; jim; jube; look; man; metamorphosis; mind; muh; phylox; planet; proposition; red; seeds; space; strawberries; type; upklin; years cache: 51498.txt plain text: 51498.txt item: #16 of 29 id: 51508 author: Galouye, Daniel F. title: The Chasers date: None words: 4505 flesch: 89 summary: It seemed like an altogether acceptable suggestion, Cassidy thought, eying the attractive girl. Mean you--_my_ house they want to see? When she nodded Papa seized the lowest strand of wire and lifted the fence high enough for Cassidy and Mason to crawl under. keywords: arm; better; cassidy; chase; come; craft; directional; distance; door; far; feet; fence; field; fuzzy; girl; guest; hands; hatch; hedge; help; house; like; man; manor; mason; native; nearby; old; outside; papa; play; right; riva; room; ship; skimmer; smile; spider; stabilizer; tails; talk; thing; time; view; wire cache: 51508.txt plain text: 51508.txt item: #17 of 29 id: 51545 author: Sheckley, Robert title: The Sweeper of Loray date: None words: 4476 flesch: 88 summary: That'll never do it, Professor Carver pointed out to Fred, with the interested air of a man watching a steam shovel in operation. Tastes like--what's wrong? Professor Carver was staring at Fred, his eyes wide with astonishment. keywords: book; carver; deg; earth; eyes; face; fred; head; healing; hunter; hut; inferiority; juice; life; little; lives; lorayan; man; matter; medicine; non; people; planet; port; professor; race; revolver; right; sacred; science; sersee; serum; stuff; sweeper; terran; thesis; time; village; work; years cache: 51545.txt plain text: 51545.txt item: #18 of 29 id: 51727 author: Leache, Joy title: Satisfaction Guaranteed date: None words: 6762 flesch: 88 summary: He moved, and Miss Featherpenny moved. When the juice had been mopped up and the woman apologized to, Miss Featherpenny squeezed in beside Andy. keywords: andy; answer; better; blahrog; coal; contract; crumbly; dentist; desk; door; dope; earth; everking; eyes; featherpenny; federation; feet; felician; felix; good; head; hope; hrom; legs; life; little; long; men; message; mind; miss; miss featherpenny; money; mug; new; nice; office; old; planetary; promotions; sheet; ship; shoes; species; steno; stephens; thought; throatduster; time; tourists; try; voice; way; work cache: 51727.txt plain text: 51727.txt item: #19 of 29 id: 51758 author: Brown, Rosel George title: From an Unseen Censor date: None words: 8696 flesch: 95 summary: I had some wild idea, I think, that Uncle Izzy might come sauntering nonchalantly over the hills, one hand in the pocket of a grilch-down jacket and the other holding a Martian cigarene. I just don't believe Uncle Izzy died in an ordinary fashion locked up in a spaceship. keywords: air; alvarla; ancient; beat; bird; body; book; clasp; closed; course; crater; dead; dodo; dollars; door; face; feet; flash; fortune; good; grilch; hand; help; hop; inside; isadore; izzy; job; lead; life; little; look; looking; lunch; middle; mind; neck; open; outside; perfume; picks; planet; poem; port; rene; right; ship; studs; sure; thing; thought; time; trees; uncle; uncle isadore; unseen; warm; way; white; word; worth cache: 51758.txt plain text: 51758.txt item: #20 of 29 id: 53059 author: Ludwig, Edward W. title: To Save Earth date: None words: 10808 flesch: 94 summary: Captain, Fox stole my harmonica! Captain Torkel scowled. The point is-- Fox broke in: What do _you_ remember, Captain? Captain Torkel swallowed hard. keywords: blue; brown; captain; captain torkel; crazy; dark; earth; eyes; face; flowers; food; forest; fox; friend; garcia; gaze; god; golden; good; grass; grave; green; gundy; hands; harmonica; head; heaven; home; kelly; lieutenant; lieutenant washington; like; long; look; mad; man; meadow; men; mind; moment; people; pistol; planet; ports; queen; race; red; right; rocket; screen; sirians; smile; space; star; strange; sun; sure; taaleeb; thought; time; torkel; trembling; van; van gundy; village; washington; way; wine; women; years cache: 53059.txt plain text: 53059.txt item: #21 of 29 id: 59172 author: Ellis, Mike title: Willie's Planet date: None words: 6809 flesch: 97 summary: Bart hurried down the ridge, watching only for a glimpse of Willie, but Tom looked at the sunset occasionally, trying to store up the memory of the color for the months ahead. Willie glanced at Tom with his bright blue eyes, then looked quickly away, a bit of a red flush high on his cheeks. keywords: bart; big; blue; cabin; captain; close; dark; earth; edge; face; feet; ferns; food; green; ground; hell; life; little; live; long; look; man; ones; pipe; place; planet; plants; pudge; red; ridge; right; rock; sand; screen; sea; seeds; ship; small; star; sun; sure; time; tom; water; way; willie cache: 59172.txt plain text: 59172.txt item: #22 of 29 id: 59174 author: Holden, Fox B. title: Task Mission date: None words: 9693 flesch: 88 summary: Captain Nicholas Joel stood waiting in his fore-waist bridge; he looked again through its heavy, slotted quartz windows and now he could see them coming. Captain Nicholas Joel watched them, their excitement a visible thing as they pounded up clouds of saffron behind them, and knew without activating his personal communicator what they'd have to tell him. keywords: better; big; black; bond; bottle; bridge; captain; carruthers; command; course; crew; damn; desk; dhennah; dobermann; earth; excitement; eyes; face; feel; feet; flagon; fore; good; guns; half; hand; hate; heavy; hell; help; jeep; joel; k'hall; kaelli; left; life; like; little; long; look; men; metal; mind; minutes; mission; mneurium-4; moment; nicholas; nicholas joel; people; pilot; place; point; rest; right; sam; second; ship; silence; sir; skipper; slender; small; southard; space; surgeon; talking; task; thick; thing; thought; time; voice; waist; way; whale; white; world; years; young cache: 59174.txt plain text: 59174.txt item: #23 of 29 id: 59243 author: Fritch, Charles E. title: The Pacifists date: None words: 3203 flesch: 94 summary: Go back to the ship, Hinckley told Parker. But what about Parker? Yes, Hinckley said in a disturbed tone. keywords: buildings; compton; earthmen; girl; great; hinckley; house; long; man; parker; people; planet; rocket; sand; ship; silver; spaceship; time; vase; village; voice; weapons; woman cache: 59243.txt plain text: 59243.txt item: #24 of 29 id: 59470 author: Bixby, Jerome title: Laboratory date: None words: 7162 flesch: 85 summary: The boiling universe exploded away from them in soundless radiation, in all directions ... in _five_ directions, their subconscious minds told them ... * * Though both Vegans were invisible to other eyes, they remained visible to each other because their eyes were adjusted to the wavelength of their invisibility fields. keywords: air; aliens; beasts; blaster; contact; creatures; doorway; energy; experiments; eyes; feet; field; flashes; gop; gorman; gravity; green; ground; heads; helen; help; hole; invisible; johnny; junior; laboratory; ladder; land; left; like; little; look; master; meteor; miles; moment; near; planet; probe; pud; ridge; right; rock; scientist; senior; ship; small; spaceship; tails; tanks; tentacle; tharn; tharn_-field; thought; time; tiny; universe; vegans; warp; years cache: 59470.txt plain text: 59470.txt item: #25 of 29 id: 59516 author: Stearns, Charles A. title: The Scamperers date: None words: 5944 flesch: 90 summary: Wellesley slung his space kit over his shoulder and followed, with his hand on Joseph's collar. the scamperers BY CHARLES A. STEARNS _Wellesley was ordered to check on deviants or mutants. keywords: able; afraid; aidennsport; amos; blind; boy; certain; course; damn; dark; darkness; daub; day; door; eyes; face; fact; faint; father; feet; great; hand; hut; joseph; leave; lieutenant; light; like; little; long; matter; men; mind; morning; omur; open; ophir; pipes; place; rift; rigel; rim; rocket; sealilly; ship; small; sounds; space; spaceman; sure; swamp; thing; time; vast; village; voice; warehouse; way; wellesley cache: 59516.txt plain text: 59516.txt item: #26 of 29 id: 60743 author: Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) title: Cultural Exchange date: None words: 8149 flesch: 89 summary: Return to ship at once! I can't, Skipper, Alex's projection came back to me. Said he wanted to look around. keywords: alex; allardyce; bad; barger; better; brain; circlet; copter; course; crew; culture; dan; decontamination; earth; exchange; face; fear; feet; forest; glass; good; ground; half; halsey; hands; head; house; human; inside; job; k'wan; land; life; like; little; long; look; lyrane; lyranian; man; menticom; native; nice; old; people; place; plain; primitive; race; right; room; savages; second; set; ship; sir; skipper; sort; space; sure; table; tall; technology; thought; time; tree; voice; warren; watch; way; world; wrong cache: 60743.txt plain text: 60743.txt item: #27 of 29 id: 60947 author: Anvil, Christopher title: A Tourist Named Death date: None words: 12741 flesch: 86 summary: The receptionist recovered her poise, to usher Dan into the inner office. Dan stooped, glanced at the dusty row of books on the bottom shelf, and slid a mataform transceiver behind the books. keywords: aisle; apes; arms; big; boat; bookstore; building; carrying; case; center; cities; city; close; control; corner; corridor; crowd; dan; door; earth; edge; end; eyes; face; far; fast; feet; floor; galactic; glanced; glider; good; green; half; hand; helmet; huge; inside; instant; key; kielgaard; kind; large; left; level; like; limb; little; long; look; low; man; map; mataform; men; moment; new; number; open; outside; overhead; people; pile; place; planet; rest; right; river; room; ruler; saw; second; section; set; shelter; short; sidewalk; small; space; spy; standing; street; things; thought; time; transceiver; triax; trouble; truth; unit; use; voice; wall; war; watch; water; way; word; wrong cache: 60947.txt plain text: 60947.txt item: #28 of 29 id: 62319 author: Jacobi, Carl title: Cosmic Castaway date: None words: 13909 flesch: 87 summary: ] Standish came back to consciousness, a dull pain surging in his head and a feeling of nausea in his midsection. Above him, Standish saw induction and exhaust pipes, coated with sulphur dioxide frost, writhe and twist like so many serpents. keywords: air; atomic; attack; big; black; broken; building; cabin; calthedra; chamber; city; cliff; closed; control; course; crew; cruisers; cry; cuddy; dar; day; days; dead; door; drum; earth; earthman; emperor; enemy; entire; eyes; face; faggard; far; field; fire; fleet; floor; food; forward; free; genithode; girl; great; ground; guns; hand; hard; hatch; head; heavy; huge; hull; instant; jungle; landing; later; left; length; level; ley; life; light; like; liner; lips; little; long; lost; low; lyra; lyrians; machine; marr; metal; microphone; moment; motors; new; officers; old; open; palace; panel; people; phantom; pilot; planet; port; power; powerful; prisoners; quarters; race; ravine; rest; return; rocket; room; saw; ship; shot; sides; silence; single; sirian; sirius; small; space; speed; standish; steps; stern; strange; system; tell; thalia; thing; time; twisted; vision; voice; way; white; work; wrecked; years cache: 62319.txt plain text: 62319.txt item: #29 of 29 id: 63419 author: Pace, Tom title: Death Star date: None words: 4756 flesch: 93 summary: What are you thinking of? Star said, in a low, cold voice, I'm thinking of putting an electron fire-blade into your face, Devil Garrett! Star did not doubt that Devil Garrett was an excellent shot with it. keywords: alpha; anne; beam; blade; death; devil; door; electron; eyes; face; feet; fire; garrett; girl; gun; hand; head; hinton; jet; knife; like; look; man; men; pirate; planet; power; right; room; set; ship; space; star; starrett; time; water; way; weddel cache: 63419.txt plain text: 63419.txt