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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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