item: #1 of 21 id: 18361 author: Leinster, Murray title: Operation: Outer Space date: None words: 61539 flesch: 86 summary: This is your seat, Mr. Cochrane, she said professionally. A voice said: Mr. Cochrane! keywords: able; acceleration; advertising; afraid; air; airlock; alicia; animals; atmosphere; attention; audience; away; babs; bad; balloon; beasts; bell; better; big; bill; black; blue; board; body; boy; bright; broadcast; burning; business; busy; camera; case; cash; chair; chapter; city; close; clouds; cochrane; color; columbus; coming; commercial; communicator; company; cone; continents; control; course; crater; creatures; cut; dabney; dabney field; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; deal; deep; details; different; direction; discovery; distance; distress; doctor; door; dust; earth; edge; effect; emptiness; end; expression; extra; eyes; face; fact; faintly; fallowe; familiar; family; far; farther; faster; feel; feeling; feet; field; film; fire; firm; flame; flat; floor; foam; food; fool; foot; forest; free; fuel; glacier; good; gravity; great; green; ground; gun; half; hand; hard; head; hell; help; high; history; holden; home; hope; hopkins; horizon; hotel; hours; hull; human; humanity; hundreds; idea; important; inc; inertia; inside; jamison; jed; jeep; job; johnny; johnny simms; jones; journey; kasten; kursten; laboratory; landing; large; law; left; life; lift; light; like; line; little; live; living; long; longer; look; lunar; main; making; man; mankind; mass; masses; matter; men; metal; miles; millions; mind; minutes; moment; money; monstrous; moon; morning; mountains; near; nearby; need; neurotic; new; news; nice; noise; normal; notice; observatory; odd; office; open; orders; outer; outside; party; passenger; past; patient; pay; people; person; personality; pictures; pilot; place; planet; plants; plastic; platform; point; port; possible; power; practical; prepared; pretty; production; psychiatrist; public; publicity; radiation; ready; reason; red; relations; rich; rocket; room; rose; run; science; scientific; screen; sea; seas; second; secretary; sensation; sense; set; ship; shots; signal; simms; size; sky; sleep; sling; small; smoke; soil; sort; sound; space; spaceways; speed; splendid; spot; spread; stars; stock; story; straight; strange; stuff; suit; sun; sunset; surface; system; talk; tape; technical; television; test; theory; things; thought; thousands; thrust; time; tiny; tone; tops; tourist; travel; trees; trick; trouble; true; turn; upward; use; valley; vanished; vast; vegetation; vehicle; view; visible; voice; waiting; walk; wall; watch; water; way; weight; west; white; wife; woman; work; working; world; writer; years cache: 18361.txt plain text: 18361.txt item: #2 of 21 id: 18753 author: Rockwell, Carey title: The Space Pioneers date: None words: 53287 flesch: 88 summary: Well, whatever it is, I'm sure Governor Vidac will be able to take care of it. Governor Vidac said we could pick up some of the spools that were ready, said Bush. keywords: able; academy; acceleration; administration; alliance; answer; applicants; application; asteroid; astro; attention; barge; best; better; big; billy; blast; blasted; boat; boys; building; bush; cadets; captain; captain strong; car; chair; chance; chapter; check; children; city; clear; cluster; colonists; colony; commander; communications; control; corbett; course; cruiser; day; days; deck; deep; desk; door; earth; easy; emergency; enlisted; expedition; eyes; face; fact; farm; farmer; father; field; fine; finished; fleet; floor; forward; game; giant; good; governor; governor hardy; growled; guard; gun; haired; half; hand; hardy; hatch; head; help; highway; hills; hours; house; hyram; idea; illustration; important; information; inside; instruments; intercom; jane; jeff; jet; jets; job; journal; kind; land; later; leave; left; lieutenant; life; like; little; lock; logan; long; look; lost; lot; main; man; manning; marshall; mates; matter; men; mike; mind; minutes; moment; morning; need; new; nodded; number; officer; old; open; orders; outer; outside; paper; paralo; pass; past; paused; people; place; planet; polaris; position; power; pretty; professor; project; quarters; question; radar; ray; ready; report; rest; right; roald; rocket; roger; room; satellite; scanner; scout; screen; screening; second; set; ship; shot; sign; simple; sir; small; smile; solar; space; space cadets; spaceman; spaceport; special; speed; spools; stand; standing; star; steve; stop; strong; study; sure; surface; sykes; system; talk; talking; teleceiver; thing; thinking; thought; thrust; time; tom; trip; trouble; turn; unit; uranium; venusian; vidac; voice; walters; way; winters; word; work; wrong; years; young cache: 18753.txt plain text: 18753.txt item: #3 of 21 id: 19709 author: Rockwell, Carey title: Danger in Deep Space date: None words: 51202 flesch: 88 summary: Roger had broken that trust, and now the fact was being flashed around the entire solar system; Roger Manning was an escaped criminal! If we do have to blast out of here in a hurry, I want to get where we're supposed to be going! You just worry about the power deck, spaceboy, and let little Roger take care of his own department, replied Roger. keywords: academy; acceleration; air; alfie; alpha; annie; answer; asteroid; astro; attention; aye; bangs; best; better; big; black; blast; blasted; blasting; blue; board; boat; boys; bridge; cadet; captain; centauri; chance; chapter; check; city; clear; clock; close; cold; connel; control; control deck; copper; corbett; course; craft; crash; credits; crew; cruiser; day; days; deck; deep; desk; devil; dials; door; earth; emergency; enlisted; eyes; face; far; fast; feet; figure; flight; free; freighter; fuel; fuse; giant; glanced; glass; good; gravity; great; growled; guard; gun; half; hand; hard; hatch; head; higgins; home; hot; hours; huge; hyperdrive; idea; illustration; inside; intercom; investigation; jardine; jet; job; jones; juice; junior; kid; ladder; landing; later; leave; left; life; like; line; little; long; look; loring; loud; luna; main; major; major connel; manning; mason; men; miles; mind; minutes; moment; mouth; near; need; new; o.k; officer; old; open; operation; orbit; orders; outside; panel; papers; paralo; paused; permission; place; planet; polaris; position; power; powerful; pretty; prison; pull; pumps; quarters; quick; radar; range; ray; reactant; reaction; reactor; ready; red; report; right; rings; rocket; roger; room; satellite; saturn; scanner; scott; screen; second; set; shinny; ship; shot; sir; skipper; sleep; small; smile; solar; space; space station; spaceman; spaceport; spaceship; speed; stand; star; station; stefens; stop; strong; sun; sure; surface; switch; system; table; talk; talking; tara; teleceiver; thing; thought; thrust; time; tom; touchdown; tough; traffic; transmitter; trip; unit; venus; venusian; venusport; voice; wagon; want; wanted; way; wide; word; work; working; wrong; years; young cache: 19709.txt plain text: 19709.txt item: #4 of 21 id: 20553 author: Wilson, Robert H. title: Out Around Rigel date: None words: 8398 flesch: 91 summary: And if Garth's indicators were correct, we were moving toward them at a speed now seventy-five times that of light itself. Once more, Garth, I said. keywords: acceleration; air; atmosphere; blue; board; body; bridge; bright; comet; danger; dark; dials; distance; door; dunal; eyes; faint; feet; field; floor; garth; glass; gravity; great; half; hand; helmet; hours; kelvar; light; like; little; long; look; mass; minutes; months; moon; nardos; nebula; old; rigel; sand; ship; sky; smaller; space; speed; stars; step; straight; suits; sun; telescope; time; velocity; water; way; weight; white; window; years cache: 20553.txt plain text: 20553.txt item: #5 of 21 id: 50449 author: Marlowe, Stephen title: Recruit for Andromeda date: None words: 33772 flesch: 92 summary: I'm Kit Temple, said Temple, extending his hand. Mrs. Temple was eliminated. keywords: air; alaric; american; answer; arkalion; arms; automatic; aware; bed; better; big; body; booth; brother; cave; ceiling; center; certain; chance; chapter; charles; city; cold; coming; comrade; course; dames; days; dead; dear; deep; different; doctor; dollars; door; dozen; draper; dream; earth; end; eyes; face; fact; feeling; feet; figure; final; fine; fingers; floor; foot; free; future; galaxy; georgi; girl; good; goodbye; great; green; gun; half; hall; hand; hard; head; heart; hell; high; hole; home; hours; human; idea; information; jase; jason; jaw; job; jones; journey; jupiter; kind; kit; knees; law; leave; left; legs; life; like; lips; little; live; long; longer; look; looking; lot; love; lucy; man; mars; martians; matter; meaningless; men; microphone; mind; minutes; moment; morning; mrs; need; new; objective; old; outside; people; petrovitch; picture; place; planet; play; point; pull; questions; quick; race; real; reason; red; rest; return; right; room; rotation; russian; second; sense; set; ship; shoulder; sick; situation; sky; sleep; small; smith; soft; sophia; sorry; sort; sound; space; stalintrek; stars; station; steffy; stephanie; story; strange; strength; strong; sun; sure; system; table; talk; tall; temple; thing; thought; time; training; travel; trouble; twice; universe; voice; volunteer; wait; wall; water; way; weeks; weightlessness; white; wife; wind; wish; woman; work; world; wrong; years; young cache: 50449.txt plain text: 50449.txt item: #6 of 21 id: 50863 author: Evans, E. Everett (Edward Everett) title: Alien Minds date: None words: 69698 flesch: 84 summary: At long last Hanlon struck--and was instantly numbed from the force of the blow and chilled by the icy water. Hanlon continued looking into the outside cages containing these tailless roches, the Estrellan equivalent of wild dogs. keywords: ability; able; act; activities; admiral; adwal; alien; amir; angry; animal; answers; apparent; attention; audience; auldin; away; bad; bed; beginning; best; better; big; bird; bit; black; blood; body; boy; brain; building; burn; business; care; careful; case; cat; caval; certain; chair; chance; chapter; city; close; comfortable; coming; command; considerable; contact; continent; control; controlling; corner; corps; couple; course; crime; criminal; curt; dad; day; days; dead; deep; different; distance; doctor; dogs; door; dressed; drinking; ears; easy; ebony; effort; egon; elus; endar; entity; esbor; estrellan; eyes; face; fact; far; fast; father; fear; federation; feeling; feet; fellow; figure; find; fine; finished; fish; floor; following; foot; force; forward; friend; general; george hanlon; giving; glad; good; government; great; group; guards; guess; half; hand; hanlon; hard; head; help; high; hold; home; hooper; hope; hour; house; hurt; idea; important; impresario; information; ino; inside; interested; inver; irad; job; k'nyer; keeping; kind; knowledge; large; later; lay; learn; leave; left; legs; life; like; line; little; lona; long; longer; look; lot; machine; man; manner; manning; matter; mean; men; mental; mind; minutes; moment; morning; muscles; native; near; need; new; newton; note; number; office; old; ondo; ones; open; opposition; order; outside; pain; parts; past; peculiar; people; pets; place; planet; plans; point; portion; possible; power; prepared; present; problem; proof; puzzled; questions; quick; reading; ready; real; reason; residence; rest; ride; right; road; roches; room; rose; ruler; run; saying; searching; seat; second; secret; sense; servants; service; set; shape; shoulder; simonides; sire; sleep; small; son; sort; sound; space; spaceship; special; speed; spread; stables; stage; start; stearra; stone; stop; straight; strange; street; strength; study; studying; stupid; sure; surface; surprised; talk; terran; texture; thanks; theatre; things; think; thinking; thought; time; time hanlon; tomorrow; touch; tricycle; trike; trouble; true; trying; turn; type; unusual; voice; wait; watch; way; wide; window; wonder; wonderful; words; work; world; worry; wrong; yandor; young cache: 50863.txt plain text: 50863.txt item: #7 of 21 id: 50998 author: Wallace, F. L. (Floyd L.) title: Delay in Transit date: None words: 16363 flesch: 86 summary: Cassal hurried to her side. Not interested, said Cassal firmly, his subvocalization inaudible to anyone but Dimanche. keywords: agency; aid; answer; best; better; body; brain; bureau; business; cards; cassal; center; certain; change; circuit; city; counselor; course; dangerous; dead; dealer; denton; dimanche; door; earth; electronic; engineer; expert; eyes; face; feet; foray; galaxy; glanced; godolphian; good; hand; hard; head; help; hotel; house; human; huntner; idea; identification; information; instrument; interested; kind; life; lighter; like; likely; little; long; longer; machine; manager; matter; mind; money; murra; native; near; necessary; need; nervous; neuronics; new; old; person; place; planet; police; possible; power; process; projector; question; race; real; reason; right; room; ship; sign; silent; small; special; star; stool; stuck; suite; tab; technician; thing; thought; thug; tide; time; transport; travelers; tunney; turn; visual; voice; water; way; woman; work; years cache: 50998.txt plain text: 50998.txt item: #8 of 21 id: 51296 author: Marlowe, Stephen title: The Sense of Wonder date: None words: 6062 flesch: 95 summary: Rikud was guiltily glad when he saw Crifer limp. Under the tube at Rikud's left lay Crifer. keywords: astronomy; bright; buzzer; change; chuls; crifer; darkness; door; eyes; garden; head; hurt; long; look; machine; machinery; man; moment; new; old; people; plants; rays; reading; rikud; room; stars; thought; time; variable; viewport; voice; women; world cache: 51296.txt plain text: 51296.txt item: #9 of 21 id: 51414 author: Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney) title: ...So They Baked a Cake date: None words: 4315 flesch: 83 summary: We were the pioneers on the first starship, the first to try out the _Larson Drive_ in deep space. Yes, we were all warned that, fast as the _Larson Drive_ was, it would take us over 42 years, earth-measured time, to reach our destination. keywords: air; albert; audio; body; columbia; control; dead; deep; destination; drive; earth; error; eyes; face; great; green; hands; hell; hours; hulbert; human; impossible; journey; kind; know; larson; left; light; little; long; mac; man; mind; months; new; note; old; people; planet; rationing; second; sense; ship; skipper; space; star; system; theory; time; velocity; voice; way; welcome; wrong; years cache: 51414.txt plain text: 51414.txt item: #10 of 21 id: 51434 author: Stecher, L. J., Jr. title: An Elephant for the Prinkip date: None words: 4053 flesch: 92 summary: And according to my book on elephants, Beulah should still be only a potential mother when we reached Penguin. Beulah was her name, and she was a husky girl. keywords: animal; balance; beulah; cargo; class; compartment; computer; contract; crucis; delta; earth; elephant; food; freighter; gasha; good; hannah; indian; little; load; mighty; orbit; penguin; planet; prinkip; rhial; ship; skipper; space; spin; time; trouble cache: 51434.txt plain text: 51434.txt item: #11 of 21 id: 51482 author: Stecher, L. J., Jr. title: Perfect Answer date: None words: 4041 flesch: 89 summary: They pointed to the box and then back at Farnum and Bates, laughing and talking as they did so. * * * Farnum and Bates took turns talking at the box for half an hour. keywords: answer; bates; box; chance; computer; crowd; earth; farnum; function; galaxy; good; long; machine; man; men; oracle; people; planet; questions; race; ship; space; stars; sure; time; truth; voice; way; weapon; years; young cache: 51482.txt plain text: 51482.txt item: #12 of 21 id: 51669 author: Sabia, Richard title: The Lamps of the Angels date: None words: 4063 flesch: 92 summary: Lithe, dark Roberto set down his breakfast coffee and smiled up at her. The hour was late, Roberto said, and I did not wish to disturb you with greetings that would keep until morning. keywords: angels; bar; black; children; coffee; eyes; fear; god; golden; great; hard; home; house; jump; leg; little; mama; man; moon; mother; mrs; navigator; planets; present; roberto; sanchez; ship; son; space; stars; sun; thought; time; voice; way; white; wife; woman; words; years cache: 51669.txt plain text: 51669.txt item: #13 of 21 id: 51699 author: Doede, William R. title: The God Next Door date: None words: 5807 flesch: 95 summary: Stinson, the Sand God said. As for the webfoots, the wind devil, or Sand God, said, I will destroy them. keywords: angry; blue; body; cavern; clouds; devil; earth; eyes; face; feet; fire; god; great; head; high; left; life; long; men; old; people; physical; place; planet; pool; sand; skirt; small; sphere; stinson; sun; sybtl; thought; time; tube; voice; wall; warm; webfoots; wind; woman; years cache: 51699.txt plain text: 51699.txt item: #14 of 21 id: 51741 author: Fyfe, H. B. (Horace Bowne) title: Round-and-Round Trip date: None words: 7194 flesch: 86 summary: * * * * * Mr. Winstead sighed and returned to his quarters. Meanwhile, how about a cigar, Mr. Winstead? Why--thanks very much. keywords: agency; air; aubrey; bag; bedroom; building; button; callahan; captain; carole; city; clerk; compartment; counter; day; desk; destination; door; epseri; fact; feigelson; gelbchen; girl; good; hand; head; hotel; inside; little; local; long; look; man; minutes; open; papers; passengers; pilot; place; planet; queen; rest; right; room; second; ship; small; spaceport; spacer; stellar; street; suit; sure; table; terra; thought; ticket; time; topaz; travel; traveler; ultimate; way; wilfie; winstead; young cache: 51741.txt plain text: 51741.txt item: #15 of 21 id: 53016 author: Stecher, L. J., Jr. title: Cakewalk to Gloryanna date: None words: 4619 flesch: 89 summary: But when I offered them a sizable piece of cash plus a perpetual share of the profits for letting us take a load of marocca plants to Gloryanna III, they relented and, for the first time in history, gave their assent. He nodded his head a couple of more times, in spite of the discomfort it must have given him. keywords: beulah; bubbles; captain; carolla; course; crucis; delta; dingleburys; gloryanna; good; gravity; growth; half; hannah; head; hours; iii; light; like; little; marocca; midges; mypore; plants; rhial; ship; stuff; sun; sure; tanks; things; time; trouble; vines; water; way cache: 53016.txt plain text: 53016.txt item: #16 of 21 id: 53035 author: Stecher, L. J., Jr. title: When You Giffle... date: None words: 3854 flesch: 90 summary: I was a little bit worried when I saw Captain Hannah again. A few months earlier, Captain Hannah had conned me into taking the elephants off his hands and out of his tramp spaceship. keywords: air; aloysius; boy; boys; cake; captain; dad; delta; giffling; good; hannah; head; hole; jim; jump; little; mike; monahan; prinkip; psionic; right; ship; sir; small; sort; space; swimming; time; way; whale cache: 53035.txt plain text: 53035.txt item: #17 of 21 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: #18 of 21 id: 59581 author: Godwin, Tom title: Brain Teaser date: None words: 7295 flesch: 76 summary: The return to Earth would be the swift one through the warp and the Slug cruisers, so bold in pursuit of unarmed interplanetary ships, would quickly cease to exist. A clear description could not be made without the use of several special kinds of mathematics, but you might say this field in normal space is like a bubble under water. keywords: air; airlock; answer; argosy; ball; certain; communicator; computer; control; course; cruisers; data; different; distance; earth; engle; explanation; forward; garvin; ground; hand; harding; hour; light; like; little; long; minutes; near; normal; normal space; operation; point; position; power; question; room; ship; shuttle; sirius; slug; sound; space; space warp; speaker; speed; stars; sun; thought; thunderbolt; time; ultraviolet; velocity; viewscreen; warp; warp shuttle; wave; years cache: 59581.txt plain text: 59581.txt item: #19 of 21 id: 60309 author: Godwin, Tom title: The Last Victory date: None words: 6140 flesch: 87 summary: The three guards were Curry men and Curry had two with him. Captain Curry has locked up all arms from us--he's already starting the regimentation for a permanent Technograte colony here and making sure we can't object. keywords: animals; attack; beam; bellam; blaster; boy; camp; cold; coming; command; curry; dark; dead; dog; earth; end; eyes; face; fire; forest; girl; gorman; grass; ground; guards; guardsmen; head; kennedy; kitten; light; line; little; mad; men; monsters; north; outlander; ship; tail; technograte; technogration; thane; white; woman; world; years cache: 60309.txt plain text: 60309.txt item: #20 of 21 id: 60713 author: Sohl, Jerry title: Counterweight date: None words: 4654 flesch: 85 summary: And you, Mr. Ellason, were along to observe it all, Captain Branson put in. Captain Branson and his fifty crewmen want to return as badly as you do. keywords: antheon; assembly; branson; captain; case; colonists; compartment; council; crew; critten; day; dievers; ellason; eyes; interstellar; janssen; keith; man; mask; men; newsletter; observer; palugger; passengers; phipps; police; quadrant; red; return; rexroad; seeds; ship; space; stunners; things; thought; tilbury; time; trip; weblor; years cache: 60713.txt plain text: 60713.txt item: #21 of 21 id: 61380 author: Pohl, Frederik title: The Five Hells of Orion date: None words: 11956 flesch: 85 summary: Their job was to watch McCray, and they would do their job; and even more, not one of them could have looked away to save his life from the spectacle of a creature as odd and, from their point of view, hideously alien as Herrell McCray. Herrell McCray was a navigator, which is to say, a man who has learned to trust the evidence of mathematics and instrument readings beyond the guesses of his common sense. keywords: air; assistant; bank; betelgeuse; body; central; close; cloud; command; common; communication; council; councillor; course; creatures; dark; door; earth; eyes; face; fact; floor; forces; galaxy; gas; good; great; hand; hard; hatcher; heat; helmet; help; herrell; herrell mccray; hour; human; jodrell; life; light; like; little; long; masses; matter; mccray; members; message; mind; moment; need; new; old; ones; open; paranormal; people; physical; pinkish; place; planet; probe; race; radio; reason; report; room; second; sense; ship; skin; sol; sort; space; spacesuit; specimen; stars; subject; suit; suns; team; things; thought; time; tiny; voice; way; woman; work; world; years cache: 61380.txt plain text: 61380.txt